Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130816155602/@comment-10390252-20130816162756

For a start, there is going to be a hell of a fight or two next week. Either Weiss is going to snap out of her freeze immediately or the instincts of a monkey caught on the ground and surrounded by wolves will hold her immobile in terror until Ruby blows one Beowolf away and immediately tears into the others with Crimson Rose in scythe mode. The high-pitched ZIIIIIP! of a .308 magnum rifle round passing only a centimetre or so beyond Weiss's ear to blow off the head of the Beowolf that was about to literally bite her head off snaps Weiss out of her freeze and into battle mode.

We cut to the other three pairs in fights against other monsters and maybe AK-130s too.

We cut back to Weiss freezing the penultimate Beowolf to the ground with  Myrtenaster's   light blue setting before using the violet setting to literally cut it in half. Simultanously, Ruby bisects the last and lands behind Weiss. Practiced instincts mean that the two go to their standard rest/guard posture for a moment.

WEISS: Those were... were...?

RUBY: Beowolves; I've spent quality time with those things before.

WEISS: Real monsters?

RUBY: Yeah, and suddenly I don't feel like doing this the slow way.

I suspect that Ruby and Weiss will arrive at the temple at the same time as the other groups. Ruby recommends that, given the presence of Grim, they need to stick together and move back to the cliff as a single unit for mutual protection. Only Yang, Blake, Nora, Ren, Jaune and Pyrrha agree. The others head off in pairs, all determined to get back first.

The return will be done in a series of cut scenes of our heroes hacking through various monsters, robots and booby-traps.

I'm sticking by my prediction that Ruby and Weiss get back up the cliff by riding Crescent Rose on cross-clip power. Episode 6 ends with them arriving first and watching as the others, bloody and beaten, start straggling in, some being carried by instructors who are doubling as casualty evacuation personnel. Ozpin keeps staring at the artifacts they brought back and muttering to himself about something.

Next two episodes will be the mission debriefing, first atop the Beacon Cliffs and later in the Amphitheatre.

I think that there will be a hidden test in what artefacts they take. Seemingly by chance, Ruby and Weiss take a bit that later matches onto the bit taken by Yang and Blake. When Ozpin notices this, he says this backs up his choice to place the four girls together.

He notices the same thing of the two artifacts picked by the JNPR pairs. He then adds that all four artifacts are part of the same whole, a near-unprecedented situation, especially in the light of their co-operative return. For this reason, he does not hesitate to award all four pairs joint first place, the first time this has ever happened.

Cut to the Amphitheatre where Ozpin formally announces the teams. Weiss is half-expecting it but she's still a bit crushed to be grouped with Ruby, Blake and Yang instead of with Pyrrha's group.

Ozpin also deliberately draws attention to RWBY and JNPR noting that they had worked out the real point of the initiation test: to complete the mission successfully and safely, not to do it first or to score the most individual or pair 'kills'. They have already gone a long way to learning that vital lesson he mentioned that first day.

OZPIN: You have set yourselves a very, very high standard to live up to, my students. I don't know whether to congratulate you or commiserate with you!

There will be a brief scene of RWBY settling into their dorm.

The final episode in this chapter ends with Weiss sitting on the dorm balcony, looking at the Shattered Moon meditatively. She's kind of upset at being in a team with "the crazy kid, the asocial bookworm and the loud girl". Each of the others try to comfort her in their own unique way. Yang goes so far as to jokingly suggest that she belongs in a band of misfits; Weiss affects insult but smiles slightly. Is this... true friendship?

Blake sums up the discussion thus: "Others' expectations are another form of chain.  You can only be free by trying to be who you want to be."

"Let's find that out together," Ruby suggests. She holds out her hand. Yang, unhesitatingly, Blake, nervously and Weiss, with reluctance but growing determination, cover it with their own.

"Yeah!" Yang says. "Let's show 'em what we can do! We're TEAM RWBY!!!" All four punch the sky.

Fade to black.

WEISS: You were a cheerleader once, weren't you?

YANG: I can neither confirm nor deny to protect the innocent.

BLAKE: Something tells me that this four years will be many different kinds of learning experience.

RUBY: Can't wait!