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“Well, the good news is that your night vision hasn’t been affected that badly.” A dry and slightly smug voice said. “The bad news for you is that you still have affected your eyesight enough that you need corrective lenses in order to prevent further damage.”

Blake took these words with a sense of both irritation and frustration. Part of it had to do with the attitude given by the doctor, a sentient hologram that wore a black jumpsuit and trousers with a teal blue stripe on the shoulder and collar area, with a bald head with brown hair on the sides of the skull. The other part had to do with the fact that she had damaged her eyesight enough to need reading glasses. Her, a faunus, a cat faunus at that, needing glasses. She could practically hear her former comrades in the White Fang laughing themselves sick at this knowledge.

Still she kept her sense of tact in mind, if less to keep her manners than to not make herself look like a petulant child in front of her parents. “Will I need to wear these all the time?” she asked with a sense of barely hidden annoyance.

“Not necessarily.” The Doctor (or EMH as he preferred to be called) said as he pulled back the Phoropter. “You can wear the corrective lenses all the time if you prefer to go the contacts route, though you’ll either need to take them out before you go to bed or you need to put in eyedrops every morning. Or you can just use spectacles for when you’re reading something.” He picked up five boxes of contact lenses and placed them on the table next to Blake. “Here you are. If you’re not comfortable with sticking your fingers in your eyes, the hologram projector in front of the mirror over there will help you choose the design you like. If you find one you like, select it and the itemizer will assemble it on this table here.” He then picked up a laser drill and an object called a tricorder. “Now if you excuse, I have to go remove a tapeworm from one of the guests at the theme park.”

Blake was not saddened to see the EMH leave, as she found him a time both arrogant and condescending. But that still didn’t solve the issue that she had inadvertently caused. “This is humiliating.” she groaned.

“Honey, it’s not that big of a deal.” Ghira said calmly as he put his hand on her shoulder. “Plenty of faunus have needed glasses or contacts at one point or another.”

“Dad, those are older faunus.” Blake whined. “Faunus that have contracted and developed diseases like cataracts or glaucoma, not faunus that read too much without proper lighting.”

“Blake, just because we have night vision doesn’t mean that a lack of light doesn’t affect us negatively.” Kali said. “All night vision does is make it easier for what light there is to enter our retina and make it easier to see in it. It doesn’t mean that we see just as well at night as we do in the daytime.” She walked over to the table and picked up the boxes of contact lenses. “Now, since you intend to be a huntress, I think it would be a good idea for you to use contact lenses, but if you want glasses as well, we won’t stop you.”

“Personally, I think it would be a good idea for you to have glasses as a backup in case you lose a lens in the field or don’t have time to put them in while on a mission.” Ghira concurred. “And it would be a good thing to have on if you want to read at night. Would prevent you from needing to go to the bathroom to take them out and risk waking them up.”

Blake let out a sigh that might as well have been a huff. “Greeeeaaaat.”

“Blake, it’s not going to be that bad. I’m sure there’s a pair that will look great on you.” Kali said.

Reluctantly, Blake got out of the chair and went over to the body length mirror. She looked over at the device to use for the hologram and let her shoulders relax when she saw that it was just a tablet that showed pictures of what glasses there were. She quickly decided against the thick looking ovular glasses that would take up half of her face and the rectangular glasses with the ¼ inch thick frames and decided to try a pair of small ovular frameless glasses barely bigger than a pair of large grapes. It looked…well.

“I don’t think these are going to work.” Blake remarked as she looked at herself in the mirror. “These things are going to break if I roll over on their case while I’m sleeping.” Honestly calling them flimsy was an understatement, especially since the bridge seemed to be made of two pieces of easily bendable wire. She also found that she didn’t really like looking down all the time just to use her glasses.

“Yeah, I don’t think frameless is the way to go.” Ghira said. “Maybe something with a bigger lens.”

“And one with a full frame.” Kali cut in. “Those half rimless glasses are pretentious and tacky in my opinion.”

Blake acquiesced to her mother’s request and quickly discarded any half rimless glasses. Looking through the rimmed glasses, she found a pair of almond shaped glasses with a thin gray frame. ‘Eww, no. I’m not going to give people more reason to compare me to Ms Goodwitch than necessary.’ She quickly moved past them and came upon a pair of circular glasses with a thin black frame, the arms connecting to the center of the rim and looking like it was made from a piece of wrought iron. “What about these?” She asked as she put a holographic overlay over her face.

“Well…they’re fine.” Ghira commented as he squinted a little. “It’s just that, I don’t think they go with your eye color.”

“Yeah, I think these suit someone with a brighter eye color.” Kali agreed.

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“Aachoo!” Pyrrha quickly sneezed, a bit of spit hitting the inside of one of her glasses lens. She sniffed as she looked at the speckle covered lens. “Damn it.” she muttered as she sprayed cleaner on the lens of a set of glasses that looked exactly like the one Blake had just been trying. “I just cleaned that.”

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“Yeah, I think I need to get something more angular.” Blake replied as she moved back to the tablet. After flicking through more options, she came upon a set of square like glasses with rounded corners, with a black rim that was thin on the sides and bottom and 1/16th of an inch thick on top. In addition, the lenses were big enough to cover her eyes completely while still allowing other people to see them.

“Oh those look wonderful on you sweety!” Kali exclaimed as she got up and stood next to her daughter. “Just the right level of dignity and beauty. And it really brings out your eyes.”

“Are you sure?” Blake asked with a light blush on her cheeks.

“Positive.” Ghira confirmed with a small smile. “You look wonderful Blake.”

Blake wasn’t sure how to feel. It was nice to have her parents support and love as part of her life again and she knew they were being honest with her, but given how long they had been separated from each other, she felt awkward accepting any praise from them. She still felt that she was on shaky ground with them despite their assurances, so she wasn’t sure if her acceptance of their opinions was because she was agreeing with them or because she felt that she didn’t deserve to voice a contrarian opinion.

“Okay then, looks like these are the ones.” She said with a hint of nervousness as she clicked the checkmark on the screen. On the table next to where the contacts once were, a small black platform, about 9 inches in diameter, rose up from underneath. A bunch of nanomachines then moved around the surface, constructing the glasses as if they were that futuristic sand like tech that you see everywhere in awful Sci-fi programs and movies (You know like Star Trek: Discovery. ). Once done being constructed, another platform rose up with a box of eyeglass cleaner, complete with rag.

“Really?” Blake grumbled as she picked up the glasses and the box of cleaner. “All the technology in the multiverse at your probable disposal and you assholes don’t make these self cleaning?”

“Those two do seem like the kind to inconvenience people for their own amusement.” Ghira sneered.

“Well, go on.” Kali encouraged. “Try them on, see how they feel on your face.” 

Reluctantly, Blake picked up the glasses and put them on her face. After a bit of shifting, she found that she preferred to have her new glasses resting at the top of her nose bridge rather than having them lower down her face closer to her nostrils. The weight of the glasses were noticeable but not to the point that it was an irritant. In addition, she did notice a present increase in her visibility, as she saw a little card with writing was completely legible. Tilting up her glasses, she saw that normally while she could still identify the letters, there was a noticeable amount of blur around the edges, making the writing look like a recent print who’s ink got a little smudged. She quickly lowered the glasses back down again.

Looking away from the card, she noticed that while she had been trying out the glasses, more nanomachines had come out of the platform and assembled together to create a royal purple glasses case. Picking it up, she placed it in her pants pocket, along with the bottle of eye fluid that had been left with the contact lenses. “Alright. I think these things are a keeper.” Taking the contacts from her mother’s hands, she gave her a small smile. “I’ll just take these back to my room now and meet up with you back in the theater. The Mads are probably going to call us to watch something soon.”

“Sure thing honey.” Kali said kindly. “Just try not to take too long. Those guys tend to have a habit of surprising us when we least expect it.”

Nodding, Blake quickly exited the EMH’s office and speed walked out of the hospital. She hurried as quickly as she dared back towards the cell block at the beginning of the Satellite of Love. She quickly hurried up the railingless stairs and came up to her door on one of the three fifth floors. She was moving towards the door to her room when the door to the room next to hers opened up and Sun walked out, his hair slightly damp. Blake screeched to a stop as Sun’s eyes caught hers, a fluorescent blush coming to both of their faces as they looked at each other.

“Blake.” Sun squeaked bashfully. “Are those your news glasses?”

“Um, yeah.” Blake uttered with a bit of embarrassment, clutching the boxes of contacts to her chest, quietly wishing it was easier to hide them.

“Um, wow, you look, you look great.” Sun stuttered, his blush increasing as he gave her a shy smile. Blake’s blush increased as she processed that statement. She could practically feel the steam coming out of her ears. All four of them.

“Thanks.” she gurgled. “I mean, my parents said I looked nice in them, but you never know if they’re being honest or don’t want to hurt your feelings, and uh, did you just come out of the shower?”

Sun took Blake’s awkward rambling in stride and scratched the top of his head. “Yeah, my team and I decided to have a two on two spar after that last film. I really smelled after Neptune and Scarlet spent twenty minutes beating the crap out of Sage and I, so I decided to freshen up.”

“Oh cool.” Blake awkwardly looked down at her boxes of contacts and then pointed to the door. “I’m going to go put these away.”

“Can I help?” Sun asked. “Neptune has contact lenses so I know how to clean them and store them properly.”

Blake bit her lip. She was really tempted to say no. The only time a guy other than her dad had entered her room was Sun and Neptune recently. And even then there were other people with her. Even when she was dating Adam she never shared a tent with him. But on the other hand, she had no idea what she was doing and she really would not like to poke herself in the eye. 

“Alright, but no funny business.” Blake said with a stern glare.

“Not to worry.” Sun said with a cheesy smile as he raised his hands placatingly. “No funny business to be found here.” Blake rolled her eyes before turning and opening up her door, allowing the two of them to enter her prison cell, I mean, room.

“Urgh, I hate these rooms.” Sun complained. “The all white walls and furniture, the dim lights that never seem to turn off. It all feels very…”

“Sterile?” Blake completed.

“Creepy too.” Sun said while silently agreeing with Blake’s assessment. “Like these bastards designed these rooms to make sure we were never completely comfortable.”

“Wouldn’t be surprised if that was the intention.” Blake said as she took the boxes of contact lenses into the bathroom. “Okay, I’m going to put most of these in the drawer here. Well most of them anyway. How many contact lenses are in these boxes anyway?”

“Six.” Sun answered. “The real question is whether these are rigid lenses or soft lenses.”

“There are different kinds of contact lenses?” Blake asks as she pulls the bottle of eye fluid and places it and a contact holder on the counter to the side of the sink. 

“Yeah. The way you put them in is the same, but from what Neptune told me rigid contacts aren’t as easy to get out of the eyes and are more delicate than soft contacts.” Sun said as he opened the box, revealing six contacts suspended in clear fluid sealed underneath some aluminum like substance. “The big difference you’ll have if these are rigid is that you’ll have a lot more of an adjustment period to getting used to having contacts in your eyes. You’ll also have to be more careful taking care of them. Tearing a soft lens is a lesser issue compared to tearing a rigid lens.” He then looked at the bottom of one of the lens cases. “Looks like they’re soft lenses though. That’s good news” 

Blake raised an eyebrow. “Okay. And you know how to put them into someone’s eye without hurting them?”

“Yeah,” Sun replied as he delicately tore two contact lens cases from the other four. “During one of the training sessions before we got to Beacon, Neptune got both of his hands shattered by Nadir. Even with aura, it took three days for them to heal, so seeing as he’s my partner, I volunteered to help him get his contacts in and out of his eyes until he recovered.” He placed one of the cases in front of Blake. “I really appreciated that Neptune never complained about it and just guided me through the processes. It takes a lot of trust for anyone to let someone they’ve only known for a few months put their fingers in their eyes.”

“Right. Speaking of fingers and eyes, that probably means I should keep my finger nails trimmed very short shouldn’t I.” Blake said with an air of casualness.

“It would be easier to take your contacts out with shorter nails, yes.” Sun said. “Now do you want to put in the contacts right now, or do you want me to just talk about proper maintenance and give a demonstration without the lenses?”

“Eh, the glasses aren’t bothering me so I don’t really feel the need to put them in yet.” Blake replied. 

“Alright then.” Sun replies. “Well, the first thing you should always remember,” he said as he grabbed the eye fluid bottle. “Is that you replace the fluid in your contact container everyday, otherwise you will cause all the filth that your contacts collect over the day will build up.”

Blake considered this for a moment. “What, like dust and stuff?”

“Dust, eye gunk, eyelash hair.” Sun opened up the contact case and placed the two covers behind the case. “Basically anything that your cornea catches or produces.”

“Tell me about,” A familiar, hated voice interrupted as a video screen dropped down from the ceiling, revealing Ethan Forrester wearing a pair of glasses that looked exactly like the one’s Blake got. Steve was standing next to him, looking a bit awkward as his eyes darted between Blake and Ethan. “All that yellow guck that you get in the morning that looks like puss.” He stuck out his tongue. “Yuck.”

“Why the hell are you bothering us?” Blake said with a hint of irritation. “And have you been watching us this entire time?”

“First of all, you know exactly why I’m bothering you sour kitty.” Ethan sneered as he adjusted his glasses. “And second, I have no camera or microphones in any of the restrooms. I understand the meaning of the word privacy even if I am broadcasting everything you say and do to a world wide audience of millions.”

“I hate you. I really, really hate you.” Blake mumbled as she pinched her nose.

