The opening ends to Cardin Winchester with The Executioner perched on his shoulder and Jaune Arc opposite him with Crocea Mors drawn, leaning on his weapon as if exhausted, in the spotlight shining on the Beacon Academy auditorium stage.
He looks at Cardin, who laughs at his opponent's tiredness, and Jaune gathers his strength to charge forward and swing his blade at Cardin, only for him to jump out of the way. Jaune looks back, surprised, as The Executioner sends Jaune's shield - and himself - flying back. Now only armed with his sword, Jaune continued to try and attack, but is blocked by the mace's hilt. Their weapons locked, Cardin forces himself up, towering over a struggling Jaune.
Cardin: "This is the part where you lose."
Jaune: "Over my dead-!"
Jaune is cut short as Cardin knees him in the gut, making Jaune drop his sword and fall to the ground in pain. Cardin raises his mace and is about to slam it down on a worried Jaune just when the buzzer rings, the lights come back on, and Glynda Goodwitch's voice causes him to stop.
Glynda: "Cardin, that's enough!" (he relents and walks away as she comes onto the stage, tapping her tablet) "Students, as you can see, Mr. Arc's Aura has now dropped into the red. In a tournament-styled duel, this would indicate that Jaune is no longer fit for battle, and that the official may call the match." (while Jaune still lays on the floor in defeat and Pyrrha Nikos looks sad, Glynda turns her head to look at the losing warrior as he pulls out a smaller tablet with his low, blinking stats and that of his entire team) "Mr. Arc, it's been weeks now. Please try to refer to your Scroll during combat. Gauging your Aura will help you decide when it's appropriate to attack, or when it is better to move to a more... defensive strategy. We wouldn't want you to be gobbled up by a Beowolf, now, would we?"
Cardin: "Speak for yourself..."
Glynda: (to the seated and standing students, such as: Yang Xiao Long, punching the air in anticipation; Weiss Schnee, shaking her fists with an excited smile; and Ruby Rose, shaking her entire body with enthusiastic energy while squealing softly)
"Remember, everyone, the Vytal Festival is only a few months away! It won't be long before students from the other kingdoms start arriving in Vale, so keep practicing! Those who choose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale!"
The bell rings, and students start leaving while Pyrrha continues to frown sadly. Jaune, still sitting on the floor, hangs his head in shame.
Later
Nora Valkyrie's turquoise eyes as she tells an unbelievable story to her audience...
Nora: "So! There we were, in the middle of the night..."
Ren (off screen): "It was day."
Nora: (to Blake Belladonna, paying no attention as she is lost in her book, and Yang, who is hanging on her every word with her hands cupping her face) "We were surrounded by Ursai..."
Ren: (holding a coffee cup) "They were Beowolves."
Nora: "Dozens of them!" (she screams this as she stands at the table of both Team RWBY and JNPR, where Weiss is ignoring Nora and filing her nails, Ruby and Pyrrha are listening politely, and Jaune is messing with his food)
Ren: "Two of 'em."
Nora: (while Ruby and Pyrrha now look at a distant Jaune with concern) "But they were no match... And in the end, Ren and I took them down and made a boatload of Lien selling Ursa skin rugs!"
Ren: (sighs) "She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now."
Pyrrha: (looking at her leader) "Jaune? Are you okay?"
Jaune: (snapping out of it, turning back toward them) "Huh? Oh, yeah! Why?"
Ruby: "It's just that you seem a little... not okay..."
Jaune: (as the others stop their distractions and stare at him) "Guys, I'm fine. Seriously! Look!" (he holds up a thumb while laughing nervously until his attention is focused on the members of Team CRDL, standing around a girl with brown rabbit ears jutting from her hair as Cardin laughs at her and Sky Lark holds up his hands to his head in a mock interpretation of her unusual features)
Pyrrha: "Jaune, Cardin's been picking on you since the first week of school!"
Jaune: "Who? Cardin Winchester? Nah... He just likes to mess around! You know, practical jokes!"
Ruby: "He's a bully."
Jaune: (scoffs) "Oh, please! Name one time he's 'bullied' me."
Jaune is seen on the way to class as Cardin is going the other way down the hall. When the two pass, Cardin knocks his arm into Jaune and makes him drop his book, then continuing on his way with his hands out as if daring anyone to challenge him.
Jaune: "Ah, come on!"
Jaune and Cardin are about to pass through a doorway, but Cardin clicks on Jaune's sheath and extends it into its shield form as he's going out, causing him to run into his own defense and have it block the exit.
Jaune: (grunts in frustration as he tries to lift his shield back out) "Come on...!"
Glynda is in the locker room with several students, gesturing at the devices.
