Sitting at a table in Beacon's cafeteria we see team AMBR. Byzan is snacking on an entire Salmon, Rose is munching on a sandwich, Maize is eating a small sad, while Ambré is chugging a rge protein shake.

  Rose happily sighs. "Well, the second semester starts in a couple days and the Vytal Festival is around the corner. I'M SO EXCITED!" She then shrinks down. "Sorry."

  Ambré chuckles. "It's okay to be excited, Rose, we'll have a chance to show the world how powerful we are. And don't forget, Mom will be routing us on."

  "I do hope we'll do good."

  "We'll do fine, we're one of the top first year teams." Maize speaks up. "I'm confident the only ones who could actually beat us, would be Team RWBY. Right Byzz? ... Byzz?"

  Everyone looks over to the Cat Faunus to see him staring out to where Team RWBY is sitting. Mainly at Bke, who's writing in a notebook. His cat ears slightly droop as he continues to chomp on his salmon.

  Rose lightly pushes on Byzan's arm, catching his attention. "You alright?"

  BYzan smirks. "I'm better than alright, I have a cute girl worried about me." Rose blushes, making Byzan chuckles and Ambré to gre at him. Maize slightly pouts.

  "What's been going on with you and Bke, you two have been weird... more weird as of te." Ambré calls out.

  "Eh, just a sibling dispute. Something that'll stay between us." Byzan puts his fish down and calmly wipes his corner of his mouth. He notices Rose and Ambré staring at him. "What? Don't you two have sibling spats?"

  The two sisters shake their heads.

  "No, we've never really argued before." Rose cims as puts a finger on her chin in though.

  Ambré stands up and stretches her back out. "Never had to argue before." A few loud pops sound from her back. "Now, I think after lunch today we do a couple ps around the school and a couple hundred pushes ups and sit ups."

  Rose groans and face pnts the table.

  "You make that sound easy." Byzan gives Ambré dead fish eyes.

  "We're not like you, you know." Maize points out.

  Ambré grows confused. "What, it's the workout I usually do... well, I did decrease it slightly."

  "You are not human." The trap that is Byzan, states.

  "If you guys want to win the Vytal Festival, we gotta train har-" A pie sms into the back of Ambré's head, making her different colored eyes twitch.

  The rest of Ambré's team stares at her in shock as they all look back to see Nora with her arm extended. She then sits down and points at Ren, who gives the ginger a scared look.

  Ambré growls as she a loaf of French bread. "This means war, Nora Valkyrie."

  Nora jumps up onto her table and shouts. "FOOOD FIGHT!!!!" She gets thrown back onto another table as the loaf of bread hits her in the face.

  Every student, minus teams JNPR, AMBR, and RWBY all run for their lives.

  "What have you done..." Byzan asks in shock as he picks up a tray as a shield and grabs a nearby sword fish.

  "War..." Ambré breaks a loaf of French bread in half. "War never changes."

  "This will be a great bonding experience." Maize picks up several leeks and holds them between her fingers.

  Rose cries as she sits on the ground, before her eyes turn red and she starts ughing. "THIS WILL BE FUN!" Thorn yells as she grabs an entire roasted turkey.

  "Pyrrha!" Nora shouts as she jumps back up. "Castle time!"

  "Okay!" Pyrrha uses her sembnce on the screws and nails in the tables to life them up, and build a tower for Nora.

  Nora ughs as she jumps to the top of her tower. Then sings. "I'm Queen of the castle! I'm Queen of the castle!"

  Ruby stomps her foot on a table and points at Team JNPR. "Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful!" She crushes a carton of milk with her hand. "It will be delicious!"

  The rest of Ruby's team throws up their fists. "Yeah!"

  Ambré stomps her food on a table and an orange flies up and she catches it. "You decred war with the wrong team!" She sticks two fingers into her orange and uses the juice as war paint. "We will crush all who oppose us!"

  The rest of her team also face juice war face paint. "For freedom!" They shout.

  Nora points at the two teams. "Off with their heads!"

  "CHARGEZ-LES!" Ambré shouts as she points forward.