“Like I care about your shit opinions.” Ethan said with a roll of his eyes. “Now,” he continued with a clap of his hands. “Today, I decided that we’re going to try something new.”

“You mean you’re going to let us go and turn yourself into the authorities?” Sun asked sarcastically.

“Please,” Ethan scoffed. “If I was going to do that I would’ve done that before I put you on the shuttle. No, what I’m going to do is show you a serialized universe.”

“What, like a newspaper serial?” Sun asked.

“No, like a serialized tv show!” Ethan proclaimed. “One of those that goes on for a bit and tells one continuous story with maybe a few divergences in between.”

“We’re hoping to do some of these short series worlds or miniseries worlds that we can return to every so often to increase the variety this program provides.” Steve explained. “The series worlds we will break up into seasons so that’s not all we show going forward.”

Blake and Sun gave each other worried looks. They had already had to endure distorted versions of themselves in a bunch of one offs in films and singular episodes, but watching them endure a storyline across potentially dozens of episodes sounded like pure torture.

“I see by your faces you’re just as excited to experience this as I am!” Ethan declared with a grin. “So without further ado, let's spin the wheel!”

The camera cut to Steve at the wheel, who gave it a hard spin. The wheel spinned round and round, losing momentum more and more until it came to a stop at ‘Team JNPR’. Steve then took the ball and dropped it in the pachinko machine, the ball bouncing down before coming to rest in the basket labeled ‘Jaune.’

“Dowww!” Steve exclaimed in dismay. “Seriously, him?!” 

“Urgh, I hate these Jaune centered stories.” Ethan spat. “They’re so overused.”

“Hold on, why do you have a problem with our friend?!” Sun shouted with anger, that anger matched by the glaring cat faunus who desperately wished that she could impale the two Mads with Gambol Shroud.

“It’s not so much him as how many universes have him as the star.” Ethan seethed as he pulled out The Book of Fables, flipping through page after page without really looking at it. “Your friend is like a blank sheet of paper, a being with very little personality, not much to him but could be slotted into any plot, background or sidestory and he’s the hero, he’s the protagonist, he’s the hero’s reckoning. I’m fucking sick of it!” He slammed the book shut and clenched it, his fingers digging into the leather as if it were a squeeze ball. “It’s always ‘Jaune is a robot detective’, ‘Jaune is a courier in a nuclear wasteland’, ‘Jaune is the Gunsligger fighting the Man in Black’! What about everyone else huh?! What about everyone, anyone else?!” He stopped ranting, taking a few deep gulping breaths as Steve walked back on screen.

“Well we have to do it. You know the rules of the wheel.” Steve said with a hint of melancholy.

“Please tell me there’s a series we can use that has a better character than Jaune that people can latch onto.” Ethan begged as he put The Book of Fables down on the table.

“Hmmm.” Steve hummed as he put his hand to his chin, his index finger resting over top of his lip as he considered how to solve their problem. His eyes widened as an idea came to him. “What about Avatar?”

“Steve, I thought we were showing them a series, not a boring sci-fi White people vs. Native Americans allegory starring blue cat aliens and the most boring leading man in history.” Ethan responded with a deadpan glare.

“No not that, the other Avatar.” Steve corrected. “You know, the one where everyone is color coded and the monks have those stupid tattoos?”

“Oh. OH!” Ethan stated as his eyes widened. A beaming smile came to his face as he caught on to what Steve was saying. “Yeah, and since that series has a few two parters, we can show those in one go and finish everything quicker so we can do other series as well.”

“I knew you’d see it my way.” Steve proclaimed with a smug grin as he crossed his arms over his chest.

“Hey hi, people that don’t know what’s going on here.” Sun snarked. “Are either of you going to explain what’s going on?”

“No.” Ethan said. The movie sign alarm then rang, causing the two faunus to flee, Blake still wearing her glasses as she entered the theater. Her teammates and friends looked at her a bit surprised, but a harsh glare from her caused them to sit down without raising any fuss, though she did see team CRDL snickering.

{Mystical music played as a deep red background appeared on screen with bits of white writing, similar to Eastern Valish, on it. In front of the background stood a man shrouded by shadow, the only parts visible being fur clothing with a white collar.}

Pyrrha (narration): Water. 

{The figure bent a long bubble of water up before thrusting forward and sending the water flying offscreen.}

Pyrrha: Earth.

{A new figure appeared, feminine in stature and as muscular as a bodybuilder, in a hard rigid stance wearing only a pair of loose pants that stopped just below the knee and some bandages wrapped around her chest. She pounded her foot against the ground, causing a boulder as large as a table to rise up into the air, which she kicked effortlessly offscreen.}

Pyrrha: Fire.

{A thin male figure thrust downward, bouts of fire briefly illuminating his face before leaping into the air, fire trailing after his right foot as he slammed it into the ground, letting fire burst away from him like a wave.}

Pyrrha: Air.

{A female figure landed, wearing a loose outfit of pale yellow and cream orange with a large collar that billowed like a cape. She spun around clockwise, spinning a turrent of air as it spun like a corkscrew towards the screen.}

Tom: All the elements you need for multiple natural disasters.

Pietro: It looks like this story is based on a world centered around the classical elements, which are able to be controlled by people.

Yatsu: Oh yeah? Then where’s void? That’s the fifth of the classical elements.

Pyrrha: No it isn’t. Aether’s the fifth element.

Crow: Ha, you people and your societal differences.

{A large world map is then shown. Most of the map was taken up by a tan colored continent with four similarly colored islands to the south, stretching from the north to the south and taking up most of the eastern side of the map. At the very northern and southern points of the map were two azure blue continents, each barely the same size of a large tan peninsula that jutted west towards an archipelago of white colored mountainous islands. In fact they weren’t the only white islands, as another white colored archipelago lay directly north of the southern blue continent and a large white island lay situated between the eastern most of the tan islands and the tip of a skinnier peninsula the jutted down towards it like the beak of a falcon (seriously, I just looked at the Earth Kingdom and it looks like the head of a bird. Ba Sing Se is the eye, those peninsulas around the eastern bay are two beaks and an open mouth and the rest of the continent is the head and the shoulder.). And finally off to the west directly on the equator was a burnt red archipelago made up of numerous volcanoes and shaped kind of like a crayfish.}

Pyrrha: My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days: a time of peace when the Avatar kept balance between the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation and Air Nomads. (The camera zoomed into the map, flowing over a bunch of misty mountains.) But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked. 

{The camera zoomed towards a beach where an entire brigade of troops, clad in blood red and black armor with face guards that resembled skulls, stood in front of five large steel ships the size of a destroyer escort. The front line then hopped forward and released a torrent of flame right at the screen.}

Neptune: Oh, so this is like the Great War. Only the attacking army has an entire military of people with built in flamethrowers.

Gwen: Do you think those soldiers ever asked if they were the bad guys?

Trifa: Is this about the skulls?

Gwen: Yes this is about the skulls! What force for good put skulls on their uniforms?!

Trifa: Maybe they’re the skulls of their enemies.

Gwen: Well that’s not how it comes across!

Fiona: Seriously? If that’s the case, in what way do these faceplates signal “Yeah we killed him, but trust me he was horrid?”

Velvet: I just can’t think of anything good about a skull.

Perry: You know, I didn’t want to bring it up, but I really don’t like the masks we wear. I mean, the news casts say we look like Grimm.

Banesaw: Oh please, you’re seriously not listening to those human broadcasts. You know they’re biased against us.

Perry: But they didn’t get to design our uniforms!

Gwen: Seriously, I really can’t think of anything worse as a symbol than a skull.

Perry: Other than a Grimm faceplate.

Gwen: Right. Other than that.

{The scene changed to show an old man wearing red robes standing on a large rock, his hair billowing in the wind as he was framed by the setting sun.}

Pyrrha: Only the Avatar mastered all four elements; (He proceeds to demonstrate his mastery.) only he could stop the ruthless firebenders. But when the world needed him most, (The Avatar bent a spinning circle of air at the screen. When visibility returned, the Avatar was gone.) he vanished.

Sage: Really? The world needed you and you cut and run? What an asshole!

Raven: What, did he go out for a box of cigarettes?

Pyrrha: (The devastation left by the Fire Nation is shown; a scene of burned down buildings, arrows buried in corpses and broken siege equipment.) A hundred years have passed, and the Fire Nation is nearing victory in the war. (The scene then changes to show a small fleet of four ships no bigger than viking longships sailing out past some icebergs in the middle of the night.) Two years ago, my father and the men of my tribe journeyed to the Earth Kingdom to help fight against the Fire Nation, (The scene changed to show a bunch of women and young children in blue and white parkas seeing the men off, their gloomy faces illuminated by pale lantern light. The only adolescents there were Neptune and Pyrrha, the former wrapping his arm around the latter.) leaving me and my brother to look after our tribe.

Neptune: Whoa, we’re siblings in this? I wasn’t expecting that.

Pyrrha: I’m not quite weirded out by that idea, but it is weird. You don’t seem like the brotherly type.

Tom: Hey look on the bright side. At least this means he’s not going to flirt with you.

Pyrrha: Some people believe that the Avatar was never reborn into the Air Nomads and that the cycle is broken, but I haven't lost hope. I still believe that, somehow, the Avatar will return to save the world. (Cue title card, accompanied by epic music.)

Cardin: Roll credits (ding)

Ren: Seriously where does that ding keep coming from?

{The scene opened up on a body of water, a very cold body of water given the numerous icebergs all over the ocean. Crossing that expanse of potential hypothermia and frostbite was a small furlined canoe. In the boat were the two siblings, Neptune and Pyrrha, both of whom were staring down into the water looking for fish. Neptune was armed with a serrated spear made of bone, his intense stare following a fish as it swam along the side of their boat. For some reason, he had shaved the sides of his head and put the rest back into a ponytail at the top of his scalp (“IT’S A WOLF’S TAIL!”), while Pyrrha’s hair was tied back in a bun with the exception of two hair loops tied tight that came down from above her eyebrows, down to her mouth and then looped under her ears before stopping at the nape of her neck.}

Neptune: I t's not getting away from me this time. (He looks back at Pyrrha and gives her a smug grin.) Watch and learn Pyrrha. (He turns his gaze back to the fish and raises the spear above his head.) This is how you catch a fish.

Vernal: Wow, only your first on screen appearance and you’re already acting like a condescending prick.

Sun: Really man? Can you not try to act cool or confident for five minutes? (He looks over at his partner, his eyes widening in concern.) Neptune?

Neptune (in a fetal position and rocking back and forth): Water. Why did it have to be water? Why am I in a boat SURROUNDED BY WATER?!

Scarlet (facepalming): Oh for Oum’s sake. Can you not let your aquaphobia paralyze you for ten minutes?

{Pyrrha gave her brother the stink eye before turning her attention back to the water. Further away from the boat she spotted another fish. Cautiously, she pulled off her glove and took a deep breath, wincing as if anticipating that things would go wrong. Carefully, she used her hand to bend a bubble of water out of the ocean, the fish bobbing inside it as it hovered in the air.}

Pyrrha: Neptune! Look!

Neptune (grinning eagerly and not looking behind him): Shhh! Pyrrha, you’re going to scare it away. (He licks his lips hungrily.) Mmmm…I can already smell it cooking.

Reese: Really? You’re not even going to entertain her? For all you know she could’ve spotted a shark.

Blake: You don’t deserve that fish. I hope you miss and lose your spear.

Pyrrha (As she brought the fish in): But Neptune, I caught one!

{Shakily, Pyrrha bent the water with the fish towards the basket in the middle of the canoe. But before she could put it in, Neptune raised his spear, puncturing the bubble and causing the water to splash on him. The fish meanwhile flew through the air back into the ocean.}

Pyrrha: Hey!

Neptune: Aaah! (The fish lands in the water and swims off. Annoyed, Neptune turned to Pyrrha.) Why is it that every time YOU play with magic water, I get soaked?

Emerald: Because the universe hates you.

Ethan (hologram): HAHAHAHA! Oh Emerald. You have NO. I. DEA.

Pyrrha (annoyed as well): It’s not ‘magic’. It’s water bending. And it’s…

Neptune (interrupting): Yeah, yeah, "an ancient art unique to our culture", blah, blah, blah. Look, I'm just saying (He pulled his ponytail (“WOLF’S TAIL!”) to get some of the water out) that if I had weird powers, I'd keep my weirdness to myself.

Pyrrha: You're calling me weird? I'm not the one who makes muscles at myself (She smirks.) every time I see my reflection in the water! (Cut to Neptune doing just that, having rolled up his sleeve to flex his arm muscles.)

Yang: Really dude? I mean, I have guns for days and I don’t admire myself everytime I look in the mirror or a window pane.

Glynda: Brothers there’s vain and then there’s this.

{Before Neptune could think of a mocking response to their sibling banter, the canoe hit a piece of tce, startling the siblings and rocking the boat. Looking forward, Neptune’s eyes widened as he saw that the boat had been caught in a fast current and was moving swiftly towards an ice flow. Trying to find a way to maneuver the safety, Neptune rowed the boat between crushing patches of ice, the route getting narrower and narrower as more and more ice appeared.}

Pyrrha: Watch out! (More ice appeared, closing off their paths of escape.) Go left! Go left!

{Neptune tried, but it was a fruitless endeavor. There was just too much ice and the current was too strong. The two siblings quickly leaped from the canoe onto an ice flow as the canoe was crushed to pieces between three chunks of ice. As the ice settled and the current slowed the siblings took stock of their position and saw that they were now stuck, miles away from home in the middle of freezing water, on top of a chunk of ice with no way to safely get back to shore. Naturally, the two siblings started bickering with each other.}

Pyrrha (bitterly): You call that left?

