Hello there, RWBY fandom. This is Terrorhunt. How are you guys doing?

So, as promised at the end of chapter 7 of my fanfic SPHR, this fanfic is a spin-off of some kind where I'll be revealing and explains the references, easter eggs, and secrets that I've made in the main fanfic. Technically, this is more of a commentary to the main series as oppose to an actual fanfic. Details aside, I'll also put in a deleted parts/scene from the main fanfic here, if any.

BTW, if you guys have any questions regarding this series, feel free to ask. But an early warning though, I'll only answer questions that won't leads to spoilers for those who care. Also, if any of you guys had ask a question or 2 on the main fanfic, I will answer them here.

Oh, if you haven't read the main series, then what are you doing here? Go away, read the main series, and leave a review or 2. Now! Then you can come back here.

Now then, let's starts this of with Chapter 1, shall we?

Before we starts, a little summary about the main series, SPHR. The story takes place 10 years after the end of volume 2. In that fanfic, I'm actually going to include my takes of Cinder's true goal and what not since the plot are more or less involves her and the White Fang. And the main summary for inspired by the taglines that they've usually used for movie trailers.

Now that's out of the way, let's start at the very beginning of the this chapter.

Here, we are introduced to the main character, Robert Longstride Lockhood or Robbie. In case you still haven't figured it out, he is named after the famous Prince of Thieves, Robin Hood. In the opening scene, Robbie is being held captive by the VPD and now locked inside a room for interrogation. This scene is more or less a nod to the 1st episode of RWBY, where Ruby is being held captive by Glynda after a scuffle with Roman Torchwick and Cinder Fall.

We then introduced to Cardin Winchester, who is now a detective at VPD. This isn't going to be his only appearance. He'll cross path Robbie in the future chapters.

Now the flashback.

This part is intended to showcase some of Robbie's skills and a glimpse of his semblance. There's also a small foreshadowing for the villains that I was planning to create at the time I was writing that chapters. I haven't had any ideas for the villains until chapter 5. That's why I had them covered in darkness.

That scene with the 2 guards? If you have to ask, then you've probably never watch Red vs. Blue. Seriously guys, this is like episode 1!

After the flashback, we soon then introduced to Jaune followed by Ruby. And that's it. Yeah, I know. Not much of secrets now, is it?

There is however, a deleted scene in this chapter that takes place at the very beginning of the flashback.

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2 guards are at the top platform of the searchlight tower hold their position as one of the uses his sniper rifle to zoom in at another 2 guard at the top of the main building.

"What're they doing?" The rifleman's partner asked.

"What?" The rifleman aggravatedly inquires.

"I said, 'What are they doing now?'"

The rifleman are frustrated at his partner's question. "Damn it, I'm getting so sick of answering that question!"

His partner gets defensive. "You have the freaking rifle, I can't see a thing. Don't start to whine at me because I'm not gonna just sit up here and play with my di-"

"Okay, okay, look…" The rifleman cuts him off. "They're just standing there and talking, okay? That's all they're doing. That's all they ever do, is just stand there and talk. That's what they were doing at the beginning of the shift, that's what they were doing when you asked me five minutes ago. So, five minutes from now, when you ask me, 'What are they doing?' my answer's gonna be, 'They're still just talking, and they're still just standing there!'"

They both went silent for quite a while until the partner starts talking, asking another question.

"...What're they talking about?"

"...You know what? I fu-" The rifleman falls down to his face, interrupted, as his body shakes frantically. There is a glowing yellow arrow on his back. He then passes out as he stops shaking. The arrow on his back then disappears into nothingness. His partner looks around to find the assailant only to receive a similar arrow on his chest. The partner then ends up like the riflemen.

A figure clad in black appears as he drops on to the platform from the very top of the tower. He wears an all black outfit; a hoodie with the hood covering him, a pair of cargo pants, a pair of tracker boots, and a pair of gloves. The only thing that isn't black on him is a Beowolf Grimm mask covering his face. He's carrying a recurve bow that has a trigger and what seems to be a dust vial on the top back of the bow's grip. The archer in black then walk next to a spotlight that are pointing toward a building at the very center of the dock. He pull his hood down then takes off his mask as he observe the main building.

Okay. Let's see what we got here.

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And end scene. Yeah, that's pretty much it. The reason why I didn't use this scene is because the flashback is purely through Robbie's perspective, so having a scene made based other character's perspective kinda ruins the whole prospect of a flashback. Like the 'Why Are We Here' parts in the flashback, this scene is intended to be a nod to RvB. I've decided to scrap it because 1 RvB reference is enough for 1 chapter.

Another thing. Since this is a Future AU, some, if not most of the OG cast (Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha, Ren, etc etc…) are guaranteed to be OOC. This is because I wanted to portray their possible personality shifts after a decade worth of timeskip. To make it easier for me, I've based off the personality these characters based off characters from different series, story, and whatnot. Let's start off with Cardin, Jaune, and Ruby.

Cardin is based off a generic 'bad' cop that you've most likely to see on TV shows or movies that has cops in it. Nothing too complicated.

Jaune's calm demeanor is based off Itsuki Koizumi from the anime The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi.

Ruby's cheerful and happy-go-lucky-esque nature is based off Yui Hirasawa from K-On!.

And finally, the very last part of each chapters. That 'Incident Report' at the end of Chapter 1, the 'Wanted' description at the end of Chapter 2, the 'Acceptance Letter' at the end of the following chapter, and so on and on? You're probably wondering about that. These last parts I'd like to call as 'Off The Record', like some top secret of some kind in the part of the fanfic's universe. You'll be seeing each these at the end of every chapter. The 'Incident Report' is more or less tells a bit of a story for Chapter 1. It's not based of anything in real life, though I got the inspiration from the movie Hot Fuzz.

Well, I guess that's it then for Chapter 1. Let's move to Chapter 2 now, shall we?