Everything has gone to hell for Beacon Academy. Cinder Fall has claimed the full power of the Fall Maiden, the Atlas Army was out of commission, there was no way to get transmissions in or out of Vale, Yang had lost her arm, Blake had been stabbed, and a giant Grimm Dragon, who for the sake of convenience will be named Kevin, was circling the school, spawning and attracting more and more Grimm. Everything that could have gone wrong, has gone wrong.

"Okay, okay, don't worry. I'm pretty sure I have Glynda's number." Jaune said as Pyrrha gave him a look that said, 'What? Why?' Jaune, the oblivious idiot he was, didn't notice it and instead noticed the lack of Glynda on his phone. "Oh, come on, where is it?"

The duo then heard a large boom as they saw a Golding light creek through the elevator door as Cinder flew to the top of the tower. The duo quickly realized that if Cinder was there than that would mean that Ozpin had failed to stop her. And if Ozpin had failed...

"Jaune, I need you to get to Vale and call for help." Pyrrha said. "I'll stall Cinder for as long as I can, buy you as much time as you need."

"Pyrrha, that is not a good idea. If she could take Ozpin, what are you gonna do?" Jaune asked.

"I just need to keep her busy, even if it means I have to-" Pyrrha began attempting to give her brave last words.

"No, Pyrrha, listen to me: Cinder's plan had one big error in it that anyone could see."

Pyrrha's eyes then lit up in surprise as she turned towards Jaune. "Well?"


"It's Jaune!" Weiss said as she saw the caller ID on her scroll, under normal circumstances she would have simply hit ignore, but tonight. "Jaune, where are you?"

"Right in front of Ozpin's tower. Listen, Weiss, I need you and Ruby to head to the group of students that are leaving for a the safe zone."

"Wha-why? Jaune, have you seen our situation?" Ruby asked her blond friend over the phone.

"Yes, but Cinder's attack had one fatal flaw; she attacked during the Vytal Festival Tournament."

"Yeah, s-Oh!" Weiss gasps as she realized what Jaune was referring to. "Ruby, you head over to Pyrrha and Jaune, I'll go rally up our army."


"EVERYONE, LISTEN TO ME!" Weiss shouted out at the groups of students that were running away with their tale between their legs, for some of them literally. "I know this situation seems dire, perhaps even grim, no puns intended. But take a look around here. We have hundreds of thousands of students, all of them with incredible powers and monstrous weapons capable of doing so much destruction, and we're having them run away from the fight? I know this seems bad, but if we band together, we can take Cinder, we can take Kevin, we can take Beacon back! Now who's with me?!"

Everyone looked at the white haired girl for a second before Port spoke up. "Everyone, get into the ships."

"Bu-"

"TheelevatorswillnotbeabletohandleallofourweightandWeisswillnotbeabletoliftallofyouupthereusingherGlyphs." Oobleck said in his Oobleck way.
"Pilots. Iwantyoutochangeyourcoursedramaticallyandflyourstudentstothetopofthattower."

All the despair in the room quickly washed away as everyone began to comprehend what Oobleck just said. As the Blue Lanterns would say, 'All will be well.'


Cinder was having a good day. Take the powers of the Fall Maiden, check. Calm down the Grimm and have him take residents at Beacon, in progress. Be the greatest evil mastermind in the history of Remanent, that was complete from the get go.

But then she heard the grinding of the elevator shaft and realized that Pyrrha wanted to die desperately. Well, she could go for a little throw down.

"It's unfortunate you were promised a power that was never truly yours." Cinder began as the doors slid open. "But take comfort in knowing-"

Her eyes widened as she realized-

"-Ruby Rose, Jaune Arc, Yang Xiao Long with one of Penny's swords, Coco Adel, and Sun Wukong are here with you!?" Thanks for taking my job, Cinder.

"Yep." Pyrrha answered nonchalantly.

Cinder stared at the group in disbeliever before her signature evil smile crept back over her face. "Ha ha, do you really think that's going to be enough to stop me and Kevin?"

"Nope." Jaune said before pointing out the window. "But they will be."

Cinder turned for her eyes to widen in disbelieve as she saw several Bullheads fly up towards the tower, several of them opened themselves to allow the hunter students to jump out onto Kevin's back and began attacking him. The Grimm, startled by the attack, flew away in a vain attempt to shake them off him. He knew he should have stayed in that mountain.

The rest of the ships, however, flew in closer and allowed the students within them to climb into the tower, each one readying their weapons for the fight with Cinder. Quickly the room was filled with all the students forming a ring around the evil seductress.

"Now then, Cinder Fall," Pyrrha began, pointing her weapon towards the woman. "Do you surrender?"