Neptune: You don't like my steering? Well, maybe you should've (He waves his arms mockingly.) waterbended us out of the ice.

Coco: Dude, she’s clearly a novice. I don’t think she has the fine control to MAKE ice, let alone push it away from you.

Octavia: Besides, you’re clearly more to blame for this situation since you didn’t bring a second padel so that she could steer the canoe.

Vernal: It’s basic boating 101, the back steers, the front navigates.

Pyrrha: (She stands up in a rage) So it’s my fault.

Neptune: I knew I should’ve left you at home. Leave it to a girl to screw things up.

{Pyrrha’s face twitched in rage as a violin sting played, years of frustration and anger with her brother’s attitude snapping as she let loose.}

Pyrrha: (She swings her arms as she rants, unknowingly bending the ocean water behind her. Neptune doesn’t react, as if she had shouted at him multiple times before.) You are the most sexist, immature, nutbrained…grgk, I’m embarrassed to be related to you!

Raven: I know the feeling.

Qrow (seething): You have no right to say anything about our relationship after everything you’ve done.

{Pyrrha unknowingly bent a large piece of water through a nearby iceberg, causing a massive crack to form in it. Hearing it, Neptune looked and grew worried as pieces of ice began to fall down.}

Pyrrha (screaming): Ever since mom died, I'VE been doing all the work around camp while you've been off playing soldier! (She swept her arm back, causing more damage to the iceberg.)

Neptune (nervously): Umm, Pyrrha…(He points behind her.)

Pyrrha: (Pointing at Neptune.) I even wash all the clothes! Have you ever smelled your dirty socks? Let me tell you, NOT PLEASANT! (She swept her arms back, forming another large crack in the iceberg.)

Emerald: Not that you don’t have valid points about all of those statements, but maybe you should not have this argument WHEN AN ICEBERG IS ABOUT TO CRASH DOWN ON YOU!!!!

Scarlet: Monty’s sake man! Just say that she’s damaging the iceberg! You’re one misplaced wave away from a watery grave!

Neptune (fearful, his eyes dilated to pinpricks): Pyrrha! Settle down!

Pyrrha (still not noticing the ominous cracking behind her): NO! THAT’S IT! I’M DONE HELPING YOU! FROM NOW ON, YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN!!!!!

{In her rage, Pyrrha bent one last massive wash behind. This was all the iceberg could take, as massive cracks spread out all across it. Neptune let out a whimper as Pyrrha finally noticed the cracking ice behind her, gasping as the iceberg split in two and collapsed, the massive wave in created sweeping the ice chunk Neptune and Pyrrha were trapped on hundreds of yards away as the two struggled to stay on. The ice chunk soon came to a rest further out to sea, the two now worse off then they were before.}

Crow: And the two of them froze to death and their bodies were not recovered for another week. Short series.

Winter: They should’ve known better than to go out fishing on their own.

Neptune: Okay you’ve gone from ‘weird’ to ‘freakish’ Pyrrha.

Pyrrha (amazed): You mean I did that?

Neptune (sarcastic): Yep. Congratulations.

{At that moment, a massive blue light began to glow in the water below them. The two backed up fearfully as the water bubbled, before bursting up as another iceberg emerged from underneath the waters. The two siblings saw that in the iceberg were two silhouettes, a massive beast with fur and a small boy, no older than 12, sitting in a meditative position underneath it. The glow was seen to be coming from the boy, as his bald head sported an arrow tattoo that pointed down at his face and was glowing that bright blue light, along with two smaller arrow tattoos on the back of his hands. Pyrrha looked at the boy in confusion, which quickly dissipated as she saw the boy open his eyes, the blue glow overtaking his entire eyes and giving him an alien look.}

Tom: AHHH!!! It’s a zombie alien from Malchior IV!

Crow: Run before it eats us all! (The two robots began to run around the theater screaming.)

Penny (watching the antics of her fellow robots): These two are weird.

Pyrrha: *Gasp* He’s alive. (Without thinking, Pyrrha stole her brother’s club.) We have to help! (She pulled up her hood and rushed towards the iceberg.)

Neptune: Pyrrha! Get back here! (He rushes after her and grabs his spear.) We don’t even know what that thing is!

{The two raced across a few small chunks of ice as if they were stones in a river. Reaching the iceberg, Pyrrha wailed on the ice with the club, hitting it half a dozen times before it erupted with a rapid rush of sealed gas, forcing Pyrrha off her feet and into her brother, knocking him over. Large cracks rushed up the ice opening up space until the iceberg erupted in a massive pillar of light, the light blue beam shooting up into the heavens and able to be seen from miles around.}

Tom: Oh come on a sky beam!? Can you get anymore cliche?!

Crow: Hey at least we get it at the beginning of the superhero origin story this time, rather than at the climax.

Jaune: I hate to say it, but they have a point.

Kobalt: Gods those things are everywhere.

{One of those people that saw the beam of light was a teenage girl with long white hair pulled back in a ponytail and red and black armor that was standing on the deck of a large metal ship. A close up on her face showed that it was Weiss, who looked at the beam in initial amazement. The biggest difference with her from her real life counterpart was rather than having a small scar that passed above her left eye, most of the left side of her face was covered by a large burn mark, as third and second degree burns had seared off her eyebrow and forced her eye into a permanent squint. As the light faded a bit, a determined grimace appeared on her face as she glared forward.}

Weiss: Finally.

Ruby (horrified): OH SWEET MONTY WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE?!?!

Weiss (wide eyed in shock): Knowing my father, something horrifying and something traumatic.

Sienna: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOUR FAMILY?!?!

Willow: Honestly, the list of what isn’t wrong with us is so short it could fit on an index card.

Weiss: (She turns away from the sky beam.) Auntie, do you realize what this means?!

Willow (sitting at a small table and playing solitaire while having tea): (Not interested in the amazing sight in front of her.) I won’t get to finish my game?

Weiss: (She turns back to the beam.) It means my search is about to come to an end. (Willow sighed disinterestedly and placed another tile down. Weiss turned back in annoyance as the sky beam disappeared.) That light came from an incredibly powerful source! It has to be him!

Flynt: Well it’s a good thing the person most hell bent on finding him just happened to be in the vicinity when that surge of mystic energy revealed his location to them!

Nebula: Convenient much?

Willow (calmly): Or it's just the celestial lights. We've been down this road before, Princess Weiss. I don't want you to get too excited over nothing. (She places a tile marked with the symbol for Air over a tile marked with the symbol of Fire.) Please, sit. Why don't you enjoy a cup of calming Jasmine tea?

Weiss (furiously whining): (She whips around.) I don't need any calming tea! I need to capture the Avatar!

Blake: Did…did I just hear your voice crack?

Russell: I have to capture the Avatar so that my senpai will notice me.

Weiss: Helmsman! Head a course for the light! (Willow places down another Air tile as a large gust of wind passes through, rustling the wooden tiles.)

{Back at the iceberg, the release of light and wind had caused the dome where the boy had been trapped to erupt like a volcano. With the dissipation of the wind, Pyrrha and Neptune were able to stand up and look at the top of the cratered rim. Neptune raised his spear defensively, before shifting to an aggressive stance as the glowing boy climbed to the top of the rim.}

Neptune: STOP!

{The boy ignored as he stood at the top of the rim. Then unexpectedly, the glowing faded away, the boy groaned and he fell forward. Letting out a worried gasp, Pyrrha ran forward and caught the boy before he hit the ground, the boy groaning as she gently lowered him. Then Neptune decided to act like a moron and tap the end of his spear against the boy’s head.}

Pyrrha (pushing the spear away): Stop it!

Ivori: Are you trying to give him a concussion?

Gwen (taping her fingers together): Well, at least we all know which sibling was dropped on their head as an infant.

{Carefully, Pyrrha placed the boy against the wall of ice and put him in a sitting position. Groaning, the boy opened his eyes, gasping as he saw that the first thing he saw was Pyrrha’s face. She gave him a kind smile as he looked at her in wonder.}

The boy (weakly): I need to ask you something.

Arslan (whispering): Where do you get your moisturizer?

Pyrrha: What?

The boy (gaining back a bit of strength): Please, come closer.

Crow (whispering): I have to tell you where I put my treasure. I left it all in one piece.

Pyrrha: What is it?

{The camera zoomed in, with whimsical music playing, only for the seriousness of the scene to be undercut by the boy giving her a massive smile.}

The boy: Will you go penguin sledding with me?

Pyrrha (confused): Uh, sure. I, I guess.

Whitley (rubbing his eyes): Dear Monty, give me strength.

Neon: I’m pretty sure what this kid is asking is animal abuse.

{The boy rose up by hovering to his feet, causing Neptune to leap back in fear and point his spear at the prepubescent child.}

The boy: What’s going on here?

Neptune (shouting): You tell us! How did you get in the ice? And why aren't you frozen? (He pokes the boy several times with the tip of his spear.)

The boy: I’m not sure.

Elm: My guess? Narwhals.

Nadir: They’re always going around swimming and causing commotion.

{The boy gasped as he heard a growl coming from the crater. He quickly climbed up the ice rim and slid down into the crater with a grin. Without missing a beat he leaped towards the large creature.}

The boy: Appa! Are you alright? (He crawled across the animal’s head, seeing that his pet was asleep.) Buddy? 

{He lifted up an eyelid and let it drop. He then leaped down to Appa’s mouth and tried to lift his head up. Meanwhile, Neptune and Pyrrha walked around the rim to an opening in the crater, Neptune’s jaw dropping in shock when he saw the massive beast. Finally, the boy’s efforts paid off as Appa woke up, the boy giggling as the beast yawned.}

The boy: Ha, ha! You’re okay! (The beast stood, showing the audience what looked like a large saddle on his back and a set of reins attached to his horns.)

Neptune/ Neptune: What is that thing?

The boy: This is Appa, my flying bison.

Neptune (sarcastic): Right. And this is Pyrrha, my flying sister.

Saffron: You know, you don’t have to be a condescending asshole all the time.

Robin: Or were you just born with a stick up your ass?

{As retribution for his snark, Appa sneezed, covering Neptune from head to toe with green snot. Squealing in disgust, Neptune vigorously tried to get the snot off, rubbing his face and body on the snow beneath him.}

The boy: Don’t worry, it’ll wash out. (The snot that Neptune pulled away from his face begged to differ, especially since it caused Neptune to gag and nearly caused Pyrrha to throw up.) So, you guys live around here?

Neptune (to Pyrrha): (He points his spear into the boy’s surprised face.) Don't answer that! Did you see that crazy bolt of light?! He was probably trying to signal the Fire Navy!

Weiss (rolling her eyes): Oh yes, the boy who was literally trapped in an iceberg for who knows how long planned to send out a beam of light to alert your position to your mortal enemy.

Pyrrha (sarcastically): Oh yeah, I'm sure he's a spy for the Fire Navy. You can tell by that evil look in his eye. (The boy gives the duo his best, earnest smile.)

Terra: Seriously are you trying to be a moron or were you just born stupid?

Pyrrha: The paranoid one is my brother, Neptune. You never told us your name.

The boy: I JaaAAAAAHH! AAAAAAHHH-CHOOOO!!!! 

{The sneeze the boy took was strong enough to send him rocketing dozens of feet into the sky and created gusts of wind strong enough to knock Pyrrha’s hood from her head. After the wind died down, the boy fell back to earth, slid on the ice rim and returned to standing in front of the two siblings.} 

Jaune: I’m Jaune. (He sniffs his nose.)

Neptune (disbelieving): You just sneezed. And flew ten feet in the air.

Jaune: Really? Felt a lot higher than that.

Scarlet: It was, Neptune just doesn’t know how to measure feet properly.

Joanna: Then again, when you live in a hunter gatherer society, is learning proper measurements really that big of a priority?

Qrow: Honestly Raven and I didn’t know how to add decimals until we came to Beacon.

Pyrrha: (She gasps in realization.) You’re an airbender!

Jaune (matter of factly): Sure am.

Neptune: Giant light beams, flying bison, airbenders ... (He walks away.) I think I got midnight sun madness. I'm going home to where stuff makes sense.

James (wincing): Yeah that is a really serious problem to have, especially in the northern parts of Solitas.

Clover: I remember my old partner Rhodes once went on a grimm hunt in that part of Solitas in the middle of summer that lasted a week. By the time he came back he was convinced he was the son of a sun god sent down to Remnant to build a device to finish blowing up the moon. He also said something about a teenager being used by an evil witch as a janitor, but I wasn’t paying attention by that point.

{Unknown to him, Cinder’s eyes widened slightly and a bead of sweat dripped down her cheek.}

{Neptune tried to leave but was forced to stop at the edge of the ice flow as he was forcefully reminded that, oh yeah, he was stuck in the middle of the ocean with no way to get home.}

Jaune: Well, if you guys are stuck, Appa and I can give you a lift. (Using airbending, Jaune jumps to the top of Appa’s head and takes the reins.}

Pyrrha (eagerly): We’d love a ride! Thanks! (She runs to the bison.)

Neptune: Oh no, I am not getting on that fluffy snot monster!

Pyrrha: Are you hoping some other kind of monster will come along and give you a ride home? You know, before you freeze to death?

{Neptune raises his finger and opens his mouth to complain, only to let out a sigh and lower his arm before reluctantly getting on the bison.}

Ruby (excitedly): Oh cool, we get to see a flying fantasy creature!

