Ruby knew Jaune had heart. Hell he trained with Pyrrha almost every day. And she did see him improve. But she knew she was a better fighter than him. Of course, that was when she had her precious Crescent Rose with her. But she didn't expect what would happen next.

Washington began the timer and Jaune and Ruby nodded and began sparring. She charged at Jaune and was about to punch him in the face with a right hook. However much to her surprise he blocked it and grabbed her arm. He then threw ruby over his shoulder and she landed on the ground with a grunt. The two look at the big screen to see a tally mark appear next to Jaune's name.

"Nice takedown Jaune!" Pyrrha said. She took her eyes off her partner, Sage, when she said that. He hits her with a hook and she stumbles back and steps out of the circle. The white ring circle turned red and made a buzzing noise. A tally mark appeared next to Sage's name.

"Eyes on your own match Pyrhha," Washington said.

"Yes sir," the Mistral gladiator said. Meanwhile Jaune was helping Ruby up.

"Are you okay?" Jaune asked his friend.

"I'm fine," Ruby said with a smile. "Where'd you learn that?"

"My oldest sister Erica taught me some basics to hand to hand." Jaune looks at his hands and cracks his knuckles. "Guess it finally paid off huh?"

"Hey I don't get any credit Arc?" Carolina yelled across the arena. Jaune gets a sweat dropped and waved to Carolina.

"And Carolina's been helping me as well." Ruby giggles at the interaction.

"Well it doesn't matter," Ruby said as she pointed at Jaune. "Jaune Arc, in the next spar I will defeat you!" Jaune smirks and he nods his head that he is ready. Ruby gets in her fighting stance and Jaune gets in his stance.

Ruby lets out a yell and tries to kick Jaune in the face. He catches her boot and then crouches down sticking his leg out and sweeping her leg from under her. Ruby lets out another yelp as she hits the ground.

Yang, who was blocking an attack from Neptune pushed Neptune to the side and looked at her little sister. "Ruby! Are you okay?" she asked. She then felt something hit her in the cheek and she stumbled just on the edge of the ring. She regains her balance and stares at Neptune with her eyes that turned red. Neptune gulped.

"If I told you you were the hottest girl I punched would you go easy on me?" Neptune pleaded.

"No," Yang said cracking her neck. Neptune gulped again, waiting for his beating to come.

"Ruby, remember," Washington said, ignoring the yelps of pain Neptune was screaming out. "Use his momentum against him." All of a sudden everyone heard a war cry. Washington turned and saw Damion, another student, charging at him. "Like this!" Damion jumped up and tried to do a flying kick towards Washington.

However Washington grabs Damion's leg and slams him to the ground. Damion let's out a groan as he hit the ground. "Damion, minus five points." Wash takes out his scroll and taps on it. The screen shows Damion with negative five points. "Ouch, better get back to sparring if you don't want to practice hand to hand anymore." Damion stands up and nods his head.

"Yes I suppose so," He said. With that Damion returns to his sparring partner. Washington turns back to Ruby and Jaune.

"Like I said, use their own momentum against them," Washington said. Ruby nods her head and gets ready for round three between her and Jaune.

She lets out a yell. She charges at Jaune and tries to punch him with a right hook. He dodges her attack by sidestepping to his left. Ruby smirks. She follows through with her heel hitting Jaune's side. The unsuspecting blow caused a lot of pain in Jaune's side. He clutches his side but recovers quickly. He charges a Ruby and tries to punch her with a left punch. Ruby grabs Jaune's wrist, surprising Jaune and circles counterclockwise. The speed in which she does so is a surprise to Jaune, and he soon finds himself on the ground, with his arm lifted in the air by Ruby's hand.

"Excellent counter Ruby!" Washington said. As he said that he noticed in the corner of his eye a female student was about to kick him in the face. He grabs the student's leg and lift his arm up and slams it into the side, sending the student turning and falling onto her stomach. She groans and grabs her leg.

