“You heard the headmaster. This is what we’ve been training for.” Coco pointed to the wall. “This is a battle, and we aren’t going to win it by watching. So decide now: Do you have what it takes to be a Huntsman, or are you going to give up your home without a fight?”

The students who had been enthralled by the unexpected sight of an attack on their school—or reliving the terrors of the Battle of Beacon—shook free of their stupor. And they didn’t bother taking the stairs. What was jumping off of a building when just a week ago they had been dropped from an airbus?

Maybe there is some method to the reinitiation madness after all, Coco thought.

“Let’s go,” Coco called to Velvet and Fox. “But stick close to me.”

“What she said!” Sun said. “Come on, Team SSSN!”

They leaped over the side of the terrace and ran down the steep, sloping sides of the school. They had cleared the building’s three levels and were racing toward the south wall in no time. It didn’t sound like the Crown was attacking from any other direction. Though if they had agents on the inside, they wouldn’t have to.

- RWBY: Before the Dawn, Chapter 17