Hello everybody! Welcome to a filler chapter! Technically, it's a transition chapter to transition to a different Arc, the L.O.V-E Arc so if you want to skip this I completely understand, and I'll prepare an abridged summary in the next chapter. This one's mostly so I could practice characterization and transitions, but if you do read it. Thank you!

No WB because this whole chapter is one big world building

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"Ozpin? What is going on?" James Ironwood looked around. He seemed to be in a…theater of sorts with Beacon students, Qrow, and… "Torchwick!?"

"Hmm? Yes, James?" Roman said calmly as he sipped his drink.

"You're supposed to be in custody!" Ironwood stood up from his spot on the floor.

"And?"

"And?! I'm taking you back to custody as soon as you explain why you put us here and what it is that you're planning!" Ironwood threatened? There really wasn't much of a choice aspect more like a set of instructions…a to-do list if you will.

"Hey, I'm just another henchman of fate. I didn't choose to be here I was just summoned. Kind of like you, Weird Girl, Bunny Chick, and little miss sooo last season." Roman addressed the newly arrived guests.

"That wasn't much of an insult…" Velvet looked confused at being called "Bunny Chick", it really wasn't an insult so much as a true statement. Yet somehow, being the only one not insulted felt insulting to her!

"Uhm, excUSE YOU?!" Coco took offense, as she should! This outfit was so "in" that it was practically made "in".

"Uh, Coco?" Velvet tried to calm her friend.

"Just one sec bun… Hey Grandpa, the XX70's called, they want their dumb hat back! They said you can keep the coat though, it's an antique." Coco sniped.

An ooh came from somewhere indistinguishable.

"It's called a fashion set! And if you want talk about ancient looks, a beret and sunglasses indoors? What is this? 50's upper Vale?" Roman sniped right back.

"Aw snap!" some disembodied voice called out.

"I'll have you know-"

"ENOUGH!" Ironwood interrupted any further fashion jargon. "Whatever crimes he's done against fashion-"

"Hey!"

"He's done worse crimes against humanity! Torchwick, you're under arrest for robbery, terrorism, and attempt to escape custody!"

"James, I suggest you calm down…" Ozpin said from his seat.

"Yeah! Laws have no dominion in this realm!"

"Torchwick, enough." Ozpin looked over his shoulder at the antagonistic man.

"What? They started it!" Roman whined like a child. Besides him Neo stuck her tongue out.

"And I'm ending it!" Ozpin scolded.

"Oz, will you just please explain to me what's going on?" Ironwood could feel a headache coming on again. "Where are we? Who is that man in the corner freaking out? And why the hell are there rabbits everywhere?!"

True enough to Ironwood's confusion there was indeed a large amount of Plot Bunnies convening around a specific spot. That spot being Velvet Scarlatina.

Velvet looked into the eyes of one of the bunnies that approached her. Stareee…..

"Hello little…guy?" she tilted her head in confusion. She'd seen rabbits before but never has she seen ones of this particular color.

The rabbit, mirroring her, tilted its head in the same direction. This caused the bunnies behind it to also tilt their heads.

"Wow Velvet! Not even a minute in and you've become the alpha of these bunnies!" Nora popped up from nowhere, slightly surprising Velvet.

"A-alpha?"

"Yeah! These little guys are magical! They must think you're their queen or somethin'!" Nora lifted Midori up to eye level with Velvet. "Do you mind kissing my daughter?"

"Q-queen?! Daughter?!"

"Yeah! Can you not hear me well?" Nora pet Midori, soon a megaphone dropped from the ceiling. Nora held up the megaphone to begin her speech but before she could speak Blake appeared from the shadows and karate chopped the megaphone from her hands.

"Don't." she warned. Blake turned towards Velvet and Coco. "Look, the situation is a little hard to explain, and I hope that display of magic gave you a clue that we're not pulling your legs. So just keep an open mind when you hear the truth. Ok?"

Velvet looked from the bunnies to the ceiling to the megaphone on the floor to the bunnies again. "Did tha- did that Rabbit just manifest a megaphone?"

"Yes, and if that's shocking you guys might want to take a seat." Blake warned.

The two girls sat down, Penny walked up alongside Ruby who kept gushing about her being here, Ironwood walked up not-so-sneakily all while keeping an eye on Torchwick.

"Alright, to begin…Nora, do you mind petting Midori so that this can pass by a lot faster?" Blake called out to the small girl. Nora nodded and began to pet the bunny in her arms.

One convenient and easily accepted explanation later…

"So, let me see if I got this correct," Ironwood was the first to recover from the shock. "We're here in a "pocket dimension", to watch alternate Universes of us and mainly centered around one person?"

Blake nodded.

Ironwood sighed. "I swear, I wanted a break but not like this…"

Qrow walked up and put an arm around Ironwood. "I know it's a lot to take in Jimmy, here," he offered up his drink. "helps with the understanding part as much as the rabbits do."

"Not now Qrow," Ironwood passed on the offer.

"Fine, more for me." Qrow smiled and downed the offered drink, but was it really ever offered?

"The idea of alternate universes is highly unlikely and while theorized by many scientists it has never been proven, thus making this impossible!" Penny spoke up.

"That's what we thought at first!" Nora responded.

"Then we saw some Universes! We saw one where our friend's a super hero, a counselor at a camp scheme owned by Torchwick, a girl, and a show director! A show about us!" Ruby added.

"But that-" Penny began looking confused and distraught.

"Anyone smell smoke?" Sun asked, he sniffed the air once more.

Ironwood noticed this too. "Uh, Penny, just ignore that..." Ironwood discreetly commanded.

"Ok!" Penny's mood switched quickly and the smell of smoke began to dissipate.

"All of that aside, let's say that this is true," Coco snapped out of her stupor. "Who are these Universes about?"

"That'd be Jaune!" Nora said with a smile.

"Jaune!" Velvet said with a slight smile on her face.

"Arc?!" Coco said with a very clear grimace on her face.

"You know Jaune?" Pyrrha approached with a slight curiosity from the very distinct reactions.

"Yes!" Velvet said with a slight blush on her face. Slight is such a fun word, huh?

"Unfortunately." Coco made a face.

Pyrrha noticed Velvet's reaction. "So Velvet, how do you know Jaune?" Pyrrha asked the bunny girl.

A plot bunny hopped onto Velvet's lap, she didn't notice it and subconsciously began petting it.

"Well,

Velvet stood at the table she and her team usually share. Yatsuhashi was going through the lunch line and thoroughly picking out the team's meal all while Coco was criticizing his choices on the food stuffs pointing out that it wasn't all too "healthy".

Fox was off somewhere meditating but he always found his way to enjoy lunch time with his team at the table. And Velvet, poor Velvet, was left for a while to defend CFVY's sacred threshold from any "vultures" as Coco so kindly put it, that might want to sink their grimy talons on their table.

Velvet picked at the carrot cake that was her dessert and sighed. This was the routine that Team CFVY has developed for its years in Beacon. Velvet would arrive first, rush through the lunch line to get some food, and hurry to defend the table all while Coco and Yats would go and pick out the food for the team and pick up an extra plate for Fox who would arrive mid-lunch and begin eating.

And this is fine! It's totally fine! ...Well, it would be if only-

"Hey Freak!" a rough and obnoxious voice came from a distance away.

If only Cardin would stop messing with her. The orange-haired boy approached the table.

Velvet looked to the lunch line and saw that Coco and Yats noticed that Cardin was about to start something, however there were tons of people in the way impeding them from springing into action.

"Uhm, Cardi-" Velvet began but was interrupted by Cardin grabbing her ears. Pain. It hurt, no matter how many times Cardin did this Velvet couldn't get used to it. It was humiliating and painful.

"HEY! Hands off the bun!" Coco yelled out in frustration from behind a wave of people. "Yats! Take em' down! Push them to the side! Throw me! Do something!"

Yatsuhashi was also being surrounded by people trying to get their lunch. "I think…that'd be…ngh!...Dangerous right now!"

But back with Velvet, as this is what the flashback is supposed to show…

"Ow! Cardin, can't we just talk about this? Ow!" Velvet cried out in pain.

"Hey Cardin!" a voice called out from behind the group. Cardin let go of Velvet's ears, she instinctively reached out to hold them.

"J-jaune! Heh, funny seeing you here!" Cardin became nervous.

"It's lunch time, where else would I be?" Jaune asked, Cardin wasn't fooling anybody with the innocent act.

Cardin burst out into forced laughter. "Oh that's rich! Well, see you aroun-" before Cardin could turn to leave Jaune placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Cardin, what did I tell you to do after I helped you out with that Major problem of yours?" Jaune asked, a slight cockiness in his voice, the pun only serving to add more suffering to Cardin that he had to answer to Jaune.

"To not bother your team again?" Cardin turned around slightly to look at Jaune's expression.

"And my friends." Jaune added in with an eyebrow raised. He then motioned with his eyes over to Velvet.

"Yeah but- no way is Bunny-hop over there your friend!" Cardin looked back at Velvet who's been looking at all of this in wonder.

"Yeah she is! Isn't that right, Velvet?" Jaune looked at a very confused Velvet, smiled, and made a face that she understood as 'go along with it'.

Velvet furiously nodded.

"See Cardin? So I suggest you go find someone else to go pick on." Jaune threatened.

Cardin looked from the scared Faunus girl to the blonde knight and sighed in defeat. Cardin walked off with his cronies in tow, mumbling under his breath.

Jaune watched them walk off. He turned to Velvet. "I'm sorry for that, he's trying to change… I think, buuut…old habits die har-" Jaune was interrupted by a sudden hug from Velvet.

"Thankyouthankyouthankyou!" the Faunus girl thanked him.

"Oh yeah, no problem, heh…" Jaune's face flushed with embarrassment at how close a pretty girl was touching him.

'So…soft…smell…so nice..' Jaune thought as the Faunus girl hugged him and as a bonus creeped the author out as he's writing this.

Velvet realized that she was maybe dragging this on for too long past the point of "thankfulness" and with a deep blush across her features, released Jaune from the hug. "Sorry about that!" Velvet looked off at the ground.

"It's fine!" Jaune answered, a little too eager, "And hey, Velvet, if Cardin keeps messing with you then come to me and I'll straighten him out!" Jaune cheekily told her.

"Mhm! Thanks again, he's just been so persistent and the rest of my team can't do anything about it without getting into trouble. How did you do that? He just looked at you and became immediately scared!"

"Eh, long story short, he owes me more than one and I'm just that cool." Jaune looked off to the left in a heroic pose.

A small giggle escaped Velvet's lips.

"Wha? Hey! I'm serious! I killed an Ursa! I'm like, 89% sure it was a major!" Jaune went on the defensive.