"Nice try with the surprise attack Hannah," Washington said to her as he held out a hand. She takes it and he helps her up. However she then makes a seething noise grips her leg. Washington grabs onto her. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, just hurt my leg a little," She said. "My aura should heal it in a bit."

"Sorry about that. Didn't mean to hit you so hard."

"It's fine. Look it's already healed." Hannah puts pressure on her leg and she doesn't flinch.

"Well then, what are you waiting for? You got five points to win back." Hannah crosses her arm and stands still. Washington sighs and ducks. A whooshing sound can be heard as Hannah's partner, Tyler, tried to hit Washington on the side of the head with a left hook. However, the hook connects to Hannah's jawline. She lets out a grunt as she stepped back.

"Hey!" she yelled. "Watch where you're swinging asshole!"

"Not my fault you were so close you got caught in the range of my fist!"

"Enough both of you," Washington said standing up and dusting himself off. "You both failed so you both lose points. However I will be generous and only take down three points."

"How'd you even know I was behind you?" Tyler asked.

"Hannah gave you away. Not only that I could hear your breathing. If you guys want to do a sneak attack, don't make it obvious to predict your next move."

As Washington was teaching the two students', Ruby and Jaune were watching as they sparred. Ruby tried to kick Jaune in the side of the head but he blocks and then palm strikes her in the chin causing her to almost go out of the ring.

"Say Rubes," Jaune said after Ruby recovered.

"Hmm?" Ruby hummed. She blocked a hook Jaune threw and uppercutted him in the jaw. Jaune takes a step back but recovers.

"I think I might know a way to hit Washington." Ruby tries attacking but Jaune blocks all of her blows.

"How so?" Ruby saw an opening and she shoved Jaune, causing him to fall out of the ring. It turns red and the buzzer is heard and another tally appears next to her name. Right now it's seven to five with Ruby leading.

"Ha ha!" Ruby laughed as she did a little fist pump. "Anyway continue."

"Well it will require both of us," Jaune said as he dusted himself off. "Here's my idea…"

With Simmons and Epsilon:

Due to AIs being able to process things a lot faster, it felt like hours of hard work for all of them. They were able to get his language output in English, mostly, now they just had to create the firewall. But they were having a lot more trouble than they thought.

"I don't get it," Church said. "This should be easy. Why haven't we gotten the fire wall set up?"

"Maybe it's because it's not our technology," Simmons said. "Sarge most likely used this dimensions parts to create Tres.0, so we're probably not used to it."

"That could very well be," Delta said. "Or perhaps we are looking at this wrong."

"Wait a minute…" Simmons said. He snaps his fingers. "That's it!"

"What is?" Church asked.

"We are looking at this the wrong way! We don't want it so I can't ever get back in here, because then that means you guys can't. What we need is just so Lopez doesn't follow every word I say. Because I'm basically a walking talking line of code for him, both in here and out there. But you guys are only code when you are in here. We don't need it so we can't ever get back in here, we need it so he doesn't do everything I say when I'm out there!"

The AIs look at one another. "Well?" Church said. "What are we waiting for? You heard Simmons let's go!"

All of the little Ais went to work and Simmons grew a small smile, they actually treated him with respect, something that very rarely happened. Church puts his hand on Simmons shoulder.

"All right Simmons, in order for this to work it will require a lot of guessing and checking the systems. So just go back outside, when I pop out try halfheartedly giving Lopez a command. We'll keep doing that until we find a sweet spot."

"Okay Church, thanks for the help."

"Yeah, mention it to anyone and I send Lopez to shoot you in the dick." Simmons nods and brings up his console, the same thing Theta was using. He finds his exit button, waves goodbye to the AIs, and presses the button.

He feels his body being forcefully sucked out of the area in complete darkness. However he doesn't yell, he just waits until he can open his eyes and see himself sitting in front of a turned off robot.

