The opening ends to Weiss patiently waiting out the minute left on her holographic clock displayed from her desk in the classroom of Professor Peter Port, whose dialogue is merely background nonsense about his childhood as Jaune slides up next to Weiss. (Gotta give him props for determination)

Jaune: So, Weiss, y'know, uh, I-I was thinking after this, maybe we could go grab a bite to eat? (Turns to the teacher for a second, then turns back around.) And, uh um, I-I've got two tickets to that new Spruce Willis movie, if you wanna make the trip to Vale. I hear it's awesome. (Pauses as his words have no effect.) Aaaand maybe after that, we could study together? I mean, you're smart and I'm, uh… Y'know

Finally, the clock in front of Weiss gives a shrill beep as it changes from 3:59 to 4:00, and she dismisses it with a wave of her hand. The professor is temporarily unaware of the alarm.

Port: (Posing as a towering monster about to attack.) And then I— Oh. (Straightens his stance as the students start to leave.) Timed that one wrong, I guess. Well, the stunning conclusion to this story will have to wait. Until next time!

Jaune: (Watching Weiss as she packs up her Scroll.) Weiss? Did you hear me?

Weiss: (Not even looking at Jaune as she walks away.) No, no, no, yes.

Upon hearing this, Jaune groans and does a faceplant into his desk.

Yang: (As the rest of Team RWBY and CAAT walks out of class behind him, Yang ruffles Jaune's hair without even looking.) One day.

Y/n: don't worry jaune ill help you get laid *walks off*

Jaune: thanks *slams head back down*

A closeup of Ruby's hands as she straps the red laces of her shoes. Switch to a closeup of Weiss' hand gripping the handle of Myrtenaster strapped to her side. Switch to a closeup of Yang's Ember Celica over her left forearm as she slides the chamber. Switch to a closeup of Blake tightening the black ribbons around her arms. Switch to full view of Team RWBY's preparations, revealing their new outfits.

Blake: (Approaching her bunk as she tightens her wraps.) I thought that class would never end.

Ruby: (From her position sitting on the hanging bed) Alright, guys, today's the day! The investigation begins!

Ruby happily leaps off her mattress and onto the floor, arms raised excitedly. She almost lands on Weiss, who is on the bottom bunk.

Weiss: (sarcastically) I'm glad to see we're taking this so seriously.

Yang: hey we have a plan thats....moderatly serious

Ruby: Right! (looks around at her teammates) Everyone remember their roles? (Weiss stands up as the camera quickly shifts left to each member who state their objective.) Wait where's y/n

As ruby says this y/n walks into the room with a hickey on his neck and in a new outfit as well

Y/n: sorry I'm late I had to do.......stuff...

Ada then walks behind y/n and wraps her arms around his waist and pokes her head over his shoulder

Ada: hi im stuff

Yang: EEEEEEEEEYYYYYY

Blake: ew

Weiss: as I was saying me and ruby will head to the CCT and check the Schnee records for any other Dust robberies or inconsistencies. Seeing as I'm in the family, it shouldn't be a problem.

Blake: The White Fang has regular faction meetings to hand out orders and recruit new members. If me and Ada can get in, we can hopefully find out what they're planning.

Yang: I have an old friend on the shady side of town that typically knows everything going on in Vale. Getting information out of him shouldn't be too hard…

Y/n: also me as well as cinder and the rest of team CAAT will be in vale incase we need to provide backup to any of you guys

Ruby: (the camera dashing back to the leader) Great! We'll meet up tonight near Yang to go over what we found. (pumping her fist) Let's do this!

Sun: (off-screen) Yeah! (Camera shifts right to a smiling Sun Wukong as he hangs upside-down by his tail in their open window. The whole team is taken aback. As y/n gains a evil smirk)

Y/n: well well well if it isn't sun Wukong

Sun: Y-Y/N WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?!?!

Yang: how did you even get up here

Sun: I do this all the time

Y/n: you mean peep on my sisters and there team while they change

Weiss: YOU WHAT!!!!!

Sun: I climb trees all the time! (Without reacting to Weiss' scowl, he flips into the dorm room.) So, are we finally getting back at that Torchwick lady?

