Opens with a stadium of epic proportions being seen. Crowds are cheering in the stands, visitors from all over the world. In the field of volcanic earth and icy glaciers below, Ruby fires and swings her Crescent Rose at an off-screen target as Blake Belladonna exchanges blows with Reese Chloris, the blades of her Gambol Shroud colliding with the hoverboard of her opponent until she flips away, readies herself, and charges in again. Behind her, Weiss Schnee waves her Myrtenaster as the sound of her mystical power is heard, and finally Yang Xiao Long dodges the explosive force of Arslan Altan's fist before returning fire with her own Ember Celica.

High above the action, two familiar teachers are sitting at a sportscaster's desk, with a microphone between them and the holographic image of the four kingdoms' symbols united as one.

Port: Hello! It seems that we have another astonishing bout ahead of us! Wouldn't you agree, Professor?

Oobleck: (annoyed) Doctor. (brightens up excitedly again) And yes Peter, I think it's safe to say this match may be the closest we've seen of the four-on-four round of the tournament!

Port: For those of you just now joining us, welcome to the Vytal Festival Tournament, broadcast live from the Amity Colosseum! (he waves his arm to gesture at the entire event from his place on the gigantic screen over the crowds)

The Coliseum is shown in its full glory, as shuttle craft transport people to and from the various floors while the entire structure hovers around the airspace of Beacon Academy. Explosions are seen throughout the battlefield, but the view shifts back to the announcers as they begin speaking again.

Port: If this is your first time watching, allow us to break down the rules.

Oobleck: (he holds up the appropriate number of fingers for each of his explanations as a hologram to his side illustrates the rules) The tournament is divided into three distinctive rounds; teams, doubles, and singles. Age and school year are irrelevant! In this tournament, your only attribute being tested... is skill.

Port: (nods as another hologram pops up to do the same thing) Correct! The winners of this battle will elect two of their members to represent them in the doubles round, followed by the winners of that round choosing one member to advance once again. The remaining combatants will then fight their way through the final bracket in the hope of achieving victory for their kingdom! (the hologram disappears with the image of a victorious figure, sword raised and wearing a crown)

Oobleck: (pushes up his own spectacles as he says this) And yes, Peter, these certainly are some spectacular spectacles on which to spectate on! I don't think anyone tuning in around the world is going to disagree with me on that! (as they say this, the scene changes to their televised broadcasts all around the kingdoms, from a row of holographs above the patrons in the Mistral Distillery to an Atlas home with a group of friends seeing it together, a bar in Vale where everyone turns to view the screen, and outside a mobile home in Vacuo being watched by a few Faunus on a projection.)

Port: Ahh, and why would they? Now, let's get back to the match between Team RWBY of Beacon, and Team ABRN, of Haven.

The announcements cut back to the action, as Reese steers her board through the ice. She twirls herself until the board gets launched at Blake, but she's able to knock it away, only for Reese to direct it back at her opponent. Blake blocks it again, but the board rotates back to its wielder just in time to defend Reese as Blake delivers several slashes and kicks. Reese deflects each attack and spins her weapon around until she can flip away and ride it again, rushing towards a smirking Blake. She collides with the frozen shadow clone, and Blake uses his opportunity to slice the board in two, only for the halves to become dual katars that in turn fold up into bayonet-bladed revolvers. Reese manages to fire off a few green rounds before her tailbone collides painfully on the cold ground. Blake winces with sympathy.

Meanwhile, Yang lands mere feet away from Arslan, who backs away before being pounded by two quick punches. The pair dodge each others kicks then Arslan delivers her own hits, launching a series of hammer blows. Yang defends herself and retaliates, the clash ending with the two smashing fists and creating a shockwave of force from the impact. Yang and Arslan are both thrown back, but Yang reaches her and tries delivering more blows before Arslan flips away then uses her rope dart to tangle up her blonde adversary's leg and land a kick of her own to send Yang skidding on the ground. While Yang tries to get her balance back on the slippery surface, Arslan rushes forward and knocks her back even further.

