It's been a while since the Grimm Breach, and things have been peaceful in Vale. After the Breach, the all of students at Beacon have been helping fix everything destroyed. After the Breach, Nick arranged for the members of the Black Fang who got arrested to each be given a second chance, which thy all agreed to and joined the White Fang, with the members of the White Fang welcoming the former Black Fang members with open arms. Though, one member of the Black Fang, a female Bat Faunus with wings named Rouge, decided to return to the Black Fang. The reason why being that she's actually a spy for the White Fang. Also, just as he requested, Nick was made in charge of security for the Vytal Festival, with Atlas Council members Sleet and Camilla both also agreeing to this, as well as given Nick the same level of authority in the Atlas Military as the members of the Council do themselves. Though, of course, Ironwood was against this, but due to Nick being the Kamen Rider, he was overruled, despite him having two seats in the Atlas Council, as well as Sleet and Camilla deciding the reconsider Ironwood having two seats in the Atlas Council after learning that he was indirectly responsible for Vale and Atlas being destroyed by the Calamity. Nick also gave Erza and Atalanta, as well as the members of Teams RWBY (Ruby) and JNPR (Juniper) Drivers, as he revealed that decided to make them Kamen Riders as part of his "Project Remnant Riders" (I'm guessing it was obvious, and Amber already has a Driver). Nick gave Erza, Jaune and Pyrrha Sengoku Drivers, along with their own Rider Indicators and Lockseeds to transform, with Erza being Kamen Rider Dame (She looks like a scarlet red-version of Kamen Rider Duke) with a Kamen Rider Saber Lockseed, Jaune is Kamen Rider Orleans (A yellow Kamen Rider Barron) with an Apple Lockseed, and Pyrrha is Kamen Rider Ligyron (a red Kamen Rider Gridon) with a Lychee Lockseed. Atalanta, Ren and Nora Desire Drivers and Raise Buckles, with Atalanta being Kamen Rider Leoness with a Boost Raise Buckle and an Armed Arrow Raise Buckle, Ren being Kamen Rider Tycoon with the Ninja Raise Buckle, and Nora as Kamen Rider Tanng using a Monster Raise Buckle and Armed Hammer Raise Buckle. As for Team RWBY (Ruby), however, Nick gave them a brand new type of Driver he created himself. Nick calling them the "Aura Driver". These Aura Drivers, designed as red-versions of the Arcle, with a red, a white, a purple, and a yellow buttons, are designed to enhance the Auras of Team RWBY (Ruby) greatly, as well as turn their Auras into actual Kamen Rider suits, each with the stats of each of Kamen Rider Kuuga's four main forms. Ruby being Kamen Rider Rose, with her stats being the same as Kuuga's Dragon Form, thus is more speed focused. Weiss being Kamen Rider Frost, with her stats being equal to Kuuga's Mighty Form, making it very balanced. Blake is Kamen Rider Shade, and her stats are the same as Kuuga's Pegasus Form, giving her enhanced sight and hearing, though she doesn't get overwhelmed by the increased sensory stimulation whatsoever. And Yang is Kamen Rider Burn, with her having the same stats as Kuuga's Titan Form, making her more strength focused. Less to say, the gang loved the new gear, and were all very excited to become Kamen Riders, though Nick told them that they can't use their gear during the tournament, and gave them the equipment because Vale is supposed to be destroy in a few days, during the singles battles in the tournament. This made them all greatly shocked that Vale will be destroyed in only a few days, plus during the final rounds of the tournament, but are glad that Nick is prepared for the battle to come. Summer went back to Patch, and took Zwei with her, but Nick created a new pet for the gang in Zwei's place at Beacon, the girls all love the new pet. Anyways, right now, we see a stadium of epic proportions is 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 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 waves her Myrtenaster as the sound of her mystical power is heard, and finally Yang dodges the explosive force of Arslan Altan's fist before returning fire with her own Ember Celica. The reason why this happening is because the Vytal Festival's Combat Tournament has began, and Team RWBY (Ruby) are currently fighting against Team ABRN (Auburn) from Haven Academy. 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!"
Port 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 then holds up the appropriate number of fingers for each of his explanations as a hologram to his side illustrates the rules.
Oobleck: "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 (Ruby) of Beacon, and Team ABRN (Auburn), 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: (sighs) "Sure." (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 ring out 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.
Weiss: "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 (Ruby) is victorious!"
Weiss: (looks around and sounds surprised) "We...did it?"
Ruby: (looks at her sister for confirmation, she smiles and leaps into the air, screaming) "WE DID IIIIII-"
Time Skip, while Ruby is still screaming...
Ruby: "-...is anyone else starving?"
Ruby suddenly hunched over as we now see Team RWBY (Ruby) on the Vytal Festival fairgrounds, now joined by Team NAAE (Unimaginable).
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.
Nick: (smirks) "Yeah, no kidding about that, Blake."
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.
Weiss: "Oh, wait."
Yatsuhashi 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: (sighs, while knocking Ruby's arm away) "I was being facetious?"
Nick: (whispers to Amber) "I don't what that means."
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 (Ruby) and Team NAAE (Unimaginable) start to follow Yang, but Weiss suddenly stops as she hears a ringtone on her Scroll. Pulling it out, she sees the caller ID labeled "MOTHER", and sighs while looking 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."
