Y/N POV

We look up and see the Schnee falling towards the ground.

Weiss: Watch ouuuuuut!

Just as she's about to hit the ground, Jaune comes flying through the air and crashes into Weiss, knocking her off course and sending them both into a tree to the left of where Blake and Yang are standing. Weiss is dazed by the rough landing.

Weiss: Oohhhh... What was that?

Jaune: Eh-hem!

Weiss looks up to see Jaune hanging upside-down in a tree branch above her

Jaune: Hey, Weiss...

Blake: Did she just fall from the sky?

Yang: I...

Before she can continue, several crashing noises are heard in the forest ahead of them, and an Ursa comes out, claws swiping, just as a pink blast of energy hits it in the back and it crashes to the ground, depositing its rider.

Nora: YEEEE-HAAAAW!

The Ursa drops dead on the ground.

Nora: Awwww... It's broken.

She dashes onto its neck and observes the carcass as Ren comes up behind her, who's panting.

Ren: Nora! Please... Don't ever do that again.

He looks up again and notices by the pink dotted outline of where his partner should be that Nora has run off again, and looks around frantically. She's at the temple and observing the white rook.

Nora: Oooohh...

She suddenly grabs it.

Nora: I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!

Ren: Nora!

Nora: Coming, Ren!

She skips off to her friend.

Blake: Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?

Yang: I...

She is interrupted once more as a screech is heard from their right, and Pyrrha Nikos comes onto the scene as the scorpion creature uproots entire trees in its chase after her. Pyrrha narrowly dodges its giant claws and keeps on running.

Pyrrha: Jaune!

Jaune: Pyrrha!

Weiss: Whoa!

She starts running off of the branch and landing in a roll

Jaune: Weiss!

The scorpion Grimm continues to follow Pyrrha as she runs.

Blake: Did she just run all the way here with a Death Stalker on her tail?

Yang suddenly becomes very angry. Evident by her lilac eyes turning blood red.

Yang: I can't take it anymore! Can everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?!

The tick-tock of a clock counts down the two seconds of Yang cooling down, Ren running over to a ditzy Nora, and Blake and Ruby looking up.

Ruby: Umm... Yang?

She points upwards to Jaune who jumped off the tree and landed on his back

Jaune: My back...

The Death Stalker is still hunting Pyrrha, but she manages to land on her side at the feet of the heroes.

Yang: Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together!

Ruby: Not if I can help it!

She does some sort of battlecry and dashes at the scorpion grimm.

Yang: Ruby, wait!

Ruby, still screaming, fires Crescent Rose and charges at the oncoming Death Stalker. When the two meet, the Grimm swipes Ruby away and she is knocked back.

Ruby: D-Do-Don't worry! Totally fine!

Ruby turns back to the monster and shoots it in the skull, running away from it and sheathing her scythe as the Death Stalker now goes after her.

Yang: Ruby!

Ruby rushes towards Yang, but the Nevermore caws above them, flapping its wings and releasing lines of sharpened feathers with points that catch on Ruby's cape and prevent Yang from reaching her.

Yang: Ruby, get out of there!

Ruby: I'm trying!

The Death Stalker approaches, raising its golden stinger above a scared Ruby and heading down on the helpless girl.

Yang: Ruby!

I dash forward and unseathe Masamune and block the Deathstlaker's stinger.

Third Person POV

Y/N: Don't you dare touch her you skull-faced fuck!

Ruby opens her eyes to the sight of Y/N blocking the Deathstalker's stinger and then slicing it off. The grimm screaches from the pain as Y/N grabs the golden stinger and stabs it into the grimm, letting it die by it's own poison. He then flies up and slices the Nevermore in half.

Ruby: Y/N...?

He lands and takes off the feathers off of Ruby's cloak and helps her up.

Ruby: Thanks Y/N...

She says blushing. Yang rushes up to Ruby and gives her a hug, which Ruby grunts at upon receiving.

Yang: So happy you're okay! Thank you Y/N!

Y/N: Don't mention it.

Jaune: Guys? There's another coming and it's bigger! What are we gonna do?

Weiss: Look, there's no sense in dilly-dallying. Our objective is right in front of us.

Ruby: She's right. Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the Cliffs. There's no point in fighting these things.

Jaune: Run and live - that's an idea I can get behind!

Ruby goes over and grabs a white knight and Jaune takes hold of a white rook, smiling at each other.

Ren: Time we left!

Ruby: Right. Let's go!

She goes forward with everyone following except for a smiling Yang and Blake as the latter approaches her partner

Blake: What is it?

Yang's staring proudly at Ruby as she leaps on a boulder and motions the group onward

Yang: Nothing...

