The Audience see Qrow and Robyn interact during a museum party. And then he looks at the photo she mentioned before the Audience see some nightmare fuel.
Cast
Bruce Wayne/Batman: Qrow Branwen
Diana Prince/Wonder Woman: Robyn Hill
Clark Kent/Superman/General Kal: Oscar Pine
Barry Allen/The Flash: Ruby Rose
The scene starts with a handful of waiters watching TV with a man criticizing Superman's costume. "Blue costume and. . . I don't know, the fact he has a letter from Mistral on his chest." he said. "I assume the only reason he's not wearing the flag of Haven as a cape is because he thinks it's too on the nose."
Suddenly the voice of the staff's boss spoke. "What is going on back here?" He asked and the men all stood up. "Come on, guys, let's go." he said. The waiters race to pick up trays and glasses.
"Get yourselves together and get out there." The boss ordered. "Get those glasses on those trays, we got thirsty people out there."
"Half full." he added as the waiters walked out of the kitchen and out into a museum. "Remember, half full."
Other than frowning at the TV responder's words about Superman's costume while Oscar crossed his arms with a insulted huff. Ruby patted him on the shoulder with a comforting smile. Darth Anarchus snorted, thinking of a certain fight between the Son of Krypton and the son of Odin.
Ironwood gained a thoughtful expression. "Does Superman have any loyalty to the Kingdoms?" he asked.
The Host narrowed his eyes a little. "To the public, most Supermen variants give up their citizenships, and help everyone." he replied. "But in the end, most of them, in the words of other superheroes, they're Boy Scouts."
The curator was seen. He grabs a glass for himself before he walks over Robyn who wears a silver and yellow dress. "I wonder, would you excuse us?" he said to the people Robyn was speaking to before turning to Robyn. "There's something I'd like to show you." he stated.
"Excuse me," Robyn said to the people she was speaking with before being guided by the curator.
"Now some scholars insist that it never happened, but I believe it's the action." the elderly man says to Robyn as they walk through the halls of the museum. "Perfectly in keeping a King who was feared and respected by the other three Kingdoms of old."
"For me, it's the culmination of 40 years curating, and I can't believe it, but I finally got it here." They stop before a sword on display with a curved handle.
"It's the sword of the King of Vale." The curator says to Robyn. "It's the blade that killed hundreds of soldiers to end the Great War. It's a triumph."
"Oh, I was wondering what this scene was going to be about." Sun said, intrigued.
Weiss rose an eyebrow. "Is that the real sword?" she asked.
"It would be a triumph as the curator says," Oobleck declared, "it would indeed be a triumph."
"It would be one of the only weapon relics from the Great War," Glynda said in agreement. "And a weapon that didn't have some gun attachment to it." she added in exasperation.
Coco suddenly coughed. "Riding crop." She coughed again. Glynda snapped her head to the fashionista's direction but Coco didn't say anything.
Oscar gained a thoughtful expression. Where was the King of Vale's sword?
"Yes." Robyn nods in agreement "Enjoy." The curator walks away.
"Thank you." Robyn nods her head to him.
She stares down at the sword on display. Then the Audience sees Qrow walking to her right side. He looks at her before looking at the sword. He was silent for a moment. "It's a fake." he declared to her quietly. "The real one was sold in '98 on the black market, now it hangs-"
"Over the bed of the Sultan of Hajar." Robyn finished his statement in a knowing tone and she looks up to Qrow. She smirks slightly at him. "Excuse me." she said and walked away.
Oobleck frowned upon hearing that the sword was fake. Port patted him on the back.
Robyn and Qrow smirked a little at seeing each other interact on screen. Qrow blushed a little, thinking Robyn was killing it in that dress.
Tai and Summer smiled a little. Raven crossed her arms, her lips curling up ever so slightly.
Qrow walked after her. "Excuse me, Miss." he said, grabbing her arm. She looks at his hand and up to him as he guides her through the hall. "The other night you took something that doesn't belong to you. Stealing is not polite." He states as he looks to her.
"Is it stealing, if you steal from another thief?" Robyn countered with a raised eyebrow.
