Raider checked the room, once finding everyone in their seats, she started the next episode. Not wanting to waste anymore time.
*Volume Intro*
"Ruby!" Starting off with Weiss scolding the girl, "I told you this was a terrible idea!" Behind them seems to a black material, though since they aren't in a farther away view, it's honestly hard to tell what it is.
"We're fine, stop worrying!" "I am soo far beyond worrying!" Ruby raises a brow, "In a good way?" Was her stupid question. "In a bad way! In a very bad way!" Weiss clarifies, sounding more angry as the banter continues. "Well, why don't we just jump!"
"Jump from where?! Where is my baby!" Summer yelled in dismay. "I would love to ask the same question, what on Remnant did your daughter get them into!?"
"What are you? Insane!?" Weiss yells in utter disbelief, only to find Ruby missing from where she once was. "Oh you insufferable little rat!"
"I told you to jump." Ruby says in her defense, though she just gets a very hard glare from the girl sitting next to her. "Ok, maybe it wasn't the best idea, but it got us to the temple didn't it?" Weiss huffed and turned her attention back to the screen, ignoring the girl's excuses.
Yang is waving in Blake's face as she tries to get her attention, who is seen still looking up at the sky. "Blake, did you hear that? What should we do-" She was cut off, Blake pointing up to the sky.
Yang finally looks up and sees Ruby free falling. "Heads up!" But she is put into slow motion to show Jaune thrown directly into her, causing the two to crash right into a tree. Blake and Yang simply watching.
To show Ruby's dizziness, above her head are circling stars and barking beowolves. "What was that?"
"That was a collision course between you and Jaune."
She shakes her head to regain her focus. Jaune clears his throat, Ruby looking to see him upside down from a branch above. "Hey Ruby," Was all the poor guy said.
"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake asks Yang. The girl in question couldn't get a word in as Nora comes riding in on the alpha Ursa as if it were a pony. "Aww, it's broken." She moans in sadness, as if she were a three year old getting their candy taken away. Ren appears behind. "Nora," Ren says, trying to gain the breath he so rightfully needs. "Please, don't ever do that again." Ren just looks up to see Nora gone. Pink dashes are in silhouette of her body, blinking, indicating her missing form.
Nora stares at the golden rook with amazement. She grabs it in victory, a background of pink with gold stars and her symbol behind her.
"Her energy is like if caffeine and a sugar rush ever had a child."
The people who knew nodded with a great amount of certainty, while Nora sat there with a happy expression. Not denying it because she knew it was true.
"I'm queen of the castle, I'm queen of the castle!" She repeats in a sing-song voice. "Nora!" Ren calls for her in exasperation. Nora gives a salute pose, the rook falling off her head as she tilts it. "Coming Ren!"
Nora skips off in a cheerful skip. "Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Blake asks.
"You're in Beacon now, don't let every single surprise you, you can save those for later." Blake rolled her eyes and averted her attention back to the show.
"I-" Yang not getting a word in when a screech is heard. Turning out to be Pyrrha still running from the scorpion grimm.
Two sights to behold. "Jaune!" "Pyrrha!" The both of them yell each other's names, granted, Jaune exclaimed dangling, still upside down. Ruby voices her amazement, making her way down the tree, leaving Jaune in the process as he calls out for her.
"Ruby?" "Yang!" "Nora!" Said the final girl cuts in between the sisters when they were just about to go in for a hug. Blake stands off to the side, awkwardly holding her right forearm.
"Raider!"
"Jaune!"
"Penny!"
"Would you all shut up!"
Raider rolled her eyes at the disruptor, man, that women needed to take a chill pill. "Do you always have to yell?" Ghira sent Raven a scornful look, hands on his wife's shoulders. A small wince present on her features. Blake included, but she was being tended to by Yang.
"She's just in a constant pissy mood." Qrow responded, a canteen in his current hand, taking a sip. "What the *Quack*! Where the Hell did you get that?!"
Raider appeared directly in front of him and aggressively snatched the container from his hand. "What part of 'staying sober', can't you comprehend!? Have you thought for just a single moment that I want you to be rational? No?"
The room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. "The reason is there are incredibly important moments in this *Quacking* show, you drunkbutt moron. Things that you need to be clear headed so you can actually think about it. Most of this is future events, so I suggest you stop drinking for once in your damn life and pay attention!"
