Hey guys, guess who's back! And this this time it's not another omake.
Seriously sorry for about the wait guys, but between going to RTX, getting sick after flying back home, buying a new car, discovering I have some lingering issues in my neck, and looking into moving to a new place I've been just a tad busy. But fear not, I got exactly what you guys need with the the biggest chapter yet. So you know the drill, sit back and enjoy the fun and as always stay tuned for the blurb at the end.
Disclaimer: RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth Productions...If I owned it there would be more people making jokes about shipping in it.
"How many times do I have to tell you I'm not going!?" Tawny growled as she stomped into the living room making Sandy look up from her spot in front of the tv.
"Oh come now Tawny, don't be like that. It's just one trip into town." Goldy pleaded quickly following Tawny from around the corner as the usually laid back sister plopped down on the couch in a huff.
"And I told you I'm not going, that's a Jaune-job anyway." Tawny bit back.
"Oh, are you guys planning to go into town?" Sandy piped up excited for another opportunity to get out in the big city.
"Whoa there Sandy." Tawny cut in before Goldy could say anything. "Do not agree to this, it's not a normal shopping trip. Goldy's going out to buy fabric." She said ominously.
The color immediately drained from Sandy's face upon hearing the last two words as she desperately tried not to let the fear play across her face. "Y'know I think I'll just see if there's been any opening in the Beacon Academy tours instead." She said hastily pulling out her Scroll and trying to look as busy as possible.
It was Goldy's turn to huff. "Well fine, I'll go by myself then." She said crossing her arms defiantly. "But the question is where to start looking, I knew all the best places back home but Vale is just so big." Goldy said slipping into a rather contemplative tone.
"Why don't you just search online, not like it's that hard?" Tawny asked as she fished the remote out of the couch cushions and began flipping through the channels.
"Oh that just won't do. For this sort of work you need to find the smaller shops or thrift stores if you want to get your hands on something special." Goldy insisted.
"Sounds like a real pain to me." Sandy piped up finally feeling like it was safe to get back into the conversation.
"Honestly it wouldn't be so hard if I just had someone to show me around." Goldy sighed before a thought crossed her mind. "Wait, perhaps I do know someone." She mused to herself as she reached for her Scroll.
In a certain classroom in Beacon…..
In his short time at Beacon Jaune had seen some truly amazing things. He'd also seen so incredibly weird and strange things, most courtesy of a certain all female team and certain ginger-haired explosives expert. That being said the situation he currently found himself in easily ranked in the top five of the weirdest things he'd ever experienced. And that was saying something since it unseated the time Nora tried using Dust as a seasoning for pancakes and inadvertently created a highly reactive napalm-like maple syrup.
Over the last few hours Jaune had watched Coco move from one over the top outfit to the next. Each with an equally over the top personality to match. Well that wasn't entirely true, some had been kind of normal yet still a bit intimidating in their own ways, especially with how Coco seemed to get into the character of each persona. Jaune inwardly cringed thinking back to how badly he'd done with Coco's punk rock persona, he'd actually thought she was going to hit him for real there at the end. But then again there were a few he couldn't help but be a fan of no matter how bad he blown his attempt. He blushed thinking back on the memory of Coco dressed as a cheerleader, though he had to wonder why she even had that outfit. "Alright Jaune, you ready for the next round?" Coco playfully called from her changing stall pulling the blond from his thoughts.
"We've been doing this for hours and there's still no way I could be ready for this." Jaune said with a nervous chuckle.
"Why Honey, was that a joke?" Coco teased from behind the curtain. "But that's good, it means you're finally starting to relax. I know I told you to take this seriously, but you're too nervous. This is supposed to be confidence training remember." She chided as she put the finishing touches on her next outfit. "Okay, time for another round." she announced stepping through the curtains.
Jaune was thankful that this latest outfit seemed be rather normal. Coco came out dressed in an orange sweater with a modest burgundy skirt. She'd decided not to wear a wig this time instead opting for a pair of thick round glasses. She was also holding a book close to her chest. What struck Jaune as odd was that she wasn't making eye contact with him. In fact she seemed more interested in her book which she'd cracked open and was busily reading now, ignoring him altogether.
Jaune just took a deep breath. He could do this, it was all about confidence. Once he'd steeled his nerves he sauntered over to Coco as casually as he could. "Excuse me." He opened politely with a wave only to still be ignored. Now this might have deterred a lesser man, but thanks to all his failed attempts with Weiss he didn't even flinch while receiving the cold shoulder. "Um, pardon me?" He said once again trying to get Coco's attention, this time going so far as to lightly tap her on the shoulder.
Coco looked up from her book with a bewildered expression and glanced around the empty room quizzically before acknowledging Jaune. "I-I'm sorry, did you mean me?" She asked in a meek and quiet voice.
That actually surprised Jaune a bit and he had to fight not to let it show on his face. Sure Coco had done a few voices for some of her different personas during this lesson, but it just felt odd looking at Coco and hearing this calm and very subdued voice as opposed to her usually confident and boastful tone. It was kind of cute, but still really weird. But he couldn't let that distract him now. "Yeah I was, I'm Jaune by the way." He answered extending his hand. She shook it wordlessly which Jaune took as his cue to continue on. "I was just wondering…" Jaune had to catch himself there. He was about to repeat a mistake Coco had chided him on since the start of their exercise. You would have thought between all his sisters and his dad someone would have thought to tell him it was a bad idea to immediately ask a girl out right after introducing yourself. But now he had to think of something quick or else Coco would probably get mad at him for slipping up. "…what book you were reading?" He added quickly hoping he'd made the right move.
