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Writer's Thoughts: Yo! What's up ATF readers? This is RWBYFan19_, back again with a new episode of After the Fall! I hope you guys liked Episode 27, which was made people asks more questions and have crazy theories for what could happen next. Also, I can confirm Season 3 will have a second ending theme, the theme will debut in Episode 32, most likely. Next ED theme is confirmed to be by the returning ASCA with "PLEDGE". And more characters returned, reveals came to light, and questions have been left both either, answered or unanswered. And we may get more reveals in this episodes and some more character returns and debuts. Maybe, some questions could get answered in this episode. Without further delay. Let's get to the episode.
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Intro
The episode begins with multiple flashbacks with the Fall of Beacon from twenty years ago.
A narrating voice sounds off in the background about it's past.
"Long ago..."
The flashback sees The White Fang and Adam Taurus, along with Roman Torchwick and Cinder Fall destroying Beacon Academy as Beacon had multiple students as well as from different schools trying to defend Beacon as well. Grimm was heavily involved as well.
"Remnant, mostly in Vale saw a new era...A era that was truly experienced with..."
The narrating voice paused as a red background appears where Adam Taurus severely injures Yang Xiao Long by slashing his sword at the arm of Yang, a front of Blake Belladonna.
"Bloodshed..."
A black background would fade in as a background and it shows a flashback with Pyrrha Nikos sending Jaune Arc into the weapon pod away from Beacon.
"Sad goodbyes..."
Then, the darkness would fade in once more. Timeline wise, would go back to see at the Beacon Tower in the end of the Cinder vs. Pyrrha fight where Cinder shoots one of her arrows at the heart of Pyrrha and Ruby Rose sees this.
"The worst of all...Death and heartbreak..."
Ruby was in shock as Cinder places a hand on Pyrrha's forehead as Pyrrha fades away. Then, Ruby cries out and screams out as the Silver Eyes activated and the whole background changes into all white afterwards.
"But, after all of that. A certain team was broken, later brought back together to stop one villain ahead of them that's caused The Fall of Beacon and the wars to happen."
The background would be painted in with color and it's in Salem's castle. Salem is shown.
"This woman, this dangerous woman...The darkness flows within her, because of her selfish needs. This woman's name is Salem and she won't stop at nothing until...The world is burnt down to the ground a front of her...."
What's next is shown with pages like a history book would be flipped and sees a war breaking out. The pages flip once more as the paint is being placed in the page with Team RWBY standing side by side with Ryuuto Yoshida, Gintoki Sakata, Zaveid, Shinsuke Takasugi, Shinpachi Shimura, Mutsuko Crowe, Velvet Crowe, Qrow Branwen, Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Lie Ren, Oscar Pine, and Raven Branwen on their side along with tons and tons of allies by their side.
"A war would be engaged. One side was the legendary Team RWBY alongside with their allies, that came along for in their journey."
Next page is flipped as it's shown with The White Fang with leader, Adam Taurus and many more on his side and standing from a few minutes off of where they were was Salem shown standing inside from the castle, watching this from afar.
"As The White Fang and Adam Taurus was ready for war. Salem was watching from afar. Then, from there the war finally begun."
A brand new page had been created as it would be painted in as it shows Team RWBY defeating Salem, alongside with Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie. Oscar Pine, and Lie Ren.
"Then, Salem was defeated by our heroes of the past. Sure, the war with Salem ended. But, things took a dark turn with The White Fang and Team RWBY's allies."
Another page would be stained in paint as it shows Shinsuke Takasugi, Velvet Crowe, Shinpachi Shimura, Mutsuko Crowe, Qrow & Raven Branwen, and Zaveid being held down as Adam Taurus watched them grovel and is enjoying it. As Shoyo Yoshida is seen tied up at the end of the cliff.
After this, then a page is turned as Gintoki Sakata is seen slashing Shoyo's head off clean with his sword, forcibly.
"After Shoyo's sacrifice for his students. The war did indeed end but on a sad note as our heroes stared at the sun, looking into the future as The White Fang did die down after the war and later disband. This would be the end of the past generation."
Then, a new book would be picked up by someone as the person would open that book. As the book has pages that needs to be filled in. But, the background would be painted in as a new generation would be shown standing a front of Beacon Academy.
