Everyone reentered the theater room, all filled to the brim after a good meal. Upon coming back into the room they found Raider casually sitting in one of the couch chairs lazily looking through something that resembled a scroll. Raider looked up from her device, "Oh, you guys are back! So, how was the volume?"
"It was able to address some of the elephants in the room," Pyrrha stated, walking back to go sit on her respective side of the couch.
Raider nodded, "Good, good, and Midnight wasn't too much trouble was she?"
"She didn't really talk that much, just kept an eye on us like she said," Jaune said, going to join Pyrrha on their couch and happily sitting next to her.
"Yeah, she doesn't really talk that much to people she doesn't know, but she's getting better on some of her habits. And, she didn't randomly outburst angrily, did she?" Raider added with a somewhat nervous look on her face.
Everyone gave each other a confused look. "Um, nooo…." Weiss answered slowly, wondering if she was the kind of person to have a very short temper.
"Oh, okay, good. Just making sure nothing got too out of control," Raider says, sounding relieved. "And she also told you that I would be bringing someone else here, right?" She adds.
Everyone in the room nodded their heads. Raider did the same but in confirmation and told everyone to sit tight for about five seconds. She left the room by creating a portal, jumping in it for about a few seconds before coming back with a blond boy who adorned a monkey tail. She let go of his wrist and walked to the front of the room while the boy stood there feeling a little dazed.
"Sun?!" Blake called out in surprise.
Once Sun got his bearings he looked around the room confused, and seeing all his friends here didn't help his conflicting mind. "What am I doing here, and what is this place? Looks a little bit too snazzy," out of all the things for Sun to say, it honestly seemed the most believable.
"You're here to react to the future, and I guess present, of your friends. And you're here because you hold significance for the next four volumes, so take a seat, if you have any more questions your friends can be the ones to fill you in on it." Raider watched as he just nodded dumbly.
She snapped her fingers to create an open space in between Renora and Arkos's couch. Everyone got into their seats while Raider moved to the back of the room before playing the first episode.
The episode starts off on a nice sunny day with clear skies, and above in that sky is an airship causally flying through the air. The camera moves the scenery down and stops on the dust shop 'From Dust till Dawn' now reopened.
The shopkeeper proceeds to make his way down the ladder but suddenly falls, the impact making a harsh thud. As he's on the ground, he looks up to see a woman with mint green hair and dark skin, Emerald, apologizing to him and telling him she isn't from around here while helping him get back on his own two feet.
She shows the shopkeeper a piece of paper with an address on it and asks him if he can show her the direction to the location of the shop. He nods happily, the woman waves both her hands in the air as thanks, making her way down the sidewalk. Leaning up against a building wall is Mercury.
"Normally the episode would start with one of us, why would this be different?" Yang asks.
"Whatever reason, we can all agree that this is an advantage over them. We'll be seeing both our side and theirs, this gives us the opportunity to see what they're planning," Weiss says logically.
"Weiss is right, if it shows scenes like this, then we all need to pay more attention. Especially when they come on screen," Blake agrees with Weiss.
Mercury has his arms crossed and comments on knowing he knew Emerald was lost. Annoyed, Emerald walks back to Mercury and shows him a wallet with money in it, bribing him to shut up. Mercury smirks and shakes his head, saying that the money wasn't hers. Emerald doesn't deny, but tells him it could be his in exchange for five minutes of peace and quiet.
Mercury thinks it over for about two seconds before declining, not appreciating the answer Emerald groans and begins to take the money for herself, of course after throwing the case to the ground.
"Now, are they part of a mastermind group or just in it for petty theft?" Sun asks, his eyes squinted in question at the screen.
He doesn't receive an answer, the people in the room most likely thinking its rhetorical.
Mercury chuckles and comments how Emerald wants him then follows her soon after. The scene changes to show the busy city of Vale, the screen stays on a current building before moving downwards to show Emerald and Mercury walking down a sidewalk.
Mercury complains on how much farther they have to walk, to which Emerald replies only a few blocks. Mercury adds on how the city is so dull, but Emerald seems to like it, tall buildings, diverse culture, and nice dopey people who are easy to pickpocket; Mercury cuts in with the last statement.
Emerald comments on how that's every city they come across, and Mercury mocks her in telling her he doesn't have enough money to get himself by. The girl just groans and walks off, this causing Mercury sighed stating how she isn't any fun.
The two of them walk into a bookstore.
