Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20141104001939/@comment-25555436-20141111011352

Well, this is what I expect to happen in Vol.3:

-Obviously the tournament.

-Merc and Emerald take part in the tournament, and Merc fights Pyrrha, who loses because Cinder was able to neutralize her semblance. Then she's kidnapped after the fight, but not before feeling sad, being mocked by CRDL, and receiving some kind words from Jaune.

-RWBY and JNR find out and go save her. They find her, in a very weak state, having had her aura drained. After finding her, they find during a fight a way for her to recover her semblance and aura, and she kicks the villain's ass as payback.

-Alternatively, Pyrrha is brainwashed, and returns to the tournament, using her semblance and skills to eliminate the competition. That is, Jaune Arc, who will stop the brainwashing after a big moment of confusion using the Power of Love. Pyrrha doesn't remember anything about what happened.

-Penny vs Ruby. Penny is hacked, however, causing her to almost kill Ruby, who wins at the end but barely. Ironwood was watching the match, along with Penny's father, and is slightly surprised by what happened, but knows Cinder is responsible.

-Yang and Raven have a discussion once they meet, assuming she is her mother. Not just because she left her barely after birth, but also because of what she did to Taiyang by leaving (I mean, it's clear the guy suffered more than just a broken heart).

-SSSN takes part in the tournament, and before it begins Sun introduces Scarlet and Sage, who by then wil have found a VA. And Scarlet will turn out to be incapable of keeping a secret.

-Roman at first follows up with Cinder's plan, relaxed there in his prison, revealing to Ironwood information so vague it's basically useless. However, at one point it turns out that the next step in Cinder's plan could kill him, and it almost does. He protests to her once he escapes from his prison, Cinder puts him in his place, and tells him how by that point he's unnecesary and with an attack KO's him, leaving him outside her hideout. He leaves and swears in a low voice so she doesn't hear, that he'll take revenge (of course, with fancier words).

-Said revenge could involve helping Ironwood by revealing everything he knew. Of course, it isn't much, but enough to be useful.

-At one point, the Main 4 travel to Vacuo. There, the conditions are harsher, and so are the Grimm, with children being stronger than in Vale and adults being more common in comparison. Which means, finally we'll see why the Grimm are considered actual threats, and what they are capable of. And if not, I'll kill someone for goddamn sake.

-During the tournament, CFVY will take part on it. We won't see Coco, Yatsuhashi, or Fox's fights, but we know they will win, and we'll see Velvet's where she uses her wonder box. Sadly, this shall be all of Velvet that we will get in Vol.3, not counting some scenes before the fight.

-To give us a nice change, instead of a Jaune and Pyrrha arc, we'll get a Ren and Nora arc, though shorter than Arkos's arcs in Vol.1 and 2. Not counting Pyrrha's defeat and rescue of course.

-Introduction of new characters, some even plot-irrelevant, that won't be developed or seen much until Vol.4.

-Yang will finally defeat Neo after training with Raven. During the fight Neo will get nervous and scared seeing Yang use the same skills as Raven.

-Neo will also get a voice actor, but the fandom will get mad as they prefer the Cute Mute image. Monty will decide to not let her say anything else anytime soon, and apologize to her VA.

-Alternatively, he uses it more, and the fandom eventually accepts it.

-Cinder reveals, not her plan, but her intentions, which are barely more than a Freudian Excuse. Ruby says, in a nicer tone of course, "That is BULLSHIT!", proceeds to try to counter it with a very optimistic and positive speech which Cinder ignores. Fight ensues and at first Cinder is winning, but they keep arguing during the fight, and around middle of the fight Ruby's speech starts reaching Cinder, and Ruby starts kicking her ass. By the end, Cinder thinks that maybe Ruby wasn't so wrong at all.

-During their fight, WBY fights Emerald, Mercury, and Neo respectively, and at first get their asses kicked. After Ruby's speech gets effective, they turn the tables and win.

-After Cinder's defeat, the episode switches to the last battle in the tournament, which will last the remaining time of the episode, which will be around 4 minutes. The good guys will have a small party afterwards celebrating their victory, both against the villains and in the tournament.

-Roman is revealed to be free, and may appear in later volumes.

-A short stinger after credits showing an approaching villain, a man this time...or at least looks like a man. A Silver Arturo-wannabe I'm sure.

-Trailer for the second season of X-ray and Vav.

So, will this all happen? Will some of those things happen? Or not at all? Their fate lies in Miles and Kerry's hands...sadly.