Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130829103240/@comment-10390252-20140529083418

It's just odd that of all the possible random confrontations they could have put in the opening, it was Pyrrha fighitng all of Team CRDL at once. Combined with that oh-so-blatant reversal of the 'reassurance' geseture between Jaune and Pyrrha from the volume 1 opening, it does suggest that Pyrrha is going to have her own distinct character arc, similar to the one Jaune had in volume 1.

Regarding the 'helljump', I'm fairly sure that's symbolic. It is foreshadowing how events will force all of the student-age characters to grow up a lot faster than they were anticipating, literally being dropped into the middle of a war that most people on Vytal don't even know is being waged.