Velvet slowly eased her giggling. "I'm sorry, it's just a little funny. I mean, I've seen how you do in class and combat spars. It just surprised me is all!"

Jaune made a face. "Well, I best be going back to my dorm, I forgot my scroll...again…see you around Velv!" Jaune walked off.

"Ehm…wait!"

Jaune stopped walking away and turned to face the girl.

"I just, I-…thanks. Again." Velvet stuttered out.

Jaune smirked. "No problem." And he walked away.

As Velvet watched Jaune walk away into a table further in the corner she felt a sudden tug from behind. This tug led into hug by none other than her leader.

"I was so worried about you!" Coco pulled herself away and began inspecting Velvet. "Are you alright? Are your ears still intact? Am I gonna have to break their kneecaps or their elbows?"

"I'm fine Coco!" Velvet gently broke free from her leader's overprotectiveness. "And I don't think Cardin will be messing with me from now on…" Velvet looked around to see if she could still find the blonde knight who helped her. Nothing. Just like that, he was nowhere to be found in the dining area.

"Huh? He was just here?" Velvet still looked around.

"Hm? Who Bun?" Coco also looked around, even if she didn't know exactly who she was looking for.

"Uhm…never mind I'll thank him later." Velvet stopped her smirk and turned around to face Coco, wearing a very smug grin on her face.

"Oh, a Him is it?" Coco asked in a suggestive tone.

The rest of the lunch was different from Velvet's routine as it now involved Coco mercilessly teasing her.

"-and that's how I know Jaune." Velvet concluded.

Roman acted like he woke up from a long nap. Coco glared him down.

"Oh yeah, I remember that day!" Ruby spoke up. "Yeah, it was right after the trip to Forever Fall. He got a huge ego boost."

"Oh yeah, I think he tried skinny jeans for a while…" Nora recalled. She shuddered.

"Yeah and then I tested to see if he had his semblance unlocked." Ruby recalled.

"I remember that…" Pyrrha glared at Ruby, she simply looked away and whistled innocently.

"Okaaay, so we know how Velvet knows Jaune, but from what I can tell it doesn't sound like you noticed him. So Coco, how did you meet Jaune?" Blake segued the conversation away from the ticking time bomb that was Pyrrha's calm rage.

"Unfortunately, I had the displeasure of meeting Jaune when he was in a less heroic mood." Coco rolled her eyes but it wasn't entirely visible behind her sunglasses.

Coco was walking up the stairs and hating it. She swore that she was going to personally find whoever invented stairs and gut them.

Putting the violent thoughts aside, and the horribleness of the stairs, today was a very good day. Today Coco had decided to go downtown, luck had shone down on her and blessed her with the cutest boots known to humanity…and Faunusity. Faunism? Faunom? Faunkind? Whatever it was, the boots were cute.

Studded brown leather (sorry Velvet), 2 and 1/2-inch heels that made the height not too tacky and not too unnoticeable but that just right height where it made her look powerful and beautiful. Truly Vouis Luitton had done it yet again.

Such a good day was this, in fact, that Coco had decided to spoil herself a little after the 300 lien purchase. What better way to indulge than with a drink from her most favored coffee shop: StellarDeer.

So there she was, in a break in between the 3rd and 4th floor of the dorms, shopping bag in one hand, double-shot macchiato in the other.

Bvvvmm! Bvvvmmm! Her scroll buzzed.

"Hm?" Coco set her bag down and reached into her pocket to retrieve the device.

Velvet. Coco figured that whatever it was that she was calling for was important seeing as how Velvet hardly ever calls on account of her not wanting to be a burden.

Coco picked up the call.

"Velvet? Whatcha need honeybuns?" Coco answered the call in her usual way she did. With a slight tease.

"C-Coco? Uh…I know you're super busy b-but I was hoping that while you were out in town you could maybe get a carrot cake from that bakery you took us to last week? I-I'll pay you for the cost of it I s-swear!"

Coco looked down at her bags and then at the stairs above her. "Oh Velv, I was just on my way back. I'm already at the dorms." Coco explained.

"Oh…" You could practically see Velvet's sad bunny eyes from just hearing her sad tone.

Coco, never one for upsetting her precious bun, reacted immediately.

"B-but! But, if you want I can meet you at our dorm and we can head out together to the bakery!" Coco offered.

"Really! Yo-You'd do that for me?" Velvet sounded happy and instantly a smile found its way to Coco's features. Some loud footsteps could be heard from above her.

"Oh yeah totally! Anything for-"

"Run for our lives Jaune!" Ruby's voice cried out.

"I'm trying to!" Jaune called back.

"What the-" Soon a blur of yellow, black, blue, and red zoomed past Coco, a little too close. In an attempt to evade bumping very harshly into the yellow figure, Coco backed up rapidly onto the wall. This however cause Coco to let go of her coffee and through some cruel twist of fate the coffee spilled into her bag and into her new boots.

"Sorry!" the Blonde boy called out from behind him as he and the Red blur descended the stairs.

"Hey! You! You're gonna pay for this!" Coco called out after the figures but it was too late, they were an entire floor down by now.

"JAUNE! RUBY!" A very irritated voice called out from above. This one Coco prepared for and dodged just as a blur of black passed her.

"Coco?" a voice came from her scroll.

"Shit, Fuck!" Coco cursed.

"W-what's going on?" Velvet asked.

"Some jerk just made me spill coffee all over my new boots!"

"-and that's how I know Jaune." Coco finished her story.

"and I remember that day…" Blake glared at Ruby who just retreated behind Weiss.

"But anyway, yeah we're here to-" Blake began explaining things to Penny, Coco, and Velvet.

Meanwhile she was doing this, Ironwood snuck up next to Ozpin and Glynda.

"This is crazy. I mean, this shouldn't even be possible!" Ironwood began to start up conversation.

Ozpin took a sip of his coffee. "And yet here we are, but James we have even bigger matters at hand here."

"How so?" Ironwood turned to the man.

"A trivia segment of sorts will be coming up in a bit, and the reward for winning this challenge will be one question answered, and it seems that the person who's brought us here knows quite a bit about the future." Glynda responded.

"Any question? Oz, we could use this to answer so many things we've been wondering about and we don't have to wait 100 years for Jinn! We could know the whereabouts on all the Maidens! What Salem's plans even are! How to take down Sale-"

"The problem with that-" Ozpin cut Ironwood off. "The problem with that, James, is that I'm sure Mr. Blas' knowledge is limited in of itself, future or not."

"How can you be sure Ozpin?" Ironwood felt a twitch in his left eye. "What if he does know how to end this fight?! How to kill Sa-"

"Enough!" Ozpin said, calmly yet still sternly enough to make the general stop talking about the subject.

"…"

Ozpin sighed. "…Good…now we need to form a group and win this quiz."

Glynda looked at the tension between the two men. "But Sir, wouldn't it make more sense if we separated and had even more chances of winning?" she pushed up her glasses.

"Statistically speaking, if we make a group of 3 then that limits us to a 1 in 6 chances of winning. But, if we divide into three we can have half a chance of one of us winning." Glynda reasoned.

"That'd be a good plan…if not for who our guests are." Ozpin took a sip of his coffee.

"I don't think I quite follow…" Glynda looked confused.

"Ms. Belladonna, Mr. Ren, and Mr. Vasilias are all much keener than we give them credit for. Ren is an observant boy at heart, Blake is curious by nature, and while Neptune does often deny it he is an astute young man." Ozpin noted

"I don't see what that-"

"I see," Ironwood picked up on it. "You're saying that it'd seem suspicious to those three if we joined a group other than ourselves." Glynda's face became one of realization.

"Not only that but if we were to sabotage the other groups by messing up their answers it'll look like we have something to hide." Glynda added in.

"Exactly. So I say we try as hard as we can to win." 'and avoid answering anything about Salem' Ozpin finished off in his head.

"But what'll we ask? If we win." Glynda asked as Ozpin began to walk towards the rest of the group.

"I wouldn't worry about that, I already have a question in mind." Ozpin didn't even look back.

"…" Ironwood turned to Glynda.

"Let's go, we can't waste much time it seems alliances are already being made." Glynda walks off towards the group. Ironwood sighs and follows after her.

Meanwhile…

Pyrrha looked from Blake using dolls to explain the situation to Penny-

"Alright, and when Jaune goes and hops in this dimension," Blake made the doll with blonde hair jump. "But not in this one." She had a separate doll stand.

"That's a split in the timeline and now two Universes exist; one where Jaune jumped," Blake shook the doll that jumped. "And one that didn't." she shook the other.

"I know basic string theory." Penny noted.

"…Right…guess this makes this next part easier-Nora! Phase 2!" Blake called out.

Nora, wearing an army helmet, saluted and proceeded to pet Midori. A miniature theatre with everybody as dolls fell from the ceiling. It was a standard box with a wall separating it into two rooms with a square shaped hole in the wall to act as a screen.

"Alright, next part is," Blake threw the Jaune doll into the theatre behind the screen. "The viewing of those dimensions."

Sun sniffed the air. "There's the smoke again, is the heater broke or something?"

Pyrrha sighed and walked towards her target.

"Roman." Pyrrha approached the man.

"Cereal Box! This is a rare opportunity, and to who do I owe the honor and displeasure of coming to your acquaintance?" Roman smiled smugly.

"I'll cut to the chase: Roman, when you touched the Daredevil painting you said you had a vivid dream of what happened, right?"

Roman felt a sudden throb from his jaw. Truth is, he did. He remembered it so well it felt like he was there. Like all of his life was that Universe and he remembered every excruciatingly painful detail.

"I might, what's it to you?" he turned the question away from giving information about him. An old persuasion tactic he'd picked up from his many years on the job.

"I was going to suggest that we form a temporary alliance to win the competition." Pyrrha extended a hand out.

Roman looked at her hand. A slight smile found its way to his lips and a laugh followed soon after.

"Oh," he said in between laughter, "Cereal Girl, that is rich." He wiped a fake tear from his eyes. He looked back at Pyrrha's face, she was not amused. "Oh you're serious… well hate to disappoint you but my "alliances" have already been made."

"Well I'm here to make you reconsider your alliances. You wanted Neo and Qrow on your team, right?" Pyrrha got into a negotiating mind-set.

Roman stood still for a second, one hand revealed is nothing! Just gotta keep cool. "And if they are?"

"I implore you to reconsider and put me in your team." Pyrrha put her offer on the table.

"Ha! And why would I go do that? My posse is here? And why me?" Roman asked, if this were a game of tennis, the ball would be in Pyrrha's court now.

"Because your entire team would drag you down." Roman's.

"Oh? How so?" Pyrrha's.

"Neo doesn't talk-"

"But she has that machine now!"

