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If those Walkers make it down here, those Afterans will never ascend!
—Weiss, to the rest of Team RWBY

"Team RWBY and Jaune vs. Jabberwalker Clones" is a battle that takes place in "The Perils of Paper Houses" of Volume 9, where Jaune Arc and Team RWBY protect the Paper Pleasers' village from the Jabberwalker Clones.

Preceding Events[]

Team RWBY made it to the Origami Acre after escaping from the previous encounter with the Jabberwalker Clones. They learn that the Paper Pleasers desire to escape from their village and ascend to the Great Tree, however Jaune does not let them. As they try to convince Jaune otherwise, the Jabberwalker Clones arrive, smashing through Jaune's house in the distance.

Jaune whistles to Juniper, who picks Jaune up and carries him to the fight. Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long all resolve to protect the Paper Pleasers from the Jabberwalkers, as if they were eaten by one they would never ascend. Ruby Rose looks conflicted to herself, before running to join the rest of them.

The Fight[]

The Jabberwalkers dash toward the village as Jaune fends them off. One Jabberwalker intercepts Jaune's attack using its hand to directly absorb the strike, before Weiss' Arma Gigas slices through the Jabberwalker and destroys it. Jaune thanks Weiss for the assist, before Yang and Blake dash toward another Jabberwalker, telling Jaune to focus on the fight. Blake dodges two of this Jabberwalker's strikes, before grabbing Yang's arm and letting herself be swung toward and under the Jabberwalker's legs, allowing her to get a slash in. Yang then runs in and trips it with a sweep of the legs, before repeatedly punching it with blasts from Ember Celica. Blake then finishes it off with a slash from above.

Two more Jabberwalkers attack Blake and Yang, while Yang activates her Semblance, Burn, for a quick power boost before deactivating it. The couple alternate between attacking each Jabberwalker with synchronized movements. One of them manages to grab Yang after being hit, and Blake swings Gambol Shroud's ribbon to catch its horn in response. Blake uses the grabbed horn to swing in towards it, while Yang frees herself from its grasp with a spin and grabs its hand in return. Yang bounces off the still-attached ribbon to hit the Jabberwalker in the head with an aerial punch.

Meanwhile, Jaune and Juniper continue to combat another Jabberwalker. Jaune hits it with the shield of Crocea Mors and Juniper suddenly stops and begins rearing like a horse would. The two move out of the way as the Arma Gigas swings its sword down toward the Jabberwalker, and back up to knock it all the way down into the river. Another Jabberwalker suddenly joins the fight, leaping through the Arma Gigas and destroying it. Weiss jumps over it to try to attack it from behind, but she lands on its tail and is launched far into the air. She lands on a gravity Glyph while Jaune fights it below. Jaune's sword is launched from his grip during the scuffle and Weiss catches it, throwing it back to him. He deflects the sword using Gravity Dust from his shield, destroying the Jabberwalker. Before going to retrieve his sword, he looks at Ruby angrily, who is standing at the bridge watching the fight.

Ruby panics while watching the fight, still not comfortable with using Crescent Rose. The Jabberwalker that was previously launched into the river has now managed to get behind Ruby, and tries to attack her. Ruby tries to get away using Petal Burst, but suddenly hallucinates fearful images over top of the Jabberwalker. It manages to grab her and pin her to the ground. The filling covering its mouth shatters as it prepares to devour Ruby. Each member of Team RWBY, then noticing the predicament of their leader, knock the Jabberwalker away from her. As they check on Ruby, the Jabberwalker spasms as if in pain before revealing Neo's form, who smugly points to Ruby before shattering.

Aftermath[]

Yang is bewildered by Neo's evolved Semblance, but Jaune is simply agitated Ruby did not participate in the fight. As he hands back to her Crescent Rose, Ruby recoils in fear. As the rest of Team Rwby and Jaune finally realize something is wrong with her, they are interrupted by the sound of the Paper Pleasers readying to destroy the dam. Jaune attempts to stop them to no avail, and the Paper Pleasers successfully commit suicide to Ascend. Jaune is left dejected, but Yang, Blake, and Weiss assure him the pleasers will return and urge Ruby to comfort him. This is the last straw for Ruby, and she lashes out at her team and Jaune for continuously ignoring her feelings and clear signs of trauma. After she finishes lashing out, Jaune grows angry and blames her for the Paper Pleasers deaths and getting them trapped in the After En. Ruby cries and lashes out one more time before Petal Bursting away from everyone with Little in tow.

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