Nearby, Nadir Shiko tries aiming with his assault rifle at Yang before a sudden burst of frosty blue explodes behind him and leaves the whimpering gunner in a block of ice up to his thighs.

Ruby: (looks up from her sniper scope) Got your back!

Bolin: But who's got yours?

Ruby looks up behind her as Bolin twirls his staff, right when a black snowflake glyph appears to his left and Weiss kicks him through it into a rock.

Ruby: My BFF!

Weiss: (deadpan) No. (runs off)

Ruby: (pumps her fist, whispering to herself:) Yes.

Bolin crouches with his weapon as he sees a white glyph appear in front of him. A second later, Weiss dashes by and slashes at him, then leaps up and attempts an aerial attack, which he's able to block. She readies her sword while preparing a glyph behind her, and Ruby uses it to launch herself straight up and come down spinning on Bolin, who manages to block the curved blade. Ruby grimaces and blasts herself away to Weiss' side, and Bolin rushes at them, rolling away from the shards of ice that rain on him and jumping over Ruby's swing as he continues running.

Ruby: Whaaat!?

Bolin manages to reach an orange crystal deposit and slice off a shard, which he throws to Reese over in the icy half of the stadium. With Dust in hand, Reese fuses it with her board, turning the aqua lights to a crimson shade. She winks at Blake, then uses the board's heat to free Nadir from his icy snare.

Nadir: Thanks Reese!

She comes back to Blake and slams her board into her enemy's blade, but propels herself backwards and knocks Blake through a frozen pillar. Reese attempts to use her board to slam her foe into the ground, but when she dodges that, she spins around in a flaming arc that Blake narrowly misses thanks to her shadows. Changing tactics, Blake launches the pistol part of Gambol Shroud at a nearby glacier and launches herself behind it, as Reese follows her and sees Blake with her back turned to her under an arch. Reese grins before riding in to deliver a flaming spiral at the shadow clone, only to see the ribbon Blake is launching to trap her opponent a moment too late. She pulls tightly and causes Reese to slam body-first into the string, only to use a final kick to knock her out of the stage. Reese crashes into the wall of the stands before landing on the ground, defeated.

Port: (as Reese's Aura level drops in the team display until her image is crossed out and she angrily slams her fist on the ground) Ooh, a double whammy! Reese Chloris is eliminated by ringout and Aura level!

Oobleck: Oh, she really should've worn a helmet!

Back in the fight, Arslan uses her rope to swing around and avoid Yang right behind her, using shotgun blasts to propel herself forward. Nadir comes into the picture, aiming his rifle at Weiss as she summons another glyph and launches Bolin at him. The two teammates are helpless as Weiss creates a whirlwind from underneath them and slamming the two together until she forms a giant ice fist straight up from the ground to trap the two. It reforms itself into a ball that rolls around the field, and when Arslan sees her team in this state, she rolls her eyes, annoyed, before changing direction and sliding into the path of the ball. She readies her stance and drives her hand into the sphere, which cracks under her power and frees her allies.

Weiss: Yang! (Yang turns to look just as she creates a large frozen slide-like shape) NOW!

Knowing what to do, Yang blasts herself forward and skims over the wall of ice, catching Blake's pistol as her teammate uses Ruby as a launch pad to jump off of towards the remaining members of ABRN. The three only have a second to look horrified as Blake whips a screaming Yang around to land a devastating punch that sends the trio flying into their elimination.

Yang: (as the buzzer sounds and Ruby cheers "YAAAAAY!" in the background:) Yes!

Port: And that's the match! Team RWBY is victorious!

Weiss: (looking around and sounding surprised) We... did it?