"Right, and in the time it'd take her to type out an answer Ruby and Nora would have yelled out the answer five times over." 15-love.

"So? That doesn't matter! Neo's my number two!" Roman noted.

"Right, because you're so well known for your integrity Torchwick." Pyrrha sniped. "And honor for your friend is fine and all but you want to win. Win, and get your question answered. And I might be wrong here, but I think your question involves Neo." Pyrrha added in.

"Psh, and if it does?"

"If it does do you really think Qrow would let you use it for that?" Pyrrha asked Roman.

"He's my friend, he's-"

"Loyal to Ozpin."

"…"

"and to his family, we all saw how he threatened you last Universe. That man cares about Ruby and Yang first, everyone else second." Pyrrha noted.

"…"

"So, instead of having him on your team have me, an extra mind who can answer quickly wouldn't hurt." Pyrrha offered.

"Alright, I don't know what your game is here but let me tell you something: I know how this works. I know that no one does anything good just to be good. So let me ask you, what's your goal here?" Roman pointed a finger accusingly at Pyrrha. "What's your endgame, your reward for this? So far all I've been hearing is me win, but I wanna know, what are you getting out of this? Huh?"

"…" Pyrrha fell silent.

"I know your friends won't look at you all too kindly for associating with a criminal. You could've just as easily linked back up with Pinkie and Ninja boy, so why didn't you?" Roman looked her in the eyes.

"Because for all the help they are, they don't have information on Cinder's plans." Pyrrha answered.

"This again?" Roman put his arms up in frustration. "I already told you guys, I don't know what that crazy witch wants!"

"But you do know up to the Vale Breach and any information should be valuable. So once again: My loyalty for your information?" Pyrrha extended her hand out again.

Roman eyed it up and down. "You've got yourself a deal." Roman shook the hand. "Welcome to the Team."

"Thanks, now if you'll excuse me, I need to go talk to my friends." Pyrrha walked off.

"Hey don't go too far, I'll call for a team meeting in a bit." Roman called after Pyrrha.

Pyrrha just kept walking.

After a while she finally reached Nora and Ren.

"Pyrrha! Just in time too! So, you ready for this trivia thing!" Nora got super excited.

"Actually guys…I'm kinda teamed up already…with Roman…" Pyrrha avoided their eyes.

"Wait Pyrrha, Roman? That's…very out of the blue…" Ren turned an eye of suspicion to Pyrrha.

"Yeah and more importantly, WHY NOT US?!" Nora looked up at her with big puppy eyes.

"It's complicated…but just know that I have a reason for all of this." Pyrrha begged her teammates.

The two looked at Pyrrha, she seemed, different. Like something had clicked inside of her somewhere, worry overtook them.

Roman whistled. "Hey Cereal Box, we're having a team meeting! Get your ass over here!" Roman waved Pyrrha over, while Neo was eating a popsicle and smiling wickedly at the Red-haired girl.

Pyrrha turned from Roman to her friends. "Well, see you after the trivia thing." Pyrrha walked off.

"Pyrrha wai-" Nora began but was stopped by a calm hand on her shoulder.

"Nora, I say we have faith in Pyrrha. Something's off with her but I feel that this is something only she can figure out for herself." Ren calmly explained to Nora.

"B-but…oh fine! But what do we do now?! Where are we supposed to find a nice, quirky girl to talk to?!" Nora called out to the Universe whilst absentmindedly petting Midori.

"Salutations!" Penny appeared from seemingly nowhere.

"Sweet mother of Forks!" Nora jumped into Ren's arms Shaggy and Scooby style.

Meanwhile with Ruby…

Ruby was off in thought, with a very distressed look on her face.

'What am I gonna do?! Three people a team means I can't have Weiss, Yang, and Blake on my team! And now Penny's here too?!' Ruby thought in frustration.

Qrow walked around, he was honestly thinking of skipping out on the stupid "Trivia" thing that was coming up, but for that he'd first need a team that wasn't expecting much of him. He looked over at Glynda talking with Ironwood.

"Hard pass." Qrow mused out loud.

He then looked over at his boss, Ozpin.

"Meh, Plan B." Qrow dismissed it. Ozpin was always being silent and distant for as long as he'd known him but now it felt even more so.

Qrow then turned his attention to his new drinking buddy, who was uncharacteristically pumped about this and even teamed up with that cereal girl. Great, just his luck that the one person who he could slack off with was deciding now of all times was when he was going to decide to be gifted with sudden motivation.

He then looked over to the Sun and Neptune conversing. 'Psh, if you ever find me babysitting somebody else's kids, shoot me' Qrow thought with a grim smirk.

Eventually, his eyes landed on his niece, Ruby. 'Perfect.'

Ruby was snapped out of her endless circle of choices by a hand on her shoulder. She turned around and found her Uncle Qrow.

"Uncle Qrow!" see?

"Hey kiddo, something biting at ya?" Qrow asked the small girl.

Ruby looked off for a second as if deciding whether or not to confide in her uncle, after a few seconds filled with her eyes shifting left to right as if she saw two guidance Rubys on her shoulder she piped up.

"Actually Uncle Qrow, I'm having a hard time choosing who to put on my team for the trivia!"

Qrow chuckled a bit. "That sounds…rough..."

"I know! If I choose Weiss and Yang then Blake will feel like I don't like her enough to be on my team!" Ruby explained.

"Well, that does seem like quite the dilemma but I think your emo friend has it co-"

Ruby, however, wasn't paying attention and kept going on. "and if I choose Yang and Blake, WEISS will feel left out!"

"I'm sure your friends are gonna be fine. They're tough kids I'm sure they can take a hi-"

"AND, if I choose Weiss and Blake then YANG will feel like I'm mad at her or something!" Ruby said, freaking out as if she just now didn't consider not having Yang on her team.

"Now kid, does that sound like something Yang would-"

"And I haven't even began to think about PENNY!" Ruby began hyperventilating.

"Oh for the love of-" Qrow reached into his pocket, pulled out a paper bag, and handed it to Ruby.

. . the bag crinkled with every inhale and exhale until it started slowing down.

After the breathing became normal Ruby looked at her Uncle.

"You good? Good. Cause I came over here to say we should team up, but seeing as how you'r-"

Ruby's eyes lit up. "YES! This solves everything!"

Qrow recoiled a bit from Ruby's sudden change of mood. "It does?"

"Of COURSE! If I have you on my team Weiss won't want to join up with me, Blake's not good with new people so she'll opt out, and Yang can just team with us!" Ruby explained.

Qrow thought this over, it was just like his niece to choose a solution so as not to hurt anyone's feelings. "Okay sounds like you got yourself a deal kiddo." Qrow held his hand out to the reaper. Ruby smiled and shook it. "Oh, wait, what about your weird friend? Copper or something?"

At the mention of this, Ruby's face dropped the smile and paled. "Oh no…I forgot about Penny!"

"Yes?" Penny appeared out of nowhere.

"Ahh!" Qrow and Ruby were surprised by the girl's timing.

"Penny!" Ruby recovered first.

"Yes?" Penny turned her head a bit.

"Oh Penny, I'm so sorry!" Ruby rushed forward and hugged the quirky, orange-haired girl. "Ijustwasn'texpectingyoutoarriveandthentheteamswereonlythreepeoplesoIpanickedanddidn'teventhinkofyou! I'msorryI'msorryI'msorry!" Ruby began rambling.

"Oh, Friend Ruby, don't be! It's not your fault that it's teams of three or that my arrival was so sudden!" Penny patted her friend's head.

"Wait you understood that?" Qrow asked the odd girl. She simply nodded and continued comforting Ruby.

"In fact, I came here to apologize to you!"

Ruby looked surprised. "To me? Why?" Ruby looked at her friend.

"Because I can't be on a team with you, Nora said I have to join her team." Penny explained with a smile.

"Really?" Qrow looked from the scene that was going on to the orange-haired bomber who was waving aggressively at the trio.

"Guess that means I have to go, see you after the break Ruby!" Penny separated herself from the hug and walked over to the join Nora and Ren.

Ruby stood there, stunned, unresponsive. Qrow sighed and walked up to his niece.

"Look kid, I'm sorry about your friend, I'm sure it-"

Ruby turned around with a big smile. "Are you kidding? This is great! Penny gets to make new friends and I don't have to break anyone's feelings! This is awesome!" Ruby jumped up and down giddily. "Now, come on Uncle Qrow, let's go get Yang before anyone else does. Ruby took her Uncle's arm and began to drag him towards her three teammates.

Meanwhile with Neptune...

Neptune looked at Weiss from a distance as she spoke to her teammates. That's when Qrow and Ruby arrived and began talking with the three girls. But that's not here but over there, over here, Neptune was having an existential crisis of sorts.

'Is the only reason I exist…for Weiss?' Hoh yeah, the author could practically hear the sound of people quitting the fic. 'All the signs are there! I appeared into Weiss' life, provided comedic relief, gave character development to many characters-', It was just Jaune, 'and I even went to the dance with her!' Neptune clutched his head as it began hurting. 'These are all signs of generic love interest that can be killed off for the sake of character development!'

He shook his head and slapped himself, scaring the monkey Faunus next to him.

'Neptune, you're overthinking all of this! You're a support character sure, but at least you have depth. For example, your family! ...' Neptune's freaking out came back to him quickly as he had a very rough time remembering the Vasilias family in its entirety. Neptune began hyperventilating.

"Dude, you alright?" Sun worried for his friend. "Uh…Hold on…" He reached into his pocket, pulled out a paper bag, and handed it to Neptune. "Here just breath into this I saw it in a movie so it must work!"

. .

After a few seconds of the bag inhaling Neptune finally reached a normal breathing pace.

"You good now?" Sun asked his…partner? Is it ever official? I mean, I checked the fan-wiki and I found jack-zilch? Maybe I'm overlooking a line or a mention? Where was I? Oh yeah, story!

"NO!" Neptune yelled at the blonde Faunus.

"Okay dude, geez…what's got you in such a bend?"

"Nothing! Nothing, it's just…" Neptune wondered if he should even talk about this with Sun.

'He'll never understand! He's probably better solidified as character than you!' Neptune 1 in his mind told him.

'He arrived earlier! Surely, a little bit more of screen time doesn't mean he's less likely to die than you!' Neptune 2 tried to calm down the worries of the other Neptunes.

"It's just what?" Sun snapped Neptune out of his trance.

'Neptune 0, he's your friend! Your partner…maybe…and as his maybe-partner that means you can talk to him about anything that troubles you!' Neptune 3 spoke.

'Fools! All of you! That's it I'm leaving!' Neptune 1 outraged. Neptune could hear echoing in his mind the sound of clothes folding and a suitcase slamming shut.

'And where do you think you're going?!' Neptune 2 asked.

