"Proceed ."

The doctor then nods as they begin to display various charts and an illustrated comparison between two bodies, one titled "avg. hunter" and the other being "test subject."

"Firstly, the sample donor, Boboiboy, possesses something never recorded before. An internal aura."

Ironwood scrunches up his eyebrows as he merely replies with, "elaborate."

"As we all know, the aura is the soul's energy projected outwards in such that it protects the flesh from harm while stitching up wounds it couldn't, yes?"

Ironwood nods beckoning the doctor to continue.

"Rather than act as a barrier, the subject's aura seems to weave into the flesh giving the illusion of heightened durability while only consuming a quarter of the energy. This also seems to boost the subject's muscles' durability giving off another illusion, non-semblance superstrength."

"Fascinating... But I assume there's more to it than just that?", the astute Atlesian asks.

"Indeed. Two more things actually."

The screen then changes to a different display now, this one showing the image of a single body diagram and a list of the body's data.

"The second one is something I find quite interesting. As you may know, a semblance is the expression of a soul that is wholly unique to itself. Similar it may be to others, like a fingerprint, no two semblances are fully the same."

"Yes. Go on?"

"However, with the test cells you sent for me, Mr. Boboiboy presents an interesting new conundrum in that his semblance, if it could be even called that, instead grafted onto his soul. But you know what's truly aberrant to it?"

"That 5 of those exist?" Ironwood decides to take a stab at the dark only for the doctor to become quiet for a while.

"No, 9. And wait, how did you know beforehand?" The doctor speaks using their synthesized voice.

"I... took a gamble based on what I've seen the boy do in Ozpin's record. The boy controls the elements of Nature like nothing I've seen. Way too powerful to be mere dust, and far too refined in his control to be a maiden. And now you tell me this boy possesses the abilities that could possibly surpass the maidens? This could be bad... I must inform Ozpin of this soon enough. But anyways, before I do, did you at least gleam what those grafted semblances were?"

The doctor proceeds to swap to a different slide which begins showing elements.

"Thus far, only 6 abilities have activated in the samples and all 9 semblances still have yet to fully awaken. The first 6 to activate are, in order, spiritual fission, electrokinesis, terrakinesis, aerokinesis, botanokinesis, and hydrokinesis. As for the next 3, there are pyrokinesis, photokinesis, and finally spiritual fusion."

"I see... If that's the case, then I have to hurry up then, farewell for now."

"Hey wait-" the hooded doctor tries to call out, but Ironwood was far too quick to exit the meeting. With a sigh, the hidden doctor looks at the third slide showing a display that showed Boboiboy's face side-by-side with that of a middle-aged man who shares a similar hairstreak as the orange-clad hero.

Below their pictures show their names, those being Boboiboy... and Amato and in between their names... were the words "DNA sequence match."

"Sir Ironwood, I do hope you pick up soon... this is a matter of international importance." The person says as he unveils his mask showing a man whose face is riddled with black dust rocks protruding out of his cheek like cancer.

Meanwhile, back at Beacon, team RWBBY could be seen sitting in their room with the most bored of looks.

"Man... this blows... ugh..." Yang mutters as she tinkers with the now-blue Ember Celicas wondering how she managed to transform into that blue form last time.

"Well, at least you got something from that night that isn't just either long-lasting injury, emotional damage, or a combination of the two," Weiss whines as she files her nails.

"What good is a new power if I can't even access it? Besides, it turned my babies into this tacky blue color." She growls before getting a eureka moment.

"Hey Rubes, how'd you access yours?"

"My what?"

"Your watch thing."

Ruby looks at Yang with a puzzled look as she says, "I... don't have one."

"Oh come on, what about that weird bone plate that's been stuck to your cloak since you tamed that bird of yours? You know... the thing that forms the mask whenever you use those Grimm powers and stuff?"

"Oh, that thing. Wait really?" Ruby asks in confusion.

Weiss was now also interested as she stops filing her nails. "Now that you mention it... yeah, we've never discussed that elephant in the room. I always thought it was because that Nevermore of yours gave that as like a sign of respect or something but clearly it's not."