Glynda: "Each of you will be assigned one rocket-propelled locker to store your weapons and extra armor. Additionally, your locker can be sent to a custom location based on a six-digit code."
Hearing this, Cardin looks at Jaune - standing between him and the only open locker in the room - and the cliché plays itself out as Cardin quickly pushes a shocked Jaune into the small dark space and closes the door on him, pressing random buttons on the pad right after that.
Jaune: "What?! No, wait, wait! You've gotta get me out of here! Please! Don't! Don't! Don't do it!"
It's too late to protest when the locker scrunches down and launches up with a burst of blue fire coming from its base. Cardin watches as the locker slowly soars across the sky.
Jaune: (still heard from within the locker) "Ahhh, coooome oooooooon...!"
The others are totally focused on him now.
Jaune: (attempts to laugh it off) "I didn't land far from the school!"
Pyrrha: "Jaune, you know if you ever need help, you can just ask."
Nora: "Ooooh!" (gets up from the table and presents her diabolical plan with a not-entirely-sane grin) "We'll break his legs!"
Jaune: "Guys, really, it's fine! Besides, it's not like he's only a jerk to me; he's a jerk to everyone."
They all looks over as the laughing grows louder, mixed in with cries of pain from the rabbit girl when one of her ears are tugged on by Cardin.
Velvet: "Ow! That hurts!" (stops struggling and grimaces as she says:) "Please, stop..."
Cardin: (continues laughing as he turns to his cronies) "I told you it was real!"
Russel Thrush: (still guffawing with his teammates) "What a freak!"
Eren: "Hey Cardin!"
That got everyone's attention and see Eren with an angry look and holding his tray, he lead his tray on the table between TEAM RWBY and walking towards TEAM CRDL.
Pyrrha: "Eren?"
Russel: "Look who it is, the suicidality maniac." (Laughing)
TEAM CRDL were laughing too.
Eren: "Why don't you and your team just leave her alone and stop being such an asshole."
Cardin: "Why, by touching these? I'm only playing a joke dude, relax."
Eren: "Oh yeah, because pulling on a Faunus's ears without their permission even when they tell you to stop as you mock them... Definitely just a joke."
Cardin lets go of her.
Cardin: "Do you want your ears pulled off, tough guy?"
Eren: ...!
Cardin's team laughs behind him as Eren got angry.
Eren: "You know... you're acting pretty tough for someone like you."
Cardin: What was that?
Cardin gets really close to him, as a way to intimidate him. But obviously, He seen worse.
Eren: "Oh, don't think I didn't see you and your team back in the initiation, struggling to deal with an Ursa, screaming desperately "What the hell do we do?!" in a very girly voice."
Everyone in the cafeteria laughs at this reveal as Cardin gets annoyed.
Cardin: "You little bitch..."
Cardin pushed Eren, Eren stumbles and looked at him with an angry face.
Eren: "You're gonna start a fight on me now?"
Cardin: (annoyed) "That's right. And I'm ready to kick your ass this time."
Cardin pushed Eren hard, Eren stumbles but recovers it, he walked back to Cardin in angry.
Eren: "If this is the fight you want (Cardin try to punch Eren in the face but Eren caught his fist) I'll give you a fight that you'll never forget."
1:32 to 2:17 Pretend that Miguel is Eren and kyler is Cardin and his boys the rest of TEAM CRDEL and Aisha Is Nora.
Jaune: "Holy crap..."
Eren jumps down and kneel down and grab Cardin by the hair and pulls his head up to face me as he glare at him.
Eren: "Listen here, Mister Dickchester... You got two choices... Option one; continue bullying people and you will get knocked the hell out by me once again. Or option two; be a good boy and not bully people before you lose more brain cells because of me... Not that you really have any brain cells anyways."
Eren let go of his head as Eren start walking back to the table. Along the way, Cardin manages to pull himself up, carry his teammates as he trudges out of the cafeteria.
Velvet came to Eren to thank him.
Velvet: "T-Thank you Eren."
Eren: "No problem Velvet... Just make sure that if they treat you like that again, don't hesitate to fight back. I know for sure that there might not be someone to help you next time."
Velvet: "Yeah. T-Thank you."
Eren: "No problem. Oh! And here."
Eren lend her a few Lien.
Velvet: "Huh?"
Eren: "Your lunch got ruined in the chaos."
Velvet: "O-Oh, thank you."
Eren: "Don't mention it. I'll see you later Velvet."
Velvet: (smiles) "You too, Eren."
Velvet hugs Eren tightly before letting go and walking away.
Nora then moves her face really close to Eren.
Nora: "THAT WAS SO FRICKING COOL!"
Eren: "Huh?"