'Don't know! But I do know that wherever I'm going I'll be respected!' angry footsteps echoed and soon a door slamming shut as Neptune 1 stormed out.

'He'll be back, he literally has nowhere else to go, after all, this is a clever literary metaphor used to personify the abstract concept of thought.' Neptune 3 referenced.

'…just shut up and make him answer he's been staring into Sun's eyes for the past 14 seconds.' Neptune 2 sighed.

"Okay…but don't laugh alright!" Neptune resumed.

"Sure, if it's got you this out of it then it must be serious to you and I'm sure I couldn't possibly laugh at something like that." Sun said with a reassuring smirk.

"You don't have to lie to me either." Neptune saw through it though.

Sun sighed. "Ugh, fine! I'll try! But just know that ever since we got dropped off here you've been acting weird and I don't like that!" Sun warned the blue-haired man.

"Hey, I just found out we're an online series! How the hell are you taking it so well?!" Neptune snapped back, somehow guessing correctly that they are a web-series despite never been told this information.

Sun shrugged. "Meh, I've seen weirder things."

Neptune looked at his friend with a look of disbelief. "Whatever…look, I think I have a theory about my existence!"

Sun groaned. "Dude, if this is the marble thing, I swear I'll find a way to get Sage down here and you two can have this settled like last time."

"Hold on, hold on, this one makes sense!" it doesn't. "Okay, so, I think my role as a support character goes further beyond just any-old support character. I think I'm meant to be Weiss' love interest!"

"…" Sun remained silent.

"What?"

"That's it?"

"What do you mean "That's it?"?! I might've solved how to save myself from dying next season-" he didn't. "-and all you have to say is "That's it?"?!" Neptune snapped at his friend.

"Well it just doesn't sound like you is all! I mean, you're the last person I'd imagine wants to settle down in the near future and Weiss seems to want things right away. Plus, Weiss is all "proper lady" and all so isn't like going for you a downgrade? She is the heir to the Schnee Dust Company." Sun defended himself.

"Hey, I can be proper and stuff! And besides all that stuff doesn't matter when you're in love!"

"Yeah but this isn't love, it's you being selfish and using Weiss to save your butt. And this idea that you were meant to be Weiss' boyfriend from the start is very farfetched." Sun made a valid point.

Neptune rolled his eyes and ignored previously mentioned valid point. "No but see, it does make sense when you look at our interactions with one another!"

"Well duh, we're teammates!"

"Not me and YOU our, me and HER our!" Neptune facepalmed. "Look, just know that if I want to survive whatever it is that's coming up, I need to solidify my role as Weiss' love interest, and to do that I need to spend quality time with her!" Neptune got on his knees and began to beg his friend. "PLEASEPLEASEPLEAAASEEE!"

Sun blinked. "Well…sounds reasonable to me!" it wasn't. "What do you want me to do?"

Neptune got up and wiped off the tears he was saving for plan B. "Okay, so right now I think Ruby and Yang are about to team up with their Uncle Qrow leaving Blake and Weiss…"

"Okay." Sun nodded.

"And I'll need to spend time with Weiss so I'll most likely team up with Blake and Weiss, so I'll need you to not do that…teaming up with them…don't…" Neptune finished.

"What?! But I wanted to show Blake this cool key I found on the ground!" Sun whined and held up a golden key using his tail. "I found it on the ground when the new floor came in and I was gonna see if Blake was gonna detective it up and solve the mystery as to what it does!"

Neptune decided to amuse his friend's idea a little longer. "And what would she do with a key?"

Sun shrugged. "I don't know, unlock stuff that was locked? What else do you do with a key?"

Neptune sighed. "Dude please! Just once and I think I can solidify my place with Weiss and then I'll be set!"

Sun looked into his friend's eyes, they were currently trying to resemble puppy's eyes. "Eugh…" trying. "Alright, fine! But you owe me, dude!"

"Thanks, bye!" Neptune smiled and dashed off towards Weiss and Blake but slowed down to a brisk walk when the girls noticed him.

"Oh hello Neptune!" Weiss smiled as the blue-nette approached.

"Hnn." Blake acknowledged Neptune's existence.

"So, Weiss, I was wondering if you and Blake would like to team up with me, seeing as we're all like-minded intellectuals?" Neptune offered with a smirk.

"Actually Ne-"

"Yes! We were actually about to go and ask you if you wanted to be part of our team!" Weiss cut-off Blake.

"Uhm…Weiss, can we have a quick team huddle. You and me. NOW." Blake dragged off Weiss and made distance between them and Neptune.

Neptune turned to Sun behind him and shot up a thumbs up with a big smile on his face, Sun returned this gesture with a single bird and a deadpan look. Neptune stopped smiling and turned away from Sun, knowing this isn't the time to bother him.

As Sun sighed, he could feel a malicious presence behind him. 'Faunus Senses…Tingling!' Sun made a quick spin to catch whatever predator set off his primal instincts and found two girls, surprising them with how quick he noticed them and how closely it looked like a battle stance.

Coco was the first to snap out of it. "Monkey-boy! So good to see you!" Coco began, taking a tone like she'd met up with a friend she hadn't seen in a while.

"Uh, hey Coco…" Sun dropped the fighting stance and the two girls relaxed.

Coco smirked. "So! Can't help but notice that your buddy over there left you alone and went to join up with Blake and Schnee." she made eye-contact behind her sunglasses while still pointing at Neptune, still standing there with a goofy grin on his face.

Sun scoffed. "Yeah, but what can you do about it?" Sun shrugged.

"You dress better!" Coco happily responded his rhetorical question and Velvet nodded in agreement.

"Huh?" Sun, with all the rights to be used, was confused.

"It's elementary my dear Sunny Boy!" Coco puffed her chest out proudly and a bright aura surrounded her, that might have more to do with Velvet petting a Plot Bunny in her arms rather than Coco. Sun felt a little impressed, like looking at a hero or something in a comic book about to do a super cool fight with their archnemesis. She pushed up her glasses and they gleamed in that cool way one sees in an anime,

"CUTE OUTFITS MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND!" Coco posed.

"GIVE IT BACK! GIVE ME BACK THE ADMIRATION I JUST FELT!" Sun cried out.

As the two were discussing this, over there with Blake and Weiss…

"That isn't what we agreed upon!" Blake whisper-yelled.

"You said, and I quote, "We'll team up with the next person that asks!"!" Weiss whisper-yelled too.

"Yeah, but I thought that Sun was gonna ask us regardless and I didn't need to interact with anybody else!"

"Blake, that's really shallow thinking! You can't live an adult life having a single group of friends and ONLY interacting with them and them only!" Weiss pointed a finger accusingly at her friend.

"You just watch me!" Blake pointed a finger back.

Weiss rolled her eyes. "Whatever, you need to meet new people and Neptune is perfect!"

Now it was Blake's turn to roll her eyes. "I think I'd be fine with anybody BUT Neptune, he gives me creepy vibes." Blake shuddered.

"Is this about that stupid "Faunus Senses" crap you keep babbling about? I keep telling you it's just you being nervous!" Weiss dismissed the accusation

Blake sighed. "And I keep telling you, it's scientifically proven! There have been case studies dating back to-"

"UGH! Blake! Just let me have this one PLEASE!" Weiss stopped that whole debate short again. "Please! I've never asked for anything else of you for as long as I'd known you!" Weiss looked into Blake's eyes, piercing into her soul…piercing….

"….Fine, but if my Faunus senses start tingling again I'll hold it over your head until you die in your dust covered coffin!"

Weiss rolled her eyes. "OR, if you're begging to feel uncomfortable just make a safe word and we'll try to back out of the situation!" Weiss suggested.

"Safe word?"

"Yeah. You know, words like Pineapple, Jenga, Hammertime, Sudoku, words that we know what it means but other people don't."

Blake sighed. "Let's do the last one."

"Sudoku? Ok, if you feel uncomfortable with anything just start saying Sudoku and we'll back out."

Weiss and Blake rose from their huddle, and turned around almost mechanically towards Neptune. They approached.

Neptune did his signature pose (yes, the "Hey," one) and snapped his fingers. "Laddiesss," He said in his pseudo-smooth tone.

Weiss giggled, Blake however…

"Sudoku."

"What?! Blake, we just started!"

Meanwhile with Sun and Coco…

"Come on Sunshine!" Coco begged the Faunus boy. "I don't even care about the stupid prize, I need a challenge!"

"Like I said before, NO!" Sun's eyebrow twitched.

"But everybody could use a makeover!" Coco whined. "We use Velv's Plot Bunny and ANY outfit we could ever want will be at our finger tips! Think about it!"

"You mean any outfit YOU could want! I like my style, there's nothing wrong with it!" Sun shook off Coco's puppy dog eyes, which were still behind the sunglasses.

Coco stopped for a second and the let out a small giggle. "Really?"

"What?! What's wrong with my clothes?!"

'Gotcha' Coco thought with a devious smile. "Nothing! Nothing at all…well except for one tiny detail…." Coco looked off to side.

Sun examined his clothes. "One detail?" He asked curiously and unknowingly fell for Coco's trap.

"Or two…For example, your belt!" Coco pointed at the accessory.

"My belt?"

"Yes! Putting aside the fact that it's not brand, I need to give you props for matching the belt correctly with your top." Coco complimented? Well, whatever it was Sun got bashful all of a sudden, he was being complimented(?) by Beacon's fashion icon after all. "However, I can't give you props for the fact that the match makes you look like a rejected boy band member!" Coco glared behind her glasses and Sun immediately felt intimidated.

"And the gloves!" Coco cried out as if the very thought of it hurt her. "I mean, I know you were going for the hot-hobo turned boy-next-door look but geez I swe-" before Coco could continue, Velvet placed a hand over her teammate's mouth.

"I think," Velvet interrupted, "What Coco was trying to say was that we need your help Sun, and in exchange we'll give you some pointers on your look from a different point of view!" Velvet offered with a smile. "And I promise, Coco won't be as mean and give actual constructive criticism!"

"…" Sun looked down at his gloves. They were cool, right? "Okay…but on one condition!"

Velvet nodded furiously.

"I keep the gloves, they're cool!" Sun said confidently.

"They sure are! Isn't that right Coco?" Velvet took her hand off of Coco's mouth.

"…I can make it work." Coco sighed in defeat and extended a hand out towards Sun. "Welcome to the team, Sunny-D!"

"Alright then!" Sun smiled and shook Coco's hand.

Just then,

"Alright everyone, get in your seats, sit with your teams, we'll begin the Trivia Game shortly." It was Inigo, who had recovered from the fact that he was very much soon going to be fired…most likely from a cannon.