Coco surprised him again, this time pretending to be a bit flustered. "O-oh, this? It's nothing, I doubt you'd like it." She said closing the book and pulling it closer to her chest.
That almost knocked Jaune off his game. He'd already thought up a bunch of things to talk about depending on what book she was reading, but they all relied on her actually talking to him about the book. Without it he had nothing, what else did he have to talk about, her glasses? But Jaune was a strategist, or at least that's what he told his team he was so now he would just have to modify his plan of attack. "Oh, well that's okay. I was just so curious because you seemed so interested I thought it must be a really good book."
There it was, his big gamble, and it paid off. Jaune had stop himself from doing a victorious fist pump when Coco smiled and her posture relaxed. "Well then I guess it's okay, it's called 100 Shades of Gun Metal and it's this crazy romance story where…." Coco proceeded to gush about the book for several minutes. If she was aware of the look on Jaune's face she didn't let it show.
The look on Jaune's face was what some might describe as visibly hiding internal discomfort. He actually knew about the book Coco was talking about, in fact Goldy and Mida were huge fans, but that meant he also knew exactly what the book was about. So as Coco continued on her little rant Jaune was trying to both mask his discomfort and fight the blush coming to his cheeks as she described a few choice scenes. It was about then that he noticed she'd wrapped up her little fangirl moment and was waiting for him to say something. "Yeah, that does sound interesting." Jaune said trying not to let his voice waver.
"I know, I just love it." Coco said with a kind of wistful excitement. "So, what kind of books do you read?" She asked turning the conversation in a direction Jaune had not anticipated.
"W-who me?" Jaune chuckled nervously as once again his plans were thrown into disarray. "Oh well I mostly read comics and stuff, I'm a big X-Ray and Vav fan." Jaune said opting for a truthful answer.
Coco seemed to visibly deflate as a sour look came over her face. "Oh." She said with an unmistakable hint of disgust in her voice.
This actually annoyed the young knight. What was wrong with liking comic books? In fact he was just about to ask that very question when he noticed Coco send him a pointed glance, she'd done this before during their exercise and it meant that she was expecting him to make the right move. The only problem was that he didn't know what the right move was and he didn't exactly have the time to come up with some good options. So he pushed aside his anger and formulated a plan. "But I'm always looking to try new stuff, maybe you could lend me a few books sometime." He said hopefully as he watched for any change in her expression. When he saw a small smile light upon her face he knew he'd done well and decided to press the advantage. "Then we could maybe meet up and talk about what we liked about them, maybe over coffee?" That was it, he went for it. Now all that was left was to see what happened next.
He was rewarded with the sight of Coco getting a bit flustered before giving him a warm smile. "I think I would like that a lot." And just like that Coco's usual confident smirk played across her face. "Annnnd scene!" She declared removing her glasses. "You did great honey. Keep this up and all the shy quiet bookworm girls will be lining up for a chance to lend you a book." Coco said wiggling her eyebrows as she emphasized the last few words.
Jaune just blushed and scratched the back of his head. "Thanks Coco, but you really kept me on my toes there."
"What can I say Jaune, even the quiet girls will still wanna make you work for it." Coco said with a smirk.
Before Jaune could say anything else his Scroll went off. That was a little strange, while he didn't tell his team where he was going he did at least let Pyrrha know he'd be back in time for their training session. So then who could be calling him? "Go ahead and take that Honey, I'm gonna get changed." Coco said giving him a wave as she sauntered back towards her booth. Jaune just fumble for his Scroll only to find the familiar smiling face of his second eldest sister popping up on the screen as he opened it.
"Hey Goldy, what's up?" He asked as he answered the call. "Uh-huh, yeah I have her number, but if you really want to talk to her I could just put her on right now…why are you giggling…what do you mean by that? Y'know what, I'm just gonna put her on." Jaune said placing his hand over the receiver. "Hey Coco." Jaune called prompting Coco to poke her head through the curtain with a curious look. "It's for you." Jaune said holding out the phone.
"Who exactly is it?" Coco said with a sense of trepidation in her voice.
"It's my sister, Goldy." Jaune clarified.
"Oh." Coco said in a much cheerier tone. "Give it here." She said stepping out of her booth only to see Jaune yelp and go red in the face as he quickly spun around. That's when Coco realized she hadn't finished changing and was currently standing in her usual outfit only minus one shirt and jacket. "Aw honey, it's cute that you're getting all flustered, but seriously you have seven sisters and share a room with two girls. This should be nothing you haven't seen before." She chided casually readjusting her bra before plucking the Scroll from Jaune's hand. "Coco speaking….Goldy, how are you….oh that, I just accidently Jaune here a little eye full….oh behave it's nothing like that, and he's being a perfect gentleman about it, won't even look at me right now. So why did you call….oh, well I may know a few places….yes I'm free….sounds like a plan. Oh? Yeah I can bring him along. Ciao." Coco said ending the call and handing Jaune back his Scroll. "Change of plans honey, looks like we're going into town to meet your sister." She explained sauntering back towards her stall to finished getting changed.
