Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-121.222.136.235-20140704221339/@comment-3257939-20140705175108

Possibly. And I totally agree with the idea of being stolen. The robot showed during the White Fang reunion looked dirty and old but the one chasing RWBY and Solar System looked new and lacked the WF logo... wait, what?

Which brings me to another idea: What if the robot was actually presented by the Man in White during the public introduction of the new models of security robots and Cinder found a way to reprogram it to attack only faunus? Maybe that's the job of the Wolverine and that's why Mercury and Emerald went to talk him into it. If the man in white was indeed Weiss' father, imagine the reaction of the people when they think that Daddy Schnee created a faunus killer mecha. A big political kick in the nuts, courtesy of the White Fang.

And Team RWBY has to stop the robot, they lure it to somewhere safe and finish the robot there. Once the robot is beaten, Cinder and Co. steal it while Team RWBY is too tired to deal with their army. Also, remember the scene where the beowolves appear in Vale? It looked like the city was under construction, maybe in the aftermath of the battle, the Grimm found a way into the ashes of Vale. I'm sure that the robot fight is half of it and the Grimm will be final enemy of this Volume.