"So, Raider, what are the next two episodes going to be about?" Yang asks, noticing the title of this episode has a part 1 next to it.
"The next two episodes are when you eight join teams," Raider responds.
"Oooh, this will be fun!" Ruby says, excitedly clapping her hands together, "Now we can see how all of us came together."
*Volume Intro*
Scene: It came from the point of view of Ren just waking up, with each blink of his eyes, Nora appears in his vision, smiling.
"Wake up lazy bud!" Ren looked very unenthusiastic as Nora repeatedly screamed 'It's Morning' over and over again. Ren is now brushing his teeth, Nora moving on to a different topic, "I can't believe we've been at Beacon for a full twenty four hours. Not that I thought we'd get kicked out or anything. I mean, you're the perfect student and I'm well, I'm me! But it's just crazy y'know?"
Ren is now packing up his sleeping bag with Nora brushing her hair in the background "We've been friends for so long, what are the odds we'd still be together?"
"Well, not together 'together', not that I'm saying you're not handsome, you are handsome, but that'd just be weird, right?" The two are now seen eating breakfast, Ren cutting into his pancakes while Nora seems to be devouring hers. "Right, what was I thinking? But still, I hope we end up on the same team together." Nora slurped up a pancake.
Multiple people sent a strange look towards Nora. "You slurped up a pancake?" Nora shrugged at Weiss' question as if it was completely normal, "Yeah, don't you guys do that?" All shook their heads with disturbed looks on their faces.
"Oh, we should come up with some kind of plan. To make sure we end up on the same team together, what if we bribe the headmaster."
"I seriously don't think they'd take it," Ren says to his partner. Nora looks down a bit saddened, knowing that fact to be true.
"No, that won't work, he has the school." Ren is finally seen grabbing his weapons from his locker, with Nora still going on and on. "I know! We'll have some sort of signal, like a distress signal, *Gasp, a secret signal so we can find each other in the forest. Can you imitate a sloth?"
"Nora?" Nora stopped talking at that moment, "Yes Ren?"
"I don't think sloths make a lot of noise." Nora moves her eyes around, as if thinking before yelling. "That's why it's perfect! No one will suspect we're working together." After all that time, Ren finally puts a smile on his face, as well as closing his locker door. "Come on Nora, let's go." Nora then goes on about how they're not together, "But not, together 'together'." Laughing as she follows Ren.
A few heads turned, looking at Nora who didn't understand why she was getting all the attention from her friends.
Giving way to show Ruby and Yang gathering their stuff. "Wonder what those two are so worked up about."
"Oh who knows, so! You seem awfully chipper this morning." Ruby answers with a happy hum, "Yep, no more awkward small talk or getting to know you stuff. Today, I get to let my sweetheart do the talking." Ruby rubs and hugs her scythe as if the weapon had a soul.
Ruby heard her sister chuckling as she remembered the moment. "Be quiet Yang!" Ruby pouted.
"Remember Ruby, you're not the only one going through initiation. If you wanna grow up, you have to meet new people and have to learn to work together." Ruby gave a large groan and proceeded to put her weapon back in her locker. "Ugh, you sound like dad."
For a quick moment, Yang gave a short look of horror at the notion of becoming her dad when she and him were already alike in so many ways in the first place. She just doesn't want to admit the truth.
"Okay, first of all, what does meeting people have to do with fighting and secondly, I don't need people to help me grow up, I drink milk."
Within these past few days, Ruby really was beginning to understand what it truly means to grow up.
"But what about when we form teams?" Ruby turns from Yang dejectedly. "I don't know, I'll just be on your team or something."
While speaking, Yang nervously grabs her hair and begins to fiddle with it. "Maybe you should try being on someone else's team." Ruby confronts Yang with a pointed finger in her face, "My dear sister Yang, are you implying you do not wish to be on the same team as me?"
"That is exactly what she's implying," Weiss says with a cross of her arms while giving Yang a look.
Yang puts her hands up defensively, "What? No! Of course I do, I just thought, I don't know, maybe it would help you break out of your shell." Ruby yells at her sister outrageously, "What! I don't need to break out of my shell! That's absolutely-"
It was at that moment, Jaune walked into the conversation and came in on perfect timing. "Ridiculous! There's no way I put my gear in locker 636 yesterday, I would have remembered to count that high."
"That was perfect timing, I didn't even realize that!" Jaune says with a laugh.
"Oh, why does this have to happen today?" Jaune groans in dismay, as well as walking past Weiss and Pyrrha so we can get a glimpse of their conversation.
"So Pyrrha, have you given any thought to who's team you'd like to be on? I'm sure everyone must be eager to unite with such a strong well known individual such as yourself." Pyrrha just tilted her eyes to the side and gave a hum. "I'm not quite sure, I was planning on letting the chips fall where they may."
"Well, I was thinking we could be on a team together."
"Well that sounds grand!" "Great!"
A dark thunder cloud appears behind Weiss, a devilish and evil smile is present on her face. "This will be perfect, the smartest girl and class combined with the strongest girl in class. Together, we will be unstoppable, I can see it now; we'll be popular, we'll be celebrities, we'll get perfect grades, nothing can come between us now!"
Weiss places her head in hands, facing burning with the amount of embarrassment she's feeling at this moment. "Pyrrha, I'm sorry, I don't think that way anymore, I swear!"
Surprised, but Pyrrha places a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Weiss, it's alright. We would all get thoughts like this from time to time, though not to this extent, but it's fine, I'm not upset.