Blake's ears perk up, recognizing the store as she visits there weekly. She wonders why the two have any business there, but sadly, she remembers the murder that occurred at the store months prior. No, they- they didn't…. Blake's thoughts trailed off as she eyes the screen in horror.
Yang notices the trembling and quickly asks for Raider to pause it, she does so and Yang turns to Blake. The rest of her friends doing the same thing, all tense with concern for the Faunus.
"Blake, hey Blake, what's wrong?" Yang's voice is slightly terrified, hasn't seen her friend this spooked before.
"They killed him," her voice came in such a quiet whisper that no one could make out what she said.
"Blake, please, you need to speak up. You're scaring me a little here," Yang laughed but the humor didn't reach her eyes.
"They killed him," she barely spoke any louder than before but her voice might as well have carried the same energy as a shotgun. The room was dead silent, small tears began to make their descent down her cheeks.
"B-Blake, um, would you like to leave the room for a minute?" Raider asked, she slightly gestured to the hallway that contained all the dorm rooms.
Blake was about to shake her head, but Yang jumped in and answered for her, slightly urging her to stand up from her chair.
Blake didn't want to move but she followed Yang anyways as the blonde directed them both to their room. Everyone else in the room stared as the two disappeared down the hall. Once inside the room Yang was on Blake in an instant asking her what was wrong, if there was anything she could do to help.
Yang eased Blake down into a chair, and as she sat down Weiss and Ruby came into the room and beelined it to Blake.
"Blake, you gotta tell us what's wrong, we can't help if you won't open up," Weiss states. She slowly drops onto her knees next to Blake.
"Guys, we need to wait for her to talk, we can't just force her to speak. She needs to get the tears out first," Yang buds in.
Once the tears have ended Blake gives a few sniffles, and as she goes to speak nothing seems to want to come out. She tries again but her voice just seems stuck. Ruby notices this and tells Blake to take her time.
After a few more moments of gathering her composure she tries for a third time. "They killed him, Emerald and Mercury killed a person. It's just, I figured they were criminals, the show giving us enough proof of that, but to go and kill a person, a human being."
Ruby, Yang, and Weiss gave each other a look, not exactly having a proper response to the current situation at hand. Yang at least attempts to help pick it up. "We shouldn't dwell too much on something that took place in the past, but what we can do now is attempt to move forward from this. There isn't much we can do, but as we keep watching we'll be able to right the wrongs that we come across and make them better." Ruby and Weiss softly nod, the both of them giving Blake a sympathetic smile.
Blake wipes away the extra wetness on her cheeks and asks if she could stay in here with them for a few more minutes. Blake immediately feels the three embrace her in a tight hug from each side. She finally gives them an optimistic smile.
Another few moments of the team hug pass by and the four of them hear a moan at the door. All four of them look and see a disappointed Nora and Ren, Jaune, and Pyrrha with smiles on their faces but they still contained a worried energy around them. "Awww, you guys didn't include us in the hug?" Nora cryingly yells.
"I think we have room for a few more, Blake?" Ruby asks happily but turns to Blake for her consent. The girl gives a small nod and Nora is jumbled in the hug as soon as she finished the motion; the rest of team JNPR following suit.
After about ten minutes Raider was in the doorway and gave the frame a slight to gain everyone's attention. "Sorry to break this lovely moment, but would you all still be interested in finishing the episode?"
All of them gave her a resounding 'yes' and the interdimensional being let out a small exasperated sigh with a smile planted on her face.
Everyone began to exit the room and returned to their own spots, but Blake held Yang back for a moment longer. The blonde girl the Faunus a confused but worried smile, "Is there something wrong? Do you need a little bit more ti-" Yang was cut off as Blake leaned closer towards the girl and gave her a light peck on the cheek.
"Thank you, Yang." The Faunus held a warm smile, and tiny blush, though whether it was from the tears or something else Yang wasn't sure. Yang stood frozen as Blake returned to her seat, leaving the girl to lightly touch her cheek as her cheeks began to turn red.
Yang joins the rest of the group shortly after once she regained her bearings on the world.
Emerald walks up to the front counter as Mercury begins to browse. She rings the bell and a second later a man comes walking backwards through the door. He greets them whilst he carries two high stacks of books in his arms. He gasps as he sees who it is and his tone takes a quick change as he asks how he can be of assistance. Mercury tells him he's browsing as he aggressively closes the book he has with one hand.