"Wait, right now?" Jaune asked more than a little confused. "What about our lesson?"
Coco came strutting out of her booth full dressed and with her bag in hand. "I think it's a good idea to end our little exercise on a positive note." Coco grinned. "So let's go, we don't wanna keep your sister waiting." She said giving Jaune a smack on the rear as she headed for the door.
"But what about all this stuff?" Jaune called after her while gesturing to her stall.
"Oh don't worry about that. I'll send Yatsu or Fox by to pick it up while we're out." Coco said stopping in the door way. "Now come on, I don't wanna make a bad impression." She said with a wink while motioning for Jaune to follow with her finger.
Jaune just groaned. "I'm coming." He said following after the older girl. He was starting to get a bad feeling about this.
In the library…
Dove was sitting at one of the many tables in the bustling Beacon library trying to work on an assignment for Professor Port's class. The operative word there would be trying, Russel was not making it easy to focus on his notes. "You know Dove ole' buddy, call me crazy but I'm sensing a bit of tension right now." He said as he finished smoothing the crease on a paper airplane. "And I'm starting to get the feeling you're mad." Russel continued while gently gauging the weight of the plane in his hand. "Wait, you're not still mad about the whole Cardin thing are you?" He asked before letting the airplane soar only to watch it nose dive into the back of another first year's head. "Is that why you've been giving me the whole silent treatment?"
"I'm not giving you the silent treatment." Dove snapped finally unable to deal with his teammates pestering any longer.
"Oh c'mon Dove." Russel chided sending a challenging sneer to the angry first year he'd hit with his paper plane making the glasses wearing boy think twice about lodging a complaint with Russel. "I grew up with sisters man, I know the silent treatment when I hear it. Or when I don't hear it I guess, I dunno, you know what I mean." He said as he began folding yet another paper plane.
"I'm not mad." Dove sighed heavily. "But if I was it might have something to do with you running your mouth last night and getting me punched in the face and thrown out of the room." He added testily shooting Russel a mean look from across the table.
"First of all I'm not the one who told you to stand up to Cardin." Russel pointed out still folding his plane. "And plus if I hadn't gotten you thrown out of the room you wouldn't have run into your bunny chick again." He snickered up at Dove making the boy blush.
"Wh-what?! How did you…"
"Oh c'mon man, give me some credit." Russel gloated finishing the last crease in his plane before searching ofr a new target for its next crash landing. "When you came back last night you had that same dopey smile you had on all day after you apologized to her. So either you ran into her again or you've got some creepy fetish for getting punched in the face." He said giving Dove a triumphant smirk. "Really you should be thanking me."
"Yeah, I'll get right on that." Dove shot back sarcastically.
"Hey lighten up, far as I can see I'm still battling a hundred on the whole wingman thing." Russel said finally letting sail with his plane. "Ah crap, whiffed that one." He cursed watching his plane caught a draft and sailed higher than he planned. Unfortunately for the mowhawked lad his plane's path was at just the right height to crash right between the eyes of a certain tall green-clad samurai.
Yatsuhashi slowly bent down to retrieve the offending paper aircraft, examining it before casting his eyes towards where it came from only to find two very scared members of Team CRDL. He grinned crushing the plane in his massive hand as he stalked towards them.
Now Dove and Russel recognized the look in Yatsuhashi's eyes as he slowly made his way towards them. It was the look of someone who'd been looking for any excuse to take some anger out on someone and given what their team had done to Velvet they were sure he had plenty of anger to take out. "Rus, does your definition of wingman mean guy who keeps finding ways to get me beat up?" Dove hissed just as Yatsuhashi came to a stop looming over their table.
"Is this yours?" He asks tersely holding up the crushed and crumpled plane still clutched in his hand.
"F-funny story about that." Russel nervously chuckled as the looming older student just clenched his free hand causing his knuckles to pop loudly.
Luckily for the two almost trembling first years a familiar voice interrupted them. "There you are Yatsu, I was wondering where you'd went." Called Velvet as she calmly jogged up to her teammate with a few books clutched in her arms. "Dove?" The Faunus girl gasped in surprise when she noticed who Yatsuhashi had been talking to.
"H-hey Velvet." Dove greeted nervously as Yatsu glared at him from behind the shorter girl. "Fancy meeting you here." He went on trying to act casual.
"Please don't let him kill us!" Russel begged, screaming girlishly as he hid behind his hands. This earned him an even harsher glare from Yatsu, but this one did not go unnoticed by Velvet.
The bunny girl fixed her large teammate with a determined almost maternal stare waiting for Yatsu to explain himself. "They hit me with a paper plane." He grumbled opening his hand to reveal the crushed remains of the plane in question.
"Considering I've watched you shrug off a punch from an Ursa I'm sure you'll be just fine." Velvet chided sounding unimpressed as she turned her attention back towards Dove. "Those pictures we took the other night ended up coming out really well."
Óh, that's great." Dove said forgetting his earlier fear thanks to Velvet's kind words. "You'll have to show me sometime. I'd, um, love to see them."
