Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140829002738/@comment-10390252-20140829082504

So...


 * 1) Pyrrha is so badass, she can take on a team of four and beat them into paste. As it's CRDL, I'll call it 'karma';[
 * 2) Cinder and her crew are cataloguing the abilities and fighting methodologies of our various heroes; no prizes for guessing what that's about. Only time will tell if his boast that he could beat her is true;
 * 3) The dance appears to be something significant and not just in various ships and friendships;
 * 4) Whatever goes down goes down at the dance.

So, what is that 'list' Cinder and her two apprentices are compiling might be. People to take out first? People so good that they are to be given a chance to join them before they're... er... 'liquidated'?

My call/guess? I think that Cinder's needle might be covered in a chemical that temporarily blocks the use of Semblance. The list that Team CRME are putting together is those at Beacon heavily reliant on their Semblance to fight and thus who should get that 'gift' just before the big attack. Yang is a very, very obvious example of one of our heroes who will be in serious trouble if I'm right.

I, for one, think Mercury's arrogance might lead him to misunderstand the importance of Pyrrha's semblance in her fighting style. It will be interesting to see how Emerald might react if Pyrrha mashes his pretty face a little.

I'm also thinking that Jaune is going to save the day in this arc (pun not intended). His super-powerful aura will turn out to power a healing semblance that is going to reverse Cinder's sinister plan in one swoop. Suddenly, Team CRME and their mooks (the missing Club mooks?) will be seriously outgunned. Cinder breaks off from her surprisingly-closely-fought duel with Ruby: "We will finish this some other day, Ruby, daughter of Summer Rose."

Another coming arc possibility, possibly the 3 or four episodes after WoR3): Teams RWBY and JNPR saving Team CFVY from either White Fang or some other group of mooks in Roman's employ.

And, finally, I was 100% wrong. Emerald doesn't like Ruby at all. If anything, her reaction to Ruby suggests that Emerald finds dealing with her sort of like drinking coffee with far too much sugar in it.