"Yeah, so Rubes, spill. How do you get it to work."

Ruby begins to stammer after suddenly being thrust into the stand.

"Ah... er... well I... I-I don't know! It goes off of feelings okay? Someone like Ochre or Boboiboy would be better at explaining it!"

"Too bad neither of them are here... Boboiboy is currently earning a living and Ochre is joining her team to oversee the upcoming school dance due in a few weeks."

"Oh no! The school dance is in two weeks! It was our job to prepare the party! We have to-" Ruby panics out only for Boboiboy to enter the room, saying, "Don't bother. Ms. Goodwitch told me that team JNOPR will be prepping the party instead. Our only course of action is preparing our clothes to attend the party."

"Ugh! Double Bummer!" Yang groans out while dropping her Ember Celica, or now more aptly, Azure Celica, on the ground by accident.

"Yeah well, you guys didn't exactly leave unscathed you know? Besides, we need to lay low. We're hot news right now and the last thing the school needs is the public thinking the school supports vigilantism by letting us go to town as if nothing happened." Boboiboy explains as he takes off his work clothes.

Blake chimes in agreement with Bobobiboy's stance. "As much I'd rather we be out there dismantling the White Fang's efforts," She then remembers the image of a red-haired man on a train in equally red woods and then the comatose image of Sun hooked up to the heart monitor. " but breaking out of school would make us no better than them."

"So what CAN we do in the meantime then? Being cooped here is not my thing at all..." Yang complains as she exerts herself to pick up the fallen Azure Celica.

"Well we can't train either since, we're basically just barely out of being bedridden... so I guess we can just... talk... I guess?"

"I got it!" Yang exclaims, saving Ruby from the dreaded awkward silence. "Instead of physical training, why don't you teach me how to use my thing? If we ever fight those guys again, I need to be able to use that cloud power of mine."

Ruby agrees while saying, "Yeah! If we can get her to be able to use it more consistently, our team's overall DPS will bump up for sure!"

"Er... I'm... not good at that kind of thing. Sorry." Boboiboy apologizes sheepishly. But he didn't end there. Instead, he texts someone who can.

"Who'd you just text there Boboiboy?" Yang asks before teasing him with, "is it your girlfriend?" which also served to get a reaction out of Ruby.

"Eh?! What?! No! I don't have a girlfriend! I'm just texting someone can help!" Boboiboy panickedly explains only to see Yang laughing at him.

"Hmm, whatever..." Boboiboy says with an annoyed look on his face.

He then continues texting before sending.

In a few short minutes, Ochre arrives, saying, "I came as fast as I could."

"That was quick." Blake remarks to which Weiss adds, "Yeah, weren't you suppose to be helping prepare the school dance?"

Ochre rolls her eyes, replying, "Oh please, there are far better uses for the time of an academic such as I. Besides, no one, save for maybe Pyrrha, can stop me. Should I wish to go somewhere, I can proceed with ease."

"So what were you doing?" Weiss then asks with narrowed eyes only to be greeted with silence.

Completely ignoring Weiss's query, she then says, "Let us get this show on the road," much to Weiss's frustration.

She then gestures for the five of them to join her as she tells them, "follow me to the gymnasium."

"But... we're grounded remember? We can't leave." Blake interjects but instead of surprise, Ochre's face shows a smug, knowing smirk.

"Right... but I've already accounted for that."

Not wanting to be out-smugged by someone else, Weiss narrows her eyes and asks, "oh yeah? How?"

Ochre proceeds to ponder whether to answer or not... and decides to cryptically answer.

"You'll see."

Rolling her eyes, she proceeds alongside everyone else.

As the six students make their way through Beacon's halls, Weiss singles Boboiboy out. She then proceeds to call him, "Hey Boboiboy..."

Boboiboy turns to Weiss, asking, "What's up?"

"I'll be frank about it. Give me and Blake powers."

"What? Why?" Boboiboy questions in confusion at the sudden request. Although, from the way it was worded, he was sure this was more like a command than a request.