"Well actually I was planning on going into town later and taking some pictures around the park, you're welcome to come along if you want." She said with a warm smile.
"Re-really?" Dove asked excitedly while trying not to let his blush show prompting Russel to send him a kick from under the table. Taking his teammate's non-verbal incentive under consideration Dove tried his best to play it cool. "I mean sure, after I finish up with this though." He said motioning to his still untouched homework.
"Great." Velvet said snatching what was left of Russel's plane out of Yatsu's hand and scribbling something down on it before handing it to Dove. "Just give me a ring when you're ready." She said before turning to her still perturbed looking teammate. "Come on Yatsu, I'm ready to go check out." She said motioning for him to follow as she headed towards the front desk. Yatsu paused to send the two one more glare, making both boys flinch, before moving to catch up.
The two members of Team CRDL just sat there in silence for a few moments while Dove gazed dumbstruck down at the numbers neatly scrawled on the piece of paper. He was so engrossed by them in fact he didn't notice Russel's ever widening grin from across the table. "World's. Best. Wingman." He gloated in a singsong tone leaning back in his seat.
"Shut up." Dove snapped reaching for his Scroll so he could quickly save the number.
A little ways away Velvet and Yatsu were making their way through the rows of shelves towards the front of the library when the green-clad warrior finally decided to speak up. "Why did you defend them?" He asked doing little to hide his irritation.
Velvet sighed, she knew he meant well, but sometimes her teammate's protective nature could be a bit overbearing. "I ran into the two of them the other day and they actually apologized for how they'd treated me. I was really surprised, but they seemed pretty sincere, especially Dove." She explained remembering Dove's flustered expression from the day before. "Later I happened to bump into him and we got to talking. After that I just sort of got the feeling right now Dove could really use a friend." Velvet decided to leave out the part about how he'd been thrown out of his room by his team, if only to respect Dove's privacy for now.
Yatsu was silent for a moment, seemingly contemplating the young Faunus' words. "Fine." He finally said in a gruff but resigned tone, he knew better than to try and argue with Velvet when she got like this. "If you want to give them a second chance that's your decision." He said before crossing sternly. "But that doesn't mean I have to like it."
Velvet just smiled up at the big lovable warrior as they stopped in front of the checkout desk. "I'll keep that in mind."
Later in Vale….
"Coco dear, so nice to see you again!" Goldy called waving down the pair of teens as they made their way towards her.
"Goldy, oh I just love your dress." Coco gushed taking in the older blonde's dark blue dress with tastefully done little crescent shaped designs made with black sequins. But something about the designs nagged at her. "I know I've seen that pattern somewhere before." She said thoughtfully before it donned on her. "Honey's shield, that's where." She declared triumphantly.
"That's because it's our family crest." Jaune pointed out trying to be helpful.
"Oh wow, that must have cost a pretty penny then for all that custom work." Coco mused aloud.
"Not much more than the cost of the materials." Goldy chuckled.
"What? Wait you don't mean you made that dress yourself do you?" Coco marveled tilting her glasses down so she could better admire the dress' craftsmanship.
"Well you could say I know my way around a sewing machine." The older blonde giggled striking a pose for Coco.
"Goldy's wants to be a fashion designer." Jaune explained. "She's actually won a few awards for some of her stuff. I actually think I've got a picture from her last big win." He said reaching for his Scroll.
"Oh Jaune stop it. I'm sure Coco doesn't want to hear anything about all that." Goldy chided embarrassedly.
"Nonsense, I'm actually a little curious to see if you've won anything I've heard of." Coco said leaning over as Jaune finished pulling the picture up on his Scroll only for her eyes to go wide before she snatched the device out of Jaune's hands to get a better look and make sure her eyes weren't playing tricks on her. "You won a Colty award?!" She gasped. "Wait, don't tell me you're Goldine from Gowns by Goldine." Coco said with pure disbelief.
"Oh wow, I didn't think that many people had heard of me." Goldy admitted sheepishly.
"Are you kidding, after winning this your dress was feature in Giorgio L'Orange's Fall line." Coco all but gushed. "I waited in line for a day for that dress and still couldn't get my hands on one."
"Oh my. I had no idea my design was such a hit." Goldy said blushing from the unexpected praise. "But if you really liked my dress so much maybe I could make another for you. Ah, or maybe even make you your own custom dress." Goldy said as a glint of inspiration twinkled in her eyes.
Coco was completely taken aback by Goldy's last suggestion. "I could have my very own Goldine original?" She whispered in utter disbelief as her hand absentmindedly wandered behind Jaune and pinched his butt.
"Ow! What was that for?!" Jaune asked indignantly trying to rub the pain from the offending area.
"Oh, sorry about that honey." Coco chuckled. "Had to make sure I wasn't dreaming there for a second."
"You're supposed to pinch yourself when you think you're dreaming." He remarked back dryly.
"You're right this might still be a dream." Coco said glancing at the offending hand before sending Jaune a playful wink. "But this explains why you wanted me to show you all the best places to pick up fabric." She added not noticing Jaune's eye's go wide.