"You know what else is great? Me, Jaune Arc, nice to meet you." Weiss crossed her arms with a frown, "Ugh, you again." Pyrrha buds in with a smile, "Nice to meet you Jaune." But, he just pushed Pyrrha out of the way without a care in the world. "Yeah, yeah. So, Weiss, couldn't help but over here your fondness of me the other day." Jaune flexes his "muscles".
"I can relate to saying things you wish you never did," Jaune says, groaning at himself for his past actions.
"You have got to be kidding me." Jaune ignored her annoyance and just kept on talking. "Don't worry, no need to be embarrassed, so I've been hearing rumors about teams. I was thinking you and me would make a good one, what do you say?"
"Actually, I think the teams are comprised of four students each, so-" Jaune cut her off and got closer to Pyrrha. "Well hot stuff, play your cards right and maybe you could join up with the winning team." This was when Weiss stepped in, "Jaune is it? Do you have any idea who you're talking to?"
Weiss wasn't the only one who wished they could take back the things they say and did. Jaune doesn't have a single clue as to why he thought he was being suave, all he was doing was embarrassing himself.
"Not in the slightest Snow Angel."
You idiot, shut up! Jaune shouts in his mind as he watches the screen.
"This is Pyrrha." "Hello again!" "Pyrrha graduated top of her class at Sanctum."
"Never heard of it." Weiss gave a scoff, "She's one the Mistral Regional Tournaments four years in a row, a new record."
"The what?"
"She's on the front of Marshmallow's Petes Flake box!" Weiss screams, flailing her arms around.
Jaune gives out a large gasp, "That's you? They only do that for star athletes and cartoon characters!" As this was being said, Pyrrha's head was on the face of the cereal box. "Yeah, it was pretty cool, sadly the cereal isn't very good for you."
This led everyone to facepalm their foreheads, but it wasn't meant to be in a mean way. It was all in good humor rather than making fun.
"So, after hearing all of this, do you really think you're in a position to ask her to be on your team?" Jaune looks down dejectedly, "I guess not, sorry."
"Actually, Jaune, I'd think you'd make a great leader." Hearing this sparked Jaune's spirits right back up.
Pyrrha smiled sweetly at the display.
"Doh, stop it!" Weiss says angrily, "Seriously, please stop it. This kind of behavior should not be encouraged." Jaune's cocky confidence makes itself known again. "Sounds like Pyrrha's on board for Team Jaune. Spots are filling up quick, now I'm not supposed to do this, but maybe I could pull some strings, find a place for you, what do you say?"
Weiss puts out her hands telling Jaune to back up, "Alright, that's a bit too close, Pyrrha, a little help please?" And, as in help, Pyrrha throws her weapon at Jaune and him getting caught somewhere could be heard. "I'm sorry!" Pyrrha screams to him.
Jaune is seriously wondering why his past self was like this.
Glynda's voice could then be heard, "Would all first year students please report to Beacon Cliff for initiation, again, all first year students report to Beacon Cliff immediately."
Weiss heads out, leaving Jaune pinned, and Pyrrha obtains her weapon back without actually touching it, "It was nice meeting you." Jaune fell sloppily to the ground, "Likewise."
Yang and Ruby came back on screen, "Having some trouble there lady-killer?" Ruby puts out her hand, so he can use it to get up.
"I don't understand, all women look for is confidence. Where did I go wrong?"
"You mixed up confidence with cockiness, and maybe used too much of it." Jaune let out a sigh, "I see that now."
"Snow Angel probably wasn't the best start." Ruby got Jaune up and allowed him to lean on her. "Come on Jaune, let's go."
Everyone is now present on the side of Beacon Cliff. "For years, you have trained to become warriors and today our abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest."
"Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of teams, well allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates, today." Ruby voices her nervousness on the matter. "These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon, so it is in your best interest to be paired with someone whom you can work well with." More of Ruby's nervousness showing. "That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years."
It was then as if Ruby's world was shattered around her, literally. "What!?"
"See, I told you."
Ozpin continued to speak, "After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way, do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path or you will die."
"Professor Ozpin is reeeallly great at motivational speeches…" Yang says sarcastically, rolling her eyes all the while.
Jaune gives a very nervous gulp, and Nora just gives Ren a large smile. "You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation. But our instructors will not intervene, you will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path containing several relics. Each pair must choose one, and return to the top of a cliff. You will guard that item as well as your standing and grade you appropriately. Are there any questions?"
"Yeah, um, sir?" Jaune raises his concerns, but Ozpin just ignores him completely. "Good, now, take your positions."
Every student does so, but Jaune still would like to ask his question. "Um, sir? I've got a, um, question."
Weiss has been launched.
"So this landing strategy thing, what is it?"
Jaune didn't know whether to blame himself or for Professor Ozpin for not even answering his question the way he wanted.
"You're like, dropping us off or something."
"No, you will be falling." A member of Team CRDL has been launched.
"Oh, I see, so like, did you hand out parachutes for us?"
Nora launched off excitedly. "No, you will be using your own landing strategy." This only made Jaune even more nervous.
Yang winked at her sister.
Blake gave an involuntary blush, no one noticed though.
She put on aviators before being launched with a yell. "Woohooo!"
"So, what exactly is a landing strategy?" He was blasted off the cliff before he could finish his sentence. The sound of Jaune's screaming was fleeting.
Ozpin just sips from his mug with a tiny smile. Then the screen goes black.
*Volume Outro*
"You know, if Professor Ozpin were given the responsibility to raise children, I really don't think he would do that good of a job at," Yang says with an emotionless voice as she looks at the screen with one of her brows raised.
The others couldn't help but agree with this query.