RWBY: The Session is a light novel adaption of RWBY, published by Gagaga Bunko.
Summary[]
The story takes place between Volumes 1 and 2, where Team RWBY and JNPR spend their mid-term vacation at an island resort.[1]
The story begins with Jaune Arc coaxing Lie Ren into attending an exhibit by a company called Starhead Industrial Company with him. During the exhibit, they run into Team RWBY and a little girl who seems to be affiliated with SIC. The girl proceeds to pilot a mechanical elephant, and Team RWBY is forced to battle it in order to rescue Jaune, who is trapped on it.
Eventually, the elephant is defeated and the girl comes out of its head. As Team RWBY is being thanked for taking down the machine, a security guard calls out the girl's name, Iona Rockshow, and scolds her. Jaune helps her out of the situation. Iona reveals that she is an official from Starhead Industrial Company and gives Jaune several SIC resort tickets.
Ruby Rose receives tickets as well, for stopping the elephant, and she invites the rest of her team to the resort while Jaune does the same with his. Elsewhere, Roman Torchwick is escaping from a deal gone wrong. However, just as he attempts a getaway in an aircraft, it gets shot down.
The next day, the two teams travel to the island. Ruby ponders about how to manage her team, due to Weiss Schnee insisting on training for the Vytal Festival and Yang Xiao Long insisting on kicking back. Later on, they meet Pyrrha Nikos at the ferry.
When the ferry arrives at the resort, Team RWBY notes the myriad of SIC animal-shaped drones working at the harbor. Meeting with the rest of Team JNPR, they decide to split up: Ruby, Yang, Ren and Nora go to the beach while Weiss, Blake, Pyrrha and Jaune head to the training grounds, where they train fighting weaker animal drones. On the beach, Yang is harassed by a group of rowdy teenagers and begins to threaten them when Grimm suddenly begin attacking the island, causing the guests to evacuate while both teams deal with the Grimm. Afterwards, the students are invited to meet Dr. Fort Lee Rockshow, the CEO of Starhead Industrial and Iona's father, who asks them to deal with a large concentration of Grimm on the central island, which is present on a lake in the middle of the resort island.
In the process of scouring the area for Grimm, team RWBY and JNPR discover that Fort Lee is the leader of the "Silver Bullet Brotherhood", a radical pro-human organization intent on expelling or enslaving Faunus and is using the island as a massive trap, with surveillance drones and hidden trackers inside the passenger cards along with radio jammers ensuring victims can't leave or call for help before transporting them to a hidden facility in the central island known as "The Cage" in which they are used for slave labor. After being attacked by more animal drones, they attempt to hide in an SIC storage facility where they meet Iona, who tells them she used to agree with her father that faunus are bad after the White Fang killed her elder brother in front of her, but she didn't know their enslavement of faunus was the reason and agrees to help them.
Fort Lee then appears himself, using an arm cannon to knock out Pyrrha and take both her and Iona prisoner while the rest of the students flee. Pyrrha manages to break them out with her semblance, but Fort Lee deduces this and sends an elite squad armed with non-metal weapons to subdue her. Due to being unarmed and injured the guards manage to pose a challenge to Pyrrha, but the rest of Team JNPR manage to arrive with her weapons and armor and give them back to her, allowing Pyrrha to easily kill the SIC guards.
At the same time, Team RWBY learns that the White Fang had an arms deal with the SIC prior to Fort Lee becoming CEO and are thus able to communicate with the island, which Blake decides to use as a distraction by anonymously contacting them and telling them about the SIC's real intention. As a result, White Fang goons attack the island in order to release the faunus prisoners and draw the SIC's attention, allowing Team RWBY to confront Fort Lee in the island's mines. After being nearly defeated, Fort Lee attempts to call his remaining animal drones to the mines, only to discover Torchwick - Who was responsible for supplying the White Fang with SIC equipment - was able to hack the island's security system and had set the mine to self-destruct. The students use Iona's help to flee the mine before it explodes and Fort Lee is killed.
In the epilogue, Ruby recounts what happens to Ozpin while it is explained that the remaining SIC members have been arrested by the authorities and while the prisoners in the Cage have been released, many of them are missing and are implied to have joined the White Fang for revenge. Ruby meets back up with her teammates and attempts to begin planning how to spend the rest of their vacation.
Characters[]
- Ruby Rose
- Weiss Schnee
- Blake Belladonna
- Yang Xiao Long
- Jaune Arc
- Pyrrha Nikos
- Nora Valkyrie
- Lie Ren
- Roman Torchwick
- Ozpin
- Shopkeep (Unconfirmed)
- Cinder Fall (Indirectly mentioned)
Original Characters[]
Chapters[]
- Chapter 1: The Need for his/their trip
- Chapter 2: Working/Hanging out on the tropical island
- Chapter 3: Hunt down/Hunted down
- Chapter 4: Get into/out of the Cage
- Epilogue: At our own speed
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Trivia[]
- The novel is the first confirmed instance of Team RWBY and JNPR killing human opponents.
- The swim toys that Team RWBY wield on the cover resemble their main weapons: Crescent Rose, Myrtenaster, Gambol Shroud and Ember Celica.
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