"Damn," Qrow muttered to himself while Robyn smiled triumphantly.
"I mean, she's got a point," Sun said with a shrug.
"You're just saying that because you've done things similar." Blake pointed out. Sun put his hands on his hips.
Qrow glanced away before asking, "Who are you?"
"Someone interested in the same man you are." Robyn replied cryptically.
"Is that right?" Qrow asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I believe Mr. Merlot has a photograph that belongs to me." Robyn explained vaguely.
"Did you get it?" Qrow asked out of mild curiosity.
"As it happens, no, I didn't." Robyn admitted with a shake of her head. "The data you copied has military grade encryption." she added. That was to be expected from a billionaire whose company works on weapons. She moves to walk away but Qrow grabs her arm again.
"Where do you think you're going?" Qrow asked teasingly. Robyn smiled back slyly.
"You know, I bet with that dress, 9 out of 10 men would let you get away with anything." He said knowingly, leaning in close to her ear.
Both Robyn's rose an eyebrow. "But you're the 10th?" she asked.
"No, I'm guessing I'm the first." Qrow replied. "To see through that babe-in-the woods act."
He leans in closer. "You don't know me, but I've known a few women like you." He whispered as memories of dangerous adversaries and foes he had met of the opposite sex came to mind.
Robyn smirked as she turns around to face him. "Oh, I don't think you've ever known a woman like me." she replied slyly.
"Damn, I like her fire." Coco chuckled.
Qrow chuckled. "She ain't wrong." he murmured as he looked to Robyn who stared back.
Qrow rose an eyebrow at her statement with a skeptical smirk. "You know it's true what they say about little boys: born with no natural inclination to share." Robyn remarked.
"Oh, I'm hurt," Qrow said mockingly, placing a hand on his chest.
"I grew up with little brothers," Robyn replied. "Boys don't like to share when they're younger. Let them mature and they know better." She winked.
"I didn't steal your drive. I borrowed it." She said before adjusting Qrow's tie. She leans in to whisper to his ear. "You'll find it in the glove compartment of your car."
Blake pulled a notebook and started writing something with a blush.
"The tension between is making me dizzy," Adam shook his head. "The one on screen or in the theater next to us?" Ilia rose an eyebrow.
"Yes."
Robyn chuckled to herself while Qrow stared at the screen in surprise. "Well, you got to be talented to sneak past the Bat that well." he stated.
She pulls back and nods to him. "Mr. Branwen." She bid before turning around and walking away. Qrow watched her leave with a curious and intrigued expression.
Both Robyn and Qrow stared at one another with a matching expression. Qrow raised his drink to his lips while maintaining eye contact.
The scene changed to the Bat Cave as the Audience see Qrow hooking his drive to his Bat Computer. He waits for it to load its data before it was complete. He opens up the app he scrolled through the data before clicking on the file labeled, "METAHUMANS."
He saw five symbols. A 'W', a 'C', a lightning bolt and a shark tooth. He narrowed his eyes slightly before clicking on the 'W'. The first thing he saw was a photo of Robyn stepping out of a car wearing a blue shirt. He titled his head slightly before watching security footage of her walking to an ATM wearing a maroon dress. She looks up to the camera before the footage ended. Qrow then saw a document labeled 'Mantle, Solitas, 1918.' His eyes widened slightly as he saw a black and white photo of Robyn Hill standing in metal armor with a black coat and looking like she didn't age a day in the past eighty years.
Many felt intrigued upon seeing the symbols. But then they looked on with wide eyes upon seeing Robyn in the photo.
"Damn, and I thought I looked good for my age," Qrow chuckled.
"I probably took a page from your book." Robyn remarked.
Qrow's eyes widen as his jaw clenches. His mind races over possibilities of what this means. A member of the Al Ghul family? One that the Demon had kept hidden from even Qrow himself when he met the League?
"Al Ghul family? The Demon?" Winter repeated.
"The League?" Raven asked.
The Host held up his hand. "All in due time," he said. Then he gestured to the screen.
The screen went dark with a sound of the Black Zero heard.