Finishing her rant, Raider plopped herself back in her seat. The canteen was in her hand, but she set it in front of her and clapped her hands together. The container was nonexistent, as she grabbed the remote and continued where she left off.
"Did she just run all the way here with a deathstalker on her tail?" Yang clearly has had enough of the questions, and interruptions as she bursts into flames. "I can't take it anymore, can everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?"
The sound of a ticking clock is heard, only ticking for a literal two seconds with everyone around standing still. When the two seconds are up, the clock dings. Ruby gains Yang's attention when slapping a hand on her arm, looking up, same as Blake. "Um, Yang."
The blond sighs. In the air is Weiss holding on for dear life on the tip of a Nevermore talon. "How could you leave me?!"
Every adult's gaze is brought to Ruby, who shrinks from the hard stares. Glynda and Ozpin silently shake their heads. Members of the Schnee Family break into an outburst. "Are you insane?" "What is wrong with you?!" "That was your idea?!"
"Do you realize how much danger you've put Weiss and yourself into?" A nervous chuckle was the only thing they got.
"This is honestly more tame than what those four've done during their initiation."
"I said jump." For how it came out, it sounded as if it were basic common sense. "She's gonna fall." "She'll be fine." "She's falling."
Finally having himself righted, he smiles at the situation, which is honestly pretty bad.
"Dude, we know you have a thing for Weiss and want to win her favor, but this is the worst way to do it." Averting his attention elsewhere, he found the wall unrealistically interesting.
"Couldn't have Weiss just saved herself? She could have easily saved herself by projecting her glyphs at the right angle."
"She could have, but Jauney boy didn't see it that way."
Propelling himself from the branch, his arms extended, Jaune caught Weiss in a bridal-like position. "Just dropping in?"
"'Oh wow, nice of you to drop in'. He says, dangling from a pole entangled in his partner's string."
The girl looks at him with slightly widened eyes. The beautiful music cuts as the two look down. Holding onto each other, their eyes looking at the screen with small pupils, they drop like an anchor. Both of their weapons are left in their wake before following them in their harsh descent to the ground.
Jaune falls face first, Weiss landing directly on his back.
"Ouch! That has got to hurt, you know, I almost feel sorry for him. Unfortunately for him, I don't care." Laughing at himself, his partner making the silent motions indicating her giggling.
"My hero," came a sarcastic response. The girl checked her nails in ignorance.
"Ungrateful! He indulged you with a terrible pick up line and this is how he gets repaid?" Weiss was about to go through the process of being filled with guilt, but she actually heard what she was saying. She sent Raider a deadpan expression.
I wish he would indulge me in cheesy pick up lines.
Behind them, the deathstalker won't let up Pyrrha's tail. "My back," the poor boy groans.
The deathstalker gives a screech and knocks Pyrrha in front of the others. "Great, the gang's all here, now we can die together!" Yang says with a little too much enthusiasm.
"One of the funniest lines in this episode!"
"Not if I can help it," charging, Ruby dives in head first to defeat the foes in front of her. With widened eyes, her sister calls for her. "Ruby, wait!"
"Yang being like 'I wasn't being serious!'"
Ruby faces the deathstalker but is knocked back on its first hit. Knowing this wasn't a fight she could do alone, she retreats. With the deathstalker running after her, Yang calls for her sister in horror as she makes her way towards her. Above them, the Nevermore screeches, targeting a large amount of feathers toward Ruby, one of them catching the end of her hood, preventing her from escaping.
Yang stops, and in time, as the projectile of feathers just misses her. Ruby yanks on her cape, trying her hardest to get free.
"Ruby, get out of there!" Yang screams, praying to the Gods above she makes it out of this alive. "I'm trying!" She tugs and pulls, but her efforts are sadly futile.
Everyone is on the edge of their seats. The people wanting Ruby dead smile in hope, besides Tyrian, he just wants to see the child spill her blood.
Man, I hate that guy… homicidal maniac.
A golden singer looms overhead of Ruby, ready to go in for the kill on its defenseless prey. "Ruby!" Screaming in horror, desperately reaching out a hand for her sister to take, in any hope of saving her. "You are so childish," stinger being a mere inch from piercing the girl's head, only to be frozen in place.
Breaths of relief are spread throughout the room, except for the one sigh of disappointment.
