Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-86.143.10.83-20160207173711/@comment-10390252-20160207202336

My call?

It's basically two parts - Ozpin vs. Cinder (and both very OP) and everyone else trying to protect the CCT Tower.

I'm thinking that, in Ozpin and Cinder's banter, we'll get a lot of Cinder's back-story with respect to her relationship with our heroes and her reasons for doing this (although some mysteries will remain). I suspect she'll start to look a Well-Intentioned Extremist but with a nightmarishly twisted worldview that makes empathising with her motives impossible.

Meanwhile, a wounded, dying Yang and Blake are rescued by Jaune and Pyrrha. Jaune's Semblance finally activates and he somehow generates a huge force bubble that seals off the area of Beacon Academy/the Tower, blowing all the Grimm out of the area.

Ruby, meanwhile, arrives in time to see Cinder knock Ozpin down. She interferes and saves the old man's life. Cinder glares at her and says something soul-crushing about her that implies she knows more about Ruby's heritage than ought to be possible. Then she announces that she has what she wanted and leaves.

Why save Ozpin? I think that he still has some remaining Teacher/Mentor duties and I don't want him appearing to the girls as a 'Aura Echo' of some kind.

The epilogue will be the survivors of Vale, now trapped inside the protected grounds of Beacon (including a few dozen White Fang grunts, who are very, very pleased not to have been left behind to face the Grimm whilst Adam stormed off in disappointment at not being able to hurt Blake more than he has.

Ruby drops in on Yang and Blake, who are being treated as best as can be managed in the bad circumstances in which the people of Vale find themselves. Qrow approaches Ruby and tells her that matters have changed and the time has come for her to learn things that he hadn't planned to tell her until her graduation.

Epilogue: Cinder confronting her Mistress, who is not overjoyed at Vale not being scoured off of the surface of Remnant and the CCT network still being extant. We get a hint of said Dark Mastermind's identity - Just enough to raise speculation.