Every one walked to their seats and sat with their teams, in case you forgot who was with who let's have a check in with how each team is doing I even went through the trouble of naming them! Sorta.

Team CVS (Canvas)

As Coco's team passed Weiss' team an interaction occurred.

"Schnee." Coco said in a dismissive tone.

"Adel." Weiss said with venom in her voice.

"You two have beef?" Sun asked as he saw Weiss' team walk away.

"Hmm? No, why would you think that?" Coco picked up a notepad and began drawing on it. "But regardless, Sunster, since you joined last you get to choose where we seat!" Coco patted Sun's back and went back to sketching on her notepad.

Sun scoffed. "It doesn't matter, all the seats are stale crackers regardless!" Sun huffed and sat in the back row, he winced as he sat on the hard seat.

Coco rolled her eyes. "Sun-Sizzle, don't exaggerate!" Coco began the motion to sit down. "How bad could they possibly bE!" Coco felt…discomfort. Oh, this would not do! "Ah! It feels like someone just hot glued two pieces of wood together and spanked me with it!" Coco exclaimed in frustration causing Sun and Velvet to blush. "Velv, your bunny friend got anything for these seats?"

Velvet looked down at the rabbit in her arms, approached the seat and pet the bunny. A white glow blinded everyone for a second but after it subsided all the seats had changed to their old material. The chairs seemed even newer and softer than ever.

A cheer erupted from everyone who had either sat down again or remembered the good ol' days with those seats.

"And this," Coco reached underneath her seat and began pressing buttons on the control, "this is why you're my number two Velv!"

Velvet smiled and nodded.

Team RPN (Rippin! TM, as chosen by Nora)

"Alright Team Rippin! TM, let's get ready to win!" Nora pumped her fist in the air.

"Uhm, Miss Nora, commanding general in charge, I have a question?" Penny raised her hand.

"Yes Private Penny, what is your question?" Nora turned towards the girl.

"I don't know how useful I'd be to your cause, what with me missing all the "universes"," (She did this with quotation marks) "is it really okay for me to join you guys?" Nora looked guilty.

"HA!" Nora laughed rather loudly. "Of course it's fine! Team Rippin! TM NEVER leaves a man behind, unlike SOME backstabbing ex-teammates!" Nora glared at Pyrrha, who looked miserable as Neo was putting her hair up in twin tails.

Penny shook her head, she still felt guilty. "But Miss Nora, commanding general in charge, logic stands to reason-"

"Logic, shmogic! Look kid, you don't get as far as I have by listening to something as made up as "logic"," (Nora also put logic in quotation marks) "sometimes you gotta go with what your gut tells ya!" Nora posed while standing on her chair.

"But…" Penny sighed.

Ren noticed this. "Penny, if you're feeling guilty about taking a spot on our team, don't be. Nora seems to enjoy your company enough and as charismatic as she seems, she doesn't bond with someone as quickly as you'd think."

"But what if I'm just holding both of you back!"

Ren chuckled. "Sure, it'd be nice to win and maybe get an answer or two, but I don't think Nora cares all too much about that." Ren reassured the girl, she seemed to calm down a little more. "As long as you're enjoying yourself and Nora's enjoying herself, I think we've won." Ren smiled.

Penny looked from the calm boy to the hyper girl who seemed to be giving a motivational speech to her Bunny. "Yeah. Maybe that is how we win…Alright! I'm trivia ready!" Penny all of a sudden felt very motivated.

"That's the spirit Penny!" Nora interrupted her motivational speech to go back with her team. "WE'RE TRIVIA READY!"

"TR-VI-A! TR-VI-A! TR-VI-A!" Nora and Penny began chanting.

Team RQY (Rocky)

Ruby looked worried from all the noise that was coming from Penny's group. She worries for Penny and if she fits in.

"Oh…yeah!" Yang meanwhile wasn't worried at all and instead relaxing on the more comfortable chairs. "I swear, Velvet is an angel!"

Qrow chuckled and looked around the floor, "There ya' are!" he made a swooping motion and picked up a Plot Bunny.

Ruby noticed this. "Uncle Qrow, what are you doing with that bunny?"

Qrow pet it. "What do you think, Kiddo?" an eye cover dropped from the ceiling. "Taking a nap!" he donned the sleepwear and leaned back.

"What?! Uncle Qrow! You can't jus-"

"ZZzzzz" Qrow was out.

"Oh no…Yang help I-"

"Zzzz" Yang was out.

"…crud…"

Team OGI (I don't have a clever name for this one, it's just Ozpin, Glynda, and Ironwood)
"Now, you all remember the plan?" Ozpin sat down.

"Yes sir, notes are ready, hypothetical questions are written down and answered, and nerves have been calmed!" Glynda reported.

Ironwood raised his hand up to inspection, the robotic one, and noticed he was shaking a bit. "Oh, one second." He reached behind his right shoulder and twisted a knob labeled mouse sensitivity and soon the small trembling ceased.

"Unbelievable…" Glynda shook her head.

"What? It has its perks sometimes." Ironwood winked.

"If you two are done," Ozpin interrupted. "I'd very much like to get serious now." Ozpin glanced at the two and they immediately straightened up. "Now, let's beat a bunch of students at a test."

Team RPN (Ripping, with "ing" not to be confused with RippEN, who we do NOT associate with)

"-and that's all I know, sad to say other than the plan to break out of custody, hijack a ship, and have fun Cinder didn't give me all that many instructions or details." Roman sighed and took a sip of his drink.

Pyrrha finished writing stuff down on her notepad. "And that's it?"

"'Fraid so." Roman shrugged. "But well, at this point the plan will change."

"Change?" Pyrrha asked, a little intrigued.

"Well of course! After we win this little trivia thing, I'll find out how I can escape this obvious suicide mission and get me and Neo as far away from here as possible!" Roman laughed at his ingenious plan. "And all you need to do is help pick up some of Neo's slack. Got it?" Roman gestured to Neo who was eating a Neapolitan sundae with a very happy smile on her face.

Pyrrha's gaze intensified. "Yes." A twin tail fell on her face and she blew it out of the way.

Team WBN (Web the N's silent and hardly there, after Volume 3 that is)

Blake and Weiss were discussing strategy all while Neptune sat there awkwardly.

'Dude! You gotta start a conversation, you look like a weirdo! Just talk to them!'

Neptune opened his mouth to speak but closed it right away.

'What are you doing?! Talk to Weiss! If you don't, you might die next season!'

Neptune opened his mouth to speak and closed it even faster than before.

'Do a pick up-line! Ask an interesting question! State an interesting fact, no don't, you'll seem like a nerd! Say something, ANYTHING!'

"Muarp." Neptune said something, anything.

'*Facepalm*'

"Huh? Did you say something Neptune?" Weiss turned towards the blue-haired man.

"Nothing!" Neptune said quickly.

Weiss shrugged and turned back towards Blake.

Neptune kicked himself in his mind, but after a few more seconds hyped himself up to strike up conversation. "Soooo, Weiss what would you ask for if we won?" Neptune struck up a conversation.

"You mean when we win, for as much as Jaune annoys me seeing different versions of himself is rather entertaining, and thus I've actually paid attention to the Universes!" Weiss bragged. "I'd wish to find out how to restore the Schnee name to a back to its honorable ways."

"Restore implying there ever was an honorable way…" Blake muttered under her breath.

"That's really noble of you Weiss," Neptune complimented. The Heiress smiled a proud smile. "But what does that have to do with Jaune?"

"I beg your pardon?"

"I mean, think about it; Blas offered up answers by saying the next Universe he shows will answer it, but if it's a Universe it will need to have Jaune at the center of it." Neptune explained.

Blake overheard this. "That…actually is a valid point, Neptune."

"Yeah, so if you do win and ask how to make the Schnee name honorable again, it will show you how to do that but Jaune would be needed for it to work." He reasoned.

Weiss thought about this for a bit.

"And if that's what is needed I'll do it."

Blake made a smug grin. "What if you had to date him?"

Weiss made a small grimace, "If that's what I need to do…"

Neptune panicked. "Now let's not get too hasty here!" Weiss and Blake turned to the boy with a raised eyebrow. "I mean…that…you shouldn't have to settle…for any less?" he said?

"Aw thank you Neptune, you kno-"

"Alright, since everyone is in their seats we can now begin." Inigo said in a monotone voice. Everyone sat down. "Alright, there are 5 questions in total with a lightning round at the end if a victor isn't decided upon. The team with the most points wins, questions will be displayed on the screen, write down the answer on the boards that will be provided," as he said this, whiteboards and dry erase markers dropped down to each team one for each member. "If you're team gets the answer right you'll-"

Ruby raised a hand. "Uhm, Mr. Inigo, sir, my whole team is asleep is it too late to-"

"Yes."

Ruby sighed in defeat.

"Now, as I was saying: write the answer, if you get it right your team gets a point, we will see the leaderboards every two questions, and there's no time limit on these. Any questions?" Inigo looked at the group.

All at once, several hands shot up. "Good, now we'll begin!" he threw away the cue cards he was holding and pressed a red button on a box he was holding.

The screen turned on as a countdown began to appear.

3…

Ruby tried shaking her teammates awake to no avail.

2…

Nora began pumping her fists in the air and Penny followed suit.

1…

Ozpin gripped the marker in his hand, unbeknownst to him Pyrrha was sitting not too far away from him and also gripping the marker equally as hard.

A purple background with white text appeared:

What is Roman's Scheme Camp named?

A sigh of relief passed through Ruby. "I know this one!" she wrote on her board. She looked towards the rest of her team and saw the two still sleeping. She sighed and looked around at the other teams.

Sun ruffled his hair in frustration, he knew the answer he swears he did! It's at the tip of his tongue he just had to remember! "Augh! Camp…Roman? No! It was catchy but not too catchy.."

Speaking of Roman…

"Neo! Notes!" Roman held his hand out.

Neo nodded and handed Roman a notepad.

"Thank you, Neo. Now, Cereal Girl, you can thank my infinite genius for thinking of writing down the scheme ahead of time to-"

Pyrrha held up her board to show Roman she had already wrote the answer down. Roman Campbell's Camp Campbell.

Roman's face fell from a smug grin to a grimace. "Pff, whatever." He threw the notepad behind him, forgetting that his retirement/plan B was on said notepad.

"I'm sorry!" Pyrrha smiled a bit.

Back to Sun…

"Is it Camp Camp? Yes! Wait, that was the Universe name, not the camp! Right? ..." Sun mumbled under his breath. Velvet pet the bunny on her lap. "Camp Camp has to be the name!" Velvet pet the creature again. "But is it?" pet. "Yes! It is!" pet. "Or could it be-" Coco cut him off.

"Oh for the love of-" Coco picked up her whiteboard. "Camp Camp, there done! Now shut up and let me get back to designing your new outfit!"

