Vale...
A ship flies through the skies over Vale and the camera pans down to the city streets. The owner of the Dust shop "From Dust Till Dawn" is hanging a sign declaring its re-opening. As he climbs down from his ladder, he stumbles and falls. Emerald Sustrai appears next to him.
"'Scuse me, sorry." Emerald said, giggling. "I'm not really from around here." She helps the owner of the Dust shop to his feet. "Would you mind pointing me in the direction of this shop?"
Emerald produces a piece of paper with writing on it and the shopkeep looks it over.
"Hmm? Mm-hmm." The shopkeeper said.
Emerald walks away from the shop owner as both wave goodbye and passes Mercury Black at a corner.
"I knew you were lost." Mercury said.
"Mercury, I will seriously pay you to shut up." Emerald said, producing a wallet with Lien and waves it in Mercury's face.
"That's not your money."
"But it can be yours for 5 minutes of silence."
"Mmmm...no deal."
"Fine." Emerald said, taking the Lien and tosses the wallet, turning to walk away.
"Whatever. You want me." Mercury said.
More of the city is shown, including a café where two extras sit chatting. Mercury and Emerald are walking through the city.
"So, how much farther?" Mercury asked.
"A few blocks." Emerald said.
"Ugh...this place is so dull."
"Eh, I kinda like it. Tall buildings, diverse culture…"
"And nice dopey people who are easy to pickpocket."
Emerald stops, "That's every city."
"Ooh, Emerald! Master thief! Please don't take my money! I barely have enough to get by!" Mercury said, play acting as a victim.
Emerald glares at him, groaning angrily. She then walks away from him.
"Ugh...you're no fun today." Mercury said, following behind Emerald.
Bookstore…
Emerald and Mercury entered a shop full of books. The shop owner can be heard humming a tune. Mercury stops near the door to look at books while Emerald approaches the counter and rings a service bell.
Tukson: "Be right there!" Tukson said, and Emerald looks back at Mercury. The shop owner is seen through a set of double doors carrying stacks of books as he walks backwards and out toward the counter. "Welcome to 'Tukson's Book Trade', home to every book under the sun!" He sets the stacks down on the table. "How may I…". Turning around, he gasps and hesitates upon recognizing the two of them. Mercury is now holding a book. "...How may I help you?"
"Just browsing." Mercury said, looking at Tukson with the book open, before closing said book.
"Actually, I was wondering, do you have any copies of 'The Thief and The Butcher'?" Emerald asked.
"Yes we do." Tukson said.
"That's great." Emerald said, excitedly.
"Would you...like a copy?"
"No, just wondering." Emerald said, as Mercury closes another book. "Oh, oh! What about 'Violet's Garden'? In paperback?"
"He's got it. Hardback too." Mercury said, producing a book.
"Ooh, options are nice."
"Eh, no pictures." Mercury said, closing the book. "Hey! Do you have any comics?"
"Near the front." Tukson said.
"Oh, no, wait!" Emerald said, thinking of another book. "What...about…'Third Crusade'?"
"Um... I…" Tukson said, hesitating and is visibly unnerved as Mercury and Emerald are eyeing him carefully. "..don't believe we carry that one."
"Oh." Mercury said, slamming another book shut.
"What was this place called again?" Emerald asked.
"Tukson's Book Trade." Tukson said.
"And you're Tukson?"
"That's right."
"So then I take it that you're the one that came up with the catchphrase?"
"Yes."
"And, what was it again?" Mercury asked.
'"Tukson's Book Trade, home to every book under the sun.'" Tukson said.
"Except the Third Crusade."
"It's just a catchphrase."
"It's false advertising!"
Emerald: "You shouldn't make a promise you can't keep, Tukson." Emerald said, and Mercury activates a switch near the entrance causing a front window to darken. "I hear that you're planning on leaving. Moving all the way to Vacuo." Mercury activates another switch and the window in the front door darkens. "Your brothers in the White Fang won't be happy to hear that." Mercury activates the third and final switch, darkening the last window as he smiles creepily at Tukson. "And neither are we...you know who we are, don't you?"
