The next day, we see Ryan and many other students are getting ready for their initiation.

Ryan is seen eating pancakes with bacon and lots of syrup.

Suddenly, a girl with a bigger stack than his slides next to him with a wide smile on her face.

"Hey cute boy!! You like pancakes!!" Asked the girl with enthusiasm and energy.

"Like them? I fucking love them!!" Ryan said with as much enthusiasm as the girl.

She squealed in happiness and hugs Ryan tightly, "My name is Nora Valkyrie by the way!!!"

"Names Ryan Blackburn. A pleasure to meet you, Nora." Ryan said as he rubs Nora's head and she hums in enjoyment.

Nora introduces Ryan to her friend, Lie Ren, who is sitting across from her. Ren nods in greeting and Ryan returns the gesture.

As they continue to eat, Nora and Ren tell Ryan mostly Nora about their strategy for initiation, which involves sneaking around and avoiding confrontations as much as possible.

Ryan nods along, impressed by their approach, and shares his own strategy of using his weapons, a Light Machine Gun, a Grenade Launcher and a Desert Eagle, to take out Grimm.

After finishing their breakfast, the trio heads to the launch pad to start their initiation. As they take off, Ryan can't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation for what's to come.

During the locker room, Ryan picks up a M240B Light Machine Gun, a M32 Grenade Launcher and a Desert Eagle.

As he places the Ammunition in pouches, he sees Weiss Schnee and Pyrrha Nikos. The former trying to convince the latter to be her teammate.

Ryan confidential walks up to the two, "Hello there my fare maidens. My name is Ryan Blackburn and I just so happened to overheard about your chat."

The two blushed red face as a guy named Jaune Arc asked Ryan which way is his locker number, "Five lockers ahead of us." "Thanks man!" Jaune thanked Ryan as he walked off.

"Actually, I think the teams are comprised of four students each." Pyrrha said getting Ryan's attention.

"Really? Well, hot redhead spartan, play your cards right and maybe you could join up with the winning team." Ryan said as he flex his biceps.

Ruby and Yang are seen drooling at Ryan flexing his muscles.

"Ryan, is it? Do you have any idea who you're talking to at all?" Weiss asked Ryan.

"Not in the slightest, Ms. Schnee." Ryan said.

"This is Pyrrha."

"Hello again!" Pyrrha greeted Ryan again as he smiles and rubs her head and she giggles liking it.

"Well Pyrrha graduated top of her class at Sanctum." Weiss said.

"Never known that till now." Ryan said as he stops rubbing Pyrrha's head and focus his attention on Weiss.

"She's won the Mistral Region Tournaments four years in a row. A new record mind you!" Said Weiss.

"Damn. Wasn't able to watch due to fixing our TV screen."

"She's on the front of every Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes box for crying out loud!" Weiss shouted as she waves her arms rapidly.

Ryan and Jaune gasp suddenly, "That's you?!" They both said in unison.

"But they only do that for star athletes and cartoon characters." Said Jaune as Ryan nods in agreement.

"Yes, it was pretty cool. Sadly, the cereal isn't very good for you. No seriously. It tasted like dog shit." Pyrrha said to the two.

"Your not wrong about that." Ryan said as he waves goodbye and heads to launch pads.

Weiss and Pyrrha exchange a look before continuing their conversation, with Pyrrha still unsure about joining Weiss's team. As Ryan leaves, he can hear Weiss still trying to convince Pyrrha to join her team.

As the students were launched in the air, Ryan realized he didn't have a landing strategy, "Oh crap...." He said as he was still in the air. 

Ryan quickly scanned his surroundings and noticed that some of the other students were using their weapons to slow down their descent. He then quickly pulled out his emergency grappling hook, and fired it towards a nearby tree.

The grappling hook latched onto a branch, and Ryan swung towards it, using the momentum to slow down his fall. He then used his acrobatic skills to flip himself over and land on the ground gracefully. Perfect 10.

"That was close," Ryan said to himself, feeling relieved that he had made it safely to the ground.

He then looked around to see where he was, eager to get started on the initiation.

A few hours later, we see Ryan at the temple with the relics. He smiles and sees only eight are left.

As he was about to pick one up, a girl shouts his name scaring him.

He turns around and sees Yang and his old best friend that he had seen in ten years Blake Belladonna.

"Hey Blake." Ryan said with nervousness. "Didn't know you was her-"

He was cut off as Blake both yells, hugs and cry saying that he is a jerk and she missed him badly.

Ryan doesn't say anything and smiles sweetly at Blake and rubs her back and scratches her cat faunus ears.

Before Yang could say anything Ruby is seen falling from the sky.

"Heads uuuuuup!" Ruby said falling right towards them, finally getting Yang's attention.

Just as she's about to hit the ground panicking, Jaune Arc comes flying through the air and crashes into Ruby, knocking her off course and sending them both into a tree to the left of where Blake, Ryan and Yang are standing. Ruby is dazed by the rough landing.

"Oohhhh... What was that?" Ruby asked herself as the dizziness passes when she shakes her head.

"Eh-hem!" Ruby looks up to see Jaune hanging upside-down in a tree branch above her, "Hey, Ruby..."