Yang: "How'd they do in the fight?"
Emerald tilts her head up in thought, remembering how she blasted opponents with her Thief's Respite, then slashed behind her as Mercury kicks out a shotgun blast with his Talaria. Cinder did the same with her own target, landing the poor soul at the feet of their teammate, Neo leans over and stares down as the camera focuses on how her pink and brown eyes swap color as she blinks, 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..."
She looks back at Mercury as he sniffs the inside of a boot, looking perplexed after he does so.
Emerald: "...introverted. Really socially awkward."
Yang: (nodding) "Ooh, yeah, I could see that."
Nick: "Does Mercury do that a lot?"
Emerald: (sighs) "Unfortunately, yes. He says it's a "good way to know if a shoe or boot is good or not". Me and our teammates always tell him to stop. Oh yeah, 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 (Ruby)."
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: (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!"
Emerald: (cheerfully giving her own wave) "See you later!"
Mercury: "So, how are the new friends?"
Emerald: (smirks) "What? Are you jealous that I have friends?"
Mercury: (scoffs) "Yeah, right."
A pink-haired girl with a beanie walks by a hut with several posters, inside one man holds a cup. At another one of the unassuming huts set up in the fairgrounds stringed with paper lanterns with a sign overhead saying A Simple Wok, Team RWBY (Ruby) and Team NAAE (Unimaginable) sit at the stools outside, ready to order.
Yang: (speaking to someone off-screen) "I'll have a bowl of the regular, please."
Nick: "Same here."
Erza: "Me too, please."
large bowls of noodles slides in front of them.
Ruby: (staring at Yang's meal) "Oohhh... I'll take the same."
a large bowl of noodles slides in front of her, as she clasps her hands in excitement.
Weiss: (looking concerned) "Do you have anything with a low-salt...?"
Amber: "I'll have the same."
A large bowl of regular noodles instantly slides in front of her instead.
Weiss: "Um...okay..."
Amber: "Thanks?"
Instead of saying anything, Blake and Atalanta merely give a nod and smile to the Shopkeep, who returns the gesture as he rushes through one door of his shop and comes out the other to leave a large bowl of noodles topped with fish in front of Blake, while Atalanta's is topped with apple slices instead. Blake's eyes light up as she drools over her order, while Atalanta is more calm in eating her meal. While Weiss looks strangely at her teammate, she gladly offers her Schnee Dust Company credit card to the Shopkeep.
Yang: "Aw, Weiss! What's the occasion!?"
Weiss: Consider it thanks for sending me to the doubles round.
Her card is then flung back at her, as the happy Shopkeep points to his register as it beeps "ACCEPTED".
Nick: (thought) 'Oh yeah, that's right. Weiss' "dad" is in prison. And clearly her mom wouldn't cut her off.'
Later on, the bowls are empty, and each student is either content with their meal or holding their stomachs sickly.
Amber: (to Pyrrha:) "Are you sure it's wise to have eaten before a fight?"
Nick: (as the Shopkeep quickly gathers the bowls and vanishes) "Of course! It will give us energy!"
Erza: (standing up from her stool) "Well, we should be off."
Ruby: "So, you think you guys are ready?"
Amber: (gestures to each of her teammates) "Of course!"
Blake: "So Nick, what Kamen Rider are you going to transform into during the match?"
Nick: "I'm actually gonna be going with something new. And trust me, you guys are gonna love it."
Nick then gives a thumbs up with his right-hand, as we see he's wearing a strange ring on his index finger, which looks somewhat like a red wolf.
Port: (crackling in over the intercom system) "Would Team JNPR (Juniper) please report to the battlegrounds immediately!"
Oobleck: (adding in to Port's order) "Yes! Like they were scheduled to, several minutes ago!"
Time Skip...
Team RWBY (Ruby) and Team NAAE (Unimaginable) enter the Coliseum through one of its tunnels and head to their seats as Emerald and Mercury are seen walking behind them to do the same. Down in the field below, the scorched ground and cold plains are no more, and only a layer of white mechanics is left, with a central stage on which the two teams gather.
Mercury: (having found his seat with Emerald and Neo, and munching on a large tub of popcorn) "I wonder who's gonna win."
Emerald: "Come on. As if we didn't already know."
Cinder walks up behind them, showing off her new outfit of jeans, an orange jacket, and sarashi bandages over her chest, as she then takes an unpopped kernel from Mercury's bucket.
Cinder: "Oh, come now. Even if you know how the story ends, that doesn't make it any less fun to watch."
Her eyes glow with her fingertips and the kernel finally pops, which she enjoys while sitting down.
Port: (announcing over the cheering crowds) "Team JNPR (Juniper) of Beacon versus Team BRNZ (Bronze) of Shade!"
As each team readies their poses, a circle of holographic roulettes start spinning frantically through various symbols and colors before finally landing on a green pine tree and gray thunderstruck mountain. With these random selections, half of the field opens to reveal a tree-filled forest, while the other raises a small rocky outcropping to fill in the circle. Jaune narrows his eyes in concentration; Ruby "WHO-HOOOO"s loudly from her seat.
Port: "Three, two, one, begin!"
As the start of the match, each team leaps forward at the other, ready to begin fighting just as the scene cuts to black.