Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140808001942/@comment-11188061-20140810124655

Correction, Ben. The Atlesian Paladin has yet been hijacked, and we've established that there are at least two separate instances where Team RWBY encounters the Paladin.

While I have no comments for Yang's part, for Blake's part I suspect that she'll be getting a date, time and location or so about a possible 'big heist' from the gathering. They'll probably think that it's just another Dust robbery, but will discover later on that this 'heist' is the Paladin, hijacked by hostile forces. They will try to stop it, but they will fail. The Paladin will get away and put on grand display, as we've seen in the trailer.

The above speculation doesn't follow the Episode-by-Episode basis - it's impossible to predict how a story will be ordered since that's completely up to an author's preferences. But one thing I do agree, is that the mid Volume hiatus will end with Cinder's forces scoring the first victory, ending perhaps with White Fang's epic celebration of their successful heist.

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At this point I'm actually expecting the fight between Pyrrha and Mercury to happen after the mid Volume, and so is Pyrrha's dilemma plus the ball. I suspect that the Volume 2 Opening is misleading, where we see Team RWBY fighting Cinder's forces, it might be Team JNPR who will be defending Beacon when Team RWBY duke it out one last time to vanquish the Atlesian Paladin.