Fipp: I wrote this yesterday with the intention of writing a dumb little thing to get my mind off a certain thing, but today well...

Well, what do I say that hasn't been said already?

RIP Monty.

Secret Codes

TH-TH-TH-AT'S A BIG URSA!

Juane reached into his pocket and pulled out his scroll. The image on the holo-screen was that of his younger friend, Ruby.

"Uh, hey?" he said, putting his sword back into its sheath.

"A puppy pile has converged on the Fruity Pebbles in the tossed salad, requesting a pick-me-up from the Berry Bunch! I repeat: A puppy pile has converged on the Fruity Pebbles in the tossed salad, requesting a pick-me-up from the Berry Bunch! This is urgent!"

Jaune lowered his phone, gave it a confused look, and placed it back to his ear.

"Mr. Sunshine, can you hear me? This is Red Rover! Can you-"

"Ruby, just what are you doing?" Juane asked.

"No! It's Red Rover! We went over this at the meeting!"

"Wait, meeting? What meeting?"

"Or, at least we could have if someone had shown up!" There was then a high-pitched hmph on the other end of the line. "Seriously, I waited for like two hours for you to show up! Where were you!?"

"I'm sorry Ruby, but just what are you talking about?"

Ruby gave an annoyed groan. "Juane, I sent you a message discussing how we needed a secret code so that our teams can communicate safely over open and unsecured lines."

"Uh huh." Jaune slowly nodded. "What do you mean you sent a message?"

"Yeah, I sent it through an aerial delivery system."

"Wait, you mean, that paper airplane that you threw at my head? Yeah, I've been meaning to ask about that, but you split like as soon as it hit my head. Just what was that you wrote? It looked like someone chopped up wingdings and put it in a blender."

"Oh, that was the secret written code. It's different than the spoken code."

"How how was I supposed to decipher it?"

"By going to the meeting of course."

"What sort of backwards logic is that? How can I go to a meeting to learn how to decipher a secret code, when the directions to said meeting are written in the secret code that I'll only know how to decipher if I go to the meeting!"

"I know! It's so perfect! No one would suspect a thing!"

Jaune gave a frustrated groan and deeply rubbed at his eyes. "And the meeting, where was it?"

"Oh, underneath the bleachers behind the gym. A lot of the other students seem to be really secretive about it, so I thought that it would be a good place to hold a secret meeting."

"Um, Ruby..."

"I then found out why the other students are so secretive about it." There was a pause. "I learned a lot of things that day Jaune."

"Uh, yeah. Can I ask a question?

"Yeah sure. What is it?"

"I am Mr. Sunshine?"

"Yep, that's your codename."

"But wouldn't Sun make a better Mr. Sunshine than me?"

There was then the sound of a hand slapping against a forehead. "Of course! It's so obvious! I should have thought of that before. Jaune, we need to have another meeting! I'll send another aerial-delivered message as soon as we get back to Beacon!"

Jaune then hung-up.

000

"Hey Jaune?" Ruby said into the phone. "You there Jaune? Hello? Jaune? Juane? Juane? Juane? Hello, are you still there? Huh." Ruby looked the phone and looked at it questioningly. "He must have gotten disconnected."

Behind her, Weiss, Blake and Yang all screamed, all engaged in a battle with over a dozen, giant three-headed wolf Grimm.

"Oh yeah," Ruby said, "I supposed to be calling back-up."

"MY SPLEEN!"

000

Jaune groaned as he put away his phone. "I really hope she really doesn't end up trying to set up a meeting in the boiler room." He then breathed out. "Oh, wait, I was supposed to be doing something."

Behind him, Pyrrha, Ren and Nora all screamed, all engaged in a battle with a massive squid-like Grimm with over a hundred tentacles.

"Oh yeah, I was gonna call he for back-up."

"MY LEGS!"

000

Please be well,

Mrfipp