Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20130728185452/@comment-15374346-20130824054721

I would like to see an episode where Team RWBY is sent into what might be an abandoned Dust mine, and during some epic fight scene, end up inhaling hallucigenic Dust particles by mistake. After returning to Beacon, the four begin having random hallucinations, like people appearing as different people, which at first seem funny, but then take a dark turn when Ruby ends up seeing Juane as Crimson, and attacks her friend. Meanwhile, a fight between Weiss and Yang happens, where Weiss is seeing Yang as her step-mother/father, and Yang is seeing Weiss as possibly an ex-boyfriend. The two tumble into a fountain mid-fight, the shock of the cold water cleansing their minds of the dust effect.

Meanwhile, after noticing the hallucinations, Blake goes to the school nurse, where the nurse concludes that the Dust they inhaled has three main stages: Stage 1, dizzyness and drowsiness(this happens during their ride back from the mine, where the entire team falls asleep on the vehicle.). Stage 2, Hallucination and agressive bursts of emotion. And finally, Stage 3, complete and utter loss of mental stability and proper function. After Yang and Weiss enter the infirmary, the trio realize that Ruby, the only one to have not been cleansedo f the effects, is nearing the third stage.

Ruby, meanwhile, is wandering throguh the Emerald Forest, having run there to escape 'Crimson'(Poor Juane meanwhile is hiding behind a trashcan, shivering.). It is here that she hears the voice of a woman in the air, calling her name. Realizing everything has just been all in her head, Ruby tries to ignore it, only for the vocie to get louder. Ruby then proceeds to follow with caution, and arrives at a clearing in the forest, where she is confronted by the White-Cloaked character from the intro. Ruby, convinced that White-Cloak, AKA Summer Rose, is just antoher illusion, tries to make her 'disappear' via touch, yet is shocked to realize that the person is indeed a physical entity. Ruby then questions whats happenning, as she stares Summer in the eye. Summer turns around, and walks away into the woods, leading Ruby to one of the initiation temples.

This temple in particular is one Ruby has never seen before, and she remarks this before collapsing. Before blacking out, Ruby looks up one more tiem at Summer Rose, who has dropped her hood, revealing a face very similar to Ruby's complete with silver eyes to match. She then presses a small object into Ruby's hand, when Ruby finally blacks out.

Ruby later awakens to the worried voice of Yang and the resto f her teammates, who after finding a traumatized Juane, followed her trail inot the forest. Ruby asks where the white cloaked woman is, only for the others to tell her that no one else was around her when they arrived. Ruby at first feels as though her encounter was just another halluciantion, yet it is confirmed real when she fidns a key labeled with the number '225' in her hand, possibly a key for a Beacon classroom. The trio later bring Ruby to the infirmary, where the nurse gives her a clean bill of health after several very painful shots.

Later, Ozpin is seen alone in his quarters, where, with a digital recording device, he records what had happened that day, and remarks that the Dust in the mines that was inhaled by the girls was not actually capable of hallucigenic effects, and that the actual Dust was found to have been slipped into the air conditioning system of their vehicle, meaning someone had purposely exposed the girls to the Dust. On another note, he describes how suspicious it was when Ruby described 'a woman wearing a white cloak', and after an extended pause, he remarks 'maybe you shouldn't have left.' Though at first this seems to be to no one in particular, it is shown that the woman in white is standing on his balcony behind him, and as he turns around, she disappears into thin air, leaving several white rose petals to be blown away in the wind.