Chp. 11: Initiation Generation Pt. 1

Amphitheater

August 11, 2020

The next day, students were all gathered, including Teams RWBY, GRMA, JNPR, CFDT, and CFVY to watch the new students taking part in the initiation. Everyone sat down onto the bleachers as a large holographic screen appeared over the stage.

"I hope Azumi will do okay in the initiation," Kelly said.

"I'm sure she'll be fine, Kelly," Allen said.

"Honestly, I'm more worried about Oscar," Ruby said.

"I'm sure Oscar will be fine. Professor Ozpin trained him, remember?" Pyrrha asked.

"But, he does have the least combat experience," Britney said.

"Who knows? He could be like Jaune. He started off with little to no combat experience, but helped defeat the Death Stalker in Volume 1," Ricky said.

"Hopefully they can both find decent partners," Blake said.

"What about Emerald, Mercury, and Ilia?" Rebecca asked.

"They'll be fine. They have experience after all," Ren said.

"That hasn't stopped Hazel from worrying about Emerald and Mercury," Nora said.

"I can't blame him. He did lose his sister in a training accident under Professor Ozpin's care," Robert said.

"Like Ren said, Mercury and Emerald will be fine," Jacob said.

"That's right. They've clearly got this," Weiss said.

"No need to worry about them," Yang said.


Beacon Cliff

Meanwhile at the Beacon Cliff, a mug-holding Professor Ozpin and Glynda are standing in front of the new initiates, including Watson, Jesse, Jacket, Hera, Azumi, Oscar, Ilia, Emerald, and Mercury as they are all standing on the silver tiles.

Oscar now wears an olive coat with shoulder pads and a belt both of dark red. Underneath, he wears a white collared shirt and bandages wrapped around the neck. His gloves are a slightly open U-shape with black X-pattern wrist straps. He also wears black trousers and red boots colored orange at the toe.

"Some of you have been training for years to become warriors, while most of you had been training for months due to most of you being Terrans. But today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest." Ozpin said.

"Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of "teams." Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates... today," Glynda explained.

"I wonder who my partner is gonna be," Watson thought.

"These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon, or at least until you choose to transfer to the new academies until they are finished with construction if you chose to do so. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well," Ozpin explained. "That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years. After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path... or you will die."

Some of the students gave out surprised expressions on their faces.

"Die?" Jesse asked with wide eyes.

"Wait. What?" Jacket asked with his eyes widened like Jesse's.

"You will be monitored and graded through the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene. You will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path containing several relics. Each pair must choose one and return to the top of the cliff. We will regard that item, as well as your standing, and grade you appropriately," Ozpin explained. "Are there any questions?"

"I have several questions," Azumi said with a raised finger.

"Good! Now, take your positions," Ozpin said, completely ignoring Azumi.

Watson crouches low as the tile underneath him launches him into the air and over the forest.

"Wait a minute! You never told-" Jesse gets cut off as he gets launched into the air like Watson.

"Fuck this! I'm-" Jacket gets cut off as well as he gets launched as well.

One by one, students rocketed up into the air and over into the forest, including Mercury, Ilia, Emerald, and Hera. Azumi looks to her side as Oscar standing right next to her gets launched.

"Well... might as well," Azumi said as she crouched low.

Azumi then gets launched into the air with the cloud of students now making their way down into the forest below under the eyes of the teachers. Ozpin took a sip from his mug as he watched.

Jacket pulled out a Mossberg 590M Shockwave 12 Gauge Mag-Fed Pump Action shotgun spray painted dark green and fired shot after shot down at the ground below, slowing down his fall He then rolled himself on to the ground and got back up to his feet and started running. He turns around to face the direction upon where he was launched.

"I'm gonna fucking kill you for this, Ozprick!" Jacket yelled.

Watson pulled out Little Bladers in their karambit knives form and struck them into an oncoming tree and spirals around the tree trunk and lands safely onto the ground. He looks around for a moment before walking through the forest. While in the air, Jesse pulled out a pair of MAC-10 submachine guns with suppressors spray painted dark yellow, and transformed them into a pair of machetes and sliced through oncoming branches. He rolled himself onto the ground and got back up to his feet. While in the air, Azumi points One For All downward and struck a chord, shooting a blast of air at the oncoming ground, slowing down her fall and safely landing onto the ground.

"That was nothing," Azumi said as she then started to walk into the forest.

Oscar spreads his arms and legs out to slow his fall. He grabs onto a nearby tree branch and swings towards another tree branch and lands on top of it. Emerald pulls out Thief's Respite in their Kusarigama form and hurls them into a nearby tree and swings herself down safely to the ground. Ilia pulls out Lightning Lash and wraps it around a tree and swings safely onto the ground. Just before Mercury hits the ground, he shoots a large gust of air at the ground flipping himself over and lands safely onto the ground and starts running through the forest.