"Yes." Tukson said.
"And you know why we're here?"
"Yes."
"So...are you going to fight back?"
"Yes!" Tukson said, producing claws from his fingers. "Yaargh!"
Tukson leaps atop his counter in a threatening manner. Mercury and Emerald back up slightly and he leaps at Emerald and slashes at her, but she dodges. He looks forward and is surprised at Mercury as he raises one leg for a kick with his shotgun-greaves.
Vale...
Mercury and Emerald exit "Tukson's Book Trade". Emerald stretches her arms overhead. Mercury is carrying a comic.
"What's with that?" Emerald asked, looking at Mercury.
"I like the pictures." Mercury said.
Beacon Academy cafeteria...
Team RWBY are sitting together with Jared as Blake looks over some notes. A series of sketches and notes are on a book. These include the White Fang insignia, a possible picture of Adam Taurus, and Adam's rose.
"Rose saved the Doctor's life, Jack's too." Jared said, playing on his Nintendo Switch, with Super Smash Bros Ultimate loaded up. "She also defeated the Daleks."
"And what about the Doctor? What happened to him?" Blake asked.
"Oh, you'll find out when we see them again. We'll see them on Christmas Eve, 2006."
"2006, that's a common year." Weiss said, crossing her arms. "Maybe because that is Rose's time."
"It is." Jared said, and he got another kill in Smash. "I love this."
Yang then slides up next to her partner, "Whatcha doing?"
"Nothing." Blake said, closing her book. "Just going over notes from last semester."
Yang catches a grape in her mouth.
"Lame." Yang said annoyed.
"It is pretty lame." Jared said, laughing a lot. "Have some fun in your life."
"And another one." Yang said, as Nora giggles as she continues to toss grapes at the blonde with her spoon. "And another one."
"Now give me that." Jared said, when he and Yang catch the fruit with ease, both of them giving Nora the thumbs up. "Needed that for my training."
"You call that training?" Blake asked, looking at the Nintendo Switch.
"Well, it is."
"You perfecting your sword skills with Kirito and Asuna is more training than that." Weiss said, annoyed.
Ruby, giving an enormous heave, slams a binder onto the table, catching everyone off guard. On the cover of the binder is written 'Vytal Festival Activities, Property of Weiss Schnee'. This has been hastily crossed out with a red marker pen, and with the same pen, a new title, 'Best Day Ever Activities', has been written underneath.
"Sisters...friends...Weiss." Ruby said, clearing her throat, and she gestures to everyone at the table.
"Hey!" Weiss said, angrily.
"Four score and seven minutes ago, I had a dream."
"This ought to be good." Yang said, catching another berry in her mouth.
"A dream that one day, the four of us will come together, as a team, with Jared being our mascot, and have the most fun anyone has ever had...ever!" Ruby said, happily.
"Wait, mascot?" Jared asked, placing his Nintendo Switch inside its case, which he then placed inside his fanny pack. "Why am I the mascot?"
"Because adding another letter won't make Team RWBY, Team RWBY anymore." Ruby said, smiling. "So I figured, you would make a great mascot. To support us. While you can have fun too!"
"Did you steal my binder?" Weiss asked, looking at Ruby.
"I am not a crook." Ruby said, making peace signs with both of her hands.
"What are you talking about?" Blake asked.
"I'm talking about kicking off the semester with a bang!" Ruby said, pointing her finger at Blake.
"I always kick my semesters off with a Yang! Eh? Guys? Am I right?" Yang asked, when an apple is tossed at her and hits her in the face.
Yang glares at Nora.
"Boooooooooooooooo!" Nora said, angrily.