Sun stared as his whiteboard had the word Camp Camp written on it in messy hand writing. Pet. Suddenly, conveniently, the correct answer donned on him. "NOW I remember!" Sun went to wipe off one of the camps but after a while of trying to wipe it off nothing came off. "What the-"

Inigo spoke up. "Did I forget to mention that once a team mate has picked an answer there is no changing it." Inigo heard a beep on his watch. "10 seconds till the next question, if no answer is put them the answer is wrong.

"Hold on! You didn't mention any of these rules at the beginning!" Weiss stood up from her chair.

"..8 seconds.."

She quickly sat back down, if there's anything that was to change Weiss' topic it was tests. When she sat down however, she noticed that the answer was already there. "Huh?"

"What can I say?" Neptune spoke from his seat next to her. "I have a near perfect memory when it comes to useful facts." Neptune said in a "humble" brag tone.

Weiss looked a little impressed.

"It was a movie." Blake muttered under her breath.

Ironwood was paranoid. Was there a secret camp scheme that Roman was planning? What was it? What does it do? How can it affect Remnant and how can he stop it?!

Glynda noticed Ironwood's grim mood. "Don't worry James, it's only a get rich quick scheme mixed in with tax evasion I assume."

"That's a relief I was worried I had to launch an investigation."

"If you two are done talking, we should focus." Ozpin took a sip of his mug.

"Ah-right sir!" Glynda looked down but the question was already answered.

Penny was freaking out! She searched all throughout her criminal database and found no data under Roman's extensive files. "C'mon memory-" her system memory, "don't fail me now!"

Nora yawned and wrote something. "BOOM! Next question!" Nora continued to pet her "daughter".

Penny began freaking out. "B-but what if it's a wrong answer I *hic* can't give a wrong answer!"

"Penny! Will you chill out? It's just a game! Plus, I'm 73.54% sure I was right!"

"B-but that still leaves a 26.46% chance that you're wrong!"

Nora looked towards Ren. Ren looked back, highly impressed that Penny had made such a quick calculation. "Riiight…so what?"

"Huh?!"

"So what if we get it wrong? We have a ton of rounds left!" Nora smiled

"We have 4 left and a ton is a unit of measurement made specifically for weight!"

"…pff!" Nora began laughing. "I know that silly! It's a saying! Have you never heard that saying before in Atlas?" Nora looked at the girl suspiciously.

"Uh…not like that…"

Flashback!

Ironwood looked impressed as the small robot, who looked like a teenage girl, lifted the solid steel cube.

"Color me impressed Dr. Pollendina, she can lift a ton of weight!" Ironwood smiled at all the possibilities of robots like P.E.N.N.Y.

"Different region and all that!" Penny dodged the question.

"Hmm odd, what's it like in Atlas anyway?"

"Oh! It's really nice I especially like the-"

"Alright, time is up! The answer was:"

The screen switched to a yellow panel with black text.

Roman Campbell's Camp Campbell

A groan came from Sun.

The answers wiped themselves off the board.

"Next question."

What are Lindsay and Michael's jobs other than actors?

Penny looked at Nora. "Michael and Lindsay?" she asked her fellow red-head.

Ren spoke up. "Hard to explain it all, but essentially, in an alternate Universe we were all actors in a show about our lives. Michael and Lindsay are Sun and Ruby's actors' names."

"Oh…" Penny began feeling dizzy. "I think I get it now."

Nora snorted. "Yeah, and in that Universe Ruby and Sun were marr-mmpff!" Nora was cut off as a blonde tail covered it.

"Careful!" Sun leaned in from CVS' seat in the row behind them. He pointed at Qrow and Yang's sleeping form.

"MMhh?" Qrow stirred.

"I think that if we so much as mention it they'll flip Ou-WCH!"

Sun retreated his tail only to find it crooked and wet. "Did you just bite me?!"

"No! It was her!" Nora held up Midori, who was baring their teeth. "Now buzz off! Team ears only!"

Sun backed off with his tail between his legs, literally.

Ren looked at Nora.

"What?"

"Nora. That wasn't very nice." Ren simply said.

"WHAT? I didn't bite him! Midori did it before I could! And hey, he put his dirty butt tail on my mouth! That was also rude!"

Back with CVS,

Sun looked at his tail, slightly crooked, in pain. Aura began uncrooking his tail but it hurt as every joint fixed itself into place, slowly. "Alright! I actually know the answer to this one!" Sun went to write his answer down but his arm was snatched by Coco. "What the-"

"Stand still! I need to measure your arm length!" Coco got out measuring tape.

"This is ridiculous!"

Ruby was slightly relieved on this one too, it seems as if though these questions aren't all that tough!" Achievement Hunters Ruby wrote and smiled, until she heard Yang mumbling in her sleep.

"Mngh…Blake..no, don't,…I swear I didn't even know it was your secret stash…" Yang began talking.

And then Qrow began to as well, "..Tai…I told you…I lick…juicer…mine…"

Ruby sighed.

Weiss looked over to Neptune. "Well?"

Neptune looked at the whiteboard and smiled. "Easy! It's A-" he was interrupted as an answer was written on the whiteboard. He looked towards Weiss who just looked as confused as he was.

"You take waaay too long to brag, just write the answer." Blake said with a smug grin on her face.

Neptune's face went sour but then he smiled too. "Noted."

"Honestly, I found the entire Universe boring so I just sort of glossed over it." Roman gave an excuse.

Pyrrha sighed. "How about you Neo?" she looked towards the silent girl, Neo simply shrugged.

"10 seconds!"

"Great." Pyrrha grimaced.

"Hey Cereal, chill. I got this." Roman handed something to Neo. In a flash Neo threw it towards the ceiling and it stuck. Roman smiled. "Check it." He pulled out a mirror and pointed at an angle so that he could look into the mirror on the ceiling. In the reflection he could see some words that Team WBN had on their board.

Pyrrha gasped. "That's cheating Roman!" she whispered.

"SHH! It's not cheating, it's called surviving." Roman put the mirror back in his pocket and wrote on the board.

Pyrrha just looked down and saw the words appear on the board. Achievement Hunter.

"Times Up! The answer was:"

Achievement Hunter

"Wait? Achievement Hunter, not plural?" Ruby asked as she looked on her board.

"Yes miss Ruby, no 's'." Inigo confirmed.

Penny groaned. She knew it should've been a brand name not a job title!

Ruby face palmed, she might need a team after all.

Glynda looked miffed, "That's just dumb! There's more than one so it'd be Achievement Hunters!"

Ironwood tried to calm her down a bit.

Now then, we reached a checkpoint, time for scores and then we continue."

The screen switched to a light blue background with black text, a leader board was shown

RPN(G)- +2

WBN- +2

CVS- +1

OGI- +1

RQY- +1

RPN- 0

The scores appeared.

Nora pumped a fist in the air. "Boom! In the lead! Go team Rippin' TM!" Nora got excited.

Ren put a hand on her shoulder. "Actually Nora, I think that's-"

"TEAM RIPPING!" Roman stood up with a proud pose.

"Hey! You stole our team name!" Nora pointed an accusing finger at Torchwick.

"HA! Puh-lease!" Roman pulled an Akanbe. (Translator's note: looked it up, it's when you pull your eyelid down and stick your tongue out.) "We formed our team first so if anything, YOU'RE the one "Rippin" off our team name!" Torchwick was very proud of that one.

Nora tried going after the criminal but was held back by Penny. "Let go of me! I got this! I can take him!"

Penny was effortlessly holding her back but had to put up appearances so as to not arouse suspicion. "Miss Nora!...ngghh!...Please don't make a scene!"

Roman snickered. "Oh, and before I forget-" Roman pointed at everyone else, "It's best if you all give up now and save yourselves the humiliation!"

Weiss stood up. "No way in hell! We're also in the lead and have just as much chance of winning than you if not more!" Weiss remarked.

Roman engaged in more Banter Kombat with the heiress. Pyrrha covered her face away from the situation, turned to face the opposite direction and was face to face with a rather smug Neo.

Neo pulled out a notepad, wrote something quickly, and faced it towards Pyrrha. 'You come here often~?'. Pyrrha blushed and turned around to see the problem with Torchwick and Weiss coming to a close as, similarly to Nora, Weiss was being held back by Neptune and Blake. Torchwick sat down with a smug smile on his face next to Pyrrha.

"I don't get what you're so smug about, we only got that point because we cheated." Pyrrha whispered to Torchwick.

"Ah Cereal, Cereal, Cereal, I have so much left to teach you! Rule number one: always look out for number one!" Roman got a paper ball thrown at his face. "Ow…and also your number two." He said with a look at Neo.

Pyrrha frowned, was this a good idea? She looked at the notepad with plans to make Beacon fall, and her resolve came back.

With Ruby…

"Come on guys!" Ruby tried shaking her two other teammates awake to no avail.

With Weiss…

"I said I'm fine guys! Just he gets me so mad! Augh! You know he tried to kill us on multiple occasions!" Weiss sat down with a huff.

"I know Weiss I was there."

"It'll be fine! If anything, this is more of a reason to win if anything!" Neptune tried to convince Weiss.

Weiss calmed down a bit. "Hm. It would be nice to rub it in his smug, stupid face when I win." Weiss smiled a bit.

"And all we have to do is put our game faces on and we're set!"

Blake added in, "Yeah, you said it before, we have a chance of winning if not a better chance than others."

Weiss got pumped up. "Right! Now, team Web, let's do it!" Natural team captain? I think yes!

With Ozpin…

"Dang, we're doing bad out there!" Ironwood looked at the scoreboard.

Glynda turned towards Ozpin. "Sorry sir, I should've checked in with you before writing my answer down." Glynda berated herself.

"It's fine, Glynda, we still can win we just have to stick to the plan." Ozpin reassured her (Translator's note: plan means keikaku)

Glynda calmed down a bit.

"Right!" Ironwood's resolve was renewed as well. "Let's do our best!"

Meanwhile with Sun…

"Ugh. All this happy, friendship, teamwork stuff is seriously getting old." Coco sighed and picked up her remote to order something.

"Come on Coco, don't be so negative! Everyone here is friends!" Velvet talked to her teammate.

Sun sighed. "No, I think I'm gonna have to agree with Coco here-"

"Thank you!"

"Everyone here is just tense and pretending to be friends to some extent." He looked towards Pyrrha's team. "Pyrrha is hanging out with a known terrorist and his psycho assistant, Ruby is fending for herself while her uncle and sister are off snoozing. Meanwhile, Blake feels uncomfortable being next to Neptune while he's trying, and failing, to flirt with Weiss, and Ironwood and Glynda are following Ozpin's order but he's obviously holding information from them! And Penny is over worrying because Nora's easy-going attitude contradict her odd need to be right."