Nora (equally excited): Rise my sky cow! Rise and take flight into the horizon!

Jaune (grinning): Okay, first time flyers, hold on tight! Appa, yip-yip!

{He whipped the reins. With a groan, Appa lifted his tail to get some lift. With his strong legs he leaped in the air…and then landed in the water, casually swimming through the cold sea in the direction of Neptune and Pyrrha’s home.}

Jaune (a bit put down): Come on Appa, yip-yip! (He whipped the reins again.)

Neptune (sarcastic): Wow. That was truly amazing.

Neo: Kid I think you should shut up before your sister pushes you over the side.

Arslan: Not to mention that even though he isn’t flying, the bison is still helping you get back to your home. Be grateful you small dicked bastard!

Jaune: (Pyrrha glares at Neptune.) Appa's just a little tired. A little rest and he'll be soaring through the sky. You'll see. (He smiles at Pyrrha.)

Pyrrha: Why are you smiling at me like that?

Jaune: Oh, I was smiling? (Neptune gags.)

Terra (teasing): Oh, look at my little brother-in-law, smiling at his crush.

Jaune (blushing): Terra, don’t joke like that. Pyrrha and I are just friends. (The members of Team RWBY, Team CFVY, Team SNNN and his own family stare at him like he’s an idiot.)

Nora (muttering): *Sigh* Clueless.

{Later that night, the Fire Navy ship was continuing its search through the icefield, looking for the source of the sky beam. Weiss, no clad in a silk robe, stood on the bridge of the ship, looking out at the darkening horizon.}

Willow (approaching from behind Weiss): I’m going to bed now. (She yawns.) Yep, a woman needs her rest. (Her shoulders slump as her niece doesn’t get the hint.) Princess Weiss, you need some sleep. Even if you’re right, and the Avatar is alive, you won’t find him. Your father, your grandfather and your great-grandmother all tried and failed.

Weiss: Because their honor didn't hinge on the Avatar's capture. Mine does. This coward's hundred years in hiding are over.

Willow: I understand that Weiss, but the last time we saw the sky beam was HOURS ago. He’s probably long gone by now.

Weiss: No! My honor senses are tingling. He must still be here!

{Far out in the ocean, Appa was slowly swimming through the waters towards Pyrrha and Neptune’s home. Neptune had curled up in the back of the saddle and fell asleep, leaving only Jaune and Pyrrha awake. Jaune was laying against Appa’s head with his arm and a large staff behind his head and his feet on Appa’s back looking up at the sky while Pyrrha was sitting in the saddle. Carefully, Pyrrha crawled across the saddle and leaned up against the horn.}

Pyrrha: Hey.

Jaune (smiling sleepily): Hey. What’s you thinking about?

Pyrrha: I guess I was wondering, you being an airbender and all if you had any idea what happened to the Avatar?

Jaune (now fully awake): Uh, no. I didn’t know him. I mean, I knew people that knew him, but I didn't. Sorry.

Pyrrha: Okay. Just curious. Good night. (She leaves.)

Jaune: Sleep tight. (He looks down guiltily.)

Mercury: He’s the Avatar isn’t he?

May Marigold: The title of the series is literally called ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’. Of course it’s him.

{Later, Jaune had fallen asleep. A bolt of lightning cracked across the sky, waking Jaune up. However, the brownish texture of the world around him and the fact he was sleeping in the saddle told the audience that he was having a dream. Sitting up, he found himself and Appa flying through a massive storm. Screaming, he and Appa crashed into the ocean, the crushing waves dragging them down as they passed out. Before they could drown, Jaune’s tattoos and eyes began to glow. In this state, Jaune airbent a sphere around him and Appa before freezing over the sphere with ice.}

Pyrrha: Jaune. Jaune! Wake up.

{Jaune woke up gasping and shirtless from his nightmare (Which is irresponsible and dangerous. Seriously, do not take off your clothes when you‘re sleeping in an arctic or below 0 Celsius environment.). Looking around, he saw that he was in a fur tent and Pyrrha was kneeling next to him.} 

Pyrrha (smiling): It's okay, we're in the village now! Come on, get ready. (She stands up.) Everyone’s ready to meet you.

May Zedong: We’re about to make a sacrifice to the Wicker Man. It’s gonna be awesome!

`{Jaune gets up and starts putting on his shirt. As he does it, Pyrrha’s eyes trace the path of his tattoos, which flow across his entire body from his head, down his back and shoulders and stopping at the top of his hands and feet. Once dressed, Pyrrha grabbed Jaune’s wrist and dragged the startled airbender with his staff out of the tent. Outside of the tent the village was shown to be…well calling it a village would be a bit of a stretch. Hell, calling it a hamlet is a bit of a stretch. The only permanent building was a large igloo with multiple entrances that was obviously used primarily as the town meeting hall and a single room classroom for the tribe’s children. The rest of the structures in this habitation were a little more than half a dozen tents arranged in a semicircle around a central firepit. Surrounding the settlement was a ten foot high wall made of ice and snow with a single ramp leading up to the top of the wall and the solitary watchtower on the side facing the ocean and an opening in the southern part that allowed people to leave. As Pyrrha and Jaune left the tent, a small crowd of maybe two dozen people had gathered to observe the strange boy, Neptune sitting off to the side in front of the tent they had placed Jaune sharpening a steel boomerang, his distrust of the boy evident that he had spent the time Jaune had been sleeping guarding him as if he were a prisoner.}

Pyrrha: (She gestures to the tribesmen) Jaune, this is the entire village. Entire village, meet Jaune. (Jaune places his hands together in front of his staff and gives them a respectful bow. In response, some of the villagers fearfully pull their children closer to them.)

Jaune (uncomfortable): Uh, why are they all looking at me like that? Did Appa sneeze on me?

Brawnz: Actually it’s because in our society bowing is a signal that you’re about to attack.

Yuma: And our myths state that bald people are signs of plague and death.

{An old woman with scales on scales on her cheeks and white hair in a mohawk stepped forward.}

Tock: Well, no one has seen an airbender in a hundred years. We thought they were extinct, until my granddaughter and grandson found you.

Neptune (gapping): What?! She’s our grandmother?!?!

Dew: Is it even possible for faunus to have human grandchildren?

Glynda: Of course it’s possible. My mother was a wolf faunus.

Qrow: (He shivered.) She always growled at me whenever I came over to her house with Tai.

Raven: For once I can say it wasn’t you. She growled at me as well.

Taiyang: Did you ever find out why? Because she liked me.

Qrow: Tai, everyone liked you. Even Sarah Newsome liked you and she tried to neuter you at least eight times.

Taiyang: Qrow I told you, going for the groan is a perfectly acceptable thing to do in combat.

Raven (incredulous): She tried to castrate you in the cafeteria because you were struggling to decide between getting pizza bagels or a steak sandwich!

Taiyang (quietly): Oh yeah, I forgot about that.

Sienna (screeching): HOW DO YOU FORGET THAT SOMEONE TRIED TO CUT OFF YOUR BALLS BECAUSE YOU COULDN’T DECIDE WHAT TO GET FOR LUNCH?!?!?!

Taiyang (awkward): Uhhh…(He remembers that the night Ruby was conceived, Summer cut a shallow line at the bottom of his dick and licked it till it stopped bleeding.) Things happened?

Willow (incredulous): Why are you blushing?

Jaune (concerned): Extinct?

Pyrrha: Jaune, this is my grandmother.

Tock (completely serious): Call me Gran-Gran.

Maria: Are you sure? Because if anybody called me that, I’d beat them over the head with my cane.

Yang: (She crosses her arms.) I think it’s kinda sweet.

Neptune (grouchily): What is this, a weapon? (He grabs the staff out of Jaune’s hand.) You can’t stab anything with this.

Jaune: It’s not for stabbing (He airbent the staff back into his hand.) It’s for airbending.

{He tapped the staff against the ground, causing a set of orange glider wings to spring out like a pair of fans, startling Neptune in the process.}

Little Girl #2: (She and her friends giggled.) Magic trick! Do it again!

Brawnz: Do these people not know what a cam device and spring are?

Gwen: Brawnz, these kids don’t look older than six. Moving your knuckles might as well be a magic trick to them. Don’t judge them for being too young to know better.

Jaune: Not magic, airbending. (He moves the glider around.) It lets me control the air currents around my glider and fly. (Pyrrha listened to Jaune’s words in amazement. Neptune however was less than impressed.)

Neptune (sarcastic): Ya know, last time I checked, humans can't fly!

Jaune (grinning cockily): Check again!

{Jaune grabbed the bottom of his glider and instantly shot up into the air, weaving through the air as easily as a falcon. The villagers looked up in awe, smiles on their faces as they gazed up at something that hadn’t been seen in a hundred years.}

Little Girl: He’s flying.

Crow: He’s not flying. He’s falling with style.

Raven: Not to mention it isn’t that impressive. Call me when he’s gliding quickly and sharply between trees in a dense forest.

Little Girl #3: It’s amazing!

{Jaune continued to glide through the air, dazzling the villagers and Pyrrha, closing his eyes as he gave a large smile, relishing in the attention. Unfortunately this caused him to stop paying attention to where he was going and to crash head first into the sentry tower. With great strain, Jaune pulled his head out of the sentry tower, falling into a pile of snow. Pyrrha ran up to him to help him up.}

Neptune (sounding like someone had smashed into his parked car): *Gasp* My watch tower.

Neon: Wait, you built that thing? I’m surprised a strong breeze didn’t blow over that thing.

Scarlet: *Scoff* Ametuer. Always keep your eyes on where you’re going while you’re flying.

Pyrrha (gushing): (She offers Jaune her hand to help him out of the snow.) That was amazing!

{She helps a grateful Jaune up while behind them a worried Neptune hurried over and inspected his damaged tower. The universe, seeming to have it out for him, punished him for his concern by having another pile of snow drop on top of him, burying him. Annoyed, Neptune kicked the snow off his face and glared at Jaune and Pyrrha.}

Neptune: Great. You're an airbender, Pyrrha's a waterbender. Together you can just waste time all day long. (He gets up and stomps off.)

Jaune (excited): You’re a water bender?!

Pyrrha (self deprecating): Well, sort of, not yet.

Coco: Girl, you were waterbending earlier. Granted you’re likely not that good at it, but this feels like a situation that if you can bend and manipulate water in any way, you’re a waterbender.

Robin: You’re either born with the power to do it, or you’re not. There is no inbetween.

Tock (sternly): Alright, no more playing. Come on Pyrrha, you have chores. (She grabs Pyrrha’s arm and guides her away.)

Pyrrha (excitedly): I told you, he's the real thing Gran-Gran! I finally found a bender to teach me!

Tock (cautiously): Pyrrha, try not to put all your hopes in this boy.

Pyrrha: But he’s special, I can tell! I sense he’s filled with much wisdom.

{Meanwhile back with Jaune and the younger village kids.}

Jaune (with his tongue stuck to his staff): See? Now my tongue is stuck to my staff! (One of the kids tug his staff, causing him to grunt in pain.)

Cinder (rolling her eyes): Yeah, he sure is special alright.

Weiss: Damn it Arc, how many times were you dropped on your head as a child?

{Back on the Fire Navy ship, Weiss was training his firebending. Facing her were two soldiers, clad in full armor, skull masks and all. Watching them sternly cross legged to the side was Willow, a harsh frown on her face as she observed the exercise.}

Willow: Again!

{Weiss sent out two large plumes of flame at her opponents, audibly grunting multiple times as she dodged a retaliatory blast, lept and spun in the air and landed opposite her opponents, standing up into a stance with her fists pointed at both. Groaning, Willow rose to her feet, frustration evident in her eyes as she tried to get her niece to understand what she was teaching her.}

Willow: No! (Weiss relaxes her stance.) Power in firebending comes from the breath, (She placed her hands underneath her breasts to indicate her lungs.) not the muscles. (She shifted into a combat stance.) The breath becomes energy in the body. The energy extends past your limbs and becomes: fire! (She thrust her right fist at her niece, sending out a burst of orange flame that stopped short of Weiss before dissipating.) Get it right this time.

Blake: Seriously Weiss, you’ve been training how long in firebending by this point? Years? A decade? How are you still struggling with the basics?

Weiss: I don’t know. Probably stubbornness and never ending angst.

Nebula: I know. It’s hot. (This causes both Weiss and Blake to blush heavily and Ilia to seethe in anger.)

Weiss (seething): Enough! I've been drilling this sequence all day. Teach me the next set! I'm more than ready!

Willow (sternly): No! You are impatient. (She sits down.) You have yet to master your basics. DRILL IT AGAIN!

{Weiss growled, gritting her teeth as she glared angrily at her aunt. She lashed out, kicking her leg and sending a massive plume of fire at one of her soldiers, knocking him over.}

Weiss (turning back to her aunt): (She glared at her aunt as she gave her speech.) The sages tell us that the Avatar is the last airbender. (The camera cut to a close up of Willow, who was glaring back at her niece just as intently.) He must be over a hundred years old by now. He's had a century to master the four elements! (The camera cut back to Weiss.) I'll need more than basic firebending to defeat him. You WILL TEACH ME the advanced set!!!

Trifa: Geez, what a whiner.

Kobalt: What makes you think you can do the advanced set when you still struggle with basic katas dumbass?

Willow: Very well, (She smiled as she reached down next to her and picked up a bowl and a pair of chopsticks.) but first, I must finish my roast duck. (Weiss grimaced and she watched her aunt eagerly eat her lunch.)