"Look guys, it's been a good two weeks, especially with some adventures with the Doctor and Jared across all of time and space. And between more exchange students arriving and the tournament at the end of the year, our second semester is going to be great! But, classes start back up tomorrow! Which is why I've taken the time to schedule a series of wonderful events for us today." Ruby said, recapping what happened.
"I don't know whether to be proud or scared of what you have in store." Weiss said.
Yang, still glaring, picks up an apple and tosses it across the room. Someone shouts 'Hey!' nearby. Jared looked up to see Nora giggling.
"I don't know. I think I might sit this one out." Blake said.
"Sit out or not, I think that however we spend this last day, we should do it as a team!" Weiss said, and she looked back at Jared. "Ruby's right, you definitely are our mascot."
"I'm not your team's mascot." Jared said, sadly.
"I got it!" Nora said, shouting positively when she got a pie.
"I for one think that…" Weiss said, getting interrupted by a pie landing on her face.
Jared looked over to see that Nora is the one who threw the pie, she sits down and points at Ren who has his head in his palm. Pyrrha's hand is over her mouth and Jaune simply sits staring wide-eyed while covering his ear with his palm.
"Oh, me having a nice vacay from seeing all the aliens and things." Jared said, taking out baguettes from inside his fanny back. "It's on! I'm being with Team RWBY."
"No, you're not." Blake said, crossing her arms. "Five on four, that's a disadvantage. You should sit this one out."
"Aww man…"
Outside the cafeteria...
Sun Wukong and Neptune Vasilias are walking together as Sun relates the events which took place during "Black and White".
"Man, that's harsh." Neptune said.
"I know, we were fighting side by side. She was super fast and I threw a banana at the guy, which sounds gross, but it was awesome." Sun said, happily.
"Nice!"
"Right? And the best part is, she's a Faunus. But that's a secret, okay?"
"Got it."
Sun leans in close in order to stress the importance of this secret, "And not a, 'I'm gonna go tell Scarlet the second Sun turns his back secret', I'm talking secret secret."
"Whoa, chill out, man, okay? I got it." Neptune said, almost whispering. "I got it!"
"You better." Sun said, when the windows into the cafeteria have food splatters into the panes as students run around. At one point, Jaune is the one splattered into the window. "I just don't want to screw this up, you know? The people here are the coolest! No offense to you guys."
"None taken."
"They're just in here. I'm really excited for you to meet them. So be cool, okay? You're gonna be cool, right?"
"Dude." Neptune said, his teeth gleaming as he smiles.
"Good point." Sun said.
Cafeteria...
Sun and Neptune enter the cafeteria where students are heard screaming.
"Food fight!" A Beacon student said, running away.
Many students are shown stampeding out the door past Sun and Neptune, the latter of whom is looking quite worried.
"On the red corner, it's Team JNPR!" Jared said, standing in the middle with the Monado Shield art up. "And on the blue corner, it's Team RWBY! I want a nice clean fight between all of you. Ah, forget it. Just go nuts!"
"Ahahahaha!" Nora said, in a sing-song voice, while all of Team JNPR are standing atop a tower of tables stacked in a ramshackle manner. "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!"
"Justice will be swift!" Ruby said, stomping her foot on a table and pointing at Team JNPR. "Justice will be painful!" She crushes a carton of milk in her hand. "It will be delicious!"
"Yeah!" Team RWBY said, raising their fists simultaneously.
"Off with their heads!" Nora said, jumping down from the top of her tower, and the food fight begins.
"Yang! Turkey!" Ruby said, looking at Yang.
"And there goes Yang getting the turkey, as a substitute for her Ember Celica." Jared said, when he watches Yang rolls over to the turkeys and sticks her fists inside them, proceeding to block and punch the melons as they speed toward her. "Blake goes in for the breadsticks to help Yang break the melons. Yang punches the turkeys at Jaune knocking him out."
"It looks like Jared is commentating this food fight." Sun said, looking at Jared who is standing in the middle of the cafeteria.