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  Thorn charges first. "NOUS NE LAISSONS AUCUN PRISONNIER EN VIVANT!"

  Byzan follows right behind Thorn. "This better not ruin my good top!"

  Maize flips through the air and nds beside Byzan. "By my calcutions, this will be a messy fight."

  Ambré follows up in the back, easily passing her team. "Fight to the st girl!"

  The three teams csh together.

  Ambré jumps up and sms her food onto a table, sending food everywhere, making a makeshift smoke screen as she sms her food on a can of soda.

  Byzan ughs as he charges through the soda screen and kicks a couple tomatoes into Jaune's face, before swinging his fish sword down at Pyrrha. She blocks his attack with a smile on his face.

  "We haven't really fought yet, have we Spartan." Byzan smirks as the red head.

  "We have not, Byzz." Pyrrha pushes Byzan back and the two swiftly csh again.

  Throne zooms back the two and throws her turkey forward at Ruby. Ruby ughs as she uses her sembnce to fly into the air as the turkey sails past her. Ruby then throws several sodas at Thorn, who smirks and kicks up a rge tray.

  Ruby's sodas sms into the tray and explode. Ruby nds on the ground and she's surrounded by a soda screen, she looks around as Thorn's ughter echoes around her. She turns around just as Thorn flies through the soda and straight towards her.

  The two csh and go flying off to the side as Maize throws several leeks towards Weiss. Weiss thrusts her sword fish several times in front of her and parries each of the leeks.

  Weiss then uses her sembnce to charge forward and thrusts her weapon at Maize. Maize twists her body to the side as Weiss starts to fly by, and swiftly brings up her foot and shoves it right into Weiss' stomach, sending her flying into a pilr.

  Ambré cracks her neck as Yang and Nora both charge at her. Yang with turkey fists and Nora with a watermelon hammer. Yang and Nora both attack Ambré at the same time,but she just catches their attacks.

  Ambré smirks as the other two grow worried. "It pays to have a Sembnce that passively makes me stronger." Ambré then pushes Nora back, causing her to stumble, and she throws Yang up into the air.

  Ambré then spin kicks Yang, hard, causing the Blondie to go flying though the roof. Nora then engages Ambré again as Ruby is seen fight off Thorn in the background.

  Byzan jumps back as he summons his clone to take several apples to the face. Byzan's clone disappears and he charges forward at Pyrrha and swings his weapons several times at her.

  Pyrrha parries each of his attacks, before throwing several trays at him. Byzan flips into the air and twists his body through each of them.

  Byzan pyfully sticks his tongue out at Pyrrha. "Gotta try harder then that, Spartan~"

  Pyrrha chuckles and uses her sembnce to bring up many soda cans behind her. Byzan blinks a few times and clicks his tongue.

  "Well, fuck me in the ass." Byzan backflips and avoids several exploding soda cans, he parries a few, but one manages to hit him in the chest.

  The can explodes and Byzan flies back and nds on a nearby table, next to Ren, who's avoiding an attack from Bke. Byzan rolls off the side of the table and summons his clone several feet away as it throws him a new weapon, a watermelon.

  "Really?" Byzan looks at his clone.

  "Hey, it's the best I got!" The clone shouts.

  Byzan ducks as Thorn flies over head and through a window behind Byzan. Byzan gnces behind him at the broken window.

  Maize jumps past Byzan and stabs a leek at Jaune, who brings up a tray to block the attack. Maize's attack causes a rge shockwave, sending nearby trays of food flying.

  "Wow, Maize, you are strong!" Jaune compliments.

  Maize nods at Jaune's compliment. "I'm build different." She rapidly attacks Jaune's shield, causing him to slide back.

  Behind her Ambré turns to the side as Ruby flies past after trying to hit her with a stick of bread. In the background Ren stumbles around as he tries to get a watermelon off his head, Byzan is heard ughing is ass off.

  Maize then ducks down as a another watermelon flies past her, and hits Jaune into a nearby wall.

  "Ow, that hurt."Jaune falls down with a thud.