Back in the real world:

Simmons slowly opens his eyes. He blinked some blurriness away and looked up. His hand was still outreached and touching Lopez's chest. He removes it from the robot and opens and close his fingers. So far everything is in working order.

Simmons lowly stands up and shakes his head. For some reason he feels very groggy. "Are you all right Simmons?" A familiar female voice says.

"Yeah," Simmons responded. "I'm fine Carolina. Just not used to it is all." He shakes his head and looks in the arena to see the student's sparring. "What'd I miss?"

"Well other than a few minutes of sparring, nothing much. But once sparring is over we're separating the group into marksman and hand-to-hand based on the sparring scores. Where's Church?"

"He's still working in there, needed me out for some test we're going to run once he's done." Carolina nodded in understanding and looked back in the arena. Simmons looks around and notices that none of the other soldiers are here. "Where is everyone?"

"Well, Grif was tired of teaching for the day so he just went back to the dorms."

"Figures," Simmons commented. Carolina chuckles a tiny bit.

"Caboose is using the bathroom, Donut is helping Sarge set up the range for when we get there, and Tucker is also helping out Sarge."

"Hmm," Simmons hummed. Simmons looked at Washington and noticed a student was trying to kick him in the face but Washington grabbed the leg and lifted it fast and high in the air to cause the student to fall backwards. "Why are some of the students attacking Washington?"

Carolina began explain the bet Washington made with the students. Meanwhile, two particular students, both of whom were leaders and were best friends with each other, decided to put their plan into action.

Jaune got behind Ruby and put her in a chokehold and whispered in her ear. "Ready?" he asked in a hushed voice.

"Are you sure this will work?" Ruby asked. Only a few students were able to hit Washington, they were hoping they would be next. She breaks out of the choke hold and faces Jaune, who has a slight smug grin on his face.

"Ruby when have my plans ever gone wrong?" Ruby opened her mouth to say something but noticed Jaune's smug look turned into a pleading one. "Please don't answer that." Ruby giggles and nods her head, signaling she's ready.

She tries to punch Jaune in the face but he blocks it with his arm. He then snakes his arm around hers and straightens out her arm causing tension in her elbow. He then puts a hand on her face and shoves her out of the ring. The ring lights up red, the buzz goes off, and another tally is made.

Ruby steps back in the ring and begins sparring again with Jaune. After another thirty seconds, Ruby tries to punch Jaune again, and Jaune counters the same way.

They keep doing this for about two minutes, and then Ruby gets angry. "Jaune stop cheating!" She yelled.

"Hey I'm not cheating!" Jaune yelled back. "I'm just exploiting a weakness you have."

"Yeah but doing the same thing over and over is cheating!"

The two kept arguing which was getting louder and louder, surprising some of the nearby students. They have never seen Ruby and Jaune argue with each other before, let alone with that much hostility. Eventually Washington makes his way towards them and gets in between them. He puts a hand on Jaune's chest and a hand on Ruby's forehead and kept them apart.

"All right, enough, both of you," Washington said. The two of them stopped yelling at each other so Washington turned to the other students. "What are you all looking at? You still have five minutes of sparring, go!"

Washington yelled with such authority and confidence that everyone began sparring again. He turns to the two students in front of him, who were still glaring at each other. He sighs. "Okay, Jaune," Washington started. "I appreciate you taking our lessons to heart. You are correct, find an enemy weakness, and exploit it. But Ruby here isn't your enemy. She's your partner, your friend. If she is having trouble countering a move, help her." Ruby pulls on her eye and sticks her tongue out at Jaune.

"And Ruby," Washington said. Ruby lets out a tiny squeal. "If you notice he is doing the same thing over and over again, find a way around it, don't keep getting yourself caught in it. Now then, I'll help you guys out. What's the attack Jaune keeps doing?" As Ruby explained the move Washington nodded his head. "Yeah I know how to get out of it. But out of everything Jaune, why are you just pushing her out? I mean you can chop her neck, throw her to the ground, slam your arm into hers, but you choose to push her out, why?"

