Intelligence B5C9

"Not that," Nora groaned. "The scrolls!"

"I thought we were discovered," Pyrrha added. "When you offered to give them over I didn't know what to do. I thought you'd gone mad." The Champion eyed Weiss shrewdly. "You switched them, didn't you? But when? How could you possibly have expected we'd have to surrender them, and when would you have had the time?"

"I had the time back in Beacon," Weiss revealed. "Jaune is the de facto Guild leader, while I'm often seen as being a figure of authority because I'm the first to speak with people. It was obvious they'd assume he and I carried the scrolls, so why hide that fact? There's nothing to say what scrolls, however."

I caught on easily enough. "You replaced the scrolls in the containers with fakes."

"Blake did," Weiss said, nodding to the Assassin. "We took Cinder's words to heart and decided to betray even them. We kept the containers they gave us, but Blake snuck down on the last night to put fake scrolls in them detailing a routine Grimm-slaying Quest. Even if the Greycloaks didn't know what we were given, it's possible that spies in Beacon would have seen Cinder and Ozpin carrying those containers."

"That would explain why you and Jaune were the ones attacked," Pyrrha said. "They wanted to find out what this top-secret Quest really is. Where are the real scrolls?"

"I have them both," Ren said, surprising us all. I'd never have suspected he was a part of this, though maybe that was the point. "They're kept on my person and close to my body. I won't say anymore here. Weiss approached me with the idea and I saw the merit in it."

"But why keep it a secret?" I asked.

"It's not that we didn't trust you, but that we needed you to act as if you had something to protect," Blake explained. "If you knew it was fake, you wouldn't have acted like it was so important, and that might have tipped off the Greycloaks."