Emerald leans against the desk and asks if he has a copy of The Thief and the Butcher. Tuck confirms her question and Emerald shows her approval and he asks if she would want a copy of the book, but Emerald declines. In the back, Mercury harshly closes another book; Tuckson shows suspicion as Emerald asks for a book named Violets Garden in paperback.
Mercury brings a book to the air, showing Emerald a hardback and informing her they have paperback as well. Emerald is impressed and stands there thinking over a few options. In the back Mercury complains how a book doesn't contain any pictures and roughly shuts that book.
Blake couldn't help but let out an annoyed scoff. Weiss was disappointedly shaking her head.
Mercury asks, or yells, if there are any comics. Tuckson informs him they're at the front of the store. Emerald finally makes up her mind on a book, the music in the background changes in tone to something more sinister, an atmosphere that holds dark promises. The book she asks for is called Third Crusade, and Tuckson has to think it over before explaining the store doesn't sell that copy.
Mercury closes another book and gives a shocked but disappointed 'oh'. Emerald leans closer and asks for the name of the store, and Tuckson easily tells her the name, Tuckson's Book Trade. She questions that he's Tuckson. The man says 'yes' and Emerald continues, inquiring he was the one who came up with the store's catchphrase, again, the man doesn't deny the question and confirms her curiosity.
Mercury asks for him to remind them of what it is. Tuckson sighs and repeats it, 'Tuckson's Book Trade: home to every book under the sun'. Mercury mocks him, reminding him of the book he doesn't have.
"What's their problem, it's a book. Not every store has to have everything a customer wants!" Sun yells, he raises his arms in the air out of outrage.
"This isn't about the books Sun!" Blake's emotions aren't exactly stable, her mind still slightly clouded by the action these two are about to commit. Not to say nothing else in this episode will be important, just that this is still the current event in the episode, it's all Blake can think about.
Tuckson shrugs it off, but Mercury shouts it's false advertisement. Emerald explains how you shouldn't make a promise you don't intend to keep. Mercury is at the front of the store, moving his fingers against a touch switch that begins to lower the lights in the store. Emerald brings up Tuckson's plan for leaving, wanting to move all the way to Vacuo; she even brings in how his comrades in the White Fang wouldn't be pleased. Mercury smirks as he moves down the last light as Emerald finishes, expressing her displeasure about his abandonment.
She smirks to herself and asks if he even knows who they are, he responds with a 'yes, and Emerald asks if he knows why they're there in the first place. Tuckson frowns, knowing why and who they are. Emerald smiles, she asks if he plans to fight back.
Tuckson confirms with a growl as he unsheathes his claws and jumps on top of the store counter. He lunges towards Emerald to slash at her, but she ducks down and Tuckson is in midair, an easy target as Mercury lands a kick to the face, a resounding bang following soon after.
The two of them casually walk out of the store as if they didn't just go in there to assassinate a man. Emerald looks over and asks about the comic Mercury has; his simple answer is that he enjoys the pictures.
"Don't you worry Blake, once we get out of here, we'll make them pay. For this, and all the things we'll figure they did in the present, past, and future," Yang swears to her, everyone else in the room shouting their agreement.
"Mark our words Blake, they won't get away with this!" Ruby shouts as she starts to stand from her seat, but Weiss quickly grabs her wrist to pull her to sit back down. Ruby mumbles to herself about his Weiss isn't any fun and something about being a butt and an ice queen.
Paragraphs and sketches of White Fang material is what Blake is currently focusing on, but Yang buds in, literally, and is curious as to why the journal holds Blake's undying attention. Blake shuts the notebook and blatantly lies to Yang's face, and even Blake tried to get a small peek at what was inside. She explained how she was simply going over last semester's notes. Yang finds it lame as she catches a grape in her mouth.
Sun was about to comment but Yang beat him to it. "She's not as bad as Weiss," the girl in question lets out a small 'hey' in displeasure, "But, I wouldn't exactly put it past her on wanting to study."
The Faunus huffs with a fond smile and an eyeroll.
Nora laughs, preparing to launch another grape to the side of the table by using her spoon, Yang catches another and gives the girl a thumbs up. An abrupt crash makes itself known as Ruby slams a large white binder filled from cover to cover with papers. 'Vytal Festival Activities: Property of Weiss Schnee' was crossed and scribbled with red marker. The new name of the binder is 'BEST DAY EVER ACTIVITIES!' written in the same marker in bold print, a small line being drawn at the bottom.
