The More the Merrier

"The More the Merrier" is the sixty-third episode of RWBY and the eleventh episode of Volume 5. It premiered for Rooster Teeth FIRST members on December 30th, 2017 and was released for non-FIRST registered users of the Rooster Teeth site on January 2nd, 2018, and will be made public on January 6th, 2018.

Summary
At night, Qrow Branwen, Lie Ren, Nora Valkyrie, Weiss Schnee, Yang Xiao Long, Oscar Pine, Ruby Rose and Jaune Arc head out to meet Leonardo Lionheart who had promised them a positive development in their quest for Huntsmen who could help them raid the Branwen Tribe in order to secure the Spring Maiden. They meet him inside a building and as they question him, Yang notices Raven Branwen's bird form perched atop the rails of the second floor. Raven flies down and transforms back making it apparent that Lionheart has betrayed them. The group requests that Raven aids them in their fight against Salem but she opens a portal that allows Vernal, Cinder Fall, Mercury Black and Emerald Sustrai to join them. Suddenly Hazel Rainart enters the room, closes the door behind him and reveals that the White Fang has started their assault on Haven and is currently planting explosives all over the place.

After a short conversation that reveals the extent of Lionheart 's treachery, Jaune attacks Cinder after she makes him too angry and the fighting begins. Emerald fights Ruby who is trying to help Jaune, Mercury engages Yang, Raven attacks Qrow and orders Vernal to fight Weiss while Ren and Nora attack Hazel.

Oscar makes his way up to Lionheart and begins to battle him. The Headmaster wants to deliver Oscar to Salem after realizing that he is the new Ozpin.

As the fighting continues, Weiss gets cornered by Vernal who manages to reduce her Aura to nothing whilst Cinder overwhelms Jaune. Ruby holds her own against Emerald but is distracted by a clash between Jaune and Cinder which triggers her memories of Pyrrha Nikos' death. Ruby activates her Silver Eyes again, affecting Cinder, but is knocked out by Emerald whilst Jaune almost manages to stab a weakened Cinder.

Enraged at her close loss, Cinder decides to impale a weakened Weiss with a spear she conjured.

Trivia

 * Some of the fight animations for Nora and Ren vs. Hazel and Yang vs. Mercury are reused from the Volume 5 Opening.
 * Mercury mentions to Yang that he owes her an apology for “breaking his leg“ is a callback from “Fall”.
 * Ruby’s flashback of Cinder killing Pyrrha is reused from “End of the Beginning”.