Neo (deadpan): Gross.

{Back at the village, Neptune was grimly walking back and forth, his stern face glaring down at his trainees. He tried to project an aura of authority and discipline as he prepared to make soldiers out of his draftees.}

Neptune: Now men, it's important that you show no fear when you face a firebender. (He brings out his club and holds it proudly.) In the Water Tribe, we fight to the last man standing! For without courage, how can we call ourselves men? (He clutches his fist to emphasize the word "men" as he stares down the people in front of him.)

{Unfortunately for Neptune, no amount of authority, prestige and good oratory skills mattered when none of your six “soldiers” looked older than five. In addition, all of them were sitting down, in some cases slouching, rather than standing firmly in line and at least pretending to present an image of uniformity. They could not look less interested in training or learning to fight if they tried.}

Little Boy #1: (He raised his hand.) I gotta pee!

Kali (glaring): Tough. Next time remember to go before training. I don’t care if you piss yourself.

Blake (thinking): (She glared at her mother.) Fucking slave driver. I nearly suffered a ruptured bladder because of you.

Neptune (frustrated): Listen! Until your fathers return from the War, they're counting on you to be the men of this tribe, and that means no potty breaks!

Little Boy #1: But I really got to go.

Neptune (resigned): (He let out a frustrated sigh.) Okay, who else has to go?

{All the little wastes of sperm proceeded to raise their hands.}

Emerald (angry): OH THAT’S BULLSHIT!!! IF NONE OF YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY TRAIN, JUST SAY SO YOU LITTLE COWARDS!!!

Miltia: Yeah! Pretty boy doesn’t even look like the kind of person to toss you all in the ocean to drown, you can get away with it!

Jaune (appalled): You can’t just say stuff like that! They’re kids!

Melanie: (She scoffs.) So? Fuck those little shits. The world’s better off with less of them in it. (Saffron hugged her son closer to her while she glared angrily at the Malachite twins. Only Velvet noticed that the grimm dog was growling at them as well.)

{Neptune facepalmed as the brats walked away, just as Pyrrha rushed up to him.}

Pyrrha: Have you seen Jaune? Gran-Gran said he disappeared over an hour ago.

Jaune: (He emerged from an igloo-like outhouse with a grin on his face.) Wow! Everything freezes in there!

{The audience stared at the screen in stunned silence. They couldn’t believe what they just heard. Why was that a sentence that was even said? Even the grimm dog was staring at the screen with an expression half way between disgust and disbelief.}

Cardin: Jaune, did your counterpart just spend the last hour of his life, staring at frozen piss and shit?

Jaune: I want to say no, but I’d just be lying to myself.

Roy: What the fuck is wrong with that kid?

Neptune (angry): (He makes a noise of disgust as the young children laugh at Jaune’s statement.) Pyrrha, get him out of here! This lesson is for warriors only!

{A quick look over at these “warriors” showed them using Appa as a slide to fly into a pile of snow, laughing and giggling all the way, any attempt of going to the bathroom forgotten. Pyrrha laughed at the sight while a furious Neptune marched over to reinstate discipline.}

Neptune: Stop it! Stop it right now!

Tom: Only I’m allowed to use the slide!

Neptune (to Jaune): What’s wrong with you?! We don’t have time for fun and games with the War going on!

Jaune (confused): What war? What are you talking about?

Neptune: You’re kidding right?

Jaune: (Before he could answer, he saw something he always desired right behind Neptune.) PENGUINS!!!!!

Ilia: Uh, the answer is no. (She clasped her hands together.) He is not serious at all.

Nadir: That or he has severe ADHD. I don’t know which is worse.

{Behind the siblings what could only be described as a cross between an Emperor Penguin and an Otter, with four flippers, webbed feet, a long tail and a whiskered snout. Seeing the boy looking at him with a psychotic gleam in his eyes, the penguin waddled away. Ignoring the siblings and the conversation they were having, Jaune sped after the bird mammal thing as fast as a sports car, leaving the siblings to stare at his disappearing form in disbelief.}

Neptune: He’s kidding, right? (Pyrrha could do nothing but frown with him.)

Sage: Hey guys, you know how Pyrrha and Neptune’s grandmother said that no one’s seen an airbender in a hundred years? I think she was being literal.

Whitley (sputtering): But, but how?! How did that kid stay alive for 100 years stuck in an iceberg?!

Ruby (shrugging awkwardly): Avatar magic?

Whitley: SHUT UP!!!

{Far away across several ice flows, a massive colony (Or is it bevy? Do I focus on the otter or the penguin?) of otter-penguins were hanging out. Some were diving into the water for fish while others were wandering around. Pyrrha walked to the edge of the mass of mammal-birds and looked around for her new friend.}

Pyrrha: Jaune?

{The sound of joyful laughter allowed her to easily spot her friend walking around trying to grab one of the penguins. Didn’t matter which one, just whatever one was closest.}

Jaune: Hey, come on little guy. Wanna go sledding? (He leaps at one of the birds, only for the animal to impassively leap out of range of his outstretched arms, walking away as the airbender landed in the snow. Noticing Pyrrha, Jaune got to his feet.) Heh heh. I have a way with animals.

Ciel: Yeah, you have a way of getting them to run away from you.

Octavia: What a loser.

{Jaune then imitated the penguins, making a sound between a bark and a honk as he waddled around. This caused Pyrrha to laugh at the innocence of the boy.}

Roman: Now kid, it’s not polite to laugh at the mentally challenged.

Pyrrha: Hehehe, Pyrrha, I'll help you catch a penguin if you teach me waterbending.

Jaune: (Jaune let go of the tail of a penguin he was being dragged by.) You got a deal! Just one problem, I’m an airbender, not a water bender. (He airbent himself to his knees.) Isn’t there someone in your tribe who could teach you?

Yang: Yeah, I don’t really know what you're thinking Pyr. This is like asking a professional boxer to teach you how to do kung fu. Those are martial arts, but they’re different disciplines with different forms and stances. Although the lack of a teacher question is very concerning, especially since water is central to your culture.

Pyrrha: No. You're looking at the only waterbender in the whole South Pole.

Ghira (eyes widen as he realises the horrible implications): Oh, no.

Kali (hearing his statement): The explanation is going to be very bad isn’t it?

Ghira: Yep.

Kali: Scale of 1 to 10?

Ghira: Infinity.

Kali: Shit.

Jaune: This isn't right. A waterbender needs to master water. (He thinks for a moment.) What about the North Pole? There's another Water Tribe up there, right? Maybe they have waterbenders who could teach you.

Pyrrha: Maybe, but we haven't had contact with our sister tribe in a long time. It's not exactly "turn right at the second glacier". It's on the other side of the world.

Tom: We forgot to pay the phone bill and, well, you’ve seen our tribe. We can’t afford it anymore.

Harriet: And our boats aren’t really made for deep water sailing. My dad took them with him when he went to fight in the war, damn deadbeat.

Jaune (smirking): But you forget, I have a flying bison. (He gestures to himself.) Appa and I can personally fly you to the North Pole. Pyrrha, we're going to find you a master!

Pyrrha (unsure): That's ... I mean, I don't know. I've never left home before.

Jaune: Well, you think about it, but in the meantime, can you teach me to catch one of these penguins?

Pyrrha (imitating a sage): Okay, listen my young pupil, Catching penguins is an ancient and sacred art. Observe.

{She tosses a small fish, about the size of her palm, to Jaune, who easily caught it. Instantly about a dozen penguins mobbed the boy, the child giggling as the penguins dragged him underneath the pile to get the fish.}

Mercury: Well he’s dead, or at least he’s lost a couple fingers. That was a short series.

Blake: Why do they get the fish? I want that fish.

{Later, the audience was shown Jaune and Pyrrha gleefully sliding otter-penguins down various ice flows (Not sure if this counts as animal abuse or not.). The two were laughing as they flew down at speeds that even professional snowboarders would reconsider. At multiple points they would individually shoot off ramps and soar through the air.}

Pyrrha (Happily): I haven’t done this since I was a kid!

Jaune: You still are a kid!

{The two kept sliding down the slope, before entering a tunnel in a massive wall of ice. They glided through the ice, Jaune using a burst of airbending to roll along the walls and ceiling to get ahead of Pyrrha. Eventually, they exited the tunnel and slid to a stop in front of a structure. They got off of the penguins, letting the creatures walk away as they looked up at the massive item buried in the ice.}

Jaune: Whoa…(The camera zooms out to show that the structure was a massive metal ship, the tan colored flag of the Fire Nation fluttering from the main mast of the ship.) What is that?

Pyrrha (bitterly): A Fire Navy ship. And a very bad memory for my people.

Ghira: Yep, just as I thought.

Glynda: Oh the poor kid’s not gonna like what he finds.

Pyrrha: (She notices Jaune heading towards the ship.) Jaune, stop! We're not allowed to go near it! The ship could be booby-trapped! 

Jaune (smiling): If you want to be a bender, you have to let go of fear.

May Marigold: Say that when you activate a booby trap and immediately get impaled by a spiked door, I fucking dare you.

{Reluctantly, Pyrrha went up to Jaune and followed him into the ship, the massive structure covering them in a dark foreboding shadow as they entered a hole in the ship’s hull and walked the cold metal corridors of the interior of the ship. The ship held an eerie silence to it, a haunting past forgotten and yet ever present, as snow littered corners of a machine that once brought war, death and fire to the Southern Water Tribe. Eventually they came to the ship’s armory, where many spears, naginata, spiked clubs, maces and halberds still remained to be used in conquest by men and women long dead.}

Pyrrha: This ship has haunted my tribe since Gran-Gran was a little girl. (The camera shifts through the room, revealing all the weapons more closely.) It was part of the Fire Nation's first attacks.

Jaune: Okay, back up. I have friends all over the world, even in the Fire Nation. (He picks up a Guan Dao to inspect it.) I've never seen any war.

Pyrrha: Jaune, how long were you in that iceberg?

Jaune: I don’t know, a few days maybe?

Pyrrha: I think it was more like a hundred years.

Jaune (disbelieving): What?! That's impossible! Do I look like a hundred-twelve-year-old man to you?

Roman (with a shit eating grin): Yes. (This statement caused Jaune to snort, actually finding that funny.)

Ruby: Congratulations! You’re old!

Pyrrha: Think about it. The war is a century old. You don't know about it because, somehow, you were in there the whole time! (Jaune's expression changes to one of stunned horror.) It's the only explanation.

Jaune: (He stumbled back, clutching his head before collapsing onto the floor.) A hundred years. (Pyrrha kneels down next to him.) I don’t believe it.

Pyrrha: I'm sorry, Jaune. Maybe somehow there's a bright side to all this.

Jaune: (He smiles.) I did get to meet you.

Dew (blankly); They’re gonna get together at the end of this series aren’t they?

May Zedong (equally deadpan): Yep.

Dew: Figures.

Marrow: (He shrugs.) I ship it.

Pyrrha: (She smiles at Jaune.) Come on, let’s get out of here.

{Despite this, they don’t leave the ship. Instead they climb up to the ship’s bridge and Jaune looks around the command center.}

Pyrrha: Jaune, let’s head back. This place is creepy.

Jaune: (He feels something underneath his foot.) Huh? (He pulls his foot out of a pile of snow, tripping a wire and activating a trap. A portcullis drops, trapping Pyrrha and Jaune inside.) What’s that you said about booby traps?

{The pipes of the ship activated, steam pressure building up before shooting a signal flare up into the sky.}

Jaune: Uh oh? (Noticing a hole in the ceiling, Jaune smirked as he saw the sky above him.) Hold on tight. 

{He picked Pyrrha up bridal style and used his airbending to shoot up out of the ship, before gently leaping down to the ground below. Unfortunately for them, Weiss saw the flare through her spyglass and watched Jaune hop down to the ground.}

Weiss: (As she watches Jaune and Pyrrha run away from the ship.) The last airbender. Quite agile for his old age. (To her soldiers.) Wake my Aunt! Tell her I found the Avatar! (She looked back through the spyglass, looking in the direction Jaune and Pyrrha were running towards before finding the village, a plume of smoke rising from the igloo.) As well as his hiding place. (She pulled back, her unburnt eye glaring in determination as she prepared to capture her prize.)

Qrow (calmly): Well then, this is bad news.

Jaune (facepalming): Why the hell didn’t I listen to Pyrrha?

Ren: Because you’re 12?

{It was evident that Weiss wasn’t the only one that had seen the flare. The entire village had gathered at the gate as Pyrrha and Jaune walked back. The children cheered, seeing that Jaune had returned, but the adults sternly glared at the two youths. Angry, Neptune marched forward and pointed an accusing finger at Jaune.}

Neptune: I knew it! You signaled the Fire Navy with that flare! You’re leading them straight to use aren’t you?!

Sky: Okay, we know that it was an accident but I can see why from his perspective his paranoia has just been justified.

Nora: Eh, this will just be temporary anyway.

Pyrrha: Jaune didn’t do anything. It was an accident.

Jaune (digging his grave): Yeah. We were on the ship and there was this booby trap, and, well… (He awkwardly rubbed his head.) we booby-ed right into it.

Fox: Which you only did because you ignored Pyrrha’s warnings. This whole incident was still your fault.

Junior: Maybe if you had had that discussion about the war in the village rather than running off to get mauled by penguins, this whole situation wouldn’t be happening.

Tock (crossly): Pyrrha, you shouldn't have gone on that ship! Now we could all be in danger!