Then suddenly the Audience see Qrow walking out of a bunker door. He wears his Batsuit with a dirtied brown trench coat, a black scarf around his lower face, a machine gun strapped to his shoulder with a pistol holstered on his right thigh and goggles on his head. Apocalyptic music plays and then the Audience see that the once tundra environment of Solitas was replaced by a scorching desert, pillars of fire were seen in the distance next to Atlas and there was a large Omega symbol branded in the earth that was once the harbor between Mantle and Atlas. He holds a pair of binoculars to his eyes and sees an armored bus and convoy driving in the distance. He lowers the binoculars and stares off to the distance.
"What the Hell?" Many exclaimed.
"What the fuck happened?" Roman exclaimed. "I thought Mantle and Atlas were surrounded by ice! What are those pillars of fire?"
Those from Atlas and Mantle, even Watts were horrified at what they were seeing. Penny covered her mouth as did Winter and Weiss. Ironwood, Whitley and the Ace-Ops all stared with eyes wide and dropped jaws.
Darth Anarchus simply waved his hand to his Clone Orchestra and had them play the apocalyptic music that started sending chills to everyone.
Ozpin, both Ozpins stared at the screen along with Oscar with wide eyes. This looked too similar to the nightmares they've had of Salem winning.
Salem narrowed her eyes upon seeing the Omega symbol.
The Audience see the inside of the armored bus and see that most of the seats were gone and the passengers were dressed in rags and armed with guns aiming out the windows between the armor plating. They arrive at the ruins of a secluded compound where more people were shown and the Audience see Bat-Qrow walking out of a tunnel, machine gun in hand, he walks around the convoy to the back of one armored transport. The driver, Leonardo Lionheart, gets out of the truck and walks to the back with him.
Many grew tense upon seeing the armored bus and the little fort.
"Okay, I got to admit, Bat-Qrow is killing it with that trench coat!" Coco exclaimed, lowering her shades. Velvet elbowed her in the stomach chidingly. Robyn nodded in slight agreement.
Oscar frowned upon seeing the Headmaster of Haven Academy as did the wizard in his head while the Ozpin of the present sighed and both he and his followers, were assured that at least Bat-Qrow wasn't alone.
Salem and her older followers glanced over to Ozpin and two of them smiled among themselves as did Cinder.
"Who are these people?" Fox asked curiously.
"They are known as the Sons of Batman," Darth Anarchus replied. Many rose an eyebrow curiously before their attention was pulled back to the screen.
The Lion Faunus climbs into the truck and a man opens the second door. Batman walks to the back of it and looks to the driver. "Did you get it? The rock?" He asked the Lion Faunus in the back of the truck.
"Yeah, we got it." the bearded man replied before walking inside the truck. The screen focused on the people dressed in cloaks standing behind most of the men before it switches to Batman climbing into the truck. He walks to the front of the trailer where Lionheart opens up a brief case labeled 'Merlot Corp.' Batman walks up to it almost reverently and a green glow hits his face. But then he and the Audience see that it was just two green lightbulbs attached to a car battery.
"The rock?" some students muttered to themselves in confusion.
Most of the adults narrowed their eyes when the man in the cloak was the main focus before they all saw the green lightbulbs.
"IT'S A TRAP!"
Confused, Batman looks up and sees Leonardo pointing a pistol at his face. "I'm sorry." he said remorsefully.
Oscar facepalmed while actually cursing under his breath.
"What?!" Ozpin, Ironwood, Glynda and Qrow exclaimed in shock along with the students.
Outside, the men in cloaks throw them off to reveal soldiers dressed in black and wearing the Superman emblem on their shoulders. "Get down! Get down! Now" they shout to the Sons of Batman. More men in black jump out of the backs of the trucks and the Audience see one in the back of the truck with Batman and Leonardo and pointing a gun at the Bat.
The Dark Knight simply held up his hands up. But then outside the soldiers raised their guns and started executing the Sons of Batman despite that they were on their knees or had their hands on the wall. Many started dropping like flies, their blood staining the sand.