"But... why? Your semblance is plenty strong already."

Instead of denying this fact, she pushes on her request(demand). "Even still. It isn't fair."

"But... you don't even need a watch to do what I do. Sure it isn't as large-scale... but still..."

"Look... I get why you have some reservations about giving more people powers than you already had... great power begets great responsibility and stuff. But that fight? With those people? It forced me to swallow a bitter pill... we aren't strong enough."

Boboiboy suddenly stops walking, looking down with a hesitant look.

"You know I'm right. The only reason we weren't killed by those..."

She then pauses, remembering that those watch-bearers were a sensitive topic for Boboiboy until she decided on what to say next.

"-Friends of yours was because we managed to distract them long enough for actual back-up to return."

Boboiboy nods, acknowledging her logic. "Even when they were under control, they were formidable..."

Weiss finalizes by telling him, "give it a thought," in time for everyone to enter into an open gymnasium.

What greets them inside is the face of a familiar man in blue tights and a mustache to rival Port's. Beside the caped hero was the familiar stern face of a certain telekinetic teacher entrusted to try and keep the trainees out of trouble.

"Miss Valkyrie, I would like to ask as to why you suddenly dragged Professor Zola and me from the office."

She then leers at the children, asking, "And may I ask what they are doing here as well."

Papa Zola then smirks as he says, "Is it not obviooooouus?!" This confuses Goodwitch who then asks, "if I may inquire, what did you realize exactly?"

"Standing here... I realize... THAAAAAAAAAAAAT... I actually don't know. I was just trying to sound smart so I could try and trick them into answering for me, hehe..."

Glynda sighs in annoyance at this, muttering something along the lines of "why do you act like a child..." to which Papa Zola laughed nervously.

"Actually, Boboiboy requested if I could aid in training Ruby and Yang to wield their watch powers."

"Ms. Rose has such an ability?"

"Y-Yeah... apparently my mask thing was actually a watch power."

"I see... that would explain many of that ability's quirks actually... so again tell me what both of us are needed here for again? I know this hour is my consultation time but surely Mr. Zola here alone would make this session conducive enough."

"Well..." Boboiboy sheepishly adds. "We... don't want a possible repeat of that Red Ochre incident."

Ochre nods as she too did not want that whole chicanery to reoccur.

"So my job is as it is as always? To secure the school, protect you children, and contain the destruction?"

"Indeed," "yep," "yes please," "uhuh."

With a sigh, she mutters, "Par for the course I suppose," before looking back at everyone and saying, "proceed."

With that, Ochre has Boboiboy, Yang, and Ruby stand in front of herself in the middle of the gym.

"Now, let's begin with the basic of basics. Do you know how to activate it?"

Yang shakes her head while Ruby hesitantly answers, "Kinda? I guess?"

Bringing attention to Ruby, Ochre proceeds to point at her while asking, "Ruby, please provide a demonstration."

With everyone's eyes boring down on her, she cowers into her cape and replies with a cracked voice, "w-why don't you or Boboiboy do it?"

Ochre would proceed to zap behind her before administering a controlled shock using the tip of her finger at Ruby's side.

This startles the red-cloaked girl as she lets out an, "eep!" before scrambling to her feet.

Ochre then proceeds to explain. "We can't exactly do that you know? If I do it, I'd have to clue Nora into my location and they'll force me to join their little decoration spree again. And if he does it, it might not be useful information since his watch is from his world and therefore not applicable to our own.

Hearing her reasoning, Ruby sighs before muttering, "I-I'll do it..."

She then touches the bone plate on the top of her hood. This time, a shadowy black miasma excretes from it which she proceeds to bring down to her face. In a span of a second, the black miasma then hardens on her face forming a half-mask that seems to resemble a plague doctor's mask but with only the right half on. The silvery eye behind the mask then turns a light shade of red more akin to the rose gold color. Quickly after, her cape takes on a darker hue of red as its lower half transitions into feathers.