Jaune: Don’t blame Pyrrha, I brought her there.

Fiona: Unknowingly but go on.

Jaune: It’s my fault.

Neptune (angrily triumphant): Aha! The traitor confesses! Warriors, away from the enemy! (The children begin to sadly walk away.) The foreigner is banished from our village!

Pyrrha (irritated): Neptune you’re making a mistake!

Neptune: No, I'm keeping my promise to Dad. (Pointing to Jaune.) I'm protecting you, from threats like him!

Bolin: No, you’re making a mistake. Considering you’re the only person in this village that looks like you could lift a club, let alone use it, and there are several firebenders on that ship, Jaune is probably the only thing that would be able to prevent a massacre.

Elm: Besides, what is he a threat to? Penguins?

Pyrrha: Jaune is not our enemy! (Calmly.) Don't you see? Aang's brought us something we haven't had in a long time: fun.

Neo: That is a stupid argument.

Neptune (incredulous): Fun?! We can’t fight firebenders with fun!

Jaune (completely oblivious): You should try it sometime.

Perry (sarcastic): Oh yeah I’ll try to have fun with the Fire Nation soldier that attacks me just before he rapes my sister and slits my throat. I’m sure it will go great.

Molly: How the fuck is this kid this naive?

Neptune: Get out of our village, now!

Dove: But he’s already outside the village.

Pyrrha (pleading): Grandmother please, don’t let Neptune do this.

Tock: Pyrrha, you knew going on that ship was forbidden. (Growling.) Neptune is right. I think it best if the airbender leaves.

Pyrrha (angry): Fine! Then I’m banished too! (She starts dragging Jaune away.) Come on Jaune, let’s go!

Deery: Come on girl, you just met this guy yesterday. Don’t throw your life away so quickly.

Robin: Yeah this isn’t like one of those shitty romance novels.

Neptune: Where do you think you’re going?!

Pyrrha: To find a waterbender! Jaune is taking me to the North Pole!

Jaune: I am? (He smiles.) Great!

Vine (incredulous): You offered to take her to the North Pole only an hour ago because she has no other way to get there! How did you forget that?!

Ciel: Why else would she leave her tribe with you if it wasn’t to go to the North Pole?!

Neptune (pleading): Pyrrha, would you really choose him over your tribe? Your own family?

{Pyrrha let go of Jaune’s arm as she came to a stop. A conflicted look appeared on her face as her anger reseeded. She knew that Neptune was right. Voluntary banishment meant that she would never see her family again. She likely couldn’t even interact with her tribesmen on neutral ground at that point. In addition, this would be her first time leaving the South Pole. She would be traveling across the world completely blind with a boy that didn’t even know that a century long war had torn up the land and devastated many settlements. But on the other hand, she would never be able to improve as a waterbender if she remained in the south. This might be her one chance to find a teacher, to be able to do more than awkwardly move a strand of water. If she turned back, she could potentially stunt herself forever. Seeing the difficulty of the decision Pyrrha was trying to make, Jaune stepped up to her.}

Jaune: Pyrrha, I don't want to come between you and your family.

Nora (sniffing): Good old fearless leader. Always putting others before himself.

Ruby (with tears at the edge of her eyes): Just like a good leader should.

Terra: I can see why he’s the Avatar if this is how he acts when the chips are down.

Pyrrha: So, you're leaving the South Pole? (In a quieter tone.) This is goodbye?

Yatsu: Well he’s from a ethnic group called “The Air Nomads”. I think it’s pretty much in his nature that he travels around from place to place.

Jaune (softly): Thanks for penguin sliding with me.

Pyrrha: Where will you go?

Jaune: Guess I’ll go home and look for the airbenders. (His eyes widen.) Wow, I haven't cleaned my room in a hundred years. Not looking forward to that. 

Kobalt: Nor would I. Can you imagine how musky that place would smell now?

May Zedong: You know if there isn’t a corpse in there?

Jaune: (He airbends himself up on top of Appa’s head.) It was nice meeting everyone.

Arslan: Considering that none of the women have been seen talking to you, I don’t think the feeling’s mutual.

Neptune (sneering):Let’s see you bison fly now, Airboy.

Jaune (encouraging): Come on Appa, you can do it. (He flicks the reins.) Yip-yip! (Appa just groans and rises to his feet.

Neptune (mockingly): Yeah I thought so!

Sun: (He breathes through his nose and exhales.) Dude, he’s already leaving. You don’t have to be a dick about it.

Neptune: Look I get this version of me wants to be the gruff, stern, manly leader, but he could stand to know when to take a step back and let things be.

Little Girl #1: (She runs out to Jaune crying.) Jaune don’t go. I’ll miss you.

Jaune (sadly): I’ll miss you too. (He gave Pyrrha a sad look before turning away.) Come on boy.

{Jaune and Appa rode off into the frozen wastes. Sad, the little girl depressedly walked away. Tock walked up to her granddaughter to try to console her.}

Tock: Pyrrha, you'll feel better after you,,,

Pyrrha (interrupts angrily): You happy now?! (She gestures towards where Jaune had gone.) There goes my one chance at becoming a waterbender! (She storms off, Tock gazing at her sadly as regret danced in her eyes.)

Neptune (gesturing back into the village): All right, ready our defenses! The Fire Nation could be on our shores any moment now! (A bunch of boys ran through the gate to get defense up, one of them stopping in front of Neptune.)

Little Boy #1 (Holding his groan): But I gotta…

Neptune (interrupting): AND NO POTTY BREAKS!!! (The boy runs off.)

Vernal: Potty breaks won’t stop you from getting burned to death. Piss yourself for all I care!

Dove: Dude calm down, it’s not like you expect them to fight the Fire Nation.

{A few hours later and about a mile or two away from the village, Jaune and Appa had stopped to rest, Appa sleeping in a large hole punched in an ice formation and Jaune laying above him in a smaller hole. Appa let out a yawn, which Jaune interpreted as a sad groan.}

Jaune: (Sadly.) Yeah, I liked her too. (He looked out to the sea, where a horrifying sight shook away all of his depression. Weiss’s ship was steaming full speed ahead in the direction of the Southern Water Tribe.) The village!!! (He slid down the ice, a determined look coming to his face.) Appa, wait here! (Appa let out a groan as he went back to sleep.)

Tom: Mmm. Cheetos.

{Back in the village, Neptune was preparing for battle. He pulled a pair of fingerless gauntlets on before tying it around his long leather sleeves, his armor decorated by white feathers and gold arm bracelets. After putting on his boots, he dipped his fingers into some paint and covered his with it until it was mostly gray with a white jaw and black eyes, similar to that of a wolf or seal. He placed his boomerang behind his back, his cold gaze looking forward as he accepted his fate, knowing that he wouldn't survive the day. Meanwhile on Weiss’s ship, the princess also prepared for battle. Her attendants placed her steel armor on her, tying it tightly with string before placing an open faced helmet on her. She didn’t need the protection of the face plate. She wanted the Avatar to know that it had been Princess Weiss of the Fire Nation that had beaten him. Back in the tent, Neptune picked up his club when he saw a gust of wind nearly blow out the lanturn. That could only mean one thing; the enemy was close. He hurried over to the wall, standing on top of the parapet as his cold gaze looked out into the fog, trying to see the enemy that he knew all too well. The size of the ship alerted the village to the Fire Nation’s presence before they saw it, the noise of the large ship cutting through the water and ice rumbling the ground with the strength of a minor earthquake, strong enough to knock over Neptune’s tower.}

Neptune (whining): Oh man!

{The villagers ran around in panic as their home came under attack. Pyrrha, noticing her brother on the wall, felt her heart drop in horror as she saw the size of the ship that was bearing down on Neptune.}

Neptune (spooked): Oh man.

Mercury: Pants to be darkened!

Glynda: Mr. Vasilias, get out of the way now!

{The ship cut through the ice with the efficiency of a serrated blade, a large crack spreading through ground as the prow of the ship dominated over the village walls. Pyrrha, helping the civilians to shelter, saw a girl who had fallen down and quickly saved her from falling through the crack as it spread under the wall and into the center of the settlement. Through all this Neptune stood his ground, even as the bow of the ship quickly got closer to him.}

Pyrrha: Neptune, get out of the way!

{He did not, instead raising his club behind his head, ready to go down fighting. Luckily for him, the ship breaching the wall created a wave of snow that carried Neptune back and away from the ship. A burst of steam then came from the front of the ship, the villagers looking up in stunned fear, anticipating what could come out of it. Then, the bow dropped to the ground, instantly changing into a ramp as it hit the ground, Neptune scrambling out of the way to avoid getting squished by it. As the tribe fearfully cowered, Weiss marched off the ship at the head of a squad of soldiers, her small size doing nothing to counteract the power and strength she projected as she headed to the ground. With an angry shout, Neptune charged at her with his club, only for Weiss to effortlessly knock the club out of his hand with a kick before kicking him in the side of the head and sending him over side of the ramp, landing head first in a pile of snow, his legs kicking feebly as he struggled to get out.}

Neo: Sad.

James: Brothers, she didn’t even use her other leg when beat that boy.

Yang: Jeez Weisscream, either Neptune didn’t have a strong stance or you didn’t skip leg day. That was impressive.

Weiss (smirking): All that ballet really helped my leg strength and my flexibility.

{As Neptune continued to squirm in the background, Weiss stopped in front of the villagers, her eyes sweeping over the crowd as she searched for her target.}

Weiss (sternly): (She stopped in front of Tock and Pyrrha.) Where are you hiding him? (She waits a few seconds for a response before quickly lashing out and grabbing Tock by her coat, pulling her over to her.) He’d be about this age! Master of all elements?! (Still no response came, so she shoved Tock back into her granddaughter’s arms. Her anger rising, she shot an arc of fire over the crowd, the villagers screaming in fear as the heat came close to tickling their skin and hair.) I know you’re hiding him!

Crow: Bring him out here! I need to know the secret behind his eleven herbs and spices!

Emerald: And I will kill to find out that secret! Starting with the infants!

Terra (horrified): Why would you go after the infants first?

Emerald: Because they’re noisy hellspawn that spread nothing but disease and bile!

Ilia: (A sweatdrop appeared on her head.) You had a few bad babysitting jobs, didn’t you?

{Freeing himself from the snow, Neptune grabbed his club and charged Weiss again, shouting fiercely as he swung at the back of her head. Weiss, showing her greater level of skill, ducked under his swing and flipped him over, causing him to land on his rear and lose his club. She shot a burst of fire at him, which Neptune quickly rolled away from and turned around, throwing his boomerang at her. With a gasp, Weiss barely dodged the sharp bladed weapon and let it fly past her head, sneering at Neptune as it disappeared in the distance.}

Little Boy #1: Show no fear!

{The boy tossed a spear at Neptune, who caught it with ease and sprinted at Weiss, the bone blade pointed in front of him like a lance. Without even flinching, Weiss let the spear point get as close to her face as possible before calmly snapping the spear with a strong jab of her elbow. Not giving Neptune a chance to use his now bladeless weapon as a fighting staff, she quickly grabbed the top of the staff and ripped it out of Neptune’s hands. She jabbed the bone butt-spike several times into Neptune’s forehead, knocking him to the ground, before snapping the spear shaft in two and throwing the remains into the snow point first.}

Reese: K.O.! Perfect!

Winter (smirking): Didn’t even break a sweat.

{At that moment the boomerang returned, spinning through the air before smacking Weiss in the back of the head. Seething, Weiss growled and activated her firebending, creating two daggers out of pure flame. Before she could stab Neptune, Jaune slid in on the back of an otter-penguin and slipped under Weiss, flipping her over and knocking her helmet off, causing the poor girl to land on her face and the helmet to land and spin atop her ass.}

{This absolutely hilarious image caused the entire White Fang, as well as Mercury, Roman, Neo and Whitley to fall to the floor laughing their asses off. Even Yang and Nora, friends of Weiss, had to stuff their hands in their mouths to keep them from ROLFing at her humiliation. The girl in question simmered in rage, her teeth grinding as she snapped the armrests of her seat with her fists. Jaune watched this all with a well founded sense of horror.}

Jaune (whispering): Pyrrha help me.

Pyrrha: Jaune I’m pretty sure Weiss is more angry at everyone else than she is you.

Jaune: I’m not taking those kinds of chances.

{To the cheers of the children, Jaune slid to a stop in front of the villagers, placing himself in front of them after the penguin tossed him off and wandered away.}

Perry: Otter-penguin don’t give a shit. Otter-penguin know this not his fight.

Jaune (happily): Hey Pyrrha. Hey Neptune.

Neptune (dejected): Hi Jaune. Thanks for coming.

{Calmly, Weiss ignored the indignity Jaune had subjected her to and got into a combative stance. Her soldiers flanked around, boxing Jaune in with pikes and firebending stances. Taking a breath, Jaune shot two waves of air to the side, sending plumes of snow into the faces of the six soldiers before slamming his staff in the ground, spraying Weiss with more snow. As the Fire Nation soldiers regained their sight, Jaune spoke calmly to Weiss.}

Jaune: Looking for me?

Weiss (in shocked disbelief as she melted the snow off her): You’re the airbender? You’re the Avatar?!

Pyrrha (confused): Jaune?

Neptune (stunned): No way.

Glynda (sarcastic): What a surprise, the literal title character is the Avatar. Shocking.

Ghira: Come on Ms Goodwitch, don’t be too harsh on them. He deliberately hid the truth from Ms Nikos and Mr Vasilias was asleep during that conversation. And they didn’t know what kind of magic or power the Avatar is capable of.