"Weiss?" Confusion evident in her tone. Ruby lowers her arms, as if that would have helped as a last resort. "And dimwitted and hyperactive and don't even get me started on your fighting style and I suppose I can be a bit," a wince is evident on the young huntresses face, "difficult, but if we're going to do this, we're going to have to do this together. So, if you quit trying to show off, I'll be…nicer."
"I'm not trying to show off, I want you to know I can do this." She responds, dismissing the fact she almost died five seconds ago. But, to them, now seemed as good a time as any to let the truth out, letting each other know that they're gonna have to learn to trust one another.
"You're fine." Leaving the girl who remained to sit in the grass. "Normal knees," whispering to herself in success. Finally taking notice of the trapped Deathstalker. It shakes itself in an attempt to break the ice, the glacier doesn't even react with a single crack or shatter. Ruby finds herself in a bone crushing hug from her sister, groaning from the tight and unexpected squeeze. "I'm so happy you're okay."
"Yang…" With the little air she is consuming, she gasps her sister's name in an attempt for her to be released. "Oh! Sorry lil sis," apologizing as if she had no clue her body subconsciously brought Ruby into a tight hug during that scene.
Unbeknownst to the sisters, Weiss was trying to do the same, but only managed to bring Ruby's right hand into her's. Realizing this, Weiss quickly let go of the girl's hand and hoped that she mistook it for Yang instead.
Screeching above them, the Nevermore hovers above them. "Guys, that thing's circling back, what are we gonna do?"
Taking charge at the moment, Weiss states the obvious. "Look, there's no sense in dilly dallying, the objective is right in front of us." "She's right, our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the cliffs."
"I think you mean 'relics'."
Already coming to terms with one another, partners Whiterose share an affirmative nod with each other. "There's no point in fighting these things."
"Run and live, that is an idea I can get behind."
Ruby grabs hold of the golden knight, Jaune, who's by her side, takes the golden rook.
"It took me a bit to realize why Ruby and Weiss were put with Blake and Yang and why Jaune and Pyrrha were put together with Ren and Nora. It was because Team RWBY both grabbed the Knight and Team JNPR both grabbed the Rooks."
The Deathstalker makes more headway with its escape, cracks on the ice becoming visible to the two teams. "Time we left." "Right, let's go." The teams follow the young girl, who quickly stops on a rock, gesturing them all to follow.
Yang holds a smile as everyone runs past her. Confused, Blake asks if something was amiss. "What is it?" Yang relieves the girl of her worries, smiling with pride at her sister "Nothing."
Giving a smile once figuring out what it was. Yang just being a proud sister.
Jaune and Winter smile, knowing what it was like to be a proud sibling. Winter looks down to her sister, proud at seeing how she's turned out to be. Not from the past, but who she is now.
The eight rush to the cliff, Nevermore looming and flying overhead, watching their every move. Each of the pair hide behind a stone pillar, staying out of sight from the beast's view.
It makes its perch on the highest stone tower, screeching down to the students below, preventing them from finishing their objective to reach the north cliff. "Well that's great," having no problem in voicing her displeasure. The deathstalker makes its grand entrance, having broken free from its cold prison. "Aw man, run!"
Everyone proceeds closer to the winged beast, "Nora, distract it!" Doing as told from her partner, dodging feathers in the process and bringing out her weapon. Opening firing, a bullet bomb causes it to come down from its tower.
Making itself known, the deathstalker appears behind her, but is given time to escape, Weiss helping her, as Blake and Ren combo slash it.
Ghira and Kali stare at the screen in worry for their daughter. The mother looking towards her daughter, needing reassurance to know she's safe.
Ren and Blake make little distance as the deathstalker isn't that far behind. Pyrrha stops at the start of the bridge, along with Ren, telling them to keep going. Ren and Pyrrha repeatedly shoot, retreating when the large grimm comes to close for comfort.
The Nevermore crashes into the stone bridge, ultimately destroying it, splitting the teams in two. Blake, Ren and Pyrrha are stuck dealing with the deathstalker, having nowhere to escape while everyone else is on the opposite side. "Man, we gotta get over there, they need help."
"If you haven't noticed, the bridge is destroyed, kid. So, good luck with that."
"Let's do this", not looking very confident, Jaune looks over the edge. Small piece of it falling down the foggy abyss. "Yeah, but, uh, I can't make that jump."
Giving an evil smile, Nora knocks Jaune back, spinning her gun that transforms into a large hammer. Directly hitting the edge of the stone platform, much to Jaune's dismay, launches him to the other side. Leaving a small explosion on where she hit.