"After twenty years of chaos and war. A new generation has risen. The new generation will make sure the world is safe from any sort of danger..."
A page is flipped and the background gets painted in as it would show Dean Ambrose in his new demon form killing Roman Reigns a front of Tony Shimura, Tyler Black, Mutsuko Crowe, Seth Thurston, Asuka Reigns, Vanilla Frost, and Nashime "Kita" Yoshida.
"Then...even in the new generation, darkness exists within the new generation..."
A new page is shown, one of the new pages is there but the one to the right is not painted in yet. The page to the left shows Dean not turning his back to look at his former teammates, as he did side with Cinder Fall, Roe Ket, Zero Kishitani, Katsuke Shinoda, and Saiko Mayama. Tony is shown with an angered look on his face.
"This is where...Anger, darkness, despair, and finally...hatred comes into play..."
The page to the right is now painted in as it shows Tony Shimura standing all alone, in the rain and is apparently seen at Atlas, raging in the rain by himself, continuing his search for Dean, following his interaction with Saiko Mayama using her Darkness Control on him. He is seen shouting out loud out of desperation and anger.
"The boy, Tony Shimura is now under his own darkness and fighting his own subconscious, with a desperate mind, that's close to breaking. Trying to prove he can save someone on his own and under his own power."
Another page is flipped and is seen with someone holding their hand out to Tony, as Dean walked away into the darkness. Saiko is shown holding her hand out and Vanilla holding hers on opposite sides as Tony was in the middle.
"Now...Darkness or Light, Give up or keep fighting is his two only options...Which will he choose?...
A page is flipped once more as it shows Vanilla Frost hugging Tony Shimura, outside of Beacon Academy, with an laid out Saiko Mayama as well as the Beacon's head, Ruby Rose, Jake Belladonna, a close friend of Tony's, and Vanilla's sister, Nashime "Kita" Yoshida watching the two hug.
....A choice was made when the girl, Vanilla Frost woke him from the boy's own darkness. The boy, Tony... chose to continue the fight and his mission to save his friend..."
A new page is seen as it's shown Tony Shimura, Nashime "Kita" Yoshida, and Vanilla Frost heading towards for Britannia Village for the upcoming war.
"The young trio now is going into their hometown village and defend Vale from darkness and war, that the enemy declares...."
Another page is flip on the left as it's shown on both pages, of the two sides which sees on one side, Ryuuto Yoshida, Velvet Crowe, Zaveid, Ray Rowe, Emilia Rose, Himiko Ren, Kaiku and Sagura Shimura, Tyler Black, Kintoki Sakata, and Asuka Reigns in the village defending for Vale. The other side would see Cinder Fall leading the charge for her side alongside with Roe Ket, Zero Kishitani, and her forces heading into the village to start the war. In the background shows Dean Ambrose standing on the village's bridge.
"As the war emerges..."
The next page shows Dean Ambrose fully in his demon form and holding the Demon-Dweller Sword, as Tony Shimura was standing on the opposing side with Siegfried in hand.
"For better or worse...Two friends, now enemies, a rivalry...It will all collide ahead on one battle and whoever is the last man standing...the rivalry came to ahead."
The page is flipped over as the picture was painted in of Tony and Dean laying side by side on the ground, at the bottom of the riverbank. Dean can be seen dying with a smile on his face.
"Of course, one died and the other remained alive to tell the tale."
To the right page, sees Tony Shimura picking up the Demon-Dweller Sword and Siegfried after his fight with Dean.
"With the request of taking the Demon-Dweller Sword as a gift from his friend. Tony rose up and took the sword, as he was finally ready to join the war."
On the next page, it was also painted in shown with Tony standing in front of Cinder Fall, back at Britannia Village. In the two pages sees him fighting her and defeating her.
"After joining the fight and taking on Cinder...Tony with the will of his friend, defeated Cinder Fall and saved his hometown village, as well as the world."
The final page would show a picture of Tony, Vanilla, Kita, Kaiku, Sagura, Himiko, Emilia, and Kintoki, two years later in a group photo together.
"After the war ended, the world is safe and sound yet again thanks to our heroes..."
"... But, for how long?"
The book is closed by someone as he drops it to the ground and burns it up with a lighter.