She moves on as Blake smiles in realization and leaves as well. When they approach the bridge, two giant Nevermores come flying in.

Yang: Well, that's great!

Jaune looks behind as a Death Stalker bursts onto the scene.

Jaune: Ah, man, run!

The group emerges from their hiding spots and causing the Nevermores to rise up into the air

Ren: Nora, distract it!

Nora obliges, running out from her block and jumping through the feather projectiles before reaching behind her and launching several heart-topped shells from her grenade launcher, bursting into pink electricity when they hit the Nevermore, and causing it to retreat. She is unaware of the Death Stalker rushing up behind her until Blake and Ren perform a cross-slash with their Gambol Shroud and StormFlower against its shell. Weiss lands next to Nora so she can create a jumping platform beneath them and leap to safety while Blake and Ren are now being chased.

Y/N: We'll take care of the other one!

Pyrrha: Go, go!

She stops running beside Jaune and gets out Miló, firing red shots along Ren's green blasts for a second until it reaches them and tries to swipe, prompting the group to run again.

(SCENE CHANGE!)

Back with Y/N and his group, Y/N has come up with a plan.

Y/N: I got it!

Raviera: Thought of something?

Y/N: Okay, here's the plan. Raviera, Amara, you two transform and attack the Nevermore, it'll retreat, now, Isabelle, I want you to place a web right there.

He points at a spot in between two trees.

Y/N: I'll wait behind it to slice it in half.

Raviera: Good plan! Let's go!

Raviera transforms into his dragon form and Amara in her wyvern form, she is a blue wyvern with ice cold blue eyes. Raviera breaths fire at the nevermore amd Amara breaths ice. The Nevermore screeches and retreats, right into Isabelle's web, getting trapped in it, leaving for Y/N to run up to it with Masamune and slice it in half from top to bottom, killing it. Raviera and Amara turn back and the rest approach Y/N.

Raviera: It worked! Nice plan!

Amara: I'll be suprised if you're not the leader!

(SCENE CHANGE!)

The eight race over the ancient stone bridge, not noticing the Nevermore closing in on them until it uses its giant wings to shatter the path right in the middle, forcing Ruby, Weiss, Yang, Nora, and Jaune closer to the central collection of columns and Blake, Ren, and Pyrrha on the other side with the Death Stalker. Ruby fires at the retreating Nevermore while Blake is beaten back by the scorpion.

Jaune: Man, we gotta get over there! They need help!

Nora: Let's do this!

Jaune: Yeah, but, uh... I can't make that jump.

Nora smiles diabolically at him, laughing as she knocks him back, turns her weapon to its full-length hammer form, and jumps to the edge of the bridge.

Jaune: Oh, wait!"

Too late, she slams the hammer into the bridge and throws Jaune to the other side, constantly screaming

Jaune: No, no, no, no, no, no!

Nora places one foot on the hammer and fires it off the collapsing section of bridge, launching her to slam its face right in the center of the Death Stalker's skull. She fires it just as the stinger comes down to get her, and blasts back again to avoid its reach, accidentally knocking into Blake and making her fall from the edge. She sees the Nevermore above her and launches her whip so the gun's blade sinks into the edge of the bridge, circling around and leaping onto the aerial Grimm's back. She dashes all over its body, slashing the entire time, before jumping off and landing on the ruined platform at the top of the columns next to Ruby, then going over to Yang and Weiss.

Blake: It's tougher than it looks!

Yang: Then let's hit it with everything we got!

The Nevermore approaching, Ruby, Blake, Weiss, and Yang set their weapons to fire a barrage of blasts at the bird, which it either dodges or takes harmlessly until it crashes through the columns and platform. The girls leap from one section of falling stone to the next until they reach the higher bridge on top, just below the cliffs.

Weiss: None of this is working!

Ruby: I have a plan! Cover me!

She blasts away as Weiss raises her blade and heads into the fray

Down below, the Death Stalker is still battling Jaune, Ren, Nora, and Pyrrha.

Jaune: We gotta move!

They all rush towards it. The Death Stalker aims a claw at Pyrrha, but she deflects it with her Akoúo shield and slashes it with her blade. The scorpion recoils and swipes at her with its other claw, but Jaune is there to deflect it with his shield, knocking it back so Pyrrha can leap over and attack its face. Ren runs up firing and gets on the stinger when it tries to hit him, shooting at the base between it and the tail while Nora fires more grenades at the attacking claws. Pyrrha hurls her javelin straight into one of the monster's ten eyes, making it throw Ren to the side.

Nora: Ren!

Ren hits the side of a stone block hard and falls to the ground, not getting back up. Jaune, though, manages to stand and notice the stinger is hanging limply.

Jaune: Pyrrha!

Pyrrha: Done!