Standing on her hammer, she blasts herself along with him.
Slamming the head of the hammer on the grimm's skull makes it give out a screech. Seeing its stinger head towards her, she propels herself backward, avoiding the incoming attack, but the impact from her avoidance causes her to slam into Blake, leaving her to fall off the edge.
"Blake!!"
"NO!"
Yang brings Blake into a crushing embrace, not planning on letting her go anytime soon. Ghira and Kali wished they were down there, holding onto their daughter to know she wasn't hurt. But given the distance, they couldn't exactly do that.
"Yang, please let go, I'm fine, I'm okay." The blonde shook her head and simply held the faunus tighter. "Please?" She was only answered with resistance, the girl sighed. "Could you at least loosen your hold?" With a few moments of silence, she felt she could breathe more freely, but she was still held tight enough to where she couldn't get out easily. She knew she could very well free herself, but some part of her didn't want to. That part of her loved the warmth radiating from the blonde, and felt safe in the women's clutches.
Overriding her voice of reason, Blake nudged and maneuvered around the little space she had, getting comfortable in her partner's arms, relaxing and sighing once in a suitable position.
A small flush spread across Yang's cheeks, not really expecting this. She was in the process of removing her arms when she heard the smallest whine come from Blake. Both girls froze, Yang's blush spreading, and Blake refusing to look at Yang. Thus, leaving the two in an awkward silence. But, even with these deterences, they never separated.
If anyone were to pay attention to Raider, they would see a very visible smile, growing larger the more the encounter continued.
Saving herself by attaching Gambol Shroud to a part of the stone structure. Swinging herself up, and using the momentum to slash the Nevermore. "It's tougher than it looks." "Then let's hit it with everything we've got", was her response to the analysis, reloading her gauntlets.
Team RWBY prepares their weapons. Blake and Ruby change theirs to sniper mode.
Enduring all their advances, the Nevermore crashes into the stone, chunks of it flying everywhere. Team Rwby uses it to their advantage and uses them as leverage, bringing themselves to solid ground.
"None of this is working", stating the obvious. Thinking it over, Ruby turns her gaze to all her friends. "I have a plan, cover me."
"Hopefully it won't be as disastrous as your last plan."
"It got the job done in killing the Nevermore."
"We got to move", Jaune suggests, seeing the Deathstalker unfree its stinger. Running directly towards it, Pyrrha avoids an attack from its pincers, Jaune covering her from the other. Team Arkos holding off the Deathstalker pretty well. The deathstalker screeches in pain, getting a spear to the eye. The cause and effect left Ren being swung into a stone wall.
Observing the swinging stinger, Jaune calls to his partner. "Done!" Swiftly reacting, she throws her shield similar to a frisbee, effectively detaching the golden stinger from its tail.
Once retrieving her shield, Jaune calls Nora. Jumping on Pyrrha's shield, she's launched into the air as she sits on her weapon. Laughing childishly, she fires herself back towards the ground, spinning and slamming her hammer on the Deathstalker's head.
Being launched back to safety, the grimm fell to its death with the rest of the bridge. The team regrouped, all with an awesome pose. Except for Ren, he landed flat on his face.
Ren groaned from embarrassment. That was not one of his best moments.
Neither are your moments during volume 7.
Facing the final threat, Yang lands a direct hit on the eye. Nevermore screeching in pain, it loops back around, heading straight for the girl. In slow motion, it seems as if Yang will be swallowed whole, but no, she stands in the jaw of the beast, repeatedly blasting bullets inside and to its stomach. "I. Hope. You're. Hun. Gry!" Every word is punctuated with a fire from her gauntlet.
"I swear!"
Raider grabs the attention of others, "This is one of the scenes that proves why I love Yang so much!"
Before anyone could ask, Raider resumed the episode.
Yang backflips from its mouth, just in time for the Nevermore to hardly impact the cliffside. Heading back to her team, it was Weiss's turn to play. Creating a barrier of ice on the tip of the bird's tail, preventing it from escaping. She retreats to her team, Blake launching Gambol Shroud for Yang to take the other end. Ruby's scythe gives it pressure, pulling it back. Weiss uses a gravitational pull, holding Ruby next to her.