"The world will crumble...At your expense, Shimura...."
The narrator reveals himself out to be Utsuro and he smiled evilly, as he walks away.
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Opening Theme Plays
The opening visuals begins off with a collection of sakura leaves going past by and then, it would clear out as it slowly rises up in the night sky with the leaves passing by in the background, as a new detail of light sparkles appears in the scene. As the RWBY: After the Fall Season 3 title card appears in a slow reveal like way and the moon can be seen along with the title card.
Then, the visuals fades out with a bright light effect, after the title card had appeared fully.
Alone on this spring night
As the visuals faded out, it would show Tyler Black with his eyes closed, sitting against a tree.
Sighs fade out into the monochrome sky
The moonlight reflects down onto him, as he slowly had opened his eyes and they were visibly shown with dull eyes, slowly waking up and he starts to be looking up at the sky. Tyler slowly stood up and starts walking away from the light.
The waves of diligent people simply stared at me
The next scene would next see Nashime "Kita" Yoshida, Ryuuto Yoshida, and Vanilla Frost outside of their home. Ryuuto having a smile on his face, as well as Kita. The moon light in the sky shines on them, as well as Vanilla. Vanilla's eyes lit up and she had a look where she seemed a bit upset, looking at the sky. But, Kita placed a hand on her shoulder and Vanilla turns the sad look into a smile.
Since all I did was wait for you
A quick moment can be seen with a trail of sakura leaves leaning towards the moon.
Both of us, Both of us
This would quickly transition to seeing Tyler Black running away as he almost trips but kept running.
Searched for that missing half of that month
Four transition moments can be seen. The first saw Tyler as a kid running away from his mother and brother.
The second sees Tyler as a young teen, running with Roman Reigns and he had a reassuring smile on his face.
Third transition sees Tony Shimura, Roman Reigns, and Dean Ambrose running with Tyler together. Tyler is seen with a grin on his face.
Then, as he gains a memory of his mother and brother leaving him and his younger self is seen trying to reach out to them and his current self, even sees Tony, Roman, and Dean as the fade out from Tyler's mother and brother going into the light, without him.
I was able to share this loneliness with you'
He shouts out as he finds himself falling down into a pit of darkness.
But once again, I swear
The next scene can be seen with Tony Shimura on opposing sides against Tyler's brother, Jason Black. He ran towards them with Siegfried and the Ambrose Breaker. Jason took out Tyler's gun and shoots at him, as Tony blocks the bullets and he jumps into the air and does a double sword slash.
We quickly tried to change like how the towns usually do
The fight scene transitions into seeing Kaiku and Sagura Shimura with Benjamin Shimura and Velvet Crowe outside of their home in Britannia Village, watching the moon.
Following seeing them, next up would see Yang Xiao Long and Kintoki Sakata sitting on the bench as he was looking up at the moon, in Vale. As Gintoki was standing, looking up at the moon next to his family.
After this would see, Ray Rowe alongisde with his sister, Kazuko Rowe standing on top of a tree at Vacuo and he is seen with an serious look on his face. Kazuko was smiling here, as the two were looking up at the moon. Notably, Ray's eyes were now filled with light.
Even so, (even so) we still chased after it
A quick transition would see a still shot of Weiss Schnee standing in her office, at Atlas Academy with Wraith Belladonna standing there in the background.
Then, more still shots sees Emilia Rose along with Himiko Ren standing out in town of Vale, holding out her hand as sakura leaves goes by and past her. Ren notably looking up with a worried expression on her face.
Ruby Rose can be seen standing outside of Beacon, heading inside and looking at the beautiful moon in the sky.
Zaveid can be seen standing by with Mutsuko Crowe, at her home in Vacuo.
Roe Ket, Jake Belladonna, Kyrie Castillo, and Katsuke Shinoda can be seen at Menagerie, outside of Roe and Katsuke's home, watching the leaves and moon.
Asuka and Atsuko Reigns is seen at Mistral, watching the moon from the window of the Reigns' residence.
Also, a new shot can be seen with a new character shown and it was The Black Claw's leader Ao Taurus, along with her bodyguards standing by not looking up at the moon at all.
And finally, Utsuro can be seen staring at the moon with an evil smile, as Saiko Mayama can be seen with him as she had a evil smile on her face as well.