Glynda: (She sighs.) You’re right. I’ll try to tone it down.

Weiss: (As the two benders circled each other.) I've spent years preparing for this encounter. Training, meditating. (Angrily.) You're just a child!

Jaune (matter of factly): Well you’re just a teenager.

{Apparently that was the wrong thing to say, as Weiss quickly sent two bursts of flame at Jaune, which the startled boy was barely able to dissipate by spinning his staff. Weiss shot more fire at Jaune, pushing him back towards the villagers. Their screams as some of the flames arched over his staff caused him to look back, a face of scared realization coming to his face before firmly turning back to Weiss.}

Jaune: If I go with you, let you promise to leave everyone alone?

{After a few moments of tense silence, Weiss relaxed her stance and nodded. Two of the soldiers came up behind Jaune, one taking his staff while the other guided him to the ship. Pyrrha ran out in front of the crowd, with a desperate look on her face as she watched the last hope for the world, for peace, get dragged away.}

Pyrrha (pleading): No Jaune! Don’t do this!

Jaune (giving her a comforting smile): Don’t worry Pyrrha, it will be okay. (He gasps as he’s forcefully led up the gangplank.) Take care of Appa for me until I get back.

Weiss (as they entered the ship): Set a course for the Fire Nation! I’m going home!

Octavia: Why did that statement sound more concerning then it should be?

Velvet: Maybe she was just away from home for a very long time and misses it? (Coco turned and gave her friend a blank look. Coco looked away when she saw that even Velvet didn’t believe what she was saying.)

{The villagers watched as the ramp rose, closing behind the Fire Nation soldiers and their prisoner. Jaune tried to give them a comforting smile, but it disappeared into a sad frown when he saw the Pyrrha was gazing at him with tears in her eyes, almost looking like she was on the verge of sobbing. The ramp then slammed shut, blocking their view, possibly for good. Hours later, the villagers were trying to return to some semblance of life now that the Fire Nation ship was gone and that no damage had been done to their home this time. Despite this, a sense of melancholy had settled over the villagers as they reset tents and tended the central fire. On the shore of the new harbor, Pyrrha gazed out in the direction the ship left, a firm determination settling in her soul.}

Pyrrha (while Neptune carried some supplies): We have to go after that ship, Neptune. Jaune saved our tribe, now we have to save him.

Neptune: Pyrrha I…

Pyrrha (interrupting without looking back): Why can't you realize that he's on our side? (An exasperated look came to Neptune’s face.) If we don't help him, no one will. I know you don't like Aang, but we owe him and…

Neptune (cutting off her self righteous spiel): Pyrrha! Are you gonna talk all day, or are you comin' with me? (He gestured to the canoe next to him, showing that he had already been planning on going after the airbender. Pyrrha let out a happy gasp as she rushed to him.)

Pyrrha (joyfully): Neptune! (She gave him a big hug.)

Nora: He does have a heart!

Vine: Even so there’s no way they’re going to catch up with that ship in that. One is using steam power and the other is…well, a canoe.

Ivori: Well they have to try don’t they? It’s not like they know where that bison is.

Neptune (smiling): Get in, we’re going to save your boyfriend.

Pyrrha (annoyed): He’s not my…

Neptune (interrupting): Whatever.

Yang: Ha, irony.

Tock: (Sternly.) What do you two think you’re doing? (The two siblings turned to their grandmother, giving her guilty smiles. Instead of scolding them, Tock gave them a kind smile.) You’ll need these. (She hands them a pair of sleeping bags.) You have a long journey ahead of you. (The two siblings looked at each other with slight surprise on her faces.) It's been so long since I've had hope, but you brought it back to life, my little waterbender. (She hugged Pyrrha before turning to Neptune.) And you, my brave warrior, be nice to your sister.

Neptune (embarrassed): (As his grandmother hugged him.) Yeah, okay Gran. (She stepped back.)

Tock: Jaune is the Avatar. He's the world's only chance. You both found him for a reason. Now your destinies are intertwined with his.

Roy: Oh goodie, we have destiny crap. 

Russell: What kind of fatalistic moron believes in that shit?

{Cinder glared at the back of Roy’s head, barely able to keep the power’s of the maidan in check. Pyrrha meanwhile blushed as she tapped her forefingers together.}

Pyrrha: (She gestures to the canoe.) There's no way we're going to catch a warship with a canoe.

{Luckily for the siblings, a solution appeared over the hill as Appa walked up to them, roaring in readiness.}

Pyrrha (gleefully): Appa!

Neptune (regretting all his life choices as his sister runs over to the bison.): You just looove taking me out of my comfort zone, don't you?

Sun (patting Neptune’s shoulder mockingly): Don’t worry bro. One day you’ll be able to swim in the kiddie pool without having a panic attack, I promise.

Neptune (seething): Hey Sun, how about instead of picking on my fears, you instead have your girlfriend use a banana as a strap on and have her shove it up your ass?

Ruby (before a blushing Sun or Blake could deny his claim): What’s a strap-on?

Penny (equally curious): Hold on friend Ruby, I can figure it out. Just got to break through these firewalls, deactivate and delete these blockers that someone left here for some reason and then…(She stopped speaking as her pupils dilated, her smile freezing on her face as she went through the data and information she got from several hundred different sources at once. When she came back to her senses, she only had one thing to say.) Wow, that looked very unsanitary.

Ruby (confused): That doesn’t explain…

Blake and Sun: Shut up!

Yang: And if you try to look it up on your own, I swear to Monty, I’m confiscating Crescent Rose for two weeks!

Ruby (panicked): I’ll be good!

{Meanwhile on the Fire Nation ship.}

Weiss (holding Jaune’ staff): This staff will make an excellent gift for my father. I suppose you wouldn’t know of father’s, being raised by monks. (She slammed the staff down onto the deck.) Take the Avatar to the prison hold, and take this to my quarters.

Willow: (Willow took the staff as Weiss walked off. She then gave the staff to a nearby soldier.) Hey, you mind taking this to her quarters for me?

{The soldier followed Willow into the bridge while Jaune was shoved below deck. As the ship steamed slowly and carefully through a field of icebergs, Jaune marched through the dimly lit corridors, planning his escape.}

Jaune (casually): So, I guess you've never fought an airbender before. I bet I can take you both with my hands tied behind my back.

Fire Nation Soldier #1: Silence.

Raven: Also thanks for the warning, so before we put you in the cell, we’re gonna cut off your hands.

Molly: And your feet as well just to be on the safe side.

James: Hmm. Reasonable. Gruesome and awful but reasonable.

{The three stopped in front of a cell door. As the guard in front moved to unlock the door, Jaune demonstrated the biggest mistake one could make with a captured airbender; not gagging them. He took a deep breath and blew, blowing so powerfully that the guard in front of him slammed into the cell door, knocking himself out, while the other guard was thrown back by Jaune propelling himself down the hallway. The two slammed into the stairs, Jaune quickly seized the moment to leap out of the hatch and kick a burst of air at the bridge door, forcing it open and allowing him to run in, searching for the Princess’s quarters and his staff. Back on the deck, the guard that had been slammed into the stairs climbed out of the hatch and signaled to a soldier on the balcony.}

Fire Nation Soldier #2: The Avatar has escaped! (The other soldier ran inside to sound the alarm.)

Ren: Why do I get the feeling that that sentence is going to be said a lot over the course of the series?

Penny: Because our protagonists are a bunch of teens and preteens going up against their world’s strongest military?

Ren: Penny I was being rhetorical.

Pietro: (sigh) I really should’ve worked to make her less literal minded.

{Meanwhile, miles away from the action, Pyrrha and Neptune were heading after Jaune. However, their pace was slow as Appa swam through the frigid waters. Pyrrha was at the reins while the disdainful Neptune was leaning back in the back of the saddle.}

Neptune (sarcastic): Go. Fly. Soar.

Pyrrha: (Appa groaned.) Please, Appa. We need your help. Jaune needs your help.

Neptune (still being a dick): Up. Ascend. Elevate.

Nolan: Appa can you please fly so you could shut this asshole up?

Bolin: And can you toss him into the water while you’re at it?

Pyrrha: Neptune doesn't believe you can fly, but I do, Appa. (She stroked Appa.) Come on, don't you want to save Jaune? (Appa growled in confirmation.)

Neptune (thinking out loud): What was it that kid said? Yee-haw? Hup-hup? Wah-hoo? Uh ... Yip-yip?

{With the magic words spoken, Appa lifted his tail and slammed it into the waves. With what looked like a running leap, Appa soared into the air and flew gracefully through the sky, heading towards Jaune with amazing speed.}

Pyrrha (excitedly): You did it Neptune!

Neptune (ecstatic): He’s flying! He’s flying! Pyrrha he’s…(He looked over at his sister and saw that she was looking back at him with an incredibly smug smile, a silent ‘I told you so’ echoing in the wind. So Neptune tried to play it cool.) I mean, big deal, he’s flying. (He then went back to smiling giddily.)

Elm (glumly): *Sigh* Why couldn’t we have gotten flying bison? That would be so much cooler to fight grimm in.

Whitley: Not to mention how much money could be saved on fueling bullheads.

Blake: I don’t know if that’s a good idea. I mean can you imagine how much a herd of those things shit?

Jaune: But that’d be perfect, you’d save so much on fertilizer!

Cinder (rolling her eyes): Yeah, and you’d pay a fortune just to feed them.

{Back on the ship, Jaune was running panically through the halls trying to avoid detection. That didn’t work as he ran into three soldiers armed with swords.}

Jaune: You haven’t seen my staff around, have you?

{Their answer was them dropping into a combat stance, which Jaune countered by airbending himself to run along the wall and ceiling, allowing him to run over, around and between the soldiers.}

Jaune (as he runs off): Thanks anyway!

{Leaping into another corridor, he ran into another soldier. The soldier shot a stream of fire at him, but Jaune dodged by leaping over the flames and the soldier himself, using his spiked helmet to cut the rope that was binding his hands and dragging him to the floor. Landing on his feet, Jaune ran and searched through the ship trying to find the Princess’s quarters. He found the armory, one of the crew's bunks, he even found Willow’s quarters watching as Willow snored while napping in her hammock, but no cigar.} 

Jaune (whispering): (As he closed the door.) Sorry.

Taiyang: Man, she changed and fell asleep quickly. It hasn’t even been five minutes.

Klein: One of the downsides of being old. You get tired a lot more easily.

{Running past a door, Jaune quickly doubled back when he saw his staff.}

Jaune (running into the room): My staff!

{The door slammed shut and locked behind him. It had been a trap set by Weiss.}

Weiss (darkly): Looks like I underestimated you.

{The two locked eyes with each other, Weiss’s glaring and cold and Jaune’s nervous and desperate. Weiss dropped into a stance and shot a ball of fire at Jaune, who dodged it with a panicked shout. The Princess fired several more times, backing the hyperventilating Avatar into a corner of the room. Another blast was sent at him, Jaune continuing to dodge as he tried to stay alive, even getting behind Weiss and moving around her back so that she couldn’t get a clear line of sight. Eventually, Jaune began to turn the tides as he used his airbending to dissipate Weiss’s fiery punches, the girl desperately lashing out with a fiery kick in an attempt to hit him. Seeking to improve his speed and maneuverability, Jaune airbent a spinning sphere underneath him and used it to zip around the room, Weiss sending out gusts of fire to try to catch him. One such gust was able to knock Jaune off the ball and have him roll into the wall underneath a banner. As Jaune pushed himself out of the way of another ball of fire, he grabbed the banner and yanked it off the wall, quickly using it to wrap around the Princess and constrict her arms. Taking advantage of her temporary inability to shoot fire at him, he ran to his staff and grabbed it just as Weiss burned the banner off of her. With a nervous wince, he airbent the Princess’s futon, slamming the mattress into the Princess and slamming her into the metal wall. As the mattress fell and the Princess fell on it, disorientated, Jaune airbent the two up, slamming the Princess into the ceiling before unlocking the door and running off. The Princess, seething, raised her head and glared at the now empty room.}

Ozpin: Impressive form and thinking Mr Arc. Whoever taught you was really good at getting you flexible and agile enough for you to pull off that level of acrobatics. And in such a tight space too.

Glynda: Although next time you shouldn’t be so afraid to go on the offensive. You could’ve attacked her anytime she had her back turned to you and you never took advantage of it.

Jauhe: (He gulped.) Um, I’ll be sure to remember that next time Ms Goodwitch.

Pyrrha (to herself): Hmm, you know maybe it would be a good idea to incorporate more stretches into our exercises.

{Away from Weiss’s room, Jaune opened a hatch that led him to the pilothouse. Seeing that only the helmsman was in his way, Jaune joyfully sprinted out onto the balcony and threw his staff in the air, opening up his glider. He jumped to it to fly away, but his escape was foiled by a potentially suicidal princess, who leaped from the balcony was an angry scream and grabbed onto his leg, destabilizing his flight and causing the two to tumble to the deck. Letting out an angry hiss, Weiss rose to her feet as did Jaune. Before the two could continue their fight, the loud groan of a certain sky bison was heard as Jaune’s rescue party appeared in the sky above them.}

Weiss (baffled): What is that?

Deery (grinning): Your reckoning bitch!

Sage: Lets see how you can take five tons of mammal to the face!

Jaune (grinning): Appa!