Ms. Goodwitch proceeds to mutter, "to think this transformation feels so... vile to be nearby. Just the stench of Grimm smog wafting through the air..."

"I-I do it like this..." Ruby finally says as Cookie the crow appears on her shoulder in tiny form squawking.

"It's that easy huh?" Yang surmises while crossing her arms.

Yang then begins to try and mimic it while looking for a button on her gauntlets. "Come on... come on..." she mutters before accidentally firing a shot off at the audience. Fortunately, Goodwitch manages to form a barrier that repels all the bullets. That still doesn't stop the high-pitched scream from a teaching superhero who could only chuckle awkwardly after seeing everyone look at him.

After a few dozen attempts from Yang, even trying some of Boboiboy's admittedly somewhat childish and overly dramatic posing, she groans while falling to the floor.

"This is so not working..."

"Maybe you're missing something?"

Yang groans at Weiss' obvious deduction muttering, "thanks for the deep insight... captain obvious."

"At least I'm trying to help!"

"You don't even have a watch power. How are you supposed to help when you don't even know how to use it!"

"Oh yeah! I bet I can if I was given one!"

"Fine! Boboiboy, fix her up with a watch power!"

Boboiboy looks at Yang then at Weiss... who now wore a smug look on her face which she makes clear to be specifically for Boboiboy.

He is further strong-armed when the others voice their agreement with the idea.

'That sly mothe-' Boboiboy thought before quickly relenting said thoughts. Boboiboy does not and will not swear. Ever. Even when he wants to. To which he does not.

With an eye roll, Boboiboy hands his watch over to a far too giddy Weiss who then takes out a fancy silver watch which showed just how eager she was to do this.

She then presses the button and the imagery of her symbol pops up before getting replaced by a blank version of the elemental split interface, then back to her thing then back to it before it fused into a new thing.

Everyone, including the recipient of the power, begins to look closely at the symbol and then back to Weiss. The... power was definitely activated since her other watch DID change to now include that same symbol but... the rest of her looked exactly the same...

"Hey, what gives?" Weiss complains.

Taking his watch back, Boboiboy shrugs, saying, "I don't know... but sometimes the power takes time to manifest. But... it never did... whatever this is..."

Nora Alter, or rather, Ochre, fails to suppress a chuckle making Weiss bolt her head towards the elemental clone.

"What's... funny..." she growls out.

"Oh, nothing... it's just... your power... it's... pfft... you gained Boboiboy's ability to reverse his transformation."

Weiss then stops Boboiboy from putting his watch back on. She looks him dead in the eyes before saying, "I want a refund," while glaring at Boboiboy.

"And... how do I give you that exactly?"

"Take my powers back and give me a new one!"

"Er... I don't... know how to do that. My friend Ochobot might... but I'm not him."

"Darn it!" Weiss says as she lets go of Boboiboy's hand, making the boy stumble.

"Well... at least it gave you a boost in strength right? At least that function of the power up still works." Boboiboy says, realizing that Weiss had a noticeable increase in strength.

"Do not console me!" Weiss shouts, red-faced from being shown up and humiliated by an unknown variable after scheming this whole thing out. It didn't help that Yang was laughing at all this, filled with relief that she wasn't going to be getting any more pompous remarks and/or tutelage from Weiss.

Speaking of Yang, Blake would soon call the attention of said blonde back to her blue gauntlets. It was glowing blue now and a holographic screen had appeared on it showing her power was ready.

"Woah! It's active." Yang mutters in disbelief and confusion.

"But how..."

Answering that was the teacher who they invited alongside them.

"I may have a theory as to the workings of this mechanic."

This gets everyone's heads turning. It's not every day you see Ms. Goodwitch actively participate in something that's not under her jurisdiction.

"I believe that this ability is activated by a specific emotion." She pushes her glasses up as she goes into lecture mode.

"I came to this conclusion after remembering the videos of previous fights I've had to review. Of all of the ones I've seen, Ruby's ability would always activate in a high tension situation where she would feel giddy."