Velvet looked at Sun. "Wow, that is…a really convenient way to sum up everyone's situation. Are you okay Sun?"

"Hmm? Yeah I'm fine I just- AHHH-CHOOo!"Sun sneezed. "Huh, that's odd."

Velvet looked at the Plot Bunny on her lap, and realized that when she pet it, it released some weird dust, dust that was going into Sun's nose.

"eep!" Velvet shooed the bunny off her lap, it still hung around, alongside a pack of other Plot Bunnies.

"Alright everyone!" the guy who was about to be fired called everyone to attention. "Next round is up in 3.2.1…"

The screen turned on again.

What is the name of the woman in Joana's head?

Nora stood up excited. "I know this one! I know this one!" she went to write down the answer but before she could Penny stopped her. "Huh?"

"Uhm, Miss Nora, no offense but maybe we should discuss the answer first or at least spell check it?" Penny tried to politely defuse the red-head's excitement.

"Why? I know the answer!" Nora looked at Penny and tried to get loose but Penny's grip was surprisingly strong. "Do-do you not trust me?"

"No! I just- I just wanna make sure t-that we get a correct answer!" Penny held her place.

"Again on that? Why are you so obsessed about getting answers correct?" Nora tried to pull away but still, to no avail.

"It's just how I was made! If I'm not right then I don't understand it! It needs to be done in a certain way and in a certain order or else it won't make sense!" Penny began to raise her voice a bit. Her eyes started frantically racing across the stage, screen, Nora's face. It was too much!

Ironwood noticed this and stood up, only to get a look from Ozpin. A look that sort of said, "Wait for it."

Ren put a hand on Penny's shoulder. "It's okay, Penny. We get it."

"Y-you do?"

"Yes." Ren turned towards Nora. "Nora, I think we should listen to Penny."

"Wha- but Ren!"

"But nothing. Penny's our guest to the Team and we should treat her as such." Ren reasoned.

"Fine!"

"And Penny, you should trust us more. I know we've just met and all but we trust you, I think it's only fair that you trust us a bit too."

Nora's wrist was released.

"I-I'm sorry…I just-*hic* I can't-*hic* I need to-" Penny began stuttering and hiccupping.

"Hey, hey!" Nora tried to calm down the situation. "HEY! Look at me!" Nora cupped Penny's face.

Penny's eyes roamed on the outside of Nora's face, she was still shaking in Nora's grasp. "Hey, it's going to be fine!"

Penny's breathing slowed down a bit, and her hiccups started going down. "I-I-I *hic*-I"

Nora began chuckling. "Okay, you need a process? Here it goes: Step one, we get a question!"

Penny nodded. *hic*

"Step two, we talk about the answer so that we can't possibly get it wrong."

More nods.

"and Step three, we win. Unless in the instance when we lose in which case, we lose but we had fun! Cool with that?"

"Yes! I just need a process!" Penny saluted.

"Good!" Penny un-cupped Penny's face. "Now, what's my title, I forget!" Nora smiled.

Penny also smiled. "You are Miss Nora Valkyrie, Commanding General in Charge!"

Ironwood relaxed at seeing Penny laugh alongside that Valkyrie girl.

Ozpin spoke up. "These students aren't like any other I've seen. All they're talk of friendship, yet they still show results above average than the rest of the students. They're…different. At least different from mine or your times."

"Heh. Now that's not a fair comparison and you know that." Ironwood quipped.

"Was that a jab at my age or your lack of experience?" Ozpin sniped back.

Glynda giggled behind her hand.

"I'll remember this Ozpin…"

"I'm sure you will." This wasn't going to come back and bite Ozpin in the ass. Nope!

Meanwhile, in the deep, dark lair of the Ba- oh wait wrong one…

"Aaanndd done!" Coco ripped out the page on the notepad that she was drawing in. "With this one that makes a grand total of ten different outfits that will look great on you!" Coco handed the page to Velvet, she stapled it together with the rest of the nine pages.

Sun finished writing the answer down. "Oh brother…ten?! Why, would anyone need ten outfits?"

"Psh! Ten outfits is nothing! It's only a fraction of what I have in my dorm closets!"

"Closets? With an S? I thought Beacon only gave one closet per partner?"

"They do, but I'm very persuasive. Just ask Yats and Fox…when they get here."

"Alright but can we save them till after the trivia thing? I wouldn't like to be dead last."

Coco sighed. "Fine, but if I come up with anymore design ideas I can't stop myself from adding on!"

"Okay, everyone," the stupid OC spoke up, I forgot his name, honestly. "The answer was:"

Esprit

A few groans came from Teams CVS and RPN(G).

"Oh, come on! Neo, you said that it was Esp or whatever!" Roman got upset.

Neo rolled her eyes and pointed at her mouth. "Right, wrong word choice." Roman face palmed. "I mean she called her that for a great majority, I guess I can't blame you."

Neo wrote something on a paper and handed it to Pyrrha. Pyrrha read it. "I'm sorry boss, but I was interested in other things in that Universe. Wait what?"

"No problem Neo, I understand." Roman calmed down. "A person who won't understand however, is-"

"HA!" a rather shrill voice came from behind Roman.

"Her…" Roman grimaced.

"We're in the le~ad. We're in the le~ad." Weiss gloat danced.

"Now, now, Weiss, let's not get too excited. We still have to win." Blake tried to calm down Weiss.

"Hey, she can dance if she wants to." Neptune smiled. Blake facepalmed. "She can leave her friends behind~"

Weiss heard this and turned around.

"Cause your friends don't dance-" Weiss started as she recognized the song.

"-and if they don't dance-" Neptune continued.

"Then they're no friends of mine!" they both finished.

"I didn't know you guys listened to Safety Dance." Blake smiled as the pair sat down.

"I'll admit, first time I heard the song: hated it!" Weiss spoke up as she pulled out her remote.

"Me too but then I found myself humming it one day while I was working!"

"I know right! It's so catchy! How about you Blake?" Weiss asked.

"I uh…I heard it…at my parent's house…yeah..." Where Blake actually heard it was a White Fang "Rally" but she wasn't going to admit that she was part of the White Fang, not when an ATLESIAN GENERAL is just two seats away!

Meanwhile, with Penny…

"Come here you brilliant little weirdo!" Nora wrapped her arms around Penny and gave her a noogie.

"Miss Nora, it's really nothing!" Penny began to try to let go of the Valkyrie's grasp but now it was her turn to be left without much mobility.

"Nothing?! It's our first point! We have a solid chance of winning now!" Nora let go of the small robot.

"But Nora-" Penny's eyes found Ren who gave her a look that just said, "Don't tell her.". Penny nodded. "We'll still have to work hard to win!"

"Right!"

"Next question is up." Issac? Illid? I swear it started with an I.

What is the law firm Jaune and Sun work at?

Ruby grimaced. "Crud! I know this one! I swear I just need to remember!" Ruby looked frustratingly at her teammates. "Ugh! Why'd you two need to go off to sleep?"

"…Ar…ong…at…aw…" Qrow muttered in his sleep.

"Huh?" Ruby could've sworn that sounded familiar.

Yang stirred a bit. "…c..wu…orney..at..l" there it was again!

"Are you guys helping me in your sleep?" Ruby asked. No response. "Uncle Qrow!"

"…Ar…ong…at…aw…"

"..now Yang!"

"…c..wu…orney..at..l"

Ruby got an idea. "Qrow! Yang!"

The two mumbled at the same time and Ruby could faintly hear a solid name in the two's mumbles. "Arc..wuong…attorney..at..law"

Ruby's face lit up with realization. "Of course!" she quickly scribbled on the white board.

Pyrrha racked her mind to try to remember what the law firm was called. "Hey Roman do you remember what it was called?" Pyrrha turned to the criminal.

Roman's face looked MAD, he clenched his hand until his knuckles turned white. "Oh I remember!" He grit his teeth. "I spent all my time in jail, thinking, plotting of ways to DESTROY THAT BLIND, BLONDE SON OF A-" in a flash a snickers bar was at the base of Roman's neck and another snicker's bar was at the base of Pyrrha's.

Pyrrha looked from the man, towards his assistant who was glaring at her and holding the candy bar.

"Oh, it seems that I've struck a chord here." Roman smiled. He turned to Neo. "Neo, make sure she lets me finish my monologue." Neo nodded.

"I mean I knew you liked the boy but you, my dear Cereal Box, have it BAD." His smile grew even bigger. "Let me give you some free advice, since you've been so useful to me so far."

Pyrrha gulped, she could feel the wrapper gently touch her skin.

"By the context clues in the situation, it seems that you and I are calendars, as in our days are numbered. But see there's a difference between me and you, I want to live and I'm sure while you want the same, you'd do whatever you need to do to be a "hero". So, here's my advice to you: Don't."

"…"

"Live for yourself, and your needs. Look at me for example, I'm willing to throw you under the Ursa if it means I get what I want. You should stop trying to be a savior, and be a survivor." He picked up the whiteboard, and wrote. "Live for yourself first, then everyone else."

Pyrrha glared at Roman, ignoring the wrapper pushing slowly at her neck.

"Neo, I think that's enough." Torchwick called her off. At the same time Neo and Pyrrha pulled their "weapons" back.

"Alright, the answer was:"

Wukong and Arc, Attorneys at law

Nora fist-pumped. "Boom! Systems rule!" Penny and Ren smiled in that weird "I'm proud of my kid who's finally in the soccer game even if their team sucks." Way that soccer moms do.

Pyrrha looked at the answer, and saw that Torchwick got it right. 'Torchwick…got it right...'

"Whoo! In your face Popsicle!" Roman began dancing a rather irritating dance.

"Grr…" Weiss growled. Growled.

"And with that we've reached the second checkpoint," I…I…Indigo? I could've sworn I wrote it down somewhere. "We'll start the last round in a bit so we'll need to speed this up by a lot. Meanwhile, look at the scores."

RPN(G)- +3

WBN- +3

CVS- +3

OGI- +3

RQY- +2

RPN- +2

"I'm sorry sir," Glynda apologized, "I tried to remember the name of the law firm but I got distracted and then time ran out!"

"It's fine Glynda all that matters is that we tried." Ozpin tried comforting her.

"Is it really Oz?" Ironwood asked.

"…"

"I don't know, it just seems suspicious that you wouldn't want to know more about our enemy, and you refuse to tell us why exactly." Ironwood glared at Ozpin.

"James!"

"Come on Glynda! I expect this from Qrow, but you? You're just going to go along with it? Blindly?! He still hasn't even told us what he's gonna ask if we win!" Ironwood pointed an accusing finger at Ozpin.