"Please say no." Ruby said as she cocked Crescent Rose.


"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Superman and Batman laughed as Ruby, Pyrrha, and Jaune had finished that part of their story in the Hero Cafe.

"So-So let me get this straight." Superman began through his laughter. "Cinder attacked a school that was filled with students training to become these superhero celebrity like people on the very day that every other school was bringing their students training to become these superhero celebrity like people, and she didn't think you would use that to rally up an army against her?"

"Yeah, pretty much." Ruby said as she sipped her coffee.

"Seriously?" Batman questioned. "The Joker's plan to throw Joker venom into the water main so that all the fish would have crazy Joker smiles and claim copy-rights on them makes more sense than that."

"Tell me about it." Jaune said.

"So, what happened to Kevin?" Superman asked.

"Well, after we finished with Cinder, we all ran over to where he crashed to see if they needed any help." Pyrrha said. "And then an even awesome-er battled ensured."

"We'd love to tell you guys about it, but words can't do it justice." Ruby said.

"On the subject of Cinder, what did you do with the chick?" Batman asked before drinking his coffee.

"We knocked her out and put her in one of those Aura sucking chamber thingies." Jaune said before finishing his drink.

"Yep, you guys are looking at the new Fall Maiden." Pyrrha said, gesturing to herself. "I know I was supposed to keep it a secret, but I figured since the cat's out of the bag."

"That reminds me, how's the rest of your team doing Ruby?" Superman asked.

"Well, Yang's new robot arm is currently in the works, and Blake is making a surprisingly fast recovery." Ruby said before munching on a cookie. "Which is a good thing, too, apparently Cinder was working for someone else, and we are gonna need everybody's help to take her down."

"Sounds like you got a lot on your plate, Rose." Batman said.

"Yeah."

"Who knows, you might get an actual part in the next Volume." Superman stated.

"Ye-Wait, what?" Ruby asked.

"Well, it's not exactly a secret that the people writing your story seem to be allergy to you or something, they refuse to give you any character development in any way." Batman stated.

"That is not true, during our fight with Kevin, my latent abilities activated." Ruby stated.

"You're what?" Superman asked.

"Yeah, apparently there's this incredibly rare trait that people with Silver Eyes are the most powerful force against the Grimm." Ruby stated. "If it weren't for me, Kevin would never have been defeated."

"Rare trait? I saw several people with those Silver Eyes back when all the schools were being given their missions." Batman said.

"Yeah, Ruby. That's not a rare trait, it actually looked pretty common to me." Superman stated.

"B-But-But I'm the main character, the show's named after a team that's named after me. I'm the leader of the team. I-I have to be the main character, right?" Ruby looked among the table to see if she'd get any support.

She didn't get any.

"Sorry, Ruby." Superman said.

"Look on the bright side, Rose," Batman began. "At least you contributed in some manor. That's something right."

"Yeah, I guess." Ruby moped.

"Hold on, how did you see all of the students and get a good enough look to tell all of their eye colors?" Pyrrha questioned the Dark Knight.

"BECAUSE I'M BATMAN!" He responded.


"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Laughed everyone at the Villain Pub as Cinder explained to them how her plan failed.

"Quit laughing at me!" Cinder yelled out. "It's not funny!"

"You know, you know, she's actually right. It's not funny." Joker said as he got himself under control. "It's actually quite sad."

"See!"

"It's quite sad that someone would come up with a plan that bad! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" The Joker let out one of his signature sinister cackles.

Cinder just groaned at that.

"So, Sunder, what are you going to do now?" Voldemort asked the depressed villain.

"It's Cinder. And I... I don't know."

"Really? You spent so much time concocting this plan, and you never even gave any thought to an All Else Fails?" Joker questioned.

"It seemed so perfect."

"Cinder, a super villain always needs a backup plan." Joker stated. "Take my plans for example: I designed them all so that no matter what choice Batman made, he still lost."

"You're last one didn't work out so well."

"That was because someone didn't set the charges right, and even then I held a detonated because I though 'If you want something done right, do it yourself.' I couldn't set the charges myself, so I rigged up a spare detonator." Joker said.

"Yeah, I know." Cinder moped. "You guys wouldn't be in need of a secretary or something, would ya?"

"Sorry, Cinder, you're on your own." Voldemort said before drinking his beverage.

"Well, hopefully I'll play a big role in the next Volume." Cinder stated.


You know, I've always wanted to do one of these. And I have plenty of ideas of how something in RWBY could have been done better. I could set up a one HISHE scenario per chapter kinda deal. But for now I'll let you guys have this and let me know if I should do more.

... God, I am just doing everything I can to push HoodWitch off, aren't I?