Sorry about that, I have an upcoming exam and several interviews to do.

Pardon my grammar.


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SLVR - Mark Zhang

RWBY - Rooster Teeth

I also strongly advise you to watch the SLVR Trailer on YouTube. The animations gets better as it goes on.


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The screen turned dark as white texts fade in on the screen:

"May dust be brought to dust but not bring despair, for there is no futility even in death."

Ozpin had a thoughtful expression. "An interesting outlook."

"Ah, the many perceptive that philosophy gives to us." Oobleck chuckles, earning him a nod from Yatsuhashi and Ren.

The scene cuts to a stone bridge built in front of a waterfall; lined with pillars on the edges connecting two bastions together. Three trucks drove out from one of the bastions, transporting men in green uniforms, bandanas, and sunglasses. The center truck was carrying a single large cargo that seems to be of importance.

"An interesting place of choice to construct a fortress." Oobleck's eyes darted left and right as he imprinted the architecture into his mind. "It reminds me of the medieval fortresses that I once studied in the outer reaches of Vale." The history professor sighed, "It's a shame that so many places are lost and unexplored."

"Ha! You should use all your vacation days if you want to unearth the treasures of the olden days! If that's how people romanticized these days…" Port scratched his head.

Oobleck shook his head, "Maybe one day."

A slightly tanned young man with red-orange eyes and black hair stood on top of a pillar. He wore a gray, flat fedora with a fringe sticking out from the side, folded orange sleeves, a black vest with matching pants and gloves.

"Hey, Neptune." Sun nudged at his partner, "You should change your attire for once. It looks so much better than what you're currently wearing."

Neptune responded by nudging Sun back. "It doesn't suit my hair color."

The young man pointed his weapon at the first truck and fired, shooting out one of its front tires, causing it swerved left and right before coming to a screeching halt. Sparks showered the stone floor as the disabled truck finally came to a halt in an awkward position, unintentionally blocking the other trucks from passing through the bridge.

The camera cuts back to the young man, revealing himself to be Brandon Charbonneau. His expression was professionally serious as he leaped down from the pillar and landed at the center of the bridge.

Roman and Coco whistled at Brandon's choice of clothing with approval.

"The kid got a hat comparative with mine." Roman felt the brim of his hat, wondering if it's time to change his style. "And he certainly knows how to dress for the occasion."

"Snazzy outfit he got there. I like it."

"He's got a nice face. Quite the pretty boy." Yang licked her lips, earning her several stares from her peers. "Just saying." She shrugged.

Weiss shook her head, "How vulgar."

The men in green leaped from their truck, wielding curved swords while a handful of them took cover behind the truck and hoisted their rifles. Brandon was surrounded.

Winter did not look all too pleased. "He could have chosen a better landing spot than the center where he would be surrounded by the front and rear."

"He seems to be confident in his abilities," Glynda said, taking note of the young man's casual demeanor. "Something which I highly advised against."

"Green ninjas!" Nora shouted before catching herself. "No, no. That doesn't sound good… Oh! Maybe, the Jade Ninjas!"

"They look too goofy to be ninjas…" Jaune said.

Sun agreed, "I'm with Jaune on this one."

Coco snorted, "Their fashion senses… Eck."

The 'Jade Ninjas' closed in on Brandon, brandishing their swords. One got within striking distance, bringing his sword up but was swiftly countered as Brandon grabbed the Jade Ninja by the arm and flipped him over. Brandon kicked his opponent square in the chest, sending him barreling towards two of his comrades, taking them out of the fight.

Brandon then parried another attack and countered it with a kick. He then spun around, deflecting another attack as he hooked Magnum Opus around one of his opponent's sword and spun kicked two Jade Ninjas. Brandon shifted the direction of his kick midair to counter a swing from another Jade Ninja, temporary giving him a moment to analyze his surroundings.

Mercury clapped his hand as he watched the young man on-screen easily dispatched his opponents. "This guy certainly knows his tricks and kicks, even if his opponents are small fries."

"They look like some sort southern Mistralian crime group." Emerald mocked their silly look.

Back at the 'hero' section, Ozpin was musing over something. "Who is he? I believe we saw the entirety of Team SLVR. A friend of theirs?"

"His name is Brandon Charbonneau. You will soon know of his affiliation."