Now Jaune had managed to become far braver than he could have ever thought he could be since coming to Beacon, but hearing the word fabric with any kind of relation to his sister triggered a deep seeded instinct. That instinct was to run. Without even thinking Jaune whipped around ready to sprint away only to be taken off his feet after his first step courtesy of Goldy's iron grip seizing his hood. "Noooo." Jaune weakly moaned from the ground as Goldy casually began dragging him down the down the sidewalk.
"Sorry Jaune, there's no getting out of this I'm afraid." She gloated smugly.
Coco just pushed her glasses back up and slowly followed behind Jaune as he was dragged. "I'm a little disappointed honey, we're gonna have to work on this."
Back at Beacon…..
"Why are we here?" Ren sighed.
"Whoa dude." Sun said with a serious look on his face. "That's deep, it's like one of life's great myster…"
"No." Ren said holding up a silencing hand to the monkey boy to his right. "I mean why are we…" He gesture to himself and then to Sun and Neptune beside him. "Here." He finished gesturing to the rest of Team RWBY's crowded dorm room.
"Y-yeah, I was kinda wondering that myself." Neptune said a bit nervously.
"I'm so glad you asked Ren." Yang said pulling out the whiteboard again.
"Wait, we've been sitting here for almost half an hour. Are you telling me you've been waiting for one of them to ask that before we could start?!" Weiss fumed at the brawler while Ruby and Nora scrambled to the whiteboard and began furiously scribbling together.
"Take it easy Weiss, what's the point of these meetings if we don't have a little fun."
"Helping Pyrrha finally get with Jaune." Blake stated dryly. "That's the point."
"Yes and no Blakey." Yang said confidently. "I mean that's what we're here for in a general sense yeah, but I guess you could say today is a kind of emergency meeting."
"Emergency, nooooo!" Ruby cried turning from her scribbles with a look of fear.
"Whoa, easy there Rubes, this is a good kind of emergency." Yang tried to explain. "You see when we started this I had this whole plan on how to help P-Money over here get Jaune's attention. I had lessons for flirting, teasing, and even a little bit of seduction planned." She said wiggling her eyebrow at the now blushing redhead sitting nearby. "But then our little Pyrrha went and surprised us by going on her own little mini-date with vomit-boy the other day so we'll save the other stuff for later, but today we're here to study up on our target." Yang finished dramatically as Ruby and Nora scurried away from the board revealing a carefully drawn doodle of Jaune complete with little hearts fluttering around his head and a speech bubble that read I love Pyrrha.
"I think they really captured his likeness." Sun jokingly whispered to his fellow males failing to get a laugh from his nervous teammate and just a noncommittal grunt from Ren. "Yeesh, you guys suck."
"Since Pyrrha has already skipped to the date stage we're going figure out all the stuff we know Jaune likes so that way next time Pyrrha gets some quality alone time with him she can really wow him and start scoring some serious Jaune points." Yang continued before turning to the boys. "And to answer your question Ren you guys are here to add your unique male perspective."
"Huh, makes sense." Neptune said thoughtfully, his nervousness somewhat alleviated now that he realized there weren't going to be a lot of opportunities for him to accidently blurt out Jaune's secret.
"You know I could still just talk to Jaune about all this right?" Ren said hoping this time his small voice of reason might be heard.
"I appreciate the thought Ren, but um, right now I kind of want to try and do this my way. At least for now." Pyrrha said feeling an unusual surge of confidence after the following day's events.
"Aw Pyrrha!" Yang squealed capture the amazon in a crushing hug. "I'm so proud of you. And don't worry Ren, we'll keep your idea on hold, y'know, like a backup plan." Yang offered as she released Pyrrha.
"Great, a backup plan." Ren said sounding slightly less enthused than usual.
"Hey man it's not so bad." Sun said wrapping an arm around the martial artist. "Besides this way is way more fun."
"Love the attitude Sun, but it's not all fun and games here." Yang said spinning the board around to reveal an unflattering drawing of Coco complete with sharp-toothed scowl and wavy green stink lines radiating off of her. "We need to try and figure out exactly what Coco's been up to with Jaune." She said seriously earning nods from most of the girls in the room. "But we'll get to that in a little while. Let's get started on today's assignment." Yang smiled flipping the board back around to the Jaune side and picking up a marker. "So okay everyone, what do we know Jaune likes?" She asked with a grin prompting several quick replies.
"Chicken Nuggets?"
"Hoodies."
"WEISS!" Everyone went silent and turned and turned to a now very sheepish looking Nora. "Hehe, oops." The bubbly girl apologized shrinking a bit under the look Weiss was shooting her at the moment.
"C'mon guys think, one of us has to know something Jaune is into." Yang sighed.
"Oooh, ooh!" Ruby chirped waving her hand in the air. "X-Ray and Vav, Jaune loves X-Ray and Vav." She declared proudly.
"Way to go Ruby, finally something we can work with." Yang congratulated as she quickly jotted down their first idea. "So Pyrrha you know anything comic books?"
"No, but I have seen the movies." Pyrrha said a bit bashfully.
"Ugh casuals." Neptune scoffed as Sun nodded in agreement.
"Anything you two would like to share with the rest of us?" Yang asked crossing her arms and waiting for an answer.
"I mean don't take this the wrong or whatever." Sun said trying his best to soften the blow.
"But you're more likely to annoy a real comic fan if you aren't really into them." Neptune finished bluntly.