Pyrrha: "You really showed it to him. How did you do that?"
Eren: "I don't know, since me and Cardin were fighting, something just happen my reflex has a mind of is own."
Pyrrha: "I see. But still, that was very nice of what you did for her."
Blake: "Eren, why did you do it?"
Eren: "Well, I did it because it was wrong. Because Faunuses are normal people, just with some cool animal features that make them unique, they deserve to be free, just like we do and I."
While the group were smiling from my statement. Weiss wasn't the same story, in fact, she had the look that says, "I think otherwise".
Eren: "But anyway, let's just continue eating our lunch."
And so they did. While that was happening, Jaune looks at Eren with envy, while Blake is staring at Eren with a small smile on her face.
sleeping Jaune Arc with his head resting in his hands while a constantly-zooming and fast-talking Professor Bartholomew Oobleck is in the middle of his hyperactive lecture, educating Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Pyrrha Nikos, Velvet Scarlatina, and a leaned-back Cardin Winchester directly behind Jaune.
Oobleck: "Yes! Yes, prior to the Faunus Rights Revolution--more popularly known as the Faunus War--" (zooms up to the front of the class and the map covered in papers behind his desk) "--humankind was quite, quite adamant about centralizing Faunus population in Menagerie." (points at the map of said-area with his stick, then zooms off to the side for a sip of his coffee before appearing in front of the desk) "Now! While this must feel like ancient history to many of you, it is imperative to remember that these are relatively recent events! Why, the repercussions of the uprising can still be seen to this day!" (zooms around the classroom more, sipping his coffee again before continuing to zoom and talk) "Now! Have any among you been subjugated or discriminated because of your Faunus heritage?"
Some of the silhouetted students raise their hands. Velvet, after a moment, does the same.
Oobleck: "Dreadful, simply dreadful! Remember, students, it is precisely this kind of ignorance that breeds violence!" (takes another sip of his coffee) "I mean, I mean, I mean just look at what happened to White Fang! Now, which one of you young scholars can tell me what many theorize to be the turning point in the third year of the War?" (a hand is raised) "Yes?"
Weiss: "The battle at Fort Castle!"
Oobleck: "Precisely! And, who can tell me the advantage the Faunus had over General Lagune's forces?"
Unseen by the professor, Cardin flicks a paper football at Jaune's head, causing him to wake up.
Jaune: "Hey!"
Oobleck: (zooming over into Jaune's face) "Mr. Arc! Finally contributing to class! This is excellent! Excellent! What is the answer?"
Jaune: "Uhhhh... The answer... The advantage... that the Faunus..." (looks behind Oobleck's focused face at Pyrrha, who coughs and motions to her lips as she gives him the answer) "...had over that guy's stuff..." (he sees Pyrrha cup her hands around her eyes and goes for the most obvious answer) "Uhh... Binoculars!"
While Jaune looks pleased with his answer, the class laughs at him and Oobleck (back at the front of the class) sips his coffee. Pyrrha sighs and slaps a hand to her forehead as Cardin pounds his fist on his desk while chortling.
Oobleck: (zooming back behind his desk) "Very funny, Mr. Arc! Cardin! Perhaps you would care to share your thoughts on the subject!"
Cardin: "Well, I know it's a lot easier to train an animal than a soldier."
Pyrrha: (as Oobleck shakes his head) "You're not the most open-minded of individuals, are you, Cardin?"
Cardin: "What? You got a problem?"
Pyrrha: "No, I have the answer! It's night vision. Many Faunus are known to have nearly-perfect sight in the dark." (Cardin growls at the correct response)
Blake: "General Lagune was inexperienced, and made the mistake of trying to ambush the Faunus in their sleep. His massive army was outmatched, and the general was captured." (turns to Cardin) "Perhaps if he'd paid attention in class, he wouldn't have been remembered as such a failure."
Oobleck: (as Cardin gets up from his seat, fist clenched) "Mr. Winchester! Please take your seat." (when Jaune laughs at his tormentor's embarrassment, zooming up to him) "You and Mr. Arc can both see me after class for additional readings." (takes yet another sip of his coffee)
Jaune: (shoulders slumping) "Oohhhh..."
Oobleck: (zooming away) "Now! Moving on!"
When the lesson ends, Pyrrha, Nora Valkyrie, and Lie Ren come out of the classroom, only for Pyrrha to stop near the doorway.
