Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-4010415-20151215084042

St4r dust wrote: So my theory is Cinder (or anyone else?) did something that prevents every one in the colesseum (including Prof. Port and Dr. Oobleck) from seeing the stage for a period of time, and Emerald (or whoever possess this kind of Semblance) not only produced a mirror image of Mercury attacking Yang, but somehow "linked" it with the real Mercury. (Wait...What if Yang DID just attacked a illusory Mercury, and the real Mercury was just acting as if his leg was broken?) You're over-complicating things.

Yang hallucinated. She thought she was walking away, she thought Mercury was farther away from her than he was, and she thought that he leaped at her to attack.

In reality, what really and truly happened, in full view of the audience and the cameras, was that Mercury stood up, (something happened between him being crouched and Yang walking around him. The footage cut to when he was standing), Yang most likely turned around (which looked to the audience like it was in response to him saying something), he might have acted like "Oh, congrulations, you're the better fighter", and then she suddenly shot him in the leg.

His leg most likely really is broken. She did actually shoot him, as seen in the Instant Replay, and the Instant Replay even had the sound of something hard (bone) breaking.

The Instant Replay was for us and Yang to see what the people in the stands saw, which is what really happened.