Since that time, Since that time
Next scene would show Lily Black charging towards Tony Shimura, as the two began to clash swords back and forth.
Searching for that missing half of that month
The exchange between the two ends with Lily kicking Tony in the stomach as he would get sent back.
Tony would then be seen with a shocked look on his face. A close-up shot would show Utsuro standing a front of him, with half of his face shown in the moonlight. He is seen with a cold, emotionless look on his face.
Then, Tony is seen standing up with both Ambrose Breaker and Siegfried in hand, ready to fight Utsuro.
Some time, Some time
The scene transitions back to Tyler Black running away still.
As Tyler is seen running towards to a cliff with the sakura tree up ahead, he sees going towards is his teen counterpart with his Shield brothers, he turns the look of sadness in his face into a slight smile.
In his vision, he saw his teen self with Tony, Ambrose, and Roman, watching the beautiful moon and atmosphere. This fades out into seeing Tony by himself.
We'll head towards the blooming sakuras under the full moon
Tyler joins Tony, as he tries to catch his breath. Tony looked at Tyler with a grin on his face, Tyler looked back at Tony with a smile. The scene can be seen static out as it's just Tyler standing there by himself and he had kept the smile on his face, as he was looking up at the sakura tree with falling petals coming from it.
The scene statics out once again to see a quick visual would see the Ambrose Breaker dropping to the ground, bouncing off the ground along with Siegfried to end the opening.
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The episode begins off at the hideout where Utsuro and Saiko Mayama was hiding at.
Inside the hideout, it appears to be Utsuro sitting at the meeting room, sitting down at the table while patting Saiko on the head, who was laying down on the lap of Utsuro.
It appears Utsuro was waiting on some group of people.
"When are those people coming here, Lord?" Saiko asked as she looks up at Utsuro.
Utsuro looks down at Saiko and smiled, as he feels someone's aura behind that door. "They are behind those doors, right now..."
Outside of the meeting room, it appears to be the White Fang, or well the new version of the group now called The Black Claw, Ao Taurus was standing outside along with her two men who are faunus as well, named Genzo Manitoba and Naraku Ishida, and Lily Black who is assisting them towards inside the room.
"So, is this it, lady?" Ao asked, as she was very impatient and wanted to get this over with.
Lily was already not liking this girl but she nodded her head at Ao. "Yes..."
Naraku and Genzo stepped up towards Ao and looks down at Lily with intimidation.
Lily didn't seem to be very intimidated by her bodyguards. She opened the doors heading into the meeting room where Utsuro was sitting on the opposite side of the room.
"Well, hello...Ao Taurus...Welcome..." Utsuro said in a very darker and evil tone of voice.
Ao looks back at Genzo and Naraku before looking back at Utsuro, who was holding this meeting. She whispered to them both. "You two...Just in case, stand guard out here...and make sure this meeting ends up in no sort of violence....Understand?"
"Yes, Miss Taurus..." Naraku and Genzo said at the same time, as they were pretty emotionless. They stayed outside of the meeting room as ordered from Ao.
Lily would walk across the room and stands next to Utsuro.
"Thank you for making sure they make it up here, Lily..." Utsuro thanked her and he looks back at Ao.
"C'mon...Have a seat, Ms. Taurus...We have a lot...to...discuss..."
"Yeah, yeah...I know..." Ao said and she would walk over to the chair in front of her, as she sat down on it and faces Utsuro.
Somehow, Richard Ambrose had made his way into the place without being detected by anybody, even let alone Utsuro. He used his transform semblance, and he was posing as a member from Utsuro's side. He was hiding behind the meeting room's door, listening into the conversation between both le
"What is your plan, Utsuro...?!"
"What is your plan, Utsuro...?!"
"To cut to the chase now. I wanna know, what is your plan for your group? How much to the table will The Black Claw deliver for when we rebuild a broken world?" Utsuro asked.
Ao had a serious look on her face as she lifts her legs and laid her legs down on the table.
"We want retribution for The Black Claw, formerly known as The White Fang...After this group fell apart so many years ago, we have been forgotten into history and we need to take back what's ours. But...We'll leave everybody else behind. Blake Belladonna ruined EVERYTHING for this organization...We will do whatever it takes to regain the respect of the faunus and we will take this world by storm, if we work together..."