Ozpin and his inner circle frowned at that, feeling that something was off.

Despite being outnumbered, Brandon wiped the floor with his opponents, literally at times.

The rifle-wielding Jade Ninjas finally decided to act, firing several rounds at Brandon as he dodges and deflected them with ease. Unwilling to keep this up, Brandon rolled out of the barrage and lunged towards a Jade Ninja, twisting his arm while jumping over him.

Holding the Jade Ninja in front of him as a human shield, Brandon aimed his gun and shot the rifle out of his assailants' hand before knocking out his human shield as four Jade Ninjas rushed towards him. Their swords swung overhead as they aimed for at his backside.

"Smart kid." Qrow smiled at the display, "Underhand tactic, but it works well."

"It works wonders." Roman chuckles.

Brandon casually spun around and ensnared their swords with the backside of Magnus Opus, shattering their blades with a blast from his weapon. The Jade Ninjas stared at their shatter weapons, starting to understand the situation.

Seeing that they were heavily outmatched the remaining Jade Ninjas turned tail and fled to the bastion, leaving everything behind including their cargo.

"It looks like he's trying to take whatever is in the container, with style." Roman grinned as he folded his arms. "I must be his role model."

Cinder's group and the 'hero' section rolled their eyes at that while Mercury laughed at the fleeing Jade Ninjas, "What a sad bunch."

"Hey, Ren?"

"Yes, Nora?"

"I just realized his weapon is similar to yours."

Ren paused before nodding. "So, it does."

"Hmm… Similar hair color and build." Nora was examining her partner's figure, causing chills to run down Ren's spine.

"Nora? What are you thinking?"

"Oh, nothing. Don't worry about it, Renny." She patted him on the shoulder while donning her typical grin. "Don't worry."

It wasn't an assuring statement.

"A brave and skill lad, this young man is." Port praised but furrowed his eyebrow. "But what is he doing there alone?"

"We all have the same question, Professor Port." Ozpin agreed, "Hopefully we'll get our answer soon."

"You will in due time."

Brandon let the Jade Ninjas go as he walked over to the truck that housed a large container. He narrowed his eyes as the camera pans to the side, revealing a dark gray samurai with a yellow faceplate.

Jaune looked at the samurai figure quizzically. "Is that their boss?"

"Hm… I get the feeling that it's not." Pyrrha replied.

"Southern Mistralian armor. Interesting. It seems that whoever these people are, they still value their traditional heritage greatly." Oobleck had seen similar looking armors in the museums, but they were often lamellar armor. "They look like stone statues. Almost. How intriguing."

The stone-like samurai twirled his polearm as the green gemstone at the center of its forehead gleamed. Another stone samurai landed behind the first, followed by another as more burst out of the waterfall.

Brandon quickly took aim and fired at the descending stone samurais, taking a few out before switching his target at the small army in front of him. A lone stone samurai charged first. It leaped into the air, deflecting several gunshots and launched its polearm at Brandon. He shuffled back, letting the spear bury itself into the stone bridge with the stone samurai landing not soon after to retrieve its polearm.

The stone samurai attacked, its polearm blurring slightly as the blade swiped near Brandon's face. Unimpressed, Brandon changed his grip on Magnus Opus, letting his weapon fold outward and extending it into a curved sword. He viciously lashed at the stone samurai, causing it to skitter back, seemingly unharmed before the shaft of its polearm snapped, followed by the stone samurai.

"Simple, but practical." Ruby nodded with approval of Brandon's weapon.

"They're… Androids?" Penny tilted her head in confusion. "Judging by the green crystal atop of its head, I presume that it is the source of its motor functions."

Ironwood rubbed his chin as he watched the stone samurai fall apart. "I believe you may be right on that, Penny. Perhaps these people still use an older method of powering their android?"

"Unfortunately, I am not fully versed in technological endeavors," Oobleck said regrettably.

Brandon effortlessly cut through a charging stone samurai, followed by another as his blade sliced through their shafts and exoskeletons. The stone samurais were nothing of significance to Brandon as he destroyed one with a kick, scattering it into pieces as it crashed onto the floor.

"Those androids have such poor durability," Winter said as she shook her head. It was as if they were made out of brittle stone.

Ironwood winced at the poor performance of the stone samurais. "They show impressive maneuvers, but horrible robustness."