Blake: (stepping forward) We are going to investigate the situation… as a team.

Sun: well what about y/n he isn't apart of your team

Y/n: yeah but one of my girlfriends best friends is *points to blake* and my sisters are on this team too so I have a right to be here

Ruby: Yeah sorry, Sun. Y/n's right we don't want to get friends involved if we don't have to.

Sun: Psh! That's dumb! We should always get friends involved! That's why I brought Neptune! (gesturing out the window)

The girls and y/n lean out the window on top of one another cartoon-style to see the aforementioned teammate of Sun's standing outside, cool as can be.

Neptune: Sup? *notices y/n* Y/N WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE

Y/n: today just gets better and better *grabs Neptune by the collar and pulls him into the dorm as he holds Crimson Yamato to his neck* you still owe me that money from the poisoned food Vasilias and I remember it was 500,000 lien correct

Neptune: L-look ill get it to you alright just give me 2 months

Y/n: you better and with an interest fee of 100,000 *sheaths Crimson yamato*

Sun: we are so screwed

Ada: *kisses y/ns cheek* that was hot

Ruby:Alright, I'll go with Weiss; Sun, you can go with Ada and Blake. (As she pushes Neptune past Weiss, he slips her a wink. Weiss looks mildly shocked but then comes to her senses quickly.) And Neptune, you can go with Yang since she doesn't have a partner. Everyone good?

Y/n: yup *grabs sun and Neptune* try anything with my sister or girlfriend and I will rip your worlds a fucking sunder

Sun/Neptune: YES SIR!!!!

Weiss: Actually, Ruby, why don't you go with Yang? After all, she is your sister.

Ruby pushed Neptune, who is stiff as a board, up next to Yang. When she is done pushing him, he rocks back and fourth looking nervous. Yang put her hand on his shoulder to stop him from rocking

Ruby: But, Weiss, who would go with you, then?

Y/n: yeah Weiss who will

Weiss: Well… I guess Neptune could come with me.

Ruby: (Neptune puts on a suave look and points at Weiss as the team leader cracks up.) Hahaha, nah!

Weiss is obviously less than amused, yet is powerless to stop Ruby from pulling her by the back out the door.

The scene changes to show that of a monumental tower that looms over the sparse trees growing around the crossroads below as y/n is seen watching from the rooftop.

Ruby: (off-screen) Woooow! I forget how big the Transmit tower looks up close!

Weiss: (off screen) you should see the one in atlas

Y/n: *speaks into earpiece*

Cinder:

Cloud:

Tifa:

Cinder:

Y/n:

Tifa:

Y/n: *jumps down the the alley where ruby and Penny are at*

Ruby: AAAAH BRO WHERE DID YOU COME FROM!?!?

Y/n: I have my ways but let's talk about what happened just now in that street ms polendina

Penny: (nervous again) I-I can't! Everything's fine! (she starts to hiccup with each lie) I-I don't want to talk about it! (*hiccup*)

Ruby:(coming up to Penny, exasperated) Penny! Please! What is going on?! Why are you running? How did you do that?!

Penny: (retreating from her friend) No! No, no! You wouldn't understand…

Y/n: Penny *grabs her hand reassuringly* were your friends you can trust us

Penny: she finally relents, coming up to Ruby's face desperately) You're my friends, right? You promise you're my friends?!

Ruby:(softly) we promise.

Penny: (silent for a second, then, looking down at her hands) Y/n...Ruby… I'm not a real girl.

Penny shows Ruby and y/n the toll of stopping the truck that would have killed her: Parts of her palm's skin have ripped away, revealing the gray metal underneath. Penny stares sadly at Ruby and Y/n's faces, now completely astounded by their friend's secret as all they can simply say is

Ruby/ Y/n: oh/ that's amazing

Penny: really you think its amazing

Y/n: yeah that just makes you special and allows you to do things that we humans can never do so to me it makes you unique

Penny: really?

Ruby: (Taking Penny's hands in her own.) Of course it does. You think just because you've got nuts and bolts instead of squishy guts makes you any less real than me or Y/n?