"Pyrrha and Blake are going head to head with the baguettes. With Blake's two on the side to block Pyrrha's attack. The cat Faunus does some acrobatics in the air, tossing one of her breadsticks at Pyrrha, one of them breaking in the process. Pyrrha tosses her breadstick at Yang. And Yang breaks them in the knick of time with her hand to hand combat skills!" Jared said, having some fun commentating this food fight, while watching his friends duke it out for fun. "Goldilocks got hit by a breadstick to be knocked down onto the floor. But is Yang out for the count? Ruby uses a tray as a substitute for her speed semblance to slide down the table, and to dodge attacks from Team JNPR. Will she be hit in the process?"
"He really became a commentator seen in fights." Sun said, looking at the fight and what Jared is doing.
"Ruby hits a breadstick at Pyrrha who dodges the attack, she uses the tray to get closer to Team JNPR. The silver eyed girl got close to the love of Jaune's life, but she got knocked back. Pyrrha falls down and all of Team JNPR rushes in towards Ruby, with Weiss backing up her leader. What will the next move be? Oh, Weiss places down ketchup onto the floor, as a placement for her ice dust! It knocked most of Team JNPR down, launching furniture into the air. That Nora, oh, the shocking girl takes advantage of it!"
"Is he just commentating since it would take forever to write this all out?" Neptune asked, breaking the fourth wall. "And he's watching the scene in the process."
"Probably." Sun said, sadly.
"Nora launches a pole into a watermelon to make a substitute for her Magnhild!" Jared said, laughing a lot. "Man, both teams are on fire! Nora hits both Ruby and Weiss with her hammer substitute knocking them both back. Weiss uses a swordfish as her sword! Clever thinking coming from the ice queen! She knocked back Nora in the process, ooo. But Nora comes back in the knick of time to knock Weiss back with her hammer substitute."
Nora knocks Weiss into a pillar. The impact knocks her out and Ruby holds her in her arms as the pillar collapses around them.
"Weiss, Weiss! Don't leave me! Nooo!" Ruby said, cradling Weiss.
"Does this mean the end of Weiss Schnee? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z! And Yang picks up two turkeys to use again. She is up against Ren who uses two celery sticks in place of StormFlower. How will this fight go? Oh, some hand to hand combat. Bad move for Ren to launch his weapons onto the ground. It made him vulnerable for a punch from Yang! Yang and Nora are up against each other, but Nora knocked Yang back out of the room! Ooo, that's gotta hurt. It looks like Blake picked up a sausage link as a substitute for her Gambol Shroud. Nora off guard, she gets knocked back by Blake's signature whipping attack! What's this, Nora tossing a soda can to Blake, making the cat Faunus back away? Clever thinking. And another one! And another one!"
"He's having way too much fun commentating." Sun said, smiling. "This might be a once in a lifetime opportunity for him."
"Pyrrha uses all the soda cans at her disposal to launch Blake into the wall, before Kitty Kat lands onto the floor. And it looks like Ruby is gonna finish this food fight once and for all. And how is she gonna do it?" Jared asked, watching what Ruby is up to. "Oh, her speed! That's what! Look at that, Team JNPR are slammed against a cracked wall painted with soda and food."
"So, did we win?" Ruby asked, when Team JNPR slides off the wall, leaving only their outlines.
"I call the victors of this food fight, Team RWBY!" Jared said, excitedly.
"I love these guys." Sun said, and Neptune is drenched with soda and is not pleased.
The doors behind them open and Glynda enters the room growling. She proceeds to use telekinesis to re-organize the room.
"Children, please." Glynda said, adjusting her glasses. "Do not play with your food! And Jared, no commentating! It ruined the action of this fight."
Nora burps aloud as both Teams JNPR and RWBY try and fail to compose themselves.