Blake stops hugging Ryan and is looking at the tree, "Did your sister just fall from the sky?"

"I..." Yang could only say before she was interrupted by several crashing noises heard in the forest ahead of them, and a large Ursa comes out, claws swiping, just as a pink blast of energy hits it in the back and it crashes to the ground, depositing its rider.

"YEEEE-HAAAAW!" Nora rolls off of the creature's back, then gets up and groans, saddened, "Awwww... It's broken."

She dashes onto its neck and observes the carcass as Ren comes up behind her.

Ren panting and leaning on the monster talks to, "Nora! Please... Don't ever do that again."

"I want do that too." Ryan and Yang said in unison as the latter looks at him with a smirk and Blake hisses at her.

He looks up again and notices the area of where his partner should be that Nora has run off again, and looks around frantically.

Nora now in the Temple, staring at a golden rook relic, "Oooohh..." suddenly she grabs it, as she dances and sings with the chess piece, "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!"

"Nora!" Yelled Ren.

Nora stops dancing with the rook on her head, then salutes, dropping the relic into her hand, "Coming, Ren!" She skips off to her friend.

"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Blake questioned.

"Me..." Yang is interrupted once more as a screech is heard from their right, and Pyrrha Nikos comes onto the scene as the scorpion creature uproots entire trees in its chase after her. Pyrrha narrowly dodges its giant claws and keeps on running.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha calls out to Jaune.

"Pyrrha!" Jaune calls out to Pyrrha.

Ruby standing up, looking at the monster below, "Whoa!" She starts running off of the branch and landing in a roll.

"Ruby!" Jaune whins at her.

As Ruby stands up, back on the ground Yang calls out to her, "Ruby!"

Ruby excited raises her arms as if to give her sister a hug, "Yang!"

"Nora!" Comes between the two sisters and knocking them off-balance in surprise.

The scorpion Grimm continues to follow Pyrrha as she runs.

Blake again questions as she watches Pyrrha getting chased, "Did she just run all the way here with a Death Stalker on her tail?"

Yang is getting angrier until she growls and erupts in a small burst of fire, eyes flashing red, "Yang can't take it anymore! Can you people just chill out for two damn seconds before something stupid happens again?!"

Two seconds later, Yang is cooling down, Ren running over to a ditzy Nora, and Blake, Ryan and Ruby looking up.

"Umm... About that stupid?" Ryan tugs on Yang's sleeve and points up.

Up above, Weiss is revealed to be hanging on a talon the size of her entire body that belongs to a gigantic Nevermore.

Weiss calling down to Ruby, "How could you leave me you little shit?!

Ruby shouts up at Weiss, "I said 'jump' you white hair shit!"

"She's gonna fall off." Blake deadpans as she and the others look up.

"Nah she'll be fine." Ruby reassured them.

"And she's falling now." Ren says as he sees Weiss fell off.

"She was fine." Ruby deadpans.

Jaune is finally out of the tree, panting until he looks up and grins at the sight of Weiss falling through the air, giving him the opportunity to jump off the branch with arms outstretched and catch her.

Jaune smiles at Weiss, "I got you."

Weiss is speechless... and Jaune realizes why when they both look down.

"Oh, God no." Jaune said as Weiss and him hang on to each other wide-eyed as their moment of suspension ends, their weapons flying behind them.

"Oh, noooooooo- Oomph!" Jaune does a faceplant into the dirt, limbs splayed out, and serves as the perfect landing spot for Weiss as she falls into a seated position on his body.

"At least you tried. You alright?" Weiss both thanked and asked Jaune.

"My back..." Jaune says groaning.

The Death Stalker is still hunting Pyrrha, but she manages to land on her side at the feet of the heroes.

"You okay?" Ryan asked Pyrrha as she gave a thumbs up.

"Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang said at the current situation all nine of them are in.

"Not if I can help it!" Ryan says as he fires his grenade launcher at the Deathstalker killing it and fires his Light Machine Gun at the Nevermore killing it. "That was fun." Ryan said with a smile.

After Ryan defeated the Grimm. More Grimm are heard coming in the distance, "Look, there's no sense in dilly-dallying. Our objective is right in front of us." Said Weiss as the heroes stare at the relics. Ryan again counted only eight left before. Now there's only four.

"She's right. Our mission is to grab an relic and make it back to the Cliffs," Ruby said as she nods to Weiss, "There's no point in fighting more Grimm."

"Run and live, that's an idea I can get behind right now." Said Jaune.

Ruby goes over and grabs a gold knight that's identical to the one Yang picked out and Jaune takes hold of a gold rook similar to Nora and Ren's piece, smiling at each other. Ryan notices there are no pieces left. As he was about to leave, he sees a green Axe piece within the grass. Seeing that no one picked it up. He takes it.

"Time we left!" Called out Ren.

"Right," Ruby waves to the others, "Let's go!" She goes forward with everyone following except for a smiling Yang, Ryan and Blake as the latter approaches her Yang.

"What is it?"

Yang stares proudly at Ruby as she leaps on a boulder and motions the group onward, "Nothing..." She moves on as Blake smiles in realization and leaves as well with Ryan following suit.