Y/n: *hears atlas guards coming* ruby you better find a way out of here we got atlas soldiers coming at us

Ruby: *turns to y/n only to see him already leaping to the rooftop* YOU BIG JERK!!!

Penny: sorry about this ruby (Grabs Ruby by the shoulders) You have to hide! (Lifts Ruby above her head effortlessly.)

Ruby: (Struggles and screams as she is carried toward the dumpster.) Penny, wait! What are you doing? You don't have to go with them! I can help you!

Penny: (Throws Ruby in the trash and lifts the lid so she can still talk.) It's okay, Ruby. They're not bad people; I just don't want to get you or Y/n in trouble. Just promise me you won't tell anyone else my secret. Okay? (Gravely stares at Ruby.)

Ruby: I promise

Ruby lowers her head into the garbage as the lid is put down, but she lifts it a little to peek at the scene outside.

Atlas soldier#1: There she is

Penny: Sal-u-tations, officers!

Soldier#2: why were you running and where did that girl and boy go

Penny: what boy and girl I've been by myself all day (hiccups loudly and smiles)

Soldier 1: You shouldn't cause such a scene.

Soldier 2: Are you okay?

Penny: (Shows off her "injured" palms.) Just a scratch.

Soldier 1: Penny, your father isn't going to be happy about this.

Soldier 2: Please, just come with us.

Penny:Yes, sir!

Penny and the soldiers are heard walking away as Ruby looks on in sadness… until a rat screeches from below her feet, causing the young Huntress to fall and close the lid on herself.

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In the ruined parts of Vale, the sound of an engine gets closer and closer until Bumblebee pulls into the street and stops just short of the camera, showing Yang Xiao Long behind the handlebars in her matching helmet.

Yang: (Taking off the helmet, talking to someone off-screen as she gestures with her thumb to the music playing nearby.) Come on, my friend's right in here!

Yang gets off her bike to reveal Neptune sitting right behind her, hair and goggles messed up with a petrified expression of terror on his face.

Neptune: (Sounding dizzy) Cool… (Shakes his head, somehow perfectly fixing his appearance, and gets off the cycle, looking around worriedly.) And where exactly is… here?

The music from Junior's Club gets louder once inside to show Junior behind the bar adjusting his cuffs as his Henchmen stock the bottles, carry boxes, and otherwise stand around on the dance floor, until…

Henchmen#1: (running inside, shouting) Hurry, close the door - she's coming! (He and another Henchman proceed to roll the doors shut and keep them closed with their bodies.)

Junior: (Walking out from the bar) What are you two idiots doing?!

The Henchman shout incoherently until an explosion knocks them to the ground and forces the doors open, allowing a familiar face to walk in through the smoke as "I Burn" starts playing

Yang: Guess who's back!

Yang continues to smile and pose as eight guns are pointed in her face with an equal number of angry Henchmen behind them. Though this doesn't faze her, she stops and glares at the recording studio where the track is messing up until the frightened bear-headed DJ takes the needle off the record and retreates back under the table.

Neptune: (Appearing behind Yang as the Henchmen continue hoisting their guns.) Yeah, so could you defind "friend" for me?

Yang: so junior kinda prefers my brother being here then me 😅

Junior: uh yeah because he doesn't DESTROY MY FUCKING CLUB EVERYTIME HE COMES HERE

Melanie: that and he

Militia: treats the both of us

Malachite twins: nice and rough~ *giggle*

Neptune: jeez how many girls has y/n been with

Junior: (Cuts his way through the crowd of goons, straightening his tie.) Blondie, you're here! …?

Yang: You still owe me a drink. (She grabs Junior by the arm and drags him to the bar through the hired guns.)

Neptune: Whoa-ho-ho-ho, what a woman… (Breaks from his lovestruck staring to see the twins Melanie and Miltia Malachite standing beside him.) 'Sup?

Melani/militia: (Together, they harrumph.) Whatever. Y/n's way cuter (They walk away, noses in the air.)

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Meanwhile, Blake's fingers trace three scratch marks on a wall before peeking around its corner and seeing a pair of horned Faunus as they are ushered into a building by a bearded man. She turns to Sun and Ada next to her.