"I see. Revenge, retribution, and a world where the faunus is the dominate species. Is that right?" Utsuro asked with a calm, evil smile and he was interested in the goals that Ao had.
Ao nodded her head and she smirked. "Yup~ Revenge on Belladonna and the rest of that little team of hers too...Ruining our plan to make this world a better place for the faunus...Now, I wonder...What are your plans?"
"Destruction and bring despair and darkness back into the world of Remnant...Make these people bow down to me, make them beg for me to spare their pathetic and worthless lives...I will do it with my men, my forces, and more importantly...My semblance..." Utsuro said as he balled his fingers up to his palm, as if he had the world in his hand and he could make it crumble down at his feet.
"Your semblance? Interesting...." Ao turned the serious look into a smirk, she was definitely interested in hearing this and what is Utsuro's semblance may be.
Utsuro had no sign of remorse in his eyes, just pure evil and darkness in his soul. "Destroy and Rebuild...I can destroy anything and rebuild it into anything I want it to be.." He simply said.
"Destroy and Rebuild, huh? That's very interesting..." Ao thought in her mind.
Richard's eyes widened in total shock. "No fucking way....So, that's his semblance...!? I hear...that's among of the most dangerous semblance of them all...And he has that?! Everyone needs to know about this...Right here, right now...." He said as he leaves slowly in hopes of nobody knowing he was eavesdropping.
Lily and Saiko noticed had the door was opened slightly and someone was listening in.
"My Lord...It seemed as if we got a guest..."
"Yeah...It's possible we got ourselves a spy...." Saiko said as she looks up at Utsuro, and she had a look of an innocent girl at first but the look changed into a psychotic smile on her face.
Utsuro looks down at Saiko and smiled, then looks at Lily. "Gather some of my men, go after the person and make sure they are executed, without chance of survival..."
Richard's eyes widened as he ran out of the hideout still as a "guard" but his semblance was running out of time as he turns back into himself. "Dammit! They are onto me!!"
"Yes, My lord!" Lily shouted as she ran out of the room to gather the men.
Saiko, with crazy amounts of speed had quickly left Utsuro's lap and she ran after the person who was listening in. "I WILL NOT LET THEM EXPOSE HIS PLAN!!! THEIR BLOOD WILL BE ON MY HANDS!" She shouted out loud.
Ao smirked as she watched Lily and Saiko run out of the room and she saw the evil and dark smile Utsuro had on his face. "Shall we...discuss more on the matter, Utsuro?"
"Oh, yes...." Utsuro nodded his head at Ao.
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Meanwhile, at a local bar in Vale, Gintoki Sakata was with Yang Xiao Long having a drink at the bar. Yang decided to take Gintoki out for a drink, the same place where they actually first met each other so long ago.
Long ago though, Gintoki was with Shinsuke, and two friends he hadn't seen in years, Tatsuma Sakamoto and Kotaro Katsura. Yang happened to be in the same bar, thanks to a fight that happened in the bar, that's how Gin and Yang first met each other.
"Man...It feels like memories for us here, doesn't it?" Yang asked with a smile on her face, looking over at her husband. But she couldn't help but notice Gintoki just in a trance of his own mind and overthinking.
"Feels like it's been ages, since I had a drink with you like this..." Gintoki said in response. He looks over at Yang with a slight smile. Then, he looks back down at his drink.
Yang nodded her head at him and she couldn't help but notice that he looked down again. She frowned a bit. "You can tell me anything, Gin...It's okay..."
Gintoki was looking down at his drink as he can see himself in the reflection of the drink. He was thinking a bit too much about that horrible nightmare, and of it possibly coming to life.
"Gin?" Yang places a hand on his shoulder.
Gintoki snapped out of it and looks over at Yang. "Oh, sorry...I spaced out..."
"...Sweetie...Please, tell me. What's the matter? Let me help..." Yang said as she was trying to comfort Gin with a hug now.
"....It's--"
"Your wife is right, y'know...Gintoki...You gotta say something, sometime..."
"Yeah. What's with the grim look, Gintoki? Where's the confidence you had so long ago, huh?"
Two males spoke out from behind and they put their hands on Gintoki's shoulders.