"You're being paranoid!"

"And you're being too relaxed!"

"And all three of you are being idiots!" Sun walked up to the group.

"Excuse you?" Goodwitch turned to glare at the boy. Sun suspiciously had a spot of purple stuff around his nose. "Young man, are you on high?!"

"Sha, high on truth!" Sun's eyes started drooping, and then suddenly he opened them wide. "and I think it's about time you all got high too!"

Ironwood looked at Ozpin with a puzzled look. The man shrugged.

"Not one of my students."

Coco, observed from a distance laughing as she held some remains of a purple powder in her palm.

"Coco! This was mean!" Velvet scolded her teammate.

"You mean, my best idea ever? If he's gonna postpone my fashion show, then I'll find some other eterntainment!" Coco pulled out her scroll.

"Listen up, cause I might only do this once!" Sun leaned a bit to the left but quickly corrected himself. "You!" he pointed at Glynda. "Ironwood's right, you don't ask enough questions! If Ozpin told you to jump off a cliff because there was a soft mattress at the bottom, would you?!"

Glynda was shocked. "W-wha? NO! That's a totally different situation!"

"Is it? They're both about trust, and you give way too much to a man who hasn't given you much to work with!" he turned his head to Ironwood. "And you!"

"I'd watch what you say I am Gene-"

"General of Atlas and headmaster of Atlas Academy, I get it but you need to understand to trust others! Especially if they haven't you steered you in the wrong yet! Seriously, are all Atlesians so mistrusting for a reason or is that just fear that another internal conflict is gonna make another kingdom right under their feet?"

"I- I should detain you right now!" Ironwood stood up and looked down on the blonde Faunus.

Blake turned around "Right, and arrest another Faunus under the name of Atlas pride."

"Blake?!" Sun snapped his head towards Blake.

"Uh y-yes?" Blake was seeing a different side of Sun, he seemed…unstable. Honestly, it frightened her a bit.

"Not now." He snapped back to Ironwood. "Point is, if you trust no one, then no one trust you and when something is just too big a problem then you can't handle it by yourself, you're gonna need friends." He snapped towards Ozpin. "And you…you…just…ditto! Okay?!"

"Hey buddy, you okay?" Neptune turned back to face the commotion.

"Shut it!"

"Yes sir!" he turned back around.

"NOw, if you excuuuse me!" Sun turned around and immediately fell down, face first.

"Alright," Inigo! That was the dude's name! "Next question is up."

Which song does Miles dress up and dance to?

Crickets were heard throughout the theater. Ruby, as per following the pattern of every other silence, broke it.

"YES!" she woke up Yang, Qrow, and Sun with the triumphant cry. "I know this one!"

"augh…kid, if you know it then write it!" Qrow took off his eye mask. Yang opened an eye.

"Yeah sis, *yawn* what's the big deal?"

"I love this song!" she scribbled it down, "Quick cover your boards!" The two grabbed the whiteboards and put them face down.

"Squirt what's the meaning of this?" Qrow looked around to find, everyone glaring at their team. "Whoa, tense, what'd we miss?"

"No time to explain! Just keep them guarded!" Ruby said as she covered her own board.

Roman tried angling the mirror but it was no use as Ruby, Qrow, and Yang were resiliently guarding their boards. "Drats!"

"Crud!" Weiss closed her eyes and tried so hard to remember all the times Ruby had told her about the song. "Grrr! Why couldn't it have been one of my songs?!"

Coco pulled Sun up to a chair. "Admittedly, not a good idea to drug our only component carrying the team to victory."

"Gee, you think?" Velvet tried shaking Sun awake.

"Ozpin…do you…know the song?" Ironwood turned to the green-themed man.

"I…don't…" the two sat in silence. "The Spring Maiden."

"Huh?" Ironwood turned to Oz.

"I was going to ask about the Spring Maiden, her location. Leonardo lost track of the Spring Maiden a while back."

"That's irresponsible! What if-"

"I also didn't want the kids to ask about Salem, I feel like we'll find out some information we might not handle and now is not a good time to fight." Ozpin put his head down.

"I…understand…" Ironwood said, defeated. "Why tell me this now?"

Ozpin chuckled a bit. "Honestly, it seems like we might not win, I think you should know before anyone else."

Ironwood looked towards Glynda who was frantically looking through her notes. "Not even Glynda?"

Ozpin looked down, still. "Sure."

"Penny! Do you know that song?!" Nora shook the robot a little.

"Nora, I haven't heard the song, how am I supposed to know it?"

"It goes like, hm hm hm hm hmm hmm hmmmm!" Nora began humming a bit off key.

Penny got an idea. "Wait, I think I might know that song, Nora could you hum it again?" Penny loaded up a feature.

"Sure, come on Renny!" Nora wrapped her arm around Ren and the two began humming it, Ren's Rendition slightly slower than Nora's hard rock attempt but still.

"I got it~" Penny said in a sing song voice as she started writing stuff down to a rhythm. "Quick cover your boards!" Nora, and Ren covered their boards quickly as Torchwick tried to angle his mirror. Penny finished and flipped her board over quickly.

"Aannnd" Inigo looked at his watch. "Times up! The answer was:"

The screen turned to a red background with black text.

This Will Be the Day

Penny and Ruby pulled up their boards to show their answers and both were correct.

"Crap!" Roman tried to write the answer on his but the boards and markers all turned to dust and not the crystal type.

"Well, it seems that you guys made it to the end and surprise, surprise, you're all tied so we'll have to do a lightning round." Inigo called everyone to attention as he pushed a button and small tables with sheets of papers and a pen appeared in front of the teams.

"Aw yeah, I love lightning!" Nora looked at the piece of paper in front of her. "Aw what? This isn't lightning it's a TEST!"

Blake looked at the odd girl. "Nora, this was all a test."

"Really? It didn't feel that way." Nora tilted her head and looked at the scoreboard. Nope, this was definitely a game."

"ANYway, this next one is simple, write all the camper's camps." Inigo walked towards the box he got at the end of last chapter. "One catch: If you get a question right, you get a point, get one wrong, you lose two points. Not only that, but now you will actually have a timer, not one that's based on your character interactions this time. So you only get 10 minutes." He pressed another button and the screen switched to a yellow background with red numbers.

09:59

"Time starts now." He smiled and went back to writing his resumé.

"OH crud!" Neptune reached towards the paper and began scaning it over.

Nora-

Ren-

Penny-

Neptune-

Sun-

Cardin-

Yang-

Ruby-

Pyrrha-

He was pushed aside as Blake began filling out the paper.

Nora looked as everyone was stressing out about the paper. Ruby was writing frantically as Qrow and Yang were pointing things out to her. Blake was filling out the paper while Weiss and Neptune were arguing with her over who was what camp. Roman was checking his notes and similarly so was Glynda. Sun was scratching his head, still a little out of it but still writing at a pace, while Coco was stressing him out more and Velvet was petting a plot bunny that had found a way into her lap.

'Hold on!' Nora picked up Midori. 'I know how we can win!' she pet her.

Unbeknownst to Nora, Velvet pet her rabbit at the same time and thus the combined convenience of the two brought about:

"And…time!" Inigo called out as the timer reached 00:00, coincidentally, the time I will most likely finish and publish this. "Now," the papers all flew towards the screen as the score board came up. "Let's get a final score."

As the numbers shuffled about the various teams the finally settled.

RPN(G)- +11

OGI- +10

WBN- + 8

RPN- +6

CVS- +5

RQY- +5

A mix of groans escaped the lips of many competitors except for…

"Oh yeah!" Roman began dancing yet again. He stood up, Pyrrha and Neo stood up next to him as they made their way behind Torchwick. "I believe now we get one of burning questions answered!"

Inigo sighed. "Yes, but first second place gets this package." He tossed the package at Ironwood, he caught it unflinchingly. "and third place gets this one." He tossed the third one at team WBN.

Weiss caught it, still a little peeved that she lost. "What's in them?" she tried to open the box only to find it, frustratingly difficult! "GrraahH!" she threw the box.

"Apparently, their locked until next chapter." Inigo read the note that was in his box.

Weiss rolled her eyes. "Great!"

"Now, for this next part," he reached into the box and pulled out a lamp.

"No…" Ozpin grimaced as he recognized the lamp.

"Oh shi-" Qrow looked towards Ozpin for guidance only to find him scared and worried.

"Ozpin that's-" Glynda turned to her boss, retreating into his chair.

"The relic…" Ironwood said in disbelief.

"Jinn…"Inigo said in a rather bored tone as he let go of the lamp. It floated and grew, until it was about half body height as blue smoke came out.

As the smoke formed into the shape of a person chains and cloth materialized. Soon the smoke formed into that of a woman. She stretched out "Umph!".

Weiss looked away from the slighltly naked woman towards Neptune, who was drooling. 'Humph!'

Blake also turned away for a bit to look at people's reactions around her. Yang was desperately trying to cover Ruby's eyes as Qrow looked away sort of bashful with a red trail dripping from his chin. Ozpin, Glynda, and Ironwood were all in shock. Velvet's face was dark red as Coco's glasses fell slightly with her mouth agape. And Sun…he was passed out, seemingly pushed to his limit for the day. Ren's eyes were being covered by Nora as she stared at the woman in awe and Penny… was surprisingly calm at seeing a magical creature come out of a lamp.

Jinn finished stretching as she then floated and faced the trio that had won. "Hello there."

Torchwick was blushing heavily. "Well hello to you two ma'am!"

Neo was smiling widely as a slight nosebleed appeared.

Roman walked up. "You're answering our questions. Fun."

"I see you're being careful to not ask any questions, I don't like you." Jinn slightly frowned.

"I get that a lot."

"I know. I know everything that has happened and is happening, and thanks to a rather weird confrontation I now know some of the future as well, and thanks to this dimension we're in, limited knowledge to other dimensions too! So ask me you're question, I will answer it."

Roman smiled and looked back towards Neo and noticed Pyrrha wasn't there. "Huh?" he turned and saw that Pyrrha was in front of Jinn.

Pyrrha gathered her nerves and every single instinct that told her not to do this and killed them. "Who does Jaune end up with!"

Author's note:

And that, ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between, is the end of the Tutorial Arc and onto the L.O.V-E Arc! Thank you all so much for your patience and hope you all enjoyed Volume 6! I'd also like to apologize for not being able to double upload but I'm currently going through some stuff. Still! I will upload another chapter of Ruby's Mystery Corner for all 4 of you who read that so…yeah I guess I have nothing left to say except thank you for reading if you have. This chapter was mostly to see if I could write transitions and write characters and stuff. So thank you for reading this and sorry in advance.

also, yay Jinn!

Sneak Peak:

"Kids, let me tell you the story of how I met your mother."