User blog comment:Drache Mace/Who was Yang looking for?/@comment-96.254.157.84-20140809204435/@comment-4010415-20140809210149

Monty said that all four original trailers took place before the start of the series. It has also been said that the beowolves in the Red Trailer were the weakest form of beowolf, and that's why they were so easy to defeat.

Furthermore, I feel that Ruby was right when she told Weiss "I'm just fine on my own." She seems to be used to fighting alone, where there's nobody nearby to be collateral damage. If she fights alone, she can cut loose (no pun intended) and swing her scythe around as haphazardly as she wants to. She doesn't have to worry about where someone else is and what they're doing. She can just swing swing swing chop chop chop shoot shoot shoot!