RWBY: "Gallants and Guardians of Remnant"

[Vol.3] "Objectives"

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The first scene opens to Amity Colosseum's mountain biome being bombarded by several explosions all around the area. Russel, Shortwings in hand, is running from the mayhem before spinning around, ready to face his opponents, who turns out to be the familiar face of Penny and her beret-wearing teammate. With an ever-present smile and simple arm movements, she summons six floating swords from Floating Array and rears them back before launching them in a ring at Russel, who barely manages to duck behind a rock to protect himself.

Wasting no time, Penny does the same thing with another group of blades, homing in on the other CRDL teammate Sky until he uses Feather's Edge to vault over another stone for defense. The two exchange a worried look at the sight of their rocks still pierced with multiple blades, and Penny grins in combat-ready fierceness as she looks to her partner, who simply taps her watch as if hurrying Penny up. Wasting no time, Penny raises her hands like a puppet master and uses the near-invisible strings attached to each hilt to lift the giant rocks up in the air, with the screaming Russel and Sky still hanging on. Bringing her arms down to her sides, the stones come crashing to the ground as well, leaving Penny's opponents in the grass. Her swords come back to her pack as the buzzer rings.

Oobleck: "And victory goes to Penny and Ciel of Atlas!"

Penny bows in respect.

Penny: "Thank you for a wonderful time."

Team RWBY got up from their seats to meet with the two victors.

Chris: "They're good."

Razor: "They literally fought one of the weakest teams of Beacon, it's like I paid to go to a circus."

Onyx: "That's a fact, though..."

Indigo: "But still, you can't help but their movements are more coordinated than us."

Razor: "How."

Indigo: "Like a program."

The rest of Team IROC remained silent.

Indigo: "If there's nothing to discuss, I'm afraid I have gained hunger. So I'll be doing that and scouting the arena."

Indigo stands up and is quickly followed by his team.

Onyx: "I understand the food, but why scout?"

Indigo: "Just follow me."

Team IROC follows their leader through the colosseum as the civilians and students from other academies and kingdoms look at them.

Student 1: "Those are the IROC guys, right?"

Student 2: "The Inquisitors didn't even stand a chance against Beacon students, the difference in power..."

Indigo: "You don't have to join in on what I'm going to do, I can handle it myself."

Onyx: "The kingdom's pretty protected from Atlas and the Inquisitors."

Indigo stops walking and faces them.

Indigo: "Putting trust in fighters that doesn't have a hint on what they're facing will lead to nothing."

Razor: "We don't even have a hint on the threat! Do you?"

Indigo: "I do."

Onyx: "You do?"

Chris: "What is it?"

Indigo: "I need to confirm it, but all I can say is this threat is similar to her."