The whole thing fabricating their own slingshot. "Of course you would come up with this idea." "Think you can make the shot?" Humming with a smile, "Can I?" To a confused Ruby who asks again, though Weiss yells at her, assuring Ruby she could.
Launching herself, the Nevermore has a scythe to its throat. Weiss keeps Ruby grounded on the cliff using her glyphs.
Ruby screams as she drags the Nevermore, finishing the final blow by decapitating its head once she reaches the top.
The camera recedes, showing the body of the dead grimm, falling into the abyss.
"Woah…"
Ruby walks to the edge of the cliff, looking down on its terrain. "Well, that was a thing."
"Teamwork for the win! Woo!" Raider raises her fists into the air in celebration.
"Yeah! Team RWBY!"
The sisters yelled in unison, Weiss didn't join in the yelling, but she had a warm smile plastered on her face. Same as Blake who leaned in closer to her friends.
Going back to Ruby, the sound of applause was heard in the background. "Russel Thrush, Cardin Winchester,"
"Boo! I don't like that guy!"
"We can see that now, but do you really have to point that out?"
"Ozzy, I can name all the people I dislike in this room, and I have no shame in doing so."
"I don't like Adam, Jacque, Tyrian, and the final person," she says, staring directly at Cinder. "I HATE YOU, with a burning passion, for multiple reasons you'll see in the show for yourselves."
Weiss and Ruby moved further away from the girl, both worried for their safeties. "You two are fine, you don't have to worry." Though, that didn't help them in the slightest.
"Dove Bronzewing, Sky Lark." Ozpin introduces one of Beacon's newest teams. "The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team CRDL [Cardinal]. Lead by, Cardin Winchester."
"That boy is a menace to society!"
"We get it, you've voiced your displeasure, you don't need to do it again."
Everyone in the audience claps. Jaune and his friends are the next ones to make their way onto the stage.
"Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces."
"It looked like gold, but whatever."
"From this day forward, you will work together as Team JNPR [Juniper]."
"Woo! Go team!"
"Yeah!"
"Lead by, Jaune Arc." "Huh?" Flabbergasted that he was chosen to be leader.
"L-Lead by…?" Nodding his head in affirmation, "Congratulations, young man."
Pyrrha gives him a friendly punch, not expecting it as Jaune falls on his butt. Laughs erupted in the background.
"And finally, Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee and Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces, from this day forward, you will work together as Team RWBY [Ruby]. Lead by, Ruby Rose."
"Question, on a scale of one to ten, how surprised were you to be made leader?"
"12" answered both Ruby and Weiss. "That question wasn't for you, but I guess the question is all the same."
"I was incredibly proud of my sister!"
Ruby's surprise, as well as Weiss's, are clearly shown. "I'm so proud of you!" Bringing her sister into a large bear hug.
"Looks like things are shaping up to be an…interesting year."
"No kidding, this is only the beginning."
The screen raises into the sky to show their shattered moon. But it then presents the inside of a warehouse. Roman is observing the map in front of him plastered on the wall, in a current conversation with someone. He hangs up with a groan before lighting a cigar.
A grunt brings over a sum of money and a large suitcase. The grunt tells him to open it. When doing so, he is met with a grand amount of crystals. Picking up an ice crystal, he whispers to no one in particular, "We're gonna need more men."
The camera zooms in on the map, and on it are a bunch of marks, describing each section of Vale.
The camera fades to black, showing the end credits of the episode.
"Okay, any questions?" Raider says, the moment the screen goes black.
"Why such hate on the young man, Cardin?" Ghira asked, a little confused.
"Oh, it will be shown for sure once we get there, I believe it might be shown in these few upcoming episodes, if I remember correctly." Raider received a nod as he sat back down next to his wife.
"So~" Raider turns to the Bumblebees with a smirk, "You look a lot comfortable there Blake, so how's it feel?"
Producing a deep blush, the girls separate, but not fast enough for anyone to know what Raider was implying. "Hehe~ Don't mind me, we're all here to relax and unwind."
Out of both ships, Whiterose and Bumbleby, this is the one I want to happen first. And yes, I greatly stan those ships, so sue me if you find it as a crime!
I mean, after all their moments together, you clearly be blind if you can't see that they love each other.
Yang and Blake avoided all the gazes being shot their way, but they were mainly trying to avoid each other. Kinda impossible considering they were sitting right next to the other.
"Welp, let's move on! I'm gonna leave the tension like this! Haha."