"Ruby! Do you have any idea how much time I spent planning the activities for the event?" Weiss turns and glares daggers at the hooded huntress.
"Nope, what I put down was a lot more important anyway," a childish smile never left Ruby's face as Weiss was sitting next to her, ready to blow a fuse.
"In the past, remember? I'm not defending anyone here, but this is something that you can easily get over," Raider gave the two a stern look, not just Weiss but Ruby as well. Anyone would get angry about something they worked on for a long time only to have it ruined, but this hurdle can be surpassed no problem.
"And Ruby?" Said girl turned to face Raider, her smile falling to a grimace, "What do you have to say to Weiss that clearly upset her, and done something you shouldn't have?" Great, now she was sounding like a middle aged mother scolding her two 5yrs children.
Ruby huffed and turned to face Weiss, "*Sigh* I apologize for running your stuff, I could have easily gotten my own supplies for the project." Weiss felt the urge to give a smug smile but refrained herself from doing so.
Ruby clears her throat and recognizes her sister, her friends, and lastly, Weiss. Who wasn't exactly happy with her bit of the introduction.
Even now she wasn't happy at being addressed that way. Though, she hoped she was in the friend category now, maybe?
Ruby informs her friends that she had a dream, Yang, having been through this before, is prepared as she catches a red berry in her mouth. Ruby continues about her dream, a dream where her team would come together, as a team, and have the most fun anyone has ever experienced in forever.
Did you steal my binder? That was the question Weiss interrupted Ruby for, not happy about this newly discovered information. Ruby puts up two fingers on each hand and states she isn't a crook. Blake asks what Ruby means by the most fun, Ruby directs a determined finger at Blake and finishes with how she wants to kick the new semester off with a bang.
"I always kick my semesters off with a Yang," not only did both onscreen and present Yang say that simultaneously, so did Raider.
"I don't understand how you guys can't find that line great?" Raider comments as she leans back, how no one noticed she was levitating herself in the air is a mystery.
"See, she gets it!" Yang's finally happy to know someone finds her humor funny.
"Listen, this isn't even the worst I've heard, you want to hear a number of bad puns? I know a guy who can keep you busy for about maybe 30 minutes," Raider waves off everyones groans.
Everyone looks so done with Yang as she attempts to get some kind of reaction out of her friends, they just look absolutely tired of her puns. Nora throws an apple to Yang's face as she boos the women for her bad joke.
Ruby settles her friends down and explains how it's been a good couple first weeks of the second semester with more exchange students coming in and the Vytal Festival at the end of the school year. Classes will start up tomorrow and Ruby wants her friends and herself to have the best day ever before they have to work again. Weiss seems very controversial on her feelings, should she be proud of Ruby or scared of her. Next to them, out of frustration Yang throws a green apple, it hits a poor unfortunate soul, the sound of glass breaking being proof of that.
I feel bad for whoever was subjected to that apple, that was a right arm throw. Ruby shook her head and prayed for the miserable soul.
Blake wants to sit this bonding day out; Weiss doesn't care, she just believes the day should be spent together as a team. Weiss got up from her seat to continue her talk, Yang on her side of the table, was shaking her hands for Nora not to follow through with her actions. An unsuspecting Weiss was subjected to a pie to the face. Everyone sat frozen in shock, Nora quickly pointed her finger at Ren, who was sitting in his seat with a hand covering his face.
"Nora, you know very well that that wasn't me," Ren was surprisingly calm, too calm. Sun held a look of understanding, now knowing what led to the greatest food fight he'd ever witnessed.
Outside of the cafeteria, Sun and his friend Neptune were walking side by side. Sun was replaying the details of what went down that night to his best friend. He explained how it was to fight with Blake and how he made throwing a banana peel at a guy look cool. Neptune agreed, interested, then Sun spilled that Blake was Faunus, he realized his mistake and quickly turned to his friend. He ordered Neptune not to tell a single person, Neptune agreed he wouldn't, but Sun made sure to take extra precautions.
"I understand he's your friend, but is this something that turns into a habit?" Blake turns to the monkey Faunus.
"I promise Blake, no one else knows. Wait, do they know?" Sun had the gaul to ask this question as he pointed to the four people he was currently sitting in between.
Weiss groans with a face palm, "Yes, they know, we've seen everything Sun."
"Oh, right, my bad," the guy apologizes, instantly taking notice of his stupidity.