Yang looks over at the two men and she was surprised to see them.
"No way...You two...You're..."
Gintoki looks back and he sees Kotaro and Tatsuma standing behind him and Yang. He couldn't believe his eyes, not at all. "....I...I...I..." He couldn't speak and he was totally speechless.
Tears started to stream down his face, he couldn't believe that he's seeing Sakamoto and Katsura again. Yang was surprised even with the tears that was falling down Gintoki's face. She would dry his tears.
"See...You're not alone...Not anymore..." Yang said with a smile on her face.
"I know..." Gintoki rests his head on top of Yang's shoulder as he was tearing up. Sakamoto and Katsura smiled as they pat him on the back. This reunion was totally nice, but not complete because Takasugi isn't with them.
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Kazuko and Ray Rowe began packing up their stuff for departure from Mistral.
"So...Sister? You say she is rumored to be somewhere in Atlas, that right?" Ray asked as he looks over towards her and his eyes can be seen with bags under them. It was very not noticeable.
"Yeah. Or...From what I heard with my sources..." Kazuko said and nodding her head at Ray.
"You have sources? Really?" Ray raised an eyebrow, sparked up interest.
Kazuko smirked and nodded her head. "Yup. That's how I manage to keep up with you, Ray Ray~!" She said, nudging his shoulder.
"Sources, huh? Very interesting..." A voice said and the voice was very familiar to Ray, as Ray looks over and his eyes widened.
It appears to be Asuka Reigns walking over towards them.
"No way! Is that you, Asuka...?" Ray couldn't believe to see Asuka, it's been two years since he last seen her.
Kazuko was very confused on who this person was. She looks at Ray. "Uh...Who is this, Ray?"
"A old friend..." Ray responded back as he kept his eyes on Asuka. "Asuka! What are you doing here? I thought you went to go find the psycho girl..."
"What a nice way to address your "friend" as just "a old friend"...." Asuka said out of total sarcasm and she would respond to his question.
"No, I was back here. My hometown of Mistral with my mother...Living a normal life after these last two years..." Asuka said, as she stopped walking and looks down at Ray. "I wonder...Why are you here and who is this with you?" She asked looking over towards Kazuko.
"Well...Uh...This is my sister, Kazuko...And...Uh...I am here to search for someone..." Ray said. He was clearly lying to her. He is really searching for Saiko.
Asuka could tell he was lying, but she never knew he had a sister. Reminds her of her and her late brother, Roman. "Oh...I see...And...Ray, don't lie to me...What are you really doing out here?!"
"He's not lying at all!" Kazuko said as she stood up and walked in front of Ray, as she looks at Asuka in the eye. "I swear, he's not lying to you..."
"If so, then why did he mention Mayama to me? And...I overheard your conversation from afar...You're searching for Saiko Mayama...Aren't you?!" Asuka shouted out at Ray and Kazuko. She was slowly losing her patience here with them. "Tell the truth..."
"...." Ray looked down at the ground and he sighed. "OKAY! Yes, I am searching for the crazy bitch and CINDER FALL! They has caused hell and destruction for all of us, two years ago! THEY controlled my friends, THEY caused this war to begin with, AND THEY WERE THE REASON WHY YOUR BROTHER ENDED UP IN THE--"
Asuka would attempt to punch him in the face, but Kazuko would block her fist.
"If I was you, I'd refrain from what I am doing right now before things get much, much worse..." Kazuko said as she had a very intimidated look on her face.
Asuka didn't fear Kazuko at all, no intimidation or anything like that. "....Don't you DARE SAY THAT!" She mainly shouted at Ray.
"Man...Look at you three...Even after the wars, this is what Cinder wanted...You all to be divided by the past, when you should be focusing on what's happening now...You need to seriously calm down. Especially you two...Ray, Asuka...Kazuko, you remember the details I gave about the girl?"
The three slowly calmed down as they were looking at Atsuko.
Kazuko raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, why?"
"Well....There is an update to that. Saiko isn't actually at Atlas. But, there is word going about from Atlas Broadcast Systems is that there is an invasion going on there, as of right now..." Atsuko explained to the three.
"WHAT?!" The three exclaimed at the same time.
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Back at Beacon Academy, Ruby Rose was in her office with Himiko Ren and Emilia Rose. Ren had asked her if she knows on where could Ray be.
