Alright, onto to number 3. The opinions on the last one were… negative, but that's what this is for! To learn and grow and not suck… though it would help if you tell me why I suck so I can suck less.

Also, I think I finally have a handle on how Coeur and College do their's. I think they write out a basic structure or some ideas in the 15 minutes, and then write out a more detailed one in whatever time it takes. I mean it seems obvious since considering the lengths of some of them, physically typing them out in 15 minutes may be impossible… unless they are supertalented typers which I am not. Anyway on to this.

Prompt: RWBY meets old West

The story begins with Neptune waiting at the train station, specifically waiting for his partner Sun. They have been assigned by the Pinkerton's National Hunter Agency to travel to the town of Beacon, home to the countries famous Schnee Mines, to solve with a situation with disrupted dust deliveries.

With his partner a no show Neptune boards the train, and as it pulls away we cut to Sun running amongst the stations rafters and leap onto the train. With Sun moving up to hang out with the engineers Neptune sits back and tries to relax on the trip (though complaining that he had to get seats in a lower class coach so he could sit with Sun, hinting at the racism).

As they come closer to the train is attacked by the White Fang. While the goons are going through the compartments Neptune and Sun fight them off, even meeting up with the famous heiress Weiss Schnee (who was secretly traveling back to Beacon).

They then arrive at the town of Beacon. After walking through town, meeting with some of the colorful characters though they seem rather wary of them. They are invited up to the mansion to talk with Mr. Schnee about the situation. The White Fang has been attacking his dust shipments, destroying facilities, and causing general havoc. They are led by the vicious El Odio/Adam (cookie to whoever can guess the name reference) so Mr. Schnee wants them to find and help exterminate them (he would loan them robots if they discovered a location). Though Weiss is nice enough to offer them an invitation too her birthday

Checking into a saloon (owned by Junior) the duos investigation begins! This would involve going around town gathering information.

There might be some minor action, getting clues, and getting hints that a lot of the people don't trust hunters, but it eventually leads to the party. There we meet again with Weiss and her friend one Lady Belladonna, a friend of Weiss who was staying for a little while. But the festivities soon end when El Odio tries to assassinate Mr. Schnee inside the mansion, which is only stopped by Sun (who wandered off during the party, Neptune trying to flirt with Weiss).

With them meeting the threat the duo truly know what they're up against, and given the fact El Odio was able to get by the security they theorize there must be an inside informant… now they have a lead.

Self Impressions:

I'll admit when I first had the prompt, my first thoughts were 'Have Adam be an evil Zorro expy named El Odio'. So I had the villain in mind and sorta tried to build the story around that. With Adam around that meant the Schnee company was going to be involved and since they used a mined product that fit perfectly with a Western setting, and could lead to some good conflict since both these guys were bad guys so the heroes would have some trouble picking a side.

That led to some trouble in the plotting, who were going to be the heroes. Sure there was a bunch of ways to Westernize Rwby characters (Jaune as the young gun, Oobleck as an actual doctor, Qrow as a drunken sheriff). I went with Sun and Neptune as a pair of bounty hunter/detectives cause it seemed like a fun idea… and I had read 'The Alloy of Law' by Brandon Sanderson so I had the idea of a gentleman sharpshooter and a rough around the edges deputy stuck in my head.

Though this duo I still think would work, with Sun being a faunus and Neptune really wanting to impress the upperclass there is some definite conflict that could come about.

Though after writing this I thought that maybe having Blake be the main character might work. In this story she is still working for the White Fang, going undercover to get information. Then I thought what if she was like another Zorro, with this Zorro fighting Adam's Zorro while pretending to be a highclass lady as a disguise.

So ya, once again I have the starting of a plot with no clear idea of the ending… I'll have to work on that. Worldbuilding could be a lot of fun though, dust powered locomotives!