"… That's just sad." Qrow agreed.

Pieces of the fallen stone samurais piled up as Brandon sliced through them with ease. Still, Brandon was outnumbered and delayed as three of them circled around him. They closed in and stabbed with their polearms, missing their target as Brandon jumped and landed on their interlocking weapon.

The stone samurais launch him into the air as they freed their weapons, allowing Brandon to windup in air. As Brandon started to descend, he secured his hat and spun down, decapitating three stone samurais as he landed with grace.

"I think I found my successor." Roman laughed as Neo flatly stared at him. "The kid got class, Neo." The pink and brown-haired girl rolled her eyes.

"As if anyone would want to be your successor." Blake snarked.

"Kitty is showing her claws now."

"Quiet, Yang."

Mercury couldn't help but pour salt into the 'wound'. "Burned, Roman. Burned."

Seeing that he was running short on time, Brandon raised Magnus Opus as his eyes glowed bright red-orange, his blade sharing an orange glow.

"I believe we'll get to see his semblance." Glynda pushed her glasses up.

"Correct. Brandon's semblance allows him to increase the heat of anything he touches. He is currently not using Dust to empower his blade."

"I see."

Cinder smirked, "A semblance similar like mines."

"…" Mercury suddenly shivered as he just thought of something disgusting. "It's like Cinder and Roman had a child… Augh." He scrunched up his face as Emerald sputtered something incomprehensible. "Hair and eye color. Sense of style; possibly eluding to stealing. Similar semblance…" Mercury stopped himself before he received a death sentence.

"Mercury." Cinder said with a deathly cold tone.

"Uh. Forget what I said, ma'am."

A few rows back, Roman was recoiling with horror. "This is why divorce exists."

"Yup." Neo's sign said in agreement as she temporarily watched Emerald trying to strangle Mercury.

Brandon dashed through the hordes of stone samurais, cutting them down like butter. Deciding to finish things quicker, Brandon stabbed a stone samurai in the head and unleashed a fiery wind slash, slicing through several stone samurais in one go.

Magnus Opus shifted back to its rifle form as the internal barrel started glowing bright orange as Brandon began firing at his diminishing opponents, ending them with a single shot as his semblance easily cut through their weapons and armor.

There were only a handful of stone samurais left, their numbers drastically reduced. The remaining ones grouped up and formed a phalanx as a last-ditch defense.

Magnus Opus switched to its sword form, rearing back as Brandon activated his semblance and lunged towards the bunched-up stone samurais, slicing through all of them within a second.

The stone samurais stood still for a few seconds before promptly falling apart with searing cut marks across their exoskeletons as Brandon reloaded his weapon, not bothering to glance back as he let his fallen adversaries disintegrate into ashes.

"I didn't catch that one." Velvet sighed as she readjusted her camera.

"This reminds me of Forever Falls…" Blake whispered softly. The train, the scattering leaves, Adam…

Orange to black, the flakes of ash scattered to the wind; drifting away from the roaring waterfall as Brandon leaned on one of the pillars, waiting for his ride. The tail of his vest billowed in the wind; his eyes closed as he relaxed.

The sound of whirring engines made him open a single eye as a familiar airship flew over the bridge, hovering over the truck still holding onto its cargo.

Qrow narrowed his eyes, "That airship looks really familiar."

"It's the airship that dropped down in front of Team SLVR from the previous presentation," Glynda replied.

"Huh, I think I know where this is going…"

Yang blinked, "So, does that mean this guy is…?"

A cable shot out and latched itself onto the cargo, hoisting it to the belly of the airship before departing. The airship rotated around the pillar, opening its hatch; allowing Brandon to board the airship.

"Pandora?" Jaune asked with a surprised expression.

"Seems like it," Ren answered.

Ozpin and his group didn't say anything. They didn't know much about Pandora and their goals, so they will be withholding most of their judgment, for now.

"What a thief." Roman applauded along with Neo.

The screen faded black and cut to Brandon standing in front of a group of Armors, looking smugly at the camera before going dark.

"Interesting turn of events." Cinder said.

"So, the guy is part of Pandora? The bad guy and all?" Coco asked the Hosts.

"We will delve more into it in the future, but for now we must continue our presentation."