A screaming Yang then crashes from the ceiling into one of the tables. Glynda grumbles. Jared ran over to Yang, hugging the blonde, and the two started laughing together.
Ozpin approaches and places a hand on Gynda's shoulder, "Let it go."
"They're supposed to be the defenders of the world." Glynda said, sighing. "The same goes for Jared, even if he is from another universe."
"And they will be, Jared too because he needs to defend the Doctor's world, but right now they're still children." Ozpin said, while Team RWBY and Jared are laughing together. "So why not let them play the part?" He walks away from Glynda. "After all, it isn't a role they'll have forever."
Old warehouse…
The White Fang are moving crates as Emerald and Mercury enter.
"Oh, look! She sent the kids again! This is turning out just like the divorce!" Roman said, approaching Emerald and Mercury from behind and wraps his arms around them in a group hug.
"Spare us the thought of you procreating." Emerald said, shivering in disgust.
Emerald and Mercury pull away from Roman.
"That was a joke. And this... just might tell me where you two have been all day." Roman said, producing a piece of paper.
"What!? Agh…"
"I'm a professional, sweetheart. Pay attention, maybe you'll learn something." Roman said, holding up the piece of paper. "Why do you have this address?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Emerald asked.
"Yeah, I would. Now where have you been all day?"
"Cleaning up your problems. One of them, at least." Mercury said.
"I had that under control." Roman said.
"Two packed bags and a ticket out of Vale said otherwise."
"Listen, you little punk. If it were up to me, then I would take you and your little street rat friend here and…"
"Do what, Roman?" Cinder asked, appearing on a platform above them.
Cinder steps onto an automated lift, riding it down to their level.
"I'd, uh...not kill them?" Roman asked, laughing nervously.
"Cinder!" Emerald said, excitedly.
Cinder: I thought I made it clear that you would eliminate the would-be runaway.
"I was going to…" Roman said.
"He was going to escape to Vacuo! Mercury and I decided to take it upon ourselves to kill the rat." Emerald said.
"I think he was some sort of cat, actually." Mercury said.
"What? Like a puma?"
"Yeah, there ya go."
"Quiet. Did I not specifically instruct you two to keep your hands clean while in Vale?" Cinder asked, looking between Emerald and Mercury.
As Cinder speaks, Roman points a finger at the pair while laughing in agreement.
"I just thought…" Emerald said, and Roman uses his fingers to mime having a slit throat.
"Don't think...obey." Cinder said.
"Yes ma'am. It won't happen again." Emerald said, apologetically.
"And you. Why wasn't this job done sooner?" Cinder asked, turning to Roman.
"Uh..? Eh..? Eh..? EHHHHH! Sorry if I've been busy stealing every speck of Dust in the Kingdom!" Roman said, and as he speaks, he points to his right, then to his left, then behind him.
"You're an inspiration to every punk with a gun and a ski mask." Mercury said, as Emerald laughs at the remark.
"Look around, kid. I've got this town running scared! Police camping out at every corner, Dust prices through the roof, and we're sitting pretty on an old warehouse with more Dust crystals, vials, and rounds than we know what to do with! Speaking of which, if you guys wouldn't mind filling me in on your grand master plan, it might actually make my next string of robberies go a little smoother!" Roman said, emphasizing the last word by clenching his fist.
"Oh, Roman." Cinder said, approaching Roman. "Have a little faith." She places her hand on his face. "You'll know what you need when you need to know it." Roman seems entranced, but then looks away with a grunt. "Besides, we're done with Dust."
Cinder begins to walk away.
"O...okay, then what now?"
"We're moving. Have the White Fang clear out this building. I'll send you details and coordinates tonight."
"Coordinates?"
"We're proceeding to phase two." Cinder said, looking back at Roman.
Cinder, Mercury and Emerald begin to walk away. Roman attempts to light a cigar, but realizes Emerald has stolen his lighter. She turns back to face him and sticks her tongue out defiantly.