Jaune looked away. "Because I don't want to hurt my friend…" he said a little fast.

"Aww Jaune!" Ruby said. Washington gives a chuckle.

"Well anyway, I'll show you how to counter it Ruby."

Washington throws a slow punch so Jaune could block and get in the same position he had Ruby in. Once they are in Washington begins explaining.

"Okay, so the idea is to try to break the hold without breaking your arm, or hurting yourself in any other way then necessary. There are actually many different ways to―"

Washington was cut off by a yelling Jaune. Jaune tried to punch Washington in the face. Washington stopped Jaune's fist by catching it in his hand. He turns to Jaune. "Really? That's your plan? I'm disappointed in―"

Again Washington was cut off. This time it was from feeling a sharp pain in the bend of his left knees. He kneel down on it, with his arm still gripped in Jaunes. He looks up and then sees two fists until he feels pain on both sides of his head.

His head pounds from the punches but he blinks away the blurriness and sits up. He sees the two leaders who punched him celebrating. They gave each other double high fives and celebrating. Washington lets out a laugh.

"Congratulations you two," he said. The two leaders stopped celebrating and helped Washington up to his feet.

"Are you okay Washington?" Jaune said.

"I'll be fine, I've taken worst." He puts his hands on both of their shoulders much like a father would to his children. "But I am impressed. I can see why you two are leaders." Both of let out nervous laughs with slight blushes on their faces.

Washington looks at the screen and notices only a minute is left until sparring is done. He walks over to Carolina as the final minute counts down. He noticed that Simmons wand Lopez were gone. "Where's Lopez and Simmons?" He asked.

"With Sarge, where else would they be?"

"Fair point." Carolina handed him a water bottle and he took a big swig from it. "Thanks. So Epsilon and Simmons got Lopez fixed?"

"You bet we did," Church said as he appeared. "But we still want to run a few more tests once this is over."

"All right, just don't blow anyone up," Carolina said.

"No promises."

"Anyway," Washington said. "You want to take marksman this class or next class?"

"I'll take it next class," Carolina responded. "Besides, I think you need a break from hand to hand for a little bit."

"I think so too, thanks Carolina." The Timer buzzer goes off and Washington takes out his scroll and starts dividing people who had more points than there partners. Meanwhile in the arena everyone was either congratulating their partner, tending to their wounds, or both.

"Did you really have to break Neptune, Yang?" Sun asked as he looked at his partner. He had bruises all over his face, he was lying on the ground, and he was overall just in pain. Yang just shrugged.

"Hey, not my fault if he can't take a hit," Yang said.

"He can't take a Yang hit, I'm pretty sure there's a difference." The blonde punched the monkey faunus playfully in the arm. She then turns to her real partner, who still had a book in her hand.

"So Blakey, you going to marksmanship training?" She asked.

"No, and I don't care," Blake answered.

"She barely tried the entire time," Ren said to everyone.

"I have better things to do," Blake said. Yang was about to talk with Blake but Washington's voice cut every student talking off.

"Okay, listen up!" Washington said. "When I call your name, you will be following me to the shooting range for marksmanship training. I'll explain more when we get there. The people following are as followed."

As Washington listed off every student's name, said student would go up to him. Among the students that were going were Ruby, Jaune, Ren, Scarlet, Sun, Yang, and Pyrrha. Meanwhile, Weiss, Blake, Sage, Neptune, and Nora were staying with Carolina for more hand to hand combat.

"All right everyone, we got fifteen minutes until class is over keep working until then. Everyone in marksman follow me."

Washington began leaving the arena and heading to the range, along with his group of students following behind him. They passed by Carolina who was holding a gun, a battle rifle, but also had a backpack of supplies with her. She tossed the gun to Washington, who caught it in midair.

"You left it in the workshop last night," She said.

"I see, thanks Carolina, good luck."

"You too."

The two agents nodded to each other and then continued to their destinations.

To be continued.