Ruby: (looking at her sister for confirmation, she smiles and leaps into the air, screaming:) WE DID IIIIII-

Ruby: -...is anyone else starving? (suddenly hunched over)

Blake: (looking cool as ever, arms behind her head) I may have worked up an appetite. (the growling of an angry beast from her stomach proves her statement, much to its owner embarrassment)

Weiss: (sarcastically shrugging her arms) Gee, if only there was somewhere on campus to get food around here. (the view zooms out to show a myriad of tents and small shops wreathed in colorful flags in a large forest clearing as people mill about to experience it all) Oh, wait.

Yatsuhashi Daichi can be seen flexing in front of two girls nearby. A pair of Atlesian Knight-200"s on patrol walk past the girls as they talk.

Ruby: (taking Weiss' shoulder) It's okay, Weiss, I forget about the fairgrounds, too.

Weiss: (knocking Ruby's arm away) I was being facetious?

Ruby: (freaks out) Gah! Well if you were hungry, why didn't you say so!?

Yang: Come on! I know just the place.

Team RWBY starts to follow Yang, but Weiss suddenly stops as she hears a ringtone on her Scroll. Pulling it out, she sees the caller ID labeled "FATHER", and glares at the device, putting it back from where she got it, unanswered.

Emerald: (offscreen, holding a red wallet filled with Lien) Hey! Might be hard to eat without this.

Ruby: (frantically patting around her outfit, panicking) No, no, no, no!

Emerald: (laughs) Good to see you, Ruby.

Ruby: (takes the wallet back from her "friend" and puts it away) Oh! Thanks, Emerald! Oh. Guess I dropped it. Girl pockets are the worst! (slouches as she says this)

Yang: What's up, Em?

Emerald: Just left the stadium after your amazing fight! You guys were awesome!

Ruby: (blushing and mumbling) Oh, shut your stupid little face...

Blake: (over Ruby's incoherent gushing) I heard your team progressed to the next round too.

Weiss: You know, I feel that we haven't seen your other teammates.

Yang: How'd they do in the fight?

Emerald tilts her head up in thought, remembering how she blasted opponents with Thief's Respite, then slashed behind her as Mercury Black kicks out a shotgun blast with Talaria. Ember Fall did the same with her own target, landing the poor soul at the feet of their teammate, a mysterious black-haired girl who leans over and stares down as the camera focuses on how her green eyes blink into a pair of pink and brown irises as she smirks while delivering a stomp on her victim's face into darkness.

Emerald: (coming back to reality, nodding) Really well.

Ruby: That's great. Uh. Why don't we all go and get a victory food together?

Emerald: Oh, gosh, that's so nice of you, but my teammates are all kind of... (looking back at Mercury as he sniffs the inside of a boot, looking perplexed after he does so) ...introverted. Really socially awkward.

Yang: (nodding) Ooh, yeah, I could see that.

Emerald: Oh yeah, looks like Merc and I are going to move on to the doubles round. What about you guys?

Ruby: (looking pretty proud of herself) Well, as the leader of this team, I thought long and hard about this decision.

Weiss: (popping in to remind her, straight-faced:) We put it to a vote.

Ruby: (nervously tries to backtrack) Yes, so, but I decided that we should put it to a vote.

Blake: We voted for Weiss and Yang.

Weiss: (curtsying) I will happily represent Team RWBY.

Yang: (pounding her fists together) Yeah, we're going to kick some butt!

Emerald: (laughs) Well, if Mercury and I see you down the line, don't think we'll go easy on ya.

Yang: (she and Weiss return Emerald's confident smirk with their own) Wouldn't have it any other way.

Emerald: (she turns and walks away from them as they do the same) Alright, well we're going to catch some more fights.

Ruby: (waving her arm) Have fun! Come on guys let's eat and go watch big bros match

Yang: (pumps fist) YEAH!!

Emerald: (cheerfully giving her own wave) See you later! (immediately drops the act as she walks with Mercury and looks disgusted)

Mercury: So, how are the new friends?

Emerald: (scowling) I hate them except that red heads brother hes cute.

Mercury: (shrugging) Orders are orders.