Neptune tells Sun to relax and that he gets the message loud and clear. He explains how he doesn't mess up on trying to be their friend, commenting on how the people at this school are the coolest. While he was saying this splatters of food was hitting the window, and Jaune as well, the two continuing their conversation not taking any notice of the chaos that was ensuing inside.
"How did I not notice that when I was walking next to the window?" Sun was dumbfounded at his onscreen's obliviousness.
"You mean to tell me you had no clue this was happening until you came in?" Jaune asked a little incredulously. The blond boy just shook his head.
Sun asks Neptune not to take any offense to the comment, which he doesn't, and Sun says that they're just in the cafe. He's ecstatic for his friend to finally be introduced to them, and then asks Neptune if he can be cool. Neptune is being looked over until it stops as he smiles, a small ding being present in the background as it stops on his teeth. Sun sees this as something he can't argue with and says it's a 'good point'.
Of course you can't argue with that face, Weiss swoons to herself.
Raider shakes her head and clicks her tongue to herself, girl, you're a useless lesbian, why have you not realized this?
Bursting into the room, one shocked and the other happily surprised, screams resonate throughout the building. All the students run to try and escape the chaos unfolding. Nora's laugh echoes as she repeats that she is the queen on the very top of a mountain of stacked tables. Pyrrha, Ren, and Jaune are the same but placed on different levels.
"That was a good day," Yang remembered like that day was yesterday.
"Yeah! And team RWBY reigned victorious!" Ruby shouted, her eyes encasing literal stars in them.
"You all just got lucky," Jaune wasn't admitting to this defeat. He turned his head to ignore the other teams boasting.
Pyrrha really couldn't help herself to being fond of this memory, the whole experience her and her friends had fun throughout all of it.
Plates and utensils flew in the air as a foot crashed onto the table, Ruby shouting that justice will be swift, painful, and delicious while squeezing the life out of a carton of milk. The rest of her team let out a battle cry, thus initiating the greatest food fight.
Nora hops down from her tabletop throne and wishes for her team to gather their heads. Nora lands in front of a table of watermelons, Ren flipping over to a row of watermelons himself. He landed on a piece of debris that brought the three watermelons into the air for him to kick towards his enemies. Jaune grabs a single watermelon by the sides and chucks to the other side with a flip. Pyrrha held two watermelons, and threw them one at a time to the opposite side. With Nora, she placed her hands on the underside of the table and flipped it over, the effect was every melon on the table being elevated into the air to soon be crashing into the ground.
Ruby yells for her sister to grab the turkeys in front of them. Her sister runs up and sticks her fists into the turkey, punching both of the turkeys together as if they were her normal fists.
"This is even better! Getting the fight up close and personal!" Sun was bouncing in his seat with excitement.
A wave of watermelons came crashing down towards the blonde, she blocked and destroyed two before backflipping away from a third. She charged forward with offensive intention, destroying and breaking every melon that dared to come into her punching range. Above Yang, Blake came in, she did a small roll to grab the two long baguettes in front of the two.
It was honestly a miracle how none of their food weapons were broken upon all this rough contact.
Blake broke two melons, covering Yang and she kicked a watermelon while in the air. Yang's next move was to abandon her turkey gauntlets, with Jaune suffering the brunt of both of them. Pyrrha grabbed her own baguette and proceeded to use it as a sword, going for an attack on Blake; the Faunus blocked it, both of her baguettes turned sideways.
Pyrrha went for a side attack, using the baguettes' free space as an opening. Blake got out of the way before it could land, and jumping over head to land behind Pyrrha so she could do the same thing. Pyrrha darted out of the way, the same thing Blake did, and the two hit each other's baguettes a few moments when Blake used her semblance to place herself in midway. Blake released one of her baguettes to target Pyrrha, the girl evaded the attack, this leaving the piece of bread to break in half leaving them both with only one piece of bread.
Pyrrha saw an opening as Blake was descending back down, she rushed forward and landed a clean strike to Blake's abdomen. Pyrrha's piece of bread broke, and Blake lost hers as she was thrown back from the blow. Blake's bread hung in the air and fell right into Pyrrha's hands, giving her another weapon.
Pyrrha threw it like a spear towards Yang, the bread breaking as it came upon contact with Yang's fists. More just kept coming, Yang was able to take down one more but not the rest of the onslaught of baguette halves; in result she was down for the count at the moment.
Ruby came riding in on a lunch tray down the expanse of the table, plates and glasses were pushed aside as she rode on. Pyrrha threw the remaining baguette, but Ruby blocked it with the tray and sent it back to the sender. Pyrrha got out of the way in time, and while she was down Ruby closed the distance between them to slam herself and the tray onto Pyrrha.