Blake: This is it

Sun: You sure? (As Blake glares at him and starts moving towards the entrance with Ada following her as Blake starts to unfasten her bow) Y'know, I'm just gonna take your words for it.

The trio walk inside the building to a hallway filled with cases, seeing another man announcing "New recruits, keep to the right!" at the young hunstmen/huntresses as they follow.

Sun: I don't get it. (Holds out the half-mask in his hand.) If you believe what you're doing is right, why hide who you are?

Ada: The masks are a symbol. Humanity wanted to make monsters out of us,

Blake: so we chose to don the faces of monsters.

Sun: That's so dark

Blake: So was the guy who started it. (Puts her mask on and walks on.)

Sun: Always sunshine and rainbows with you two… (Follows Blake and Ada's lead.)

The new recruits of the White Fang are moving in a line to the side of the stage, a mere dew dozen compared to the hundreds of white-vested, black-hooded soldiers to their left and up above in the balconies. Blake Sun and Ada look around themselves when they stop, and a fully-masked man with tattoos standing starts speaking before the large sheet emblazoned with the bloody wolf and claw marks.

White fang lieutenant: Thank you all for coming. For those of you who is joining us for the first time tonight, allow me to introduce a very special comrade of ours! I can assure you, he is the key to obtaining what we fought for for so long!

The dark pants and brown shoes step forward before the orange tip of the Melodic Cudgel taps on the stage. The camera pans up to reveal none other than Roma, smiling confidently even as the crowd starts protesting

Roma: (Waving mockingly) Thank you, thank you! (As he speaks, Neopolitan walks out from behind the sheet.) Please, hold your applause!

Antler Faunus: (Pointing at Roma from her place right in front of Blake Ada and Sun) What's a human doing here?!

Roma: I'm glad you asked, "Deerie"! Now, I'll be first to admit, humans… are the worst. (Salutes as an example.) Case in point. So, I understand why you would like to see us all locked away, or, better yet, killed!

Sun: (Leaning over to Blake.) So, is she going somewhere with this?

Ada: maybe.....

Roma: But, before claws come out, I'd like to mention the fact that you and I all have a common enemy: the ones in control, the people pulling the strings, the dirty, rotten humans that run our kingdoms! (As the crowd changes their tune and starts agreeing with him.) Government, military, even the schools: they're all to blame for your lot in life! (Lets the crowd cheer as the two heroes share a look.) And they're all pests that need to be dealt with! Fortunately, I'm the best exterminator around… No offense to any rodents in the room.

With a snap of her fingers, the curtain falls, and the whole mass of Faunus applaud at the sight of the Atlesian Paladian-290 behind it, the mark of the White Fang painted on its shoulder.

Sun: Whoa, that's a big robot…

Blake: how did she get that

Cinder on the roof watches with wide eyed before stepping away to alert the others

Cinder:

Y/n: *jumps off roof and revs motorcycle as he heads towards the south side of vale

Back with sun Ada and Blake

Roma: As some of you may have heard, this right here… (Taps the giant mech) …is Atlas' newest defense against all the scary things in the world. And thanks to my "employer", we've managed to snag a few before they, uh, "hit the shelves". Now, many of your brothers have already moved down to our new operation in the southeast. If you'd rather stay within the city, that's fine… But if you're truly ready to fight for what you believe in, this is the arsenal I can provide you. Any questions? (The White Fang's roaring applause tells him the answer )

Ada: (to blake) we have to leave Now!!

White fang lieutenant: Will all new recruits, please come forward!

Sun: (As the line surges forward with the three having to follow) Welp!

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Back at the Club, Junior puts down his glass as he sits behind the bar separating him from his interrogator.

Junior: I don't know!

Yang: How can you not know?

Junior:I haven't talked to her! I haven't even seen her since the night you first came in here. (Leans over to point in Yang's face.) She paid up front, I lent her my men, and none of them ever. Came. Back.

Neptune:(Rushing to Yang's side to raise a question of his own.) So where did they go?

Junior: (After a long pause) What kind of stupid question is that? They never came back! (To Yang) Who is this guy?

Yang: (Pushing Neptune out of the way with one hand.) Don't worry about him; worry about me (Neptune straightens and stands to attention) if I don't find out what I want!