Ozpin frowned, "If I may ask, why the rush?"

"There is no rush. Some things are best said at another time." The Hosts answered cryptically, "We will now increase the roster of our guests. Raven Branwen and her close associate, Vernal, along with Taiyang Xiao Long; shall be joining us."

Ruby and Yang gasped, "Dad will be joining us?!"

"Ah, I thought I heard Yang's last name in there."

"Oh great, Rae is going to be here." Qrow sighed as he turned towards his niece, Yang. "Well, you always wanted to meet your mother. Here she is." He waved in the air, but nothing happened. Qrow simply shrugged before taking a drink from his flask. "Eh, soon."

"Raven… Branwen." Yang muttered her mother's name. Her face turned into a frown as she remembered another piece of information the Hosts had said. "Who's this Vernal?"

"A bandit of the Branwen Tribe. You may consider her a close associate of your mother."

Ozpin and his inner circle mentally braced themselves as Raven will be blaming them for dragging her into this even if they had nothing to do with it. Or… Do they?

"Got it." Yang cracked her knuckles as if she was ready to fight.

Team RWBY had a concerned look on her face. "Yang, are you going to be okay?" Ruby asked with puppy eyes.

Yang sighed, "I… I'll be fine. I promised."

"Our guests have arrived."

"Oh, boy." Qrow chugged down the remaining liquid in his flask.

Tai, Raven, and Vernal popped into existent; dropping in on their respective seats. All three of them blinked before eyeing each other, a bit shocked to do anything. It wasn't until Ruby greeted her father did they snapped out of their stupor.

"Hi, Dad! We're over here!" Ruby waved.

"Ruby, Yang!" He exclaimed as he jumped out of his seat to reach them. "What are you girls doing here? And more importantly, where are we?"

"We're in some sort of magically place where these powerful entities called the Hosts to make us watch a movie or something." Qrow slurred while pointing at the large screen.

Tai turned to look at his brother-in-law. "Qrow? You're here too?"

"Heya, Tai." Qrow greeted his friend but narrowed his eyes at Raven Branwen, Qrow's 'older' sister. "Don't get your feathers ruffled up, Rae."

Raven's eyes were blazing with anger as she leered at Ozpin and his inner circle. "Ozpin…" She hissed, wanting to get away from Ozpin and this place. "What did you drag me into?" The raven-haired woman stressed the last word with venom.

"Raven. I assure you that I am not responsible for this." Ozpin calmly sipped on his mug, ignoring the enraged look his former student was giving him.

"Don't lie to me." Raven gritted her teeth.

"Hey, Raven…" Tai cautiously greeted his former wife. "How's it going?"

"Yeah, mom," Yang said with a smile that didn't reach her eyes. "How's it going?"

Vernal stood up and blocked their line of sight. "Raven? What do we do?"

"Family troubles. Give me popcorn." Mercury snickered as a bowl of popcorn appeared on his lap.

"Silence." The Hosts commanded. After a brief moment of silence, the Hosts continued. "We welcome our guests. Make yourself comfortable as we shall explain your situation."

/-/

"This is obviously Ozpin's fault," Raven mumbled under her breath as Vernal looked at her leader with concern.

Tai awkwardly scratched his head as he sat next to Qrow. "She's really not liking this."

"Yeah. Rae can be a little bit grumpy. Bratty and pouty when she thinks Oz is involved."

"Is she still upset about… You know?"

Qrow shrugged, "Eh, I don't know what goes through her mind these days. Rae doesn't like to talk to me since forever."

"That does sound like her."

"So, what are you going to tell Yang?"

"… I don't know." Tai sighed, scratching his chin as he pondered what he should do now that the family is all here. Minus Summer, Ruby's mother… "I'll think of something, or you can."

"Ha, no can do Tai. This ain't my mess."

The Hosts interrupted their conversation as it was time for the next presentation. "We will now continue on with our presentation. Bear in mind, that you shall be witnessing things within and beyond your realities."

The room and screen darkened as the next presentation began to play.


NEXT: RWBY: 30 Days - Angel

One more reaction to a fan animation before we move onto something different. That does not mean I wouldn't be doing more reaction to fan animations, but I won't be doing it for now.

I also strongly advise you to watch the SLVR Trailer on YouTube. The animations gets better as it goes on.


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