  Ruby flies back towards Ambré. Said Ats girl kicks up a table and Ruby screams as she sms into it, cracking it. Ambré then goes flying as Pyrrha flies in with a rge bread stick.

  Pyrrha goes to change at Ambré, only for a rope of sausages to wrap around her arm. She looks back to see Byzan sticking his tongue out at her, Bke goes flying right past him.

  Pyrrha smiles and roughly pulls on the sausage link, causing Byzan to stumble towards her. She kicks him in the stomach, only for him to poof into purple smoke.

  Pyrrha blinks in surprise and several cats of soda hit her in the side, and explode. Pyrrha goes flying right into Maize, sending them both to the ground.

  Byzan looks around and sees that everything is starting to calm down, as everyone is covered in soda and juice. He lets out a few chuckles as he leans against a table.

  Byzan tenses up as the doors sm open and Glynda enters the room with a frown. Glynda growls as she uses her telekinesis to re-organize the room back to normal.

  "Children, please." Glynda adjusts her gsses. "Do not py with your food."

  The three teams regroup back together. Byzan uses a napkin to wipe some juice off his face. Rose, who's back in control, ys against the table as she rubs her head. Ambré sits on top of the table as Maize sits down beside her.

  Nora suddenly lets out a loud burp, and the teams fail to compose themselves and ugh. A screaming Yang then crashes from the ceiling into one of the tables, everyone ughs louder. Byzan's ears twitch and swivel towards the entrance.

  Glynda grumbles in anger as Opzin and Ash approaches from behind.

  Opzin puts a hand on Glynda's shoulder. "Let it go."

  Glynda sighs. "They're supposed to be the defenders of the world."

  "And they will be, but right now they're still children." Ozpin watches the three teams ugh together. "So why not let them py the part?" He starts to leave. "After all, it isn't a role they'll have forever."

  Ash silently grabs his wife's hand. "These memories will help them get through the tough times. And... they all might not make it to old age, so it's good to have this kind of time."

  Glynda gnces at the three teams, before gncing at Ash. "I... I guess your right."

  Ash smirks. "I always am."

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  In an old warehouse Cinder struts down a hall.

  She comes to a room as she hears whispers and ughter from inside. She pushes the door open to see a dimly light room with a figure in the middle.

  Cinder walks inside and looks around, covering the walls are pictures of Byzan. Many taken with our his knowledge. Cinder grimaces as she keeps looking around.

  She then spots a picture of Byzan and his team, with rge red X's across Ambré, Maize and Rose. There's another photo of Byzan and Neo, a red question mark drawn on Neo.

  "Hehehe... Byzan. Byzan, you will love me~" The girl in the center of the room sings. "No one will stop me from loving you~"

  "Must you be so creepy?" Cinder asks.

  The girl stops and gnces back at Cinder.

  The girl has long wavy pink hair with pink eyes. She wears a pink button up shirt with a bck bowtie. A rge coat with golden trim is over the shirt, she also has bck pants on with bck and gold high heel boots.

  She has a couple purple gem earrings on her left ear and some gold rings on her right ear. A leather belt goes across her waist with a small pouch on the right, and a keychain of a cat on the left with a tiny cat plush as well.

  On the floor next to the girl are several dolls of Byzan, that are a little wet. A rge pink revolver with red heart stickers all over it.

  "As if you know anything of love, Cinder." The girl gres at Cinder.

  Cinder rolls her eyes. "Come, Pink, the others are back."

  The girl known as Pink, stands up and grabs her gun. "Emerald and Mercury?" She stands at 5'3''(161.5 cm)

  "Who else? Now, did you bring the item I requested?"

  Pink walks over to Cinder and hands her a small chip. "Father says this shoulder work. All you need to do is insert the chip and it'll do most of the work, he said you'll know how to work the rest."

  Cinder grows a rge smirk and grabs the chip. "My, my, you can listen to orders."

  Pink smiles. "I was promise to see Byzan! Now take me to him, you said your infiltrating the school, right?" She swings side to side as her eyes slightly glow with a dangerous look. "Let me join!"

