For the OTP!

The Prompt: "The Arkos Shipping Society strikes decisively after one of those damn exchange students made a pass at Jaune. THE OTP SHALL PREVAIL !"

Now let's see what you do with that prompt :p —Lord Farsight

Response:

Nora banged her gavel sharply on the desk, bringing the meeting to order. She glanced around the room, which contained all of Team RWBY, herself, Coco Adel, Velvet Scarletina, and surprisingly Dove Bronzewing.

She cleared her throat dramatically, and said in her most authoritative voice: "I now call this meeting of the Arkos Shipping Society to order!"

Instantly, the room fell silent, and everyone took a seat in their meeting hall, a secluded corner of the library.

"Scribe! Will you read the minutes of the last meeting?" Nora asked, turning to address the person in the chair next to her.

Lie Ren, official transcribe of the Arkos Shipping Society, adjusted the fake bifocals that his partner insisted that he wear to look "official" and began to read:

"Yang: We should just lock them in a closet until they bang!"

"Velvet and Coco: Agreed!"

"Ruby: We should get them to bake stuff together! Baked good are love! Baked goods are life!"

"Weiss: You dolt! You just want an excuse to eat sweets! I don't think Pyrrha even knows how to bake!"

"Ruby: A-I regret nothing! And two-That's the reason it's perfect! Jaune can teach Pyrrha how to bake, and in the process, they'll get messy and through a series of shenanigans, their feelings will be revealed to each other!"

"Dove: Sounds like someone is mixing their shipping dreams with reality again! That doesn't happen in real life..."

"Ruby: YOU DON'T KNOW THAT! Stop ruining my dreams!"

"Dove: I know that if you are baking right, there is nowhere near the mess that you are imagining!"

"Blake: Let's go back to the closet idea! I say we lock them in the closet, and while they have their heartfelt confession, and animalistic sex, we sit outside and listen. Then we use that to write our own smutty stories about them.

"Stunned silence"

"Yang: Wait, you would do that?"

"Blake: Don't be ridiculous, Yang. I already do that! I usually hide in the tree outside their dorm or listen at the door when they are alone together. It's great material for my creative short stories."

"More stunned silence"

"Coco: That's a bit extreme, don't you think? I mean, we're just a group of people obsessing about the love life of our friends and hatching schemes to force them into situations where they would admit their obvious feelings for each other. We don't make up stories about them. What kind of sad, lonely pathetic people would we be if we wrote stories about our friends just to fill the romantic void in our lives?"

"Velvet: raises hand You would be me! Arkos is awesome, and until they actually get together, and give us real material to romantically fantasize about, I say our 'fan fiction' is a legitimate form of expressing our love of the S. !"

"Dove: Seconded!"

"Yang: Thirded! Partners stick together!"

"Nora: I now call this meeting to an end so that we may all go write our own steamy Arkos stories!"

"That concludes the minutes of the last meeting," Ren said with a final shuffle of papers, " Are we now moving on to new business?"

Nora nodded imperiously, before turning to stare seriously out at the gathered crowd. Weiss gave a small nod of acknowledgement to Nora's serious demeanor and the improvement to her 'stately manner'. Clearly the lessons were helping.

Nora glared out at the wall behind her audience, centering her emotions as Weiss taught her, before declaring "I called this emergency meeting of the Arkos Shipping Society because one of those girls from Team NDGO made a pass at Jaune in the cafeteria at lunch today!"

There was collective, stunned silence before Ruby asked in a nervous whisper, "What did Jaune do?"

Nora smiled, breathing sigh of relief as she relayed, "He blushed, stammered, turned to empty his tray, and tripped over his untied shoe lace!"

The listeners let out a collective sigh of relief, as Yang stated loudly "Whew! Dodged that Dust round!"

Blake was the first to recover from their shared relief, and was quick to point out the obvious. "While we are lucky that Jaune is adorkably awkward, and thus perfect for Pyrrha, we can't take the risk of some other girl deciding that Jaune is a great catch before one of our schemes to make the S. S. Arkos sail succeeds."

The others grew quiet at that, before Weiss finally spoke up, "An example must be made."

Nora nodded firmly, now was the time for decisive action. "I think that the best way forward is to make our problem...disappear."

Weiss and Velvet gave a startled gasp as they came to the obvious, chilling conclusion. "Where would we even hide the body?" Velvet whispered.

"Body? What body?" Nora questioned, "I was just talking about pairing their entire team off with other people so that they were removed from the dating pool."

Coco nodded agreement as her partner and Weiss sighed in relief.