"Please...tell me, Ms. Rose...Do you know where he is?!" Himiko asked in a soft, yet shaky tone of voice.
For two years, she has been emotionally torn apart because she hasn't heard anything back from Ray since him, Emilia, and Himiko had parted ways.
Ruby frowned as she stood up from her seat and walks over her desk, towards Himiko and hugs her.
"I'm sorry, Himiko....We all tried to look for him....I even had my best team to look for him...But, nothing came up...I really am so sorry, Himi...I tried..."
Himiko couldn't help but tear up and cry...She embraces Ruby's hug.
Emilia would place a hand on Himiko's back and rubs it for comfort. "It's okay, Himi...I'm sure he's still out there somewhere...He has to be...We just gotta keep having faith that he may return someday..."
"Couldn't said it any better myself..." Ruby said in response to Emilia.
"I hope...he does come back..." Himiko said to the both of them.
Then, Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie can be seen outside of the room, overhearing this conversation.
"Himi...." Ren had a very concerned look on his face, for his own daughter. He looks at Nora.
Nora looks back at Ren and she nodded her head at him. "Let's go..."
She would hold his hand, as she walks off about to leave Beacon with Ren.
Ren is spotted with Stormflower, while Nora is with Magnhild. They had a plan. The plan was to get back in the world of huntsmen and huntresses, and find Ray for Himiko.
As they walk out of the building. Who was waiting for Ren and Nora was Jaune Arc and Shizuka.
"Ready to go?" Jaune asked, as he smiled at them.
Ren nodded his head at Jaune and he had a slight smile on his face.
Nora was serious, but she had a smile on her face as well. The smile was for Team JNR getting back together again after it's been years. "Yeah."
"Let's go! Vacuo, here we come!!" Shizuka said with total excitement.
The four can be seen walking away from Beacon Academy and they are now headed for Vacuo.
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In Vacuo, Mutsuko Crowe can be seen heading inside the building of Course Academy.
To her surprise, who was standing at the doors happened to two very familiar faces.
"Hello, Sister..." Velvet spoke out as she was standing at the double doors of Course.
Also, on the right side, was Benjamin Shimura and he waves at Mutsuko. "Hello, Mutsu..."
Then, the two others can be seen standing side by side with Velvet and Benjamin was Kaiku and Sagura.
"AUNTIE!!!" Kaiku ran over towards Mutsuko and she hugs her tightly. After these last two years, Kaiku had grown up a little bit taller. So, did Sagura.
Sagura walked up to Kaiku and Mutsuko as she smiled at her auntie. "It's good to see you, Aunt Mutsuko..." She would also hug her too.
"Wow...This is a pleasant surprise! You two grown taller since I last seen you!"
"Mutsu...We need to talk to you about...Well, y'know..." Ben said, as he crosses his arms.
"Oh? Well, alright. We can't talk out here. I'll lead you to my office and we can talk there." Mutsuko responded to two standing in front of the entrance.
Velvet looks at Mutsuko and she walks up to her. "It's about Tony...And Atlas...."
"I see...I'll have Sami guard the door to keep the discussion disclosed..." Mutsuko nodded as she walked towards inside, as Ben, Velvet, Kaiku, and Sagura follows her into the school.
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Meanwhile back at the forest somewhere, Richard Ambrose can be seen jumping tree to tree, trying to get away from Utsuro's men, Saiko Mayama, and Lily Black.
"Damn that Utsuro! I will not let him use that damned semblance of his to destroy this world, single-handily." He thought out loud to himself. Then, Richard noticed how Utsuro's men and Saiko had caught up with him.
Richard takes a few kunai out and he throws it at the members in the head, and it connects.
"Dammit!"
Not longer after that, Saiko was already close and she licks her sword.
Then, straight ahead an unhinged Saiko Mayama attempts to throw one of her swords at him and Richard would jump out of the trees down to the ground, thus Saiko missing him.
"I WILL NOT LET YOU RUIN HIS PLAN, AMBROSE! I will...KILL YOU!!!!" Saiko shouted at him and she laughed like a total psychotic and blood-thirsty person would.
With her other sword stuck to a tree. She takes out her other sword out and Richard quickly takes his gun and sword out, as she attempts to slash at him.