Bat-Qrow's eyes widened when he heard the gun fire outside. "NOOO!" he shouted. He knocked the gun to his head aside before it fired and kicked the brief case into Leonardo then he pulled out his sidearm and shot Leonardo in the chest three times and punches the soldier. The soldier pushes him to the wall of the trailer and punches him in the face but Bat-Qrow hits him in the face with his gun before headbutting him and then shooting him in the stomach on his way of the trailer.
He jumps out and shoots two soldiers as he lands. He knocks one soldier down and swept the leg of another and then shooting and knocking another down. He swings his gun like a club into the face of another. He swings it down on another before shooting the soldier in the neck. He takes out his pistol and shoots someone out of view and then throws the sidearm at another soldier like a Batarang force the man to his knee, shoot him in the back before shooting two other soldiers and throwing the man he held to the side. He reaches down to grab the hand of one of his followers, a woman with her face covered. Despite her injuries, she tries to help him shoot the men in black but she gets shot in the stomach.
"No! Why are they doing that?!" Ruby cried out upon seeing the men being killed by the Men in Black. "They surrendered! So why?" she asked. "Why kill them?"
"They're taking orders from a ruler who does not care about how many lives are killed on both sides," Darth Anarchus replied grimly. "That's all I'm saying."
Qrow straightened and remembered how the Host had said that his Batman variant is one of the few that knows how to use a gun and at this moment, ignoring his No Killing rule. He himself had killed before, but he didn't want his nieces to see that side of him when they were hardly taking dangerous missions.
Sensing his mood, Robyn leaned to him. "Hey," she whispered. "Your counterpart only starting to kill because they started killing his men. There's nothing wrong with what your counterpart is doing."
"And you know, there's a literal apocalypse going on!" Raven said in a tone that is close to support from someone like her to her brother. "Rules like that are not necessary anymore."
Qrow rolled his eyes a little but felt a little better.
"Oh Hell yeah!" Yang cheered, her trepidation replaced with excitement. "Kick their asses, Uncle Qrow!"
"I would say for you to be less crass," Weiss said but smirked slightly. "But I would be lying if I said I didn't agree."
Jaune winced a little when they saw that Bat-Qrow was outnumbered. "Oof. That's like in a zombie game and you're the only one surrounded by zombies." he said.
"And you tried to revive one of your buddies," Mercury said, also familiar with those kind of games, and grimaced upon seeing Bat-Qrow trying to help the woman on the ground before she was gunned down.
But then in the back ground alien soldiers with insect like wings fly down and start carrying off the remaining Sons of Batman as the Bat himself fights off the soldiers. He bashes one in the head with his gun before two men grab his shoulders, the one on the right takes his gun and jabs him in the stomach but the Dark Knight rises his leg up and kicks the soldier away. He turns around to bash the soldier behind him with his gun twice.
"What the Hell/fuck are those things?!" Many exclaimed as they saw the humanoid creatures flying down in the background and start snatching people.
"Parademons." Darth Anarchus said simply.
"The world's on fire, the coldest continent is now the hottest, and there are Parademons!" Roman exclaimed. "What's next?"
"Oh, funny how you ask that," the Host chuckled darkly. He then began to break into laughter, not too different than Tyrian's laughter. "You-You don't know." he said between laughs. "You don't-don't know! Hehehahahaha!"
Two more soldiers rush him and try to force him down but he shoots them both at point blank range. He grabs the head of another and body slams him down hard. Two men grab his arms before they're joined by a third and the Bat is forced to his knees and the Audience see more and more Parademons flying in the background. Gritting his teeth, he reaches down to the man he threw down and snapped his neck. Three men punch him and kick him down. He rises back up with a growl before one of the alien soldiers walks up behind him and punched him in the back of his head.
"You'll never take him alive!" Nora cried out.
Many winced at the hits Bat-Qrow was taking, a few felt chills and goosebumps upon seeing more and more Parademons appear in the background.
"Uncle Qrow!" Ruby and Yang cried out. Summer, Tai and Raven gritted their teeth upon seeing their teammate and brother being pinned down by the men in black. Qrow felt some pride at the fact that it took a alien to knock out his Batman counterpart. He reached a hand to grab Robyn's upon seeing her concerned expression. She relaxed slightly and nodded to him.