Beacon Academy

Amphitheater

Meanwhile back in the amphitheater, the students continue watching the initiation on the new students.

"Well, they all made it," Jacob said.

"I'm glad Oscar came up with a landing strategy. In the end of Volume 7, Oscar would have died if Ozpin hadn't intervened," Ruby said.

"Yeah, he did have Ozpin inside of him at that time," Jaune said.

"Bow chicka bow wow!" Ricky said.

"Shut up, dolt," Weiss said.


Emerald Forest

Back in the Emerald Forest, Azumi walks through the forest looking around. She soon stops upon hearing growling. She turns to face some bushes as she holds up One For All, readying herself. An Ursa jumps out of the bushes and rushes towards Azumi. She transformed her guitar into her ax and stepped to the side, avoiding the oncoming Ursa. The Grimm turns to face Azumi just as she swung her guitar down, chopping it's head off. Suddenly, a Beowolf rushed out of the bushes and charged towards Azumi. Before She could do anything, gunshots rang out as the Grimm dropped dead to the ground in front of Azumi. She turned her head to face where the shots came from and saw Watson step out of the bushes lowering his pistols.

"I guess we're partners now?" Watson asked.

"Looks like it," Azumi answered.

"Then I guess we better find ourselves a relic," Watson said.


Meanwhile in another part of the forest, Jacket is walking through the woods. He pushes some plants and bushes out of the way before brushing himself off.

"This is why I am not an outdoorsman," Jacket said.

He stopped when heard the sound of growling. He turns to see a Boarbatusk studying him. Jacket pulls out his shotgun and cocks it. The Boarbatusk rolls into a ball and rushes toward him. Jacket fires a couple shots at the Grimm as they bounce harmlessly off of it. Jacket rolls out of the way from the Grimm's attack as it then rolls around and rushes at him again. He transforms his shotgun into a bat as he then whacks the oncoming Boarbatusk away and into a tree. The Grimm gets up and just as it gets up, a couple streams of bullets suddenly strike the Grimm on its side.

Jacket turns his head to see Jesse running towards the Boarbatusk while shooting at it with his submachine guns. As soon as the Grimm turns its attention towards Jesse, Jacket charges towards it and whacks it in the head, knocking it to its side. Jesse then rushed over as he transformed his guns into his machetes. He then slashed at its under belly, causing it to squeal in pain before dying. The two boys turned to face each other.

"Somehow this doesn't surprise me," Jacket said.

"What? The fact that we're partners?" Jesse asked.

"Pretty much. We already work well together anyway," Jacket answered.

"No surprise there. We should probably get moving," Jesse said.

"Right." Jacket said.

The two boys began to walk through the woods together.

"Who do you think our other teammates are gonna be?" Jesse asked.

"Who knows. As long as they aren't total shitbags," Jacket replied.


Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Oscar was walking through the woods but then stopped upon hearing something wrestle in the trees. He looked up at the trees and hopped out of the leaves and onto a branch was Ilia. They both looked at each other for a moment before giving an awkward wave.

"Ummm... Hi," Oscar greeted.

Ilia jumps down off of the tree and lands on the ground.

"I guess we should find the temple now that we're partners?" Oscar asked.

"Looks that way," Ilia answered.


In another part of the forest, Mercury was running through the forest and stopped upon hearing a chain rattling behind him. He turns around to see Emerald swing down with Thief's Respite and lands right in front of him.

"I figured we'd be partners," Mercury said.

"Unsurprisingly," Emerald said with an eye roll.

"Let's get this over with," Mercury said. "Like we need any luck."

Emerald and Mercury began running through the forest to find the temple housing the relics.


Author's Note: More news on Rooster Teeth: Barbara Dunkelman has severed all ties with Rooster Teeth and will no longer be working with the company, however she will at the very least continue to reprise her roll as Yang Xiao Long. Many employees who had partaken in the mistreatment and abuse of other employees have been fired, including the guy who had threatened to have Arryn Zech and Samantha Ireland recasted.

In my opinion though, Rooster Teeth is most likely doing damage control. I believe they aren't sorry they had mistreated their employees, but were sorry they got caught and were called out for it. If Rooster Teeth does fall and the chose to sell of RWBY, my most likely guesses are that it will get sold off to either Studio SHAFT (because they helped make RWBY Ice Queendom), or Toho and Bones (because they had made successful anime shows like Soul Eater, My Hero Academia, and Fullmetal Alchemist). What do you guys think?