(The opening shows the still-horrified faces of Team RWBY upon seeing their guide for the week.)
Wess: Professor Oobleck?
Oobleck: Yes, I'm afraid those bags won't be necessary, boys, seeing as you've opted to shadow a Huntress on what is now essentially a reconnaissance mission. I can assure you, we will not be establishing a single base of operations; rather, we will be traversing several miles of hazardous wasteland and making camp in any defendable locations we may stumble upon. I packed all of our essentials myself, plotted our air course, and readied the airship. And...It's Doctor Oobleck. I didn't earn the PhD for fun, thank you very much!
(Wess looks over at Blane Belladonna, who is equally disturbed.)
Wess: Uh...
Oobleck: Come now, children; according to my schedule, we are already three minutes behind! ...schedule!
Randy: Well, alright, then! Looks like we're going to save the world with Doctor Oooobleck- okay yeah when you say it out loud it sounds worse.
Noah: Save the world?
(Randy's team turns around to see Noah and Team JNPR approaching.)
Noah: You're going on world-saving missions without us? I'm hurt... sad! Maybe a little hungry? That last one's not your fault, though, Rey...
(Lie Rey, for his part, simply crosses her arms and turns away.)
Jen: Sounds exciting. Where ya going?
Randy: Oh, just outside the kingdom...
Noah: Hey! So are we!
Peter: Rey and Noah wanted to shadow the sheriff of a nearby village.
Rey: We set out tomorrow.
Natalia: Then you can party with us tonight! We're shadowing a crime specialist. All inner-city detective stuff. We get junior badges.
(Jen is awestruck.)
Sunny: We normally go to the city with you guys, which means stuff's always exploding and junk, so we thought this might be a better way to check out the kingdom when it's, you know... normal.
Randy: Well-
(Oobleck appears from the airship to call to Team RWBY, who are embarrassed)
Oobleck: Four minutes, gentlemen!
Randy: Well, uh...Wish us luck!
(Cut to the airship flying over buildings and streets amid deafening turbines.)
Yang: I guess I just never saw you as much of a fighter.
Oobleck: I admit I fancy myself more of an intellectual, but I can assure you, as a Huntress, I've had my fair share of tussles.
Randy: Like the mushroom?
Blane: Those are truffles.
Randy: Like the sprout?
Yoshi: Those are Brussels.
Oobleck: Besides, given my expertise in the field of history as well as my dabblings in the archaeological surveys, our dear headmistress saw fit to assign me to this particular... assignment!
Wess: What does history have to do with this?
Oobleck: Why, what a preposterous question, you silly boy! Why, history is the backbone of our very society! And the liver! Probably the kidneys, if I were to wager.
Wess: And that means..?
Oobleck: The southeast quadrant outside of Vale is home to wild forests and deep caves, but it is also the location to one of the kingdom's greatest failures!