The blonde brawler looked a bit perturbed by Sun and Neptune's opinion. "What, that's stupid. Like any guy wouldn't love to have a girl who likes…"
"Actually I think they're right." Pyrrha said cutting off Yang's rant. "I actually tried to get into X-Ray and Vav to get close to Jaune before, but he got kind of sad when I told him the only thing I was really interested in was waiting to see if X-Ray and Hilda ever realized their feelings for one another." She admitted a bit sheepishly.
"Well duh." Ruby chimed with her hands on her hips. "We all know Hilda and O.R.F. is the series' only real OTP."
"Don't listen to her Pyrrha. She doesn't know what she's talking about." Sun scoffed.
"Yeah, O.R.F. and Hilda's relationship is totally platonic to begin with." Neptune added in crossing his arms defiantly.
"You two just can't read the subtext!" Ruby shot back.
"Because it's all just part of your headcanon." Neptune continued to argue. "I bet you ship Vav and Mogar too."
"Their love is pure!"
Yang just sighed and put her head in her hand before turning to Weiss. "You mind?" She asked prompting Blake to cover her feline ears as the heiress nodded and stood up bringing two fingers to her lips and whistling sharply to get the three's attention. "Thanks, now c'mon guys think. You're telling me we can't come up with one good thing Jaune likes?"
"Oooh, what about Grif-ball!?" Nora asked earnestly.
The room was silent for a while before just about everyone burst into laughter. "That's funny Nora, but we've got to be serious here." Yang said with a sigh as her laughter subsided.
"Actually Jaune does really like Grif-ball, I've seen him watching games on his Scroll before." Pyrrha explained.
"He even asked me once if I'd be interested in joining a fantasy Grif-ball league with him." Ren adds.
"Wow, I never pegged Jaune as being into sports." Blake said in a way as if the word sports left a bad taste in her mouth.
"But this is great, we can work with this." Yang said triumphantly as she jotted down the idea on the board. Before they could move on the sound of Pyrrha's Scroll going off filled the room followed by Pyrrha's soft gasp as she checked who was calling. "What's wrong, is it Jaune?"
"N-no, it's his sister" Pyrrha stammered nervously while clutching her Scroll.
"Well then hurry up and answer it, but put it on speaker so we can hear it." Yang instructed motioning for everyone to keep it down.
Pyrrha nodded and answered the call just as Yang said. "H-hello?"
"Hey Pyrrha, it's Mida, how's it going?"
"Oh, oh, tell her I said hi!" Nora squealed excitedly nearly jumping over Blake and Weiss for a spot next to her teammate.
"Nora shhhh!" Ruby said trying to caution the hyperactive ginger.
"Oh, is that your friends?" Mida asked happily. "I'd love to come and meet all you guys but I'm super swamped here, it's actually kind of why I called."
"What exactly do you mean?" Pyrrha asked.
"Oh nothing too big, it's just I'm tied up covering everything for the Grif-ball playoffs right now and I've kind of been double booked." Mida explained now sounding a bit guilty. "You see I was supposed to be covering tomorrow night's game between the Pumas and Chuppa-Thingyies, but I managed to land a one-on-one interview with the Rooster's star Forward Lopez on the same night."
"I can see the problem, but what can I do to help?" Pyrrha said feeling more than a little confused.
"Oh I don't need you to do anything, it's just since I'm doing the interview I have these two tickets to the game just lying around. I figured you might like them, I bet Jaune would love to go too." Mida added knowingly despite not being able to see most of the gang's eyes go wide on the other end.
"Th-that would be great." Pyrrha couldn't believe her ears.
"I knew you'd like that. I already have one of our interns on his way to Beacon with the tickets." Mida chuckled smugly. "Just remember to keep your calendar open for that interview you owe me." And with that Mida ended the call.
Once more silence fell over the room as what just happened donned on everyone. "Did…did that really just happen?" Neptune whispered to Ren.
"Honestly I just stopped questioning these things since coming to Beacon." Ren sighed as the girl began to snap out of their varying states of shock.
"Oh my gosh, what do I do, what do I do?" Pyrrha pleaded to Yang becoming even more flustered than before.
"Easy Pyrrha. Listen, for right now just go down to the docking platforms and wait for the guy with the tickets. The rest of us will stay here and try to come up with more ideas." Yang instructed calmly as she led Pyrrha by the hand towards the door. "And don't worry, once you get back we'll all sit down and try to come up with some plans and ideas to help you on your date."
"Thanks Yang, I'll be right back." Pyrrha said graciously before sprinting down the halls faster than either team had ever seen her move.
"Alright guys!" Yang proclaimed slamming the door shut. "Put on your thinking caps because this just officially became a Double Emergency Meeting!" She order prompting cheers from Nora and Ruby.
"See guys, what did I tell ya, isn't this fun." Sun beamed to his fellow males.
Ren just sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose. He knew he should have just took a nap while pretending to meditate today.
Later that night on a familiar roof-top….