{Weiss took advantage of the distraction to shoot a blast of fire at Jaune, causing him to spin his staff and nearly fly over the side of the ship. Weiss fired more blasts at Jaune which he nervously blocked until one blast knocked his staff out of his hands, after which he returned to dodging. It was then his luck ran out, as Weiss forced him onto the ship’s railing before a blast at his face, knocking him out and into the sea.}

Pyrrha: Jaune, no!!! (As Jaune’s unconscious body sank into the abyss.) Jaune! Jaune! Jaune!

{At that moment, something possessed Jaune’s body, his eyes and tattoos glowing as he glared in anger. Using waterbending, he created a vortex that shot him back to the surface. Weiss looked up in astonished trepidation as the Avatar landed on the deck and bent a ring of water around him before thrusting it outwards, knocking most of the crew off their feet and Weiss over the railing. The two water tribe siblings could only watch what they saw in gaping amazement.}

Pyrrha: Did you see that?!

Neptune: Now that was some waterbending!

Scarlet: (He gapes at the screen then turns to Neptune.) Hey Neptune, you think if you actually spent time training your semblance and actually saw a therapist, you’d be able to do something like that?

Neptune: I…maybe?

{Cinder seethed, jealousy surging off her as she watched the power that this version of arc displayed. And the worst part was she couldn’t even claim it for her, as the Avatar was apparently something you had to be born with. The smell of burning ashes waffed from under her seat, which was quickly caught by the faunus in the room.}

Kali (gagging): Acck! (She covered her nose.) Okay who the hell is burning nylon?!

Crow: Man we have a surprising amount of arsonists in this room. Good thing I can’t smell! (Author’s Note: I’m not sure if this is true, I haven’t watched a lot of the first few seasons of MST3K and it’s been a while since I’ve seen the rest. I have tried to find out online, but no dice.)

Tom: Yeah good thing for that.

Penny (clutching her nose): I envy the less complex organisms.

{The power of the Avatar was however too much for Jaune, as he groaned and collapsed to the deck in exhaustion. Appa quickly flew down onto the ship, allowing the siblings to get off and rush over to the fallen boy.}

Pyrrha: Jaune! Are you okay?!

Jaune (tiredly): (He woke up and saw that Pyrrha was supporting his upper body and Neptune was kneeling down next to his right.) Hey Pyrrha, hey Neptune. Thanks for coming.

Neptune (smirking): Well I couldn’t let you have all the glory.

Sienna: Traveling with you seemed like the best way to satisfy my murder boner.

Coco: And if these guys are busy chasing you, that means they’re not going to go back to the village I left undefended and burn it to the ground! (She smiles and gives two thumbs up.) Win-win for me!

Jaune (weakly): I dropped my staff.

Neptune: Got it! 

{He ran off towards the railing and saw that part of it was hanging over the side in the area the gangplank could be placed. Just as he grabbed it a certain fire princess grabbed the other end and tried to use it to either pull herself back on board or pull Neptune over the edge. Thinking quickly, the startled boy thrust the end of the staff into Weiss’s forehead several times, causing her to let go and fall from the ship, only stopping herself from falling into the water by grabbing onto the anchor chain.}

Neptune (mocking): HA! That’s from the Water Tribe!

Weiss: Oh yes, mock the person that kicked your ass on even ground and could still shoot fire at you from that position, that’s smart.

Willow: I must say you have impressive arm strength in order to hang on to that anchor with only one hand.

{Back on deck, Jaune climbed up on Appa’s head to leave, but the Fire Nation soldiers that had been knocked down earlier returned to their feet and moved menacingly towards Pyrrha. Pyrrha moved into a stance and began waterbending the seawater on the deck, causing the soldiers to stop in surprised trepidation. Her inexperience showed as she sent a bunch of water behind her, accidently freezing her brother’s feet to the deck.}

Neptune (startled): Pyrrha!

{Seeing that they were facing a novice, the soldiers hurried over to capture her. Pyrrha however got an idea and turned around before waterbending another wave of water behind her, freezing the three non bending soldiers and covering them head to toe with ice. Taking her chance she hurried to climb up Appa and get in the saddle.}

Pyrrha: Come on Neptune!

Neptune (complaining as he hacked at his feet with the boomerang): I'm just a guy, with a boomerang. (He frees his left foot.) I didn't ask for all this flying and magic!

Roman: Kid don’t lie to yourself you were smiling like a loon when you got that bison flying for the first time.

Yatsu: Also, it’s not a good idea to hack at your feet with a sharp object. You’re lucky you didn’t cut off half your foot.

Neptune: (Having freed himself from the ice, Neptune grabbed Jaune staff and ran up Appa’s tail into the saddle.) Yip-yip! Yip-yip!

{Appa flew off the deck to get away. Willow watched them before rubbing her eyes, wondering if she was still dreaming. After confirming she was actually seeing a giant herbivore fly off into the sky, she rushed over to the side of the ship and helped Weiss back onto the deck.}

Weiss: (She growled.) Shoot them down!

{Together and with the power that could only come from being a master firebender, Weiss and Willow combined their attacks to shoot a massive ball of fire at the fleeing children. With an angry determination, Jaune unfurled his glider’s tail fin and used it as a tennis racquet to airbend the ball away from them and into the side of a massive iceberg, causing an explosion and for a hundred tons of ice to fall onto Weiss’s ship. Pyrrha and Neptune cheered in delight as the three escaped, leaving their enemy trapped in an ice avalanche.}

Marrow (excited): Yeah! That’s how you do it! Try to catch them now assholes!

Banesaw (smirking): So much for the great and powerful Fire Nation.

Willow (calmly): (She rose to her feet.) Good news for the Fire Lord. The Fire Nation's greatest threat is just a little kid.

Weiss (annoyed and shaking in tranquil rage): That “kid”, Auntie, just did this. (She gestured to her trapped ship, silently thankful that the Avatar didn’t cause enough damage to sink it.) I won’t underestimate him again. (To her crew.) Dig the ship out and follow them!

Nadir: How? With shovels? It’s going to take us three days to get rid of enough snow just to back up.

Weiss (awkwardly): (She then notices that her firebending subordinates were more focused on trying to get their non bending counterparts out of their icy prison than following her orders.) As soon as you’re down with that.

{Meanwhile, far away from their enemies, the watertribe siblings were having a much needed conversation with Jaune as Appa lazily flew them through the air.}

Pyrrha (impressed and completely baffled): How did you do that?! With the water? It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen!

Fox: Granted I’ve never seen any other waterbending but mine before, but still.

Jaune: I don’t know. I just sort of, did it.

Pyrrha: Why didn’t you tell us that you were the Avatar?

Jaune: Because…(He looked away.) I never wanted to be.

{The three sat in depressed silence for around ten seconds, Pyrrha carefully choosing what to say while Jaune got lost in unpleasant memories.}

Pyrrha: But Jaune, the world's been waiting for the Avatar to return and finally put an end to this war.

Jaune (downcast): And how am I going to do that?

Pyrrha: According to legend, you need to first master water, then earth, then fire, right?

Jaune: That’s what the monks told me.

Neon: They also told me that they wanted to introduce me to a special friend of theirs, but I was always too busy to take them up on that offer.

Pyrrha (A bit eager): Well, if we go to the North Pole, you can master waterbending!

Jaune (happily): We can learn it together!

Pyrrha: (She turned to her brother.) And Neptune, I'm sure you'll get to knock some firebender heads on the way.

Neptune (with a peaceful smile): I'd like that. I'd really like that.

Miltia: Murder truly is the best way to bond.

Joanna (sarcastic): You must be a joy to have at parties.

Melanie: Only if people remember to behave.

Pyrrha: Then we’re in this together.

Jaune: All right, but before I learn waterbending, we have some serious business to attend to. (He uses airbending to situate himself onto the saddle and unrolls the scroll, revealing a map of the Avatar World.) Here, here and here. (He points at a location in Air Nomad territory and two places in the Earth Kingdom.)

Pyrrha: What’s there?

Jaune (excitedly): (Points to the location in Earth Kingdom.) Here, we'll ride the hopping llamas. (Points to the location in Air Nomad territory.) Then waaay over here, we'll surf on the backs of giant koi fish. (At this point the two siblings could only stare at the airbender, one in annoyance as if they couldn’t believe the shit that was spewing from his mouth and the other gaping at him in astonishment. Guess which sibling had which face.) Then back over here, we'll ride the hog monkeys. They don't like people riding them, but that's what makes it fun! 

{Jaune grinned at the siblings, who could only look at each other wondering what they had just gotten themselves into, the scene cutting to black after a landscape shot of Appa flying off to their next destination, wherever that may be.}

The lights turned back on with the end of the two part story. Many in the room were abuzz about the series they just watched. Yang in particular was very excited.

“Come on guys just think of it.” Yang said with an excited grin. “My semblance already uses flames. If I could figure out how to control the fire enough to direct it at a target from a distance, it would increase our combat abilities.”

“Yang, you just want to be able to shoot fireballs like in those Super Maria Sisters games.” Ruby snarked. “Besides, don’t you remember that the Fire Nation are the bad guys?”

“But bending is so cool!” Yang proclaimed. “And with firebending I wouldn’t need to worry about carrying a lighter or matches everywhere!” 

“That would be useful.” Ren muttered absent mindedly.

“Oh come on Renny, don’t tell me you’re falling for that Fire Nation propaganda.” Nora whined. A big grin then broke on her face. “Besides, we all know that airbending is where it’s at! Not only does it give you the ability to fly, but you can ride around on a spinning top! And you get to ride on a flying bison!”

“Nora, I already struggle with motion sickness when I’m taking the shuttle between Beacon and Vale.” Jaune said dryly. “I don’t want to imagine how awful I’d feel riding one of those things.”

“And yet you’re the one that owns it, Vomit Boy.” Yang snarked back with a grin. “Guess your counterpart has a stronger stomach than you.”

“By that logic, my counterpart is better at spitting than I am.” Coco responded as she joined the members of teams RWBY and JNPR along with Velvet. “Then again, I don’t really think that’s something I’d like to be better at.”

“You’d be surprised at how many people get extremely envious when someone's better at doing stupid shit than them.” Sun countered as he walked over to them. “Hey Blake, you want to get back to getting your new eyes put away?”

“Eyes?” Blake asked with a bit of confusion.

“It’s what Neptune says before he takes his contacts out.” Sun replied with a bit of an eye roll. Blake chuckled a little at the morbid humor.

“Yeah, I might as well finish learning.” She said as she got up and walked with Sun over to the exit. “Besides, I’d rather not have to clean them up before I go to bed tonight.”

The other members of team RWBY and their friends watched the two leave, Ruby raising an eyebrow as she took in the relaxed look in Blake’s eyes as the two disappeared into the crowd of other people leaving the room. “Hey guys,” Ruby asked. “Did either of you notice how…calm Blake was just now?”

“Oh good, she’s taking my advice then.” Yang said as a can of strawberry cream Dr.Pepper appeared in her hand. 

“Your advice?” Weiss sarcastically asked.

“Yeah, I mean you saw how she was before the dance Weisscream.” Yang replied.

“Please stop calling me that.” Weiss commanded.

“She was practically dead on her feet.” Yang declared as she ignored Weiss’s request. “Sniping at people, being overly stressed and scared. At the way she was acting, if she had gotten a sniff of a rumor about the White Fang, she would’ve caused a scene that would’ve gotten herself in trouble or worse.” She took a sip of her soda. “So I told her that it was okay to keep her obsession, and I dare you to claim that it wasn’t, on the backburner. That wearing herself down constantly focusing on this obsession wasn’t healthy and it wasn’t helpful. To step back and spend some time living and understand what she was living for.” She downed the rest of the soda in one go. “And if it’s Sun, good for her. He’s fun to be around and looks like the only person that’s able to get her out of her own head most of the time. I had to trick her into following a laser pointer and locking her in a classroom with me to get her to talk.”

“She is stubborn like that.” Ren agreed. “Although I don’t think that’s the full reason, especially since we’re all trying to forget about the bombs in our necks.” The other hunters and huntresses winced, their hands going to the incision scars on their necks almost instinctively. 

“I see your point.” Pyrrha said as she tried to get the taste of copper out of her mouth. “But we can’t dismiss that a lot of good things have happened to Blake in very quick succession.”

“Tell me about it.” Coco commented as she counted off the points on her fingers. “Her abusive ex is imprisoned in a place that’s virtually impossible to escape, the White Fang is for the most part neutralized, her parents aren’t angry at her for running away, the best friend she abandoned doesn’t hate her…”

“I’m still mad at her though.” Ilia commented. “Just because I recognize that I was wrong for having faith in Adam doesn’t mean leaving me behind like that was okay.”

“Noted.” Coco said with a smile as she gave the chameleon faunus a pair of finger guns. “But you get what I’m saying. She doesn’t have much reason to be stressed, so she has every reason to try to enjoy life to the best of her abilities.”

“You mean outside of being forced to watch interdimensional media or her head goo explodey.” Nora asserted.

“Pretty much.” Coco agreed. She looked over at her friend and noticed that she hadn’t been paying attention to the conversation, instead having her focus entirely taken up by the grimm dog, who was curled up into a ball, almost sad. “What’s got you so interested?”

“Huh what?” Velvet replied dumbly, her gaze returning to the group.

“Lots in your own head huh?” Coco said with a smirk before grabbing her arm and dragging her off. “Come on, we need to get some food for you. You know how you act when you’re hungry, you get distracted easily.”

Ruby looked over at her friends as Velvet was dragged out the door. “What do you think that was about?” All her friends could do was shrug.