The impact threw Pyrrha back and she was down for the count; Ren and Nora quickly appeared to come and take her place. Ruby retreated to reveal Weiss behind her with a bottle of ketchup. She brought the bottle to the floor and gave it a hard squeeze, releasing all of its contents as a wave of red.
Ren couldn't escape it as he slipped and crashed into a group of tables. The crash caused a large array of furniture and silverware to be brought into the air. Nora used it as stability, running and jumping on the tables to get to the two girls. On her way, she jumped and grabbed a ceiling pipe with her.
Flipping in the air, she came down and stabbed a remaining watermelon that didn't become a mess of slices. She went for the Schnee heiress, but Ruby blocked Weiss from getting affected. The girl was sent back, this didn't deter Weiss as she sidestepped to obtain a large swordfish.
The heiress charged and partially succeeded in hitting her target, but Nora recovered quickly and came back just as fast. Weiss attempted to land another slash, but Nora blocked it with her melonhammer; after blocking, Nora continued to spin her weapon that worked as both avoiding Weiss's attacks and getting in multiple chances to take out Weiss. Nora won out as she landed a strike to Weiss's stomach, sending her flying into one of the cafeteria's pillars.
Weiss was out for the count as she and the pillar fell together. To avoid Weiss getting crushed Ruby quickly rushed over and saved Weiss. Weiss was left unconscious in Ruby's arms and the girl herself wasn't taking it well. She called out for the girl and yelled for her not to leave her, when she didn't respond or move Ruby gave a loud cry of dismay for her fallen teammate and partner.
Surprisingly, Weiss felt herself being encased in a tight hug, she looked over to see it was Ruby hugging her midsection. "Ugh, Ruby, I'm fine! Let go of me!" When Ruby didn't cease Weiss just sighed to herself, knowing full well that Ruby wasn't going to let go anytime soon. Ugh, sometimes you really are just an insufferable dolt, but…. You're my insufferable dolt.
Yang was back with a vengeance, swiftly grabbing the two turkeys off the ground and giving them purpose as her gauntlets again. Ren returned as well, grabbing himself two pieces of celery; they rushed each other and froze as Ren stopped a kick by Yang. The fight continuing as Yang used her other leg and made way with the pieces of turkey, knocking Ren left and right before she ended with an uppercut to the chin.
While he was in the air he threw his two celery sticks, but it was futile when Yang avoided both of them and launched herself into the air and slamming Ren to the ground with a turkey punch. Objects in the vicinity were thrown every which way when Ren made contact with the ground, the sound of silent ringing accompanying him in the background.
Yang landed back onto the ground and Nora came in for revenge, the ringing stopped once Nora's melonhammer hit the floor. Nora rushed the blonde, Yang backed up to get a good momentum; the two stopped mere inches in front of the other. Both girls' movements in slow motion.
Nora got the upperhand as she hit Yang through the roof, a visible hole that the campus will have to fix later.
Blake backed away from the debris that fell to the ground, and in the process grabbed a long link of sausages and used it as a whip. Nora was whipped into the vending machine behind her, but quickly recovered as well as grabbing a few cans herself and threw them at the Faunus; the carbonated concoctions exploding upon impact with the ground, Blake executing multiple back handsprings.
Pyrrha looks around her at all the spare soda cans, using them, she brings her hand to the ground which results in electric shocks around that causes all the cans to be elevated into the air. She sends plenty of them on command to go forth and explode around Blake, when she witnesses Blake's standing she controls an entire wave of the cans to do her bidding.
She is pushed against a wall as she is subjected to can after can. She is then thrown into a different wall before falling to the floor behind Ruby.
Ruby decided that this fight would continue no more. She crouches towards the ground in a running ready position. She pushes off the ground and runs ultraspeed by using her semblance, a great storm of items following behind her from the high amount of speed used. She brings herself into her rosepetal form and spins causing a tornado inside that swallows everyone from team JNPR. She stops at the very end of the room, the force causing the wall to crack and shatter; team JNPR being thrown into the wall follows after.
Ruby jumps out of the wall just in time for every soda, every silverware, every piece of food to come crashing against her friends. The effect of the food creates a beautiful splatter as Ruby ascends to the ground, her friends following onto the ground when there was no wind forcing them into the concrete.