Batman opened his eyes to find himself and his remaining men dangling in the air, their arms pulled up by chains. The Bat kept himself composed before a familiar pair of sonic booms is heard and he looks ahead to the hallway of soldiers lined up. A tall figure dressed in dark blue suit and red 'S' and matching cape lands at the end of the hall, kicking up dust. The soldiers all drop down on one knee and the man walks past them. He steps out of the shadows and his face is revealed.
"Oh no, what's going to happen?" Saphron asked.
"Watch what you say," Darth Anarchus replied and laughed, causing the blonde woman to regret asking.
Many Faunus gasped as they recognized the sonic booms on the screen. Did one of General Hazel's soldiers escape from the Phantom Zone?
Bu then they saw who it was and they all had a better look at the 'S' symbol on the soldiers' shoulders.
Superman. Or rather as he was now known, General Oz.
"WHAT?!" Many exclaimed in confusion and shock. "Oscar?!" The students exclaimed.
"The kid/runt?!" most of the adults shouted.
Oscar stared at the screen with wide eyes.
"Hehehe-HAHAHAHAHA!" Tyrian laughed loudly. "Well, isn't that ironic? The savior is now ruling the planet with an iron fist after reducing it to ash."
"It wasn't him." Darth Anarchus said to him, causing the Scorpion Faunus to stop laughing. "It was someone worse. FAR worse."
The Kryptonian bears a impassive expression before he shoots his heat vision and kills the men around Batman without any hesitation. Batman watches in horror before looking ahead as General Kal reaches up to grab his cowl and pull it off his head. Qrow glares at the Kryptonian who glances to the cowl before looking to Qrow, burning rage in his eyes. "She was my world. . . and you took her from me." he said.
He raises his right hand above Qrow's chest. Qrow looks between the hand and Kal before the Kryptonian sneered and plunged his hand through Qrow's chest, drawing a scream of agony and pain.
Many covered their mouths in shock, a few (Civilians mainly) turned a bit green at the sight of the people getting lasered in half. Raven remembered what the Host had said to her during the viewing of Man of Steel, in the Smallville Battle. If this is what a corrupted Superman looks like, she would prefer the Boy Scout.
"She?" Ruby repeated.
Ozpin and a few adults held a thoughtful expression, trying to figure out who Super-Oscar was talking about. His mother? But then they saw what was happening next.
"QROW!" Robyn, Summer, Tai, Raven, Oscar and Winter shouted.
"UNCLE QROW!" Ruby and Yang shouted before Ruby sped over and hugged Qrow tightly. Qrow himself stared at the screen with wide eyes. Sure there was no blood shown, or even the act really, but the idea of someone punching a hole through his chest while he was powerless to do anything to stop it was disturbing already. He hugged Ruby back as he heard her starting to cry.
Qrow suddenly sits up in his chair in front of the Bat Computer. A bright light shines on him and he looks to see a woman in a red costume and a dark gray cloak and surrounded by lightning bolts. "Qrow!" she shouts, revealing to be Ruby Rose.
"Listen to me now!" She says to Qrow desperately. "IT'S AMBER! AMBER AUTUMN! SHE'S THE KEY!" Qrow looked up to her in confusion and she notices.
"What?" Many exclaimed in confusion and shock.
Oscar and Ozpin's Inner Circle glanced at one another and to Amber who shrugged in confusion.
Ruby and her family sighed in relief seeing Qrow was okay.
"AM I TOO SOON?!" She asks before screaming in pain. "I'M TOO SOON!"
She reaches a hand to him. "YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT HIM! YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN RIGHT ABOUT HIM!" she shouted desperately to Qrow as paper flies around in the air. "FEAR HIM! FIND US, QROW! YOU HAVE TO FIND US!"
"What's going on? Is that Ruby? Why does she sound like she was in pain? What is she talking about?" Oscar asked frantically but Darth Anarchus crossed his arms.