Echoing this remark, Ruby would nod in agreement. "Now that I think about it... yeah. Ever since that first time I tamed Cookie, the times I activated it was always very heart-pumping situations. But they only happened when I felt some level of bloodlust. The initiation, the docks, the bridge? Yeah, Ms. Goodwitch is right."

Further solidifying this idea, Boboiboy would voice out, "back in my old world, I unlocked my second set of elemental forms due to super strong emotions! Maybe that's what's going on!"

"So... what exactly did you feel in that fight, Yang? What emotion did your element bind itself to, Yang?" Ochre asks prompting Yang to reflect on that night when Weiss suddenly chimes in, saying, "And mine?! Shame from being showed up?!"

"Unfortunately, yes. That or envy." Ochre says in a jokingly solemn tone to voice her frustration of the ice queen. Weiss then shouts, "shut it ms. I was born from Nora acting like a 2-year-old!"

With a smug retort, Ochre fires back. "At least I wasn't activated from 'wa, wa, me want a shiny toy'."

"Why you!" She proceeds to lose all cool as she tugs at the lightning girl's hair. Acting in self-defense, the yellow-clad clone of Nora pulls back on Weiss's large side-pony tail.

As they fight, a glitchy effect begins to surround both of them before they become glitchy.

"Uh... Weiss? Ochre? Could you maybe stop?" A worried Blake asks, voicing everyone else's concern. Goodwitch tries to help using her psychic quirk.

However, she is too late as the two of them phase into each other before creating a bright flash of light.

As the lights fade, a layered voice shrieks alerting everyone.

"Ahh! What happened?!"

Everyone looks to the source and sees a chaotic mix of the two girls. Well, not a fusion per se as it was more akin to swirled oil and water than an actual mixture.

"Who am I?!" The mishmash of the two shouts as it hyperventilates.

"Oh god, you ruined me- us- you- ARGH!"

"O-Ochre? Weiss? P-please calm down!" Ruby says trying to calm the situation down to no avail.

Boboiboy suddenly gets an idea and transforms into lightning before dashing off.

"Aaaand he's gone..." Yang remarks. "You could say he... bolted out."

That pun was so poorly received that even the unstable fusion looks at Yang with a 'really?' expression.

Meanwhile, Boboiboy was off running through the hall in his Lightning form as he looked for Team JNPR only to hear Nora scream.

With that, he rushes faster only to suddenly see something off... or rather... someone...

"Tok Aba!" He shouts as he runs off to a distant corner of the hallway.

Meanwhile, twenty minutes had passed and by then, the rest of the gang had Weiss and Ochre split apart already. Weiss was currently curled up in a corner while Ochre and Nora were hugging with both of them crying.

"Jeez, what happened here exactly?" Jaune asks.

Ren then follows up. "Indeed. One minute, Nora was making us choose between light pink and strawberry pink for the napkins, and the next she was screaming that Weiss's voice was in her head."

"Well... Weiss kiiiinda bamboozled Boboiboy into giving her power and... well her power fused her and Ochre." Ruby explains.

"And if it wasn't for the fact that I am not fully physical... my gut feeling told me that would've been permanently fused..." Ochre chimes in with a traumatized voice.

Off to the side, Blake could be seen sitting next to a horrified Weiss, caressing her shoulder with a concerned look.

"Blake?" Weiss finally speaks, her eyes utterly horrified by that experience.

"Yes?"

"Can... can you take this off me? Like, throw this watch away?"

"That power's stuck to you remember? Not the watch."

"Right... right..." Weiss nods still not finished recovering.

"I'm glad Boboiboy got to you guys quickly huh?" Ruby says in relief only to see Jaune, Ren, and Pyrrha looking at her confused. "Boboiboy? What do you mean?"

"Boboiboy ran off to get you guys didn't he?"

"What? No. We just heard Nora shout about Weiss so we ran to where Ochre said you guys were."

Ruby was now concerned. "Then... where could he... be?"

Off in one of the hallways, Boboiboy could be seen sleeping on the floor as a tiny bony mask manifests on his nape before burying inside him.