Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170206193307/@comment-28345522-20170217055429

And I can't stress enough that the main protagonists, RWBY and JNR, are complete underdogs. They didin't have the faintest idea in Vol1-3 at the scale of the conflict they were diving into but they did anyway, even now when they have more info. They're in the middle of reorganizing and dealing with a mole soon, it'd be weird and unrealistic if suddenly everything went perfect for our heroes agian.

It would take some time before finding the source of the virus, hell, they didn't even know it was virus hijacking the broadcast originally. They were locked during her speech and then all hell broke loose afterwards. There's alot of factors when asking whether they'd figure out where the virus came from, and none would be in time before Beacon fell.