Gasping, Qrow sits in his chair a second time, paper still floating in the air but Ruby Rose is gone. He holds a hand to his heart before he calms down and looks up to the Bat Computer. He shakes his head, pushing his thoughts on the dream aside. He simply dismissed it as his worst fears manifesting in his dreams.
"Based on our Host's reactions and words earlier," Ozpin said with a grim expression, "I fear that was more than just a nightmare out of fear."
"There was still paper floating around," Salem points out. "That hardly sounds like a dream."
"Almost like a premonition," Oscar muses.
He leans forward and opens the search bar on his screen and searched for data on the White Portuguese. Finally after three days of investigating, he found out what the White Portuguese was.
A cargo ship.
"The White Portuguese is not a person," Qrow says in the scene change to Klein who is working on the Batmobile. "Its enroute to Mantle Harbor and will be arriving tonight."
"Master Branwen, since the age of seven, you and your sister have taken up lying like the legendary Grimm Reaper to a scythe," Klein says, not looking to his ward/employer. "But neither of you have been keen on lying to me."
"Oof, you just can't lie to your parents," Sun said. "They always find out."
"Some of them," Whitley muttered to himself. Oscar patted him on the shoulders.
"I never had a desire to do such a thing," Penny said with a shake of her head. "I hope it never comes to that."
Klein turns around to face Qrow. "The White Portuguese isn't carrying a dirty bomb." he said firmly with a shake of his head. "What is it carrying?"
Qrow turns to look at him and decided to be truthful with his oldest ally and father figure. "It's a weapon. A rock." he said. "A mineral capable of weakening Kryptonian cells." He walks towards Klein as he speaks. "The first sample big enough to mean something turned up in the Shallow Sea. It is being delivered to Lex Merlot tonight. . . who I am going to steal it from."
"To keep out of Merlot's hands? To destroy it?" Klein asked.
"How can a rock weaken a Kryptonian?" Roman asked.
"It shouldn't," Cinder replied. Then her eyes widened. "Radioactive pieces of his homeworld," she recalled.
"Kryptonite," Darth Anarchus said.
Many gasped and looked to the screen.
"No," Qrow replied. Klein formed an incredulous expression. "You're going to go to war?" he asked.
"That son of a bitch brought the war to us, two years ago," Qrow growled. "God of light, Klein. Count the dead. Thousands of people. What's next?" He asked, his nightmare coming to his mind. "Millions? He has the power to wipe the entire human race and Faunus. If we believe there's a one percent chance he is our enemy we have to take it as absolute certainty. And we have to destroy him."
"But he is not our enemy," Klein protested. He had seen more footage of Superman helping people from flooding towns to rescuing exploding space shuttles.
Many nodded frantically while others still had their mind on the Knightmare.
"Not today." Qrow replied. "Twenty years in Mantle, Klein. We've seen what promises are worth. How many good guys are left? How many stay that way?" he asked as a silver coin with a burnt side flashed in his mind along with the memories of his memorials down below. He walks away from Klein, "Fourteen hours," he said before walking out of view.
Klein sighed to himself and prayed that Qrow would see reason soon.
The Audience recalled what Bat-Qrow had said in the intermission. They assured themselves that he would stop soon and hoped it wouldn't come to the worst.
Knowing his luck, Qrow thought that it would come to a great cost for his counterpart to have his faith in humanity restored.
I really wanted to see what lead up to the Knightmare Timeline. I can't be the only one right? That and I wanted to see a BatFleck solo film.
Coming up
"Next time they shine your light in the sky, don't go it. The Bat is dead. Bury it. Consider this mercy."
"Harsh but fair."
"Tell me," "Do you bleed?"
"You will."
"Well, damn that's just cold."
"This mofo has balls of steel."
Next
You let your family die
"Oh shit."
Followed by
"I miss you, Son."
"I miss you too, Dad."
"Ow, my heart!"
"That was beautiful."
"I'm older than my father ever was. This may be the only I do that matters."
"That's not true."
And then
"The greatest gladiator match in the history of the world. God vs Man. Day vs Night. The Son of Krypton vs the Bat of Mantle."