"That was the Coolest. Thing. Ever!" Sun punctuated each word by moving closer to the screen.
"Yeah! And team RWBY is victorious!" Yang stands up from her seat to yell.
"Don't expect this to be something that happens all the time," Pyrrha teasingly responds.
"Geez, you guys were so mesmerized by the scene that y'all barely said anything," Raider commented with a chuckle.
"Why would we interrupt something so cool!" Nora had stars in her eyes as she screamed.
Raider shooker her head as she gave them a few moments to calm themselves down.
Sun and Neptune are standing in the doorway, but the thing was that Neptune was covered in all sorts of foods while Sun was left there standing spotless and clean.
"How are you not dirty?" Weiss couldn't process this, it went against the laws of reasoning.
"That is a good point, I don't understand how I didn't get dirty," Sun was scratching his head, just as confused as Weiss was.
"Remember, our lives are part of a series. This could just be one of those moments they put in as comedic," Pyrrha says, trying to explain to both them as well as herself.
Neptune looks at his friend annoyed when Ms. Goodwitch came storming in the cafeteria and she was absolutely fuming, stopping a piece of salad that was on its way to splat against her. She uses her semblance to put everything back in order in just a matter of seconds. Glynda pushes up her glasses and frustratedly reminds the kids to not play with their food.
The students looked stunned to see her there, and Nora responds with a belch; it was then a few seconds later that Yang came crashing back down through the ceiling.
Glynda continues to stand in her own anger, but Ozpin places a hand on her shoulder and tells her to let this incident go. She breathes out an exasperated sigh and explains how they're supposed to be the defenders of the world.
The students in the current room don't understand the meaning behind that phrase, they simply see it as them being huntresses and helping the people. Their fates are so much greater than just being simple huntresses. Raider looks down at the eight students in front of her.
Team RWBY laugh in good fun at the whole experience that just took place. Ozpin continues, reminding Glynda that they're still just children, and to just let them be children for now. At least until it will be stripped away from them.
Emerald and Mercury make their way to the entrance of a warehouse that contains a large group of White Fang members.
The moment Emerald and Mercury came onto screen all joy was sucked from the group of students in the room.
They're working on loading and unloading luggages upon luggages of what appears to be dust. The two set their path towards Roman, the man was less than pleased, hating how Cinder sent the group of kids again. He brings them closer by his arms, noting how this is just like a divorce. Emerald demanded him to avoid the thoughts of him procreating.
All the students in the room were either shuddering or grimacing at the thought, uncomfortable about having to hear that information.
"Ew… Did she really have to say that out loud?" Ruby stuck out her tongue in disgust.
Roman said it was a joke, he also held up a piece of paper. It gave him some solace of information of where the two of them have been all day. Emerald showed surprise as she looked at her pockets. Roman told her to pay attention, he's a professional. He took a single glance and demanded why they needed the address.
Emerald retorted on how he would love to know. He would love to, is what he said back just as quickly. Mercury stated they were cleaning up at least one of his messes, for him. He frowned greatly, he told Mercury that he had everything under control.
A couple of bags and a ticket out of the city told him otherwise. Roman was fed up and began to threaten the boy; if it were up to Roman he would have Mercury and his little street rat friend– He didn't get the chance to finish as Cinder interrupted him, daring him to conclude his sentence.
Cinder made her way to the bottom floor and Roman was at a sudden loss for words, weakly finishing his sentence with 'not kill them'. Emerald was ecstatic as she saw the women.
Ren took notice of this behavior, to him that seemed to have come out of nowhere. He wondered what Emerald's story was with Cinder.
Cinder reminded him that she wanted the would-be runaway eliminated. Roman began with saying he would've had it taken care of, but Emerald told Cinder that her and Mercury killed him themselves.
Mercury and Emerald began to discuss to themselves that Tuckson might have been a puma Faunus.
Now that I think about it, was that meant to be foreshadowing Blake's father? Raider thought to herself.
Cinder turns around and tells the two to hush up and be quiet. Cinder continues as she scolds them, saying she wanted their hands to remain clean? Both Mercury and Emerald had a tough time helping themselves as Roman was behind Cinder. He was making fun of them and gestured to them being dead. Cinder reminds them to obey and do what they're told rather than to think.
Emerald promised that something like won't happen again, Cinder doesn't say anything to them. She then turns on her heel towards Roman, equally unpleased. Roman gives the girl an unsettling laugh as she asks why the job wasn't done sooner. Roman gestures to all the boxes of stolen dust around him and goes off, explaining how he was busy obtaining every speck of dust in the kingdom.