Jaune was tired. All things considered it had been a long and somewhat taxing day for the young knight. He'd spent hours with Coco in their weird confidence role-playing session, then spent the rest of the afternoon and into the late evening trekking from store to store with his sister and Coco as the piled everything from roles of fabric to sewing supplies high in his arms, but none of that was nearly as draining as his current hand to hand training session with Pyrrha. Now after having a few of these sessions Jaune was proud to admit he could now go through the warmups and stretches without being tempted by Pyrrha's more…feminine aspects, but with the fiery haired amazon currently sitting on his stomach and pinning his arms to the ground he was having a slightly harder time thinking more innocent thoughts. Could you really blame him, he was still a teenager after all. "C'mon Jaune, is that the best you've got." Pyrrha goaded tightening her grip on his arms. Another unexpected side effect of this training was Jaune had now mastered the art of always maintaining eye contact and while it may not come in much use during a fight it still was indispensable when it came to moments like these. But that didn't mean it didn't have its disadvantages too, Jaune was embarrassed to admit he'd more than once gotten lost staring into the Amazon's emerald eyes, seriously it was almost a crime how green they were. But Jaune couldn't be distracted now. Grunting with effort he tried arching his back in an attempt to unseat his partner, but to no avail. "Jaune remember, if you can't power your way out try to reverse the hold." Pyrrha instructed leaning back into her pin making Jaune all the more aware of two of his partner's feminine aspects hoveringjust above his chin. Deciding to take Pyrrha's advice Jaune shot his legs up and hooked under Pyrrha's armpits pulling her backwards off her perch. Keeping with his partner's backwards momentum Jaune sat up and followed Pyrrha as she tried to roll out of the hold onto her stomach. Jaune followed through pressing his weight down on her back from the side as he snaked his arm through her own to secure a half-nelson. Jaune liked this position, it was delightfully platonic and un-distracting. Unfortunately his celebration was a bit premature as Pyrrha slipped out of his hold and tackled the blond back down and returned to her previous position in a matter of moments. "You need to remember to properly secure your holds, otherwise your reversal will just get reversed." She lectured while smirking down at him. He could tell she was enjoying this. "But I think that's enough for tonight." Pyrrha declared releasing his arms and leaning back.
"That's great Pyrrha, but you think you could get off me?" Jaune chuckled tiredly.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" Pyrrha yelped blushing a little as she shot to her feet and extended a hand to her partner. Jaune gracious accepted the hand and raised himself to a sitting position opting to take a few minutes to rest as had become their ritual during these hand to hand sessions. Pyrrha made her way over to the duffle bag she'd brought up with them and casually tossed a towel towards Jaune which he snatched out of the air thankful for something to deal with the sweat. Pyrrha loved these small moments after training when it was just the two of them, but she couldn't let herself get distracted right now she thought steeling herself as she pulled the envelope from her bag. This was the moment she'd been waiting for all day, there was no turning back now. She took a deep breath before turning around and cautiously approaching Jaune as he gazed off into the night sky. "Um, hey Jaune?" She asked moving to take a seat next to him.
"Yeah Pyrrha?" Jaune asked turning to look at his partner unaware that his cerulean eyes made her heart flutter for a moment.
"Oh, well, um." Pyrrha stammered trying to remember how she'd rehearsed his conversation earlier with Yang. "You see my old manager sent me some tickets to tomorrow's Grif-ball game and I was wondering if you'd like to come with me."
"Are you kidding me? I'd love to!" Jaune gasped with excitement. "I can't believe you managed to even get tickets. It's the playoffs, they've been sold out for weeks." He gushed as a now very relieved Pyrrha handed him the envelope.
"Oh, well I guess it just pays to be a bit famous sometimes." Pyrrha joked until she noticed Jaune's eyes go wide as he stared down at the ticket. "Jaune, is something wr…" Pyrrha didn't have time to finish her question before Jaune captured her in a hug.
"Pyrrha these are courtside seats!" Jaune shouted with joy. "This is amazing!"
"Y-yeah…amazing." Pyrrha mutter in disbelief.
"Oh my gosh, I've got to go find my jersey and wash it!" Jaune said frantically leaping to his feet. "I'll meet you back at the room. Thanks again Pyrrha!" He called back before rushing back towards the dorm.
Pyrrha just sat there dumbstruck for a few minutes processing everything that just happened. It wasn't until nearly a minute that everything sunk in and she threw her hands in the air and let loose a victorious squeal of joy.
The following night at the Vale Sports Colosseum…..
"Annnnnd, it's good!" The announcer screamed into the microphone only for the crowd to quickly drown him out with their own excited cheers. "There you have it folks, the Pumas tie it up going into the half!"
"Wow I can't believe it, that last drive was insane." Jaune cheered excitedly as the two teams filed off the court towards the locker rooms.
"That was pretty great play, if that blocker hadn't moved when he did they'd still be down going into the next half." Pyrrha recited studiously hoping to impress Jaune with her gleaned knowledge of Grif-ball.
"Yeah, but that's why the Puma's run blocking is so hard to beat. It's the best in the league this season." Jaune boasted still proudly sporting his orange and white Puma's jersey.
"Well either way I'm glad you're enjoying yourself." Pyrrha said smiling happily.
"Are you kidding, I've always wanted to see a game live and now I'm sitting on the court. Seriously Pyrrha I can't thank you enough." Jaune said still looking as excited as a kid at Christmas.