"So, who's available to pair our meddlesome ladies up with?" Nora inquired.

"According to my research," Weiss said as she vigorously tapped away at her scroll, " Team SSSN is a famous all boys team from the same academy as NDGO. It shouldn't take much to get them together if we stick to our specialties."

The others gave a firm nod, as Nora began to delegate tasks. "Okay, Coco, you're on uniform detail."

The fashionable Huntress gave a firm nod, before leaving to complete her assigned task. Uniform Detail was code for sneaking into Team SSSN's dorm and replacing their terrible clothes with more appealing fashion that would catch NDGO's eye.

Nora continued, turning next to Velvet, "Picture Detail, go."

The bunny Faunus made a hasty exit, striding with purpose toward the dorms.

Picture Detail was Society code for taking sensual, appealing pictures of a target, in this case SSSN and NDGO. They would be vital when it came to Weiss' part of the plan: Hacking into the teams' Havenbook accounts to plant the photos and false status updates. Apparently, having an Atlesian Specialist as a sister afforded one a very tech oriented skill set.

Ruby was busy using her speed to type between hers and her sister's scrolls, gathering intel by visiting the official fanclub pages of SSSN and NDGO. Knowing their targets' favorite things was essential for creating false status updates.

She let out a sudden gasp before shuddering so quickly, everyone watching thought it was a subconscious use of her semblance.

"What's wrong, sis?" Yang asked in concern.

Ruby turned to the others, eyes wide as though her innocence had been lost, and could never be regained, "I was browsing the NDGO fanpage, when I came across a link one of the Admins posted once it was discovered that one of the girls of the team showed interest in Jaune. Apparently there is an entire server dedicated to shipping him with others so that NDGO stays firmly on the market."

The red reaper gave another shudder, as she whispered, "So far, I've seen quite the following for pairing him with some other Haven girls such as one named Cinder. Apparently, people like the idea of them using each other as stress relief."

"Who on Remnant is Cinder?" Dove asked.

The others merely shrugged as Ruby continued, "It gets worse. I've also seen him paired with Neon Katt from Atlas, Crocea Mors, and even Cardin!"

Everyone turned decidedly green at that, even Dove, though the resident member of team CRDL was the first to recover.

"That's not surprising," Dove stated, "I room with the guy and I can say with conviction that no one is as much of a tool as Cardin is without being repressed and in denial. Personally, I think he and Sky spend an awful lot of time together."

Yang smirked as she called cattily, "I bet he's the bottom because Sky wouldn't even feel it otherwise."

Blake looked up from the citrus literature she was currently writing, "You think he's just insecure?"

Yang winked, "I think his +5 Mace of Overcompensation speaks for itself."

Blake blinked, gaping at her partner, "Did you just make a Grimm and Wilds reference? I have never been more attracted to you."

"Ladies, focus!" Nora called before the BY of RWBY could become too far gone, "Yang! Whisper Campaign!"

The buxom blonde gave a sharp salute, blowing a kiss to her partner before leaving to start her own part of the plan, spreading gossip to give Team SSSN the social status they would need to attract the notice of Team NDGO, and vice versa.

Weiss glanced over to her partner ,"Wait, did you say there were people actively spreading the idea that Jaune and Crocea Mors should be a a thing? How would that even work?" the Heiress asked in morbid curiosity.

Ruby shrugged, while quickly exiting out of her blueprint document to add a vibration function to Crescent Rose, "Apparently, there's a powerful female spirit in there that is the reason Jaune can't access his semblance. They have a lot of angry sex because of it."

"Weird," mumbled Blake as she focused on her next scene, "People are weird."

The group then dissolved into a furiously working, comfortable silence, as they socially engineered the coupling of people they barely knew with the focused intensity of shippers protecting their OTP.

While all this was happening, there was commotion of another kind going on in the cafeteria.

Ren had arrived to enact plans of his own. Tired of losing sleep, and valuable meditation time to taking minutes for Nora's meetings without being able to contribute himself, Ren had had enough.

Jaune was balanced on the edge of his seat, so it was not very difficult for Ren to "accidentally" bump his chair while sitting down, sending the blonde right into the lap of his partner, who was sitting very close as they were watching something on her scroll.

Ren quirked an eyebrow. The accidental kiss, and stammering blushing conversation he was witnessing had not been entirely planned, but was not unwelcome.

Arkos was official by the time dinner was over. The new happy couple left the cafeteria, smiling and engaging in the most lewd of coupling activities: Hand Holding.

END