Mercury mocks him by calling him an inspiration to all who wear a ski mask. Roman explains how he has the whole town running around scared, police camping all over the city, dust inflation, and he's standing in a warehouse with all the dust anyone could ever want.
Roman changes the subject, wanting to know what their master plan is anyway, it might be much appreciated when planning for fortune dust heists.
Cinder tells him sweetly that he'll know what he needs when he needs to know. Roman stands there a few moments, her hand on his left cheek, before grunting in compliance. Cinder tells Roman that the dust heists are over, they're moving to a different location, she will have them sent to him by the end of the night. Roman is confused, Cinder elucidates more, they're moving onto phase two with their plan.
A sigh comes from Roman as Cinder and the other two walk away. He takes out a cigar from his coat but struggles to look for his lighter.
He looks up as he sees Emerald holding it. She childishly sticks out her tongue before closing the lid of the lighter, leaving all to go black.
The screen descends and phases through a group of clouds, making its way to the ground to show Ruby standing in front of Beacon Academy. What Ruby doesn't see is a pair of silver eyes that only appears for a moment on screen before fading away and leading to a side view of Ruby as her cape lets a flow of roses fly.
"This must be the volume's intro, I'm assuming at least," Weiss guesses after the first scene shows up.
It continues to show Ruby, but as well as Weiss, Blake, and Yang, their hairs flowing with snow, shadows, and flares of fire. The camera moves outward, giving a better view of the girls.
Ruby looks up at the academy as it dissolves into white rose petals. The screen goes completely blank white before it reveals Ruby falls from the sky.
It's just an intro, it's just an intro, she's fine, she's not hurt. Yang repeats in her head over and over again, protective sister mode being activated. What she doesn't realize is that someone is having the same exact thoughts.
The screen switches to show the intricate build of cogworks being made, representing Ozpin's office with him in it. Pyrrha appears on the other side of the wall, Jaune placing a hand on her shoulder with the rest of her team next to her.
In a fast motion, it switches to Team CRDL, Team SSSN, Team CFVY, the Atlas military force, the main teachers of Beacon, the villains of the volume, and finally the grimm. Ruby returns back to the screen, still falling, the rest of her team are alongside her as well as the rest of the characters at Beacon, all of them landing on the streets of Vale.
Pyrrha is seen singlehandedly beating all of Team CRDL in a fight, then switching to Cinder, her eyes burning with a fire as she stares at the sky. Then, swiftly changing to Team RWBY fighting off Cinder's gang, one member with another; Mercury fighting Yang, Emerald fighting Blake, Weiss fighting Roman, and Ruby fighting Cinder.
It transits to Ruby with a backflip to all of Team RWBY running forward, all doing their own moves they would use in combat and ending with Ruby slashing the screen with her scythe, and the screen zooming in on one of her silver eyes to end on the logo of the series.
RWBY
The words slowly faded as the whole screen finally ended in black.
"I like the new intro, it's so cool!!" Ruby was ecstatic as she continued to bounce in her seat. Weiss, who was sitting next to her, could feel the couch shaking, she placed a hand on her partner's shoulder, gesturing her to stop. Ruby didn't cease though as tiny trembles could still be felt through the couch.
Did I not realize that the intro gave way to some foreshadowing? Did it, I mean the fight between Mercury and Yang? Probably not. Raider thought to herself, but she focused back on the people in front of her. "I see you guys enjoyed the episode, despite the few bumps included." Trust me, things are only going to get worse from here. But I'm not going to ruin that for them now, but I feel when the time comes I will need to give them a heads up, no matter how much it will pain me to see their actual reactions.
Raider brought herself back to the present, "Well, you guys have been watching for a while, would you all like to take a small break before we get back into it?"
The majority of them said 'yes' to the notion, most of them really just needing to go to the bathroom.
Raider sighed as they went their own ways, she went to the front of the room and grabbed the remote, not even knowing why she mentioned it when everytime they speak the TV freezes for them. Pretty useless if you ask me.
A/N: Hey everyone, you get another chapter, even though it's been a few days since the last one. These past few days I'd been in a real writing frenzy and just decided to have this posted today since it was really close to being done. Anyways, hope you all enjoyed it as well as another chapter! This is also another example that I do really want to get this done, give you all a full reaction. (If getting past episode 5 and 6 wasn't enough like all those other reaction fics)