  Cinder pockets the chip. "I can't have that happen."

  Pink grows very angry, very quickly. "WHY NOT?!" She brings up her revolver. "Why are you getting between me and my love!"

  Cinder raises an eyebrow as she looks down on the girl. "Byzan knows how you look. So if he sees you, it could be enough for him to alert Ozpin to our schemes. Then you'll never be able to see your cat again, but don't worry after all is said and done, you can have him all to yourself."

  Pink quickly smiles and puts her gun away. "If you put it that way, it makes sense. I shall wait to see my Byzan, but I will not wait long~"

  Cinder starts walking away as Pink follows. "Don't worry, I might have a pn for you to do. There is a certain Ats dog in Beacon that needs to be dealt with."

  "Oh, I can do that. I've done stuff like that before~" Pink hops around Cinder. "They talk big, but once you strap them to a chair and a few hours of py time, they all cry and pee themselves! HEHEHE!"

  Cinder cringes as she looks at Pink."Remind me to never work with you again."

  "Too te~" Pink sticks her tongue out at Cinder. "Father's apart of the group, so that's me apart of it as well!"

  Cinder sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose. Then they hear Roman's voice echo as they reach a catwalk.

  "Listen, you little punk." Roman growls in anger. "If it were up to me, then I would take you and your little street rat friend here and..."

  Cinder speaks up as she and Pink reach a ptform that overlooks the first floor. "Do what, Roman?"

  Roman ughs nervously as he looks up to Cinder. "I'd, uh... not kill them?"

  Cinder and Pink take a lift down to the first floor and walk towards Roman.

  "Cinder!" Emerald excitedly smiles.

  Mercury notices Pink and grows a look of disgust. Pink just smiles at him

  Cinder walks past Pink, Mercury and Emerald, and steps up to Roman. "I thought I made it clear you were to eliminate the would-be runaway?"

  "I was going to-" Roman tries to defend himself.

  But Emerald speaks up. "He was going to escape to Vacuo. The three of us decided to take it upon ourselves to kill the rat."

  "I think he was some sort of cat actually." Mercury points out.

  "What? Like a Puma?" Emerald asks.

  Mercury points and nods to Emerald. "Yeah. there you go."

  "I like cats!" Pink appears between Emerald and Mercury in a pink heart made of smoke.

  Cinder gnces at the three. "Quiet, did I not specifically instruct you three to keep your hands clean while in Vale?"

  Roman snickers in the background.

  "I just thought-" Emerald tries to defend herself.

  "Don't think. Obey." Cinder orders.

  Roman does does a neck slice motion behind Cinder.

  Emerald looks down. "Yes, ma'am. It won't happen again."

  Cinder turns to Roman. "And you." Roman chuckles nervously. "Why wasn't this job done sooner?"

  "Uhh, eh." Roman gestures to some creates. "Eh." He gestures to come boxes. "EH!" He gestures to the whole warehouse full of dust. "Sorry if I've been busy stealing every speck of dust in the kingdom!"

  Mercury then speaks sarcastically. "You are an amazing inspiration to every punk with a gun and ski mask all across the kingdom."

  Roman gres at the four. "Look around kid, I've got this town running scared. Thieves camping at every corner, dust prices through the roof, and we're sitting pretty at an older 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 pn. it might actually make my next string of robberies go a little smoother!"

  "Oh, Roman, gave a little faith." Cinder walks over to Roman and puts a hand on his cheek. "You'll know what you need when you need to know. Besides, we're done with dust."

  "Okay? Then what now?"

  "We're moving." Cinder begins to walk out. "Have the White Fang clear out this building. I'll send you coordinates tonight."

  "Coordinates?" Roman questions.

  "We're proceeding to phase two." Cinder then leaves.

  Pink, Emerald, and Mercury gnce at each other, before following behind Cinder. While they're leaving, Roman sighs and pulls out a cigar and he looks for his light, but he can't find it. He hears a click and looks up to see Emerald holding his light as she sticks her tongue out at him. She flicks the lighter close.

  Pink skips out of the warehouse as she hums happily.

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