"Hmm, I'll just have to think of a way for you to thank me later." She teased back secretly enjoying all this praise from Jaune. That's when the announcer's voice blared over the speakers stealing their attention.
"It's that time once again folks, direct your eyes towards the Super Screen because it's time for the Kisscam!" He announced as a large heart shaped infographic appeared on the screen before panning to a couple somewhere in the audience.
"Wow, I heard about stuff like this at games, but I can't believe they still do it." Jaune chuckled nervously.
"Yeah, who knew?" Pyrrha returned just as nervously, but she was nervous for an entirely different reason. One, she was secretly hoping the camera would pan to them, but more importantly two, if it did pan to them did she have the courage to actually kiss Jaune. Well she was about to get her answer because as luck would have it the camera panned to them.
"Oh what do we have here?" The announcer called over the mic. "Looks like we have four time Mistral Tournament winner Pyrrha Nikos here with us tonight folks." This elicited a wave of cheers causing the redhead in question to blush and wave towards the crowd. "But that's not all, look like she brought herself a handsome friend, what do say champ? Care give us a kiss for the cam?" This brought on another wave of cheers, but this time there was also a subtle undercurrent of male boos accompanying it.
Pyrrha was on the verge of absolute mortification. She wracked her brain for a way out of this situation, but not even Yang had thought of anything like this happening. That's when she looked to Jaune. He was blushing just as much, if not more than her. "I…I mean y-you….I-I mean we don't…" He stammered helplessly unable to fully look her in the eyes. But then Jaune suddenly went silent and his eyes went wide with disbelief as the crowd went wild because Pyrrha, mustering all her courage and throwing caution to the wind, leaned up kissed Jaune on the cheek.
In a certain apartment in downtown Vale….
"H-hey Goldy!" Tawny called to her sister cautiously.
"Ugh! What is it Tawny, I'm very busy at the moment." Goldy huffed stepping into the hall, her usual fluffy mane pulled into a ponytail and a pincushion strapped to her wrist.
"What's the last thing you expected to see during tonight's Grif-ball game?" Tawny asked not looking away from the tv.
Goldy sighed as she made her way towards the living room. "Oh I don't know maybe modicum of intelligence and good manne…"
"No it's Jaune. Jaune's the last thing." Tawny said pointing to the tv in amazement.
"Oh, oh dear." Tawny gasped.
At Beacon…..
"You guys realize there's almost no chance of seeing Jaune and Pyrrha on their date right?" Blake said bluntly as Yang, Ruby, and Nora sat huddled around the screen.
"Nuh-uh, I totally almost possibly saw Jaune's arm earlier." Nora said confidently.
"She does have a point Nora." Ren sighed from his spot next to Blake. "Besides you don't have to watch so intently, it's the half-time commercial right now."
"Yeesh, what are you two even doing here if you're just going to rain on our parade." Yang shot back testily.
"I live here." Blake retorted.
"Oh my gosh, guys, guys, look!" Ruby suddenly exclaimed pointing furiously at the screen.
"If you're just tuning to our half time report we've got some unexpected footage from our stadium's kiss cam. Here in the stadium tonight we have first hand footage of four time Mistral Tournament Champion Pyrrha Nikos kissing a curently unknown awkward blond boy."
"Looks like she's been up to more than just training up at Beacon Whiz." Another commentator added in jokingly.
The resulting girlish screams of joy nearly deafened Ren and Blake as Yang and Ruby jumped to their hugging in victory while Nora began rolling around with uncontainable glee for her teammate.
In another dorm…..
Coco groaned as she stretched at her desk. It had be a long night of studying and while she really did enjoy spending her time helping Jaune with his confidence and dating advice it really was starting to cut into her study time. That didn't mean she was going to stop mind you, oh no she was enjoying herself far too much to even think of that, it was just one of the few drawbacks. But now with her schoolwork out of the way it was finally time for Coco to indulge in some much needed me time. "Oh, just in time for my stories." Coco grinned checking the time on her Scroll. She quickly got up from her desk and turned on the tv only to find that Fox and Yatsu had left it on SESPN. "Ew, sports." Coco hissed reaching for the remote until a certain video played on the screen. A video of a familiar blond and redhead engaged in a simple and chaste display of affection. "Of course you know…" Coco somewhat growled as she tightly clenched the remote in her hand almost cracking the plastic square in her grip. "This. Means. War."
How's that for things escalating quickly? (Also I love making Looney Tunes references)
But yeah now I just wanted to address some things here and there. First off a bunch of you asked why I left certain girls out of the second omake. Well it's simple...I just didn't have any good jokes for Penny, Neon, and the rest. If I come up with more or they introduce more new girls next season I may do another omake of Meet The Parent part 2.
Next up I need to keep the update train a rolling on my other two stories so as much as I hate to say it guys don't expect another chapter here for a good minute.
On the upside if you've read and enjoyed Kamen Rider Hunter I have made it my next main priority so for any of you guys rooting for Arkos or love some good old Tokusatsu fun head on over there.
Also if you're reading Year of the RDCP's the OC submissions are still going and I would also like to know if you guys think if I should keep the Between Class chapters going, or just move them to the main story as .5 chapters? Please let me know, I value your input.
Stay tuned everybody for more stuff coming your way and don't forget to review.
Hope to see you all soon.