Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160110165745/@comment-14138255-20160110212201

69.120.8.139 wrote: I believe I have a quite unorthodox theory:

1) Emerald messes with Pyrrha throughout the match and makes it seem like Pyrrha is not a very good fighter. Pyrrha wins, but is messed up emotionally such that she uses her semblance on Penny clearly, indicating to the world that Pyrrha's semblance is polarity, that Penny is a robot, and that Pyrrha overreacted. This would be to the same effect of Mercury's "performance." Pyrric Victory.

2a)  Ruby gets seriously injured by Mercury when she tries to run away because Mercury reveals his own semblance...or something.  Ruby is found/saved by someone and is a coma herself. Pyrrha refuses to become the Fall Maiden, and the Brotherhood tries to transfer Amber's aura to Ruby in order to revive her, revealing that Ruby was the second choice to become the Maiden anyway.

OR

2b) Pyrrha is so distraught that she claims she doesn't want to be herself anymore and goes through with becoming the Maiden. Her personality changes drastically and takes on some of Amber's memories, such as the identities of Cinder and Co. Ruby gets away and tells Ozpin/Crow/Team RWBY about what she has dicovered.

I also have another one:

1) Ruby gets away and tries to stop the fight...chaos ensues.

Thoughts? Maybe Ruby learned some unarmed combat from Yang in case she was seperated from her weapon again. Using her semblance, she uses Jeet Kune Do on Mercury (rapid fire punching, invented by Bruce Lee). Barring that, she could just run, but her only hope of being believed is if she somehow forces Mercury out of the tunnels and into the open, infront of millions (Emerald can't alter the minds of millions of people, not without her mind frying).

On Pyrrha's fight, she is definately about to do something, but then Mercury and Ruby's fight leaks outside maintennance and Emerald's focus is broken. Or, Pyrrha succeeds, the world is panicked, and RWBY takes the dark turn RT said it was going down.