Emerald: (mashes her fingers together angrily) I just... how can they be so happy all the time!?

Mercury: Did you at least get what we want?

Emerald: (waves his question away) It's the heiress and the bimbo.

Mercury: Hmm, alright. At least we know who we're working with.

The scene then changes to show Team C(Y)AT all Gearing up as they walk out onto the arena and are cheered on by the crowd

Port: hello everyone and welcome back to the Vytal festival for this match we have the heroes of Vale Team C(Y)AT

Crowd: C(Y)AT C(Y)AT C(Y)AT

Female portion: Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N MESS EM UP HUSBANDO MARRY ME GIVE ME YOUR CHILDREN

Port: ho ho looks like someone's popular with the female fans ey Mr rose

Oobleck and in this corner all the way from vacuo team NYTE

Night: oh man I can't believe its THE Y/n Rose

Eon: calm yourself Night these guys aren't to be messed with

Yuada: Eons right we have to be serious

Abraham: don't worry we got this

Ada: so what's the plan for this team leader

Y/n: judging by there weapons there mostly likely accustomed to range combat with the night girl and eon guy being the exceptions

Tifa: so how do we do this

Cloud: should we try the team attacks we worked on

Y/n: no its too early in the tournament to show off ill handle the leader Ada you take out cocky red one and tifa take out the one in green while Cloud handles the blue guy if you need help switch partners

CAT: RIGHT

2 holoscreens appear as they start to rotate threw different biomes before stopping on water and earth locations

Cloud: perfect home field advantage

Y/n: remember stick to the plan and we'll win this no problem

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Eon: so whats the plan

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Abraham: kick there butts thats what

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Night: let's do this

GO!!!!

As team C(Y)AT charge into battle Y/n engages Night with his katana as she barely has time to react with her knives resulting in her taking a slash to the chest and losing 25% of her aura

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Port: and a powerful slash from Mr rose straight to Ms hollows chest

Night: eegh you got me good say how did you make your sword glow white

Y/n says nothing but activates His 3 tomoe sharingan and charges at Night as she fires her pistols only for Y/n to dodge out the way of each one and slash as her as she jumps back while in the forest area cloud can be seen clashing weapons with Eon who is being overwhelmed by clouds continous strikes as he jumps into the air and slashs downwards striking the ground causing it to shatter apart and blow Eon into the air as cloud uses air materia to leap into the air after him and slash him 3 times in the chest with fire dust as eon loses 35% of his aura

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Eon: "damn this guy is fast even with that giant slab of metal he calls a sword he must he laser focused on this battle"

Clouds mind: 🎵life is like a hurricane here in DUCKBURG🎵

Eon then goes for a strike on cloud but he side steps and bashes Eon in the gut with his sword taking away 10% of his aura and sending him flying as it then shows Ada and Tifa against Abraham and Yueda as Ada can be seen slashing at Yueda at break neck speed as he blocks with his minigun arm While Tifa can be seen wailing on Abraham as she lands blow after blow before hitting him in the gut with a 50% OFA smash as his aura drops to 15% and Ada slash yueda with a powered up slash as he slides next to Abraham after losing 60% of his aura

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Tifa: man this match is boring they haven't even damaged our aura yet

Ada: I know what you mean but we can't go all out not with Salems spies watching us

Suddenly an explosion is heard as Night and Eon land next to there teammates with both having 15% aura left as Y/n and cloud stand next to there respective partner

Night: ergh I couldn't even land a hit on that guy

Abraham: we really underreported for this

Yueda: TAKE THIS AAAAAAAHHH

Yueda then fires all his dust bullets as Ada jumps infornt of Y/n and blocks them all with her blade as her hair grows red

Ada: Charged and Ready

Y/n: alright were finishing this

Ada:

Ada the sends a large and powerful red cross slash as it pushed the rasenshuriken and coating it in a red color as it closes in on team NYTE

NYTE: Dakara totemo kūru