Pyrrha: "You go on ahead. I'll wait for Jaune." (they look back inside as the after-class talk occurs to the two boys)
Oobleck: (sips his coffee) "You two have been struggling in my class since day one! Now, I don't know if it's a lack of interest, or just your stubborn nature, but whatever it is..." (takes a longer sip of his coffee) "It stops now! You've worked hard to gain entrance to this school, and we only accept the best of the best, so I expect you to act like it. History is important, gentlemen! If you can't learn from it... you're destined to repeat it. Pages fifty-one to ninety-one! I want an essay on my desk by next class! Now! Run along."
With that, he zooms out of the classroom and past a waiting Pyrrha in a green and white blur. Jaune comes out first, and Cardin emerges behind him, pushing him to the ground an emitting an "Ow!" from him that makes the bully laugh before walking away.
Pyrrha: (pulling Jaune back on his feet) "You know, I really will break his legs." (Jaune sighs, and Pyrrha looks like she is struck by inspiration) "I have an idea! Here, come with me!" (she grabs a confused Jaune by the arm and drags him along as she turns down the corridor)
A dejected Jaune and Pyrrha come onto a rooftop of one of the buildings, with a clear view of the glowing green orbs in the central tower of Beacon.
Jaune: "Pyrrha, I know I'm going through a hard time right now, but I'm not that depressed." (looks over the edge of the roof, to the confusion of Pyrrha) "I can always be a farmer or something..."
Pyrrha: (realization hitting her with horror) "N-n-no!" (dashes to push Jaune away from the edge) "That's not why I brought you up here!" (the camera pans out to show the two on the roof as they talk with Cardin leaning in his windowsill right below them) "Jaune, I know you're having a difficult time in class and that you're still not the strongest of fighters, so... I want to help you!"
Jaune: "Wh-what?"
Pyrrha: "We can train up here after class where no one can bother us!"
Jaune: "You think I need help?"
Pyrrha: "N-no! No, that's not what I meant."
Jaune: "But you just said it."
Pyrrha: "Jaune, everybody needs a little push from time to time. It doesn't make you any different from the rest of us. You made it to Beacon! That speaks volumes of what you're capable of!"
Jaune: (turning away from her, lowering his head and voice) "You're wrong. I-I don't belong here."
Pyrrha: "That's a terrible thing to say! Of course you do!"
Jaune: (turning back around, now angry) "No, I don't!" (sighs as Pyrrha looks bewildered and he reveals the truth) "I wasn't really accepted into Beacon..." (turns his back to her so he doesn't have to face her)
Pyrrha: "Wh-what do you mean?"
Jaune: (voice going higher and higher as he confesses) "I mean I didn't go to combat school, I didn't pass any tests. I didn't earn my spot at this Academy!" (looks at her again) "I lied! I got my hands on some fake transcripts, and I lied!"
Pyrrha: "What? But... why?"
Jaune: "'Cause this is always what I've wanted to be!" (turns away again) "My father, my grandfather, and his father before him were all warriors! They were all heroes! I wanted to be one, too. I was just never good enough."
Pyrrha: (approaching him, placing a hand on his shoulder) "Then let me help you!"
Jaune: (suddenly turning on her with mad frustration) "I don't want help! I don't want to be the damsel in distress! I want to be the hero!"
Pyrrha: "Jaune, I-"
Jaune: "I'm tired of being the lovable idiot, stuck in the tree while his friends fight for their lives! Don't you understand? If I can't do this on my own... then what good am I?"
Pyrrha attempts to reach out for his arm and console him, but he leans back from her touch.
Jaune: "Just... leave me alone. Okay?"
Pyrrha: (head bowed, sad) "If that's what you think is best..."
She walks away, her footsteps getting softer and softer until she leaves the roof. Jaune paces a little until he hears a mocking laugh and Cardin appears on the roof from his window.
Cardin: "Oh, Jaune..."
Jaune: (looking behind him at his bully) "Cardin!"
Cardin: "I couldn't help but overhear you two from my dorm room. So, you snuck into Beacon, huh? I gotta say, Jaune, I never expected you to be such a rebel!"
Jaune: (taking on a begging tone) "Please, Cardin, please, don't tell anyone!"
Cardin: "Jaune, come on! I'd never rat on a friend like that!"
Jaune: (approaching) "A... a friend?"
Cardin: "Of course!" (traps Jaune in a headlock under his arm despite his struggling) "We're friends now, Jauney boy! And the way I see it, as long as you're there for me when I need you, we'll be friends for a long time." (finally releases Jaune, who gasps as he leans on the ground) "That being said, I really don't have time to do those extra readings Dr. Oobleck gave us today. Think you could take care of that for me, buddy?" (leans down to rub Jaune's hair and gets up with a grin) "That's what I thought." (heads back to hang onto the edge) "Don't worry, Jaune; your secret's safe with me."
Cardin drops back down to his room as Jaune rubs his neck in pain and worry before the scene fades to black.