She raises the shield and hurls it like a Captain America, slicing the stinger off and causing it to fall into the Death Stalker's head as Pyrrha retrieves her rebounding shield

Jaune: Nora, nail it!

Nora: Heads up!

She jumps on Akoúo, Pyrrha leaps as Nora aims her blast down to give herself a maximum lift, and she smiles the entire way up before twirling down until her hammer slams its head into the stinger, driving the point through the Death Stalker's head and crushing the bridge beneath it. Jaune and Pyrrha bound over the monster to the land behind it, and Nora fires up and away behind them as the monster falls to its doom. Jaune hits the ground on his back, Nora lands on her bottom, Pyrrha manages a crouched pose, and Ren simply walks over to them, panting and groaning until he just collapses. The other three get up and watch as the Nevermore is peppered with firepower. Yang is still burning through her ammo on the beast, landing a blow at its face and causing it to head right towards her, but she leaps for its open maw and forces the beak wide as she attacks. screaming and firing a round with each syllable)

Yang: I! Hope! You're! Hung-! ...-gry!

She looks behind her and jumps back from its mouth onto a ruin, causing the creature to crash into the cliffs. Despite Yang's attempts, the Nevermore recovers quickly, and Yang smiles as she spots Ruby and Blake on the broken columns with Weiss rushing to the battle. Yang passes her while the Nevermore starts to fly back up, but Weiss hops over to the ruin it's lifting off of and freezes the tip of its feathery tail to the ground, leaving it stuck in the same spot despite its flapping. Weiss back-flips into a snowflake-circle jump and lands on the other side, running to the group. Blake fires the pistol portion of Gambol Shroud over to Yang, and the two tighten it between the columns so Ruby can jump on the center with Crescent Rose and bend it back into Weiss' black sigil, right next to the caster.

Weiss: Of course you would come up with this idea.

Ruby: Think you can make the shot?

Weiss: Hmm! Can I!

A second passes.

Ruby: Can't-

Weiss: Of course I can!

Ruby looks forward and pumps Crescent Rose as Weiss turns the circle from black to red and releases Ruby at such a speed that the ground behind her launch cracks, rose petals flying from her ascent. With each new shot, she gets closer and closer to the trapped Grimm until her scythe catches the Nevermore's neck in its blade and causes them both to fall to the cliff wall. Weiss raises her sword and creates a series of white circles up the wall, which Ruby dashes through by firing the entire way up. Yang, Blake, and an exhausted Weiss watch her climb up with the bird in her grasp until, both warrior and monster crying out, Ruby reaches the top of the cliff, circles up, fires one last shot, and rends the Nevermore's head from its shoulders in a shower of petals. She lands beside the severed head as the body of the giant Nevermore falls lifeless to the ruins and crevice below while the girls and, farther away, Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren watch in amazement.

Jaune: Wow...

Y/N and his group walk over and witnessed what happened. Y/N looks like he's proud of her, Isabelle is starry eyed, Raviera is smirking and Amara is clapping for her. Ruby, her cape and petals flowing with the wind, looks down to her friends as they peer up.

Yang: Well... That was a thing!

Ruby continues to smile.

(INDEED GENDERS IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER TIME SKIP!)

Ozpin: Russel Thrush. Cardin Winchester. Dove Bronzewing. Sky Lark.

The screen of the auditorium shows each of their profiles as the boys are lined up for the applauding audience to see as Ozpin continues

Ozpin: The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team CRDL, led by... Cardin Winchester!

The audience gives one more wave of ovation, while four students walk up to the stage to take their places in front of the headmaster as their faces fill the screen.

Ozpin: Jaune Arc. Lie Ren. Pyrrha Nikos. Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team JNPR.

Amid the clapping, Nora laughs and gives Ren a hug.

Ozpin: Led by... Jaune Arc!

Jaune: Huh? L-Led by...?

Ozpin: Congratulations, young man.

A grinning Pyrrha offers a friendly shoulder bump to Jaune, but her "fine leader" is knocked over and falls to his butt in front of the laughing audience.

Ozpin: Y/N L/N. Isabelle Arachne. Amara Cyclonia. Raviera Cyclonia. The four of you retrieved the black queen pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team (First letter of your name)IAR. Led by...Y/N L/N!

Y/N smiles proudly while Isabelle hugs the air out if him and Raviera and Amara clap.

Ozpin: And finally: Blake Belladonna. Ruby Rose. Weiss Schnee. Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team RWBY. Led by... Ruby Rose!

Weiss looks to her right surprised, where Ruby is obviously in shock as Yang goes over to hug her sister.

Yang: I'm so proud of you!

Ozpin: It looks like things are shaping up to be an... interesting year.