Richard would shoot at her, and she blocks the bullet with her sword as she clashes with his sword. The slash was powerful that the ground started to form a hole right under Ambrose's feet.
Ambrose attempts to shoot at her head once again and Saiko would catch the bullet by biting it. Lily can be seen coming towards Ambrose and she attempts to slash at him with her scythe. But, she misses him as he would sidestep this and he kicks Saiko in the gut, away from him.
Saiko gets sent back as she uses her sword and rips a hole in the ground, holding onto her sword hilt to keep her balance.
Lily does turn her scythe into a staff and she attempts to strike him with it, but he moves his head to the side a few times and even ducks under.
Then, he sees Saiko running towards Lily and jumps on top of her shoulder and does a front flip sword slash to Ambrose but he sidesteps this move, making Saiko miss him yet again.
Saiko runs to Ambrose and attempts a vertical sword slash but, Ambrose blocks it and they began to go back and forth as he is still dodging Lily's attempted strikes.
Before Lily and Saiko could be make another move on Ambrose. As seen coming from the trees, it appears to be someone in a classic-90's civilian outfit and he had a cane. He targets for Lily.
Lily steps back from Ambrose, and the man missed her.
Ambrose can be seen kicking Saiko away from him and he sensed that familiar presence behind him. He smirked at him. "Well, I gotta say...It's good to see you...Oz.."
Ozpin, who is still in the conscious mind of Oscar Pine and he nods.
Saiko was growing very angry and gave Ambrose that death glare.
Lily was shocked, she couldn't believe that this man was Ozpin. But, that aura in him is definitely Ozpin's. She was now beginning to be frustrated, as she looks over at Saiko.
"Saiko...Let's go...We must leave now!" Lily said, as she runs away back to the base.
Saiko didn't like running away, she always loves to fight. She was very frustrated and decided to run off with Lily, away from both Ambrose and Oscar/Ozpin.
Ambrose and Oz just watched them running away.
"This...won't be the last we'll see them...I'm sure..." Ozpin folds his cane back up into inactive mode and looks back at Ambrose.
Ambrose nodded his head at Oz. "Yeah. Thanks for saving my ass yet again, Oz..."
Before Oscar takes control yet again, Ozpin gives his parting words to his friend. "Anytime, Richard..."
Then, Ozpin's incarnation worn off and he seems to be resting now, with Oscar coming back.
"It's you, kid?" Richard asked.
Oscar nodded his head at him and gave him a smile. "Yes, of course."
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Now, back at Atlas. Tony Shimura is standing in the front of the Atlas office and with his arms crossed, as he looks at Weiss Schnee. He smirked. "...So, would you like to answer some questions for me?"
Weiss had rolled her eyes at the male and she nodded her head slowly. "Well, I have answers..."
"Okay. Weiss...I need to know, where...is...Tyler Black? If you know, please tell me now..." Tony asked with his expression changing to a serious look on his face.
Weiss looks down at the papers and everything regarding Black, Saiko, Cinder's case, and the disappearances that happened out of nowhere after two years ago. She looks up at Tony.
"I really don't know, Shimura. I do know this. People of Mistral have told me that, Tyler was last seen there visiting your former fellow teammate's mother, Ms. Reigns..Then, he disappeared after that..."
Tony would stroke his chin and thinks for a moment. "I see...But, you have any clue to what caused him to disappear?"
"That, I do know. Some people was carrying Tyler somewhere, but he was unconscious. According to some citizens, they said that they saw him "knocked out" and they went to take care of him at their place. But, no info on where could they be. I even had a theory that they may be connected with Saiko Mayama, who definitely has it out for you...
...Saiko ending up missing, Tyler also going missing with some people, and Cinder locked up. I feel as if Cinder isn't the only mastermind coming out of these things that's mysteriously happened already.... The war, the pain and suffering, and the deaths. It's all too connected." Weiss explained to Tony.
Tony's eyes widened and he couldn't believe that. "What?"
Someone knocks on the door and Weiss looks forward to the door. "Come in!" She shouted out.
The door would open and Wraith Belladonna comes in, as she walks past Tony. "Miss Schnee...I need to report something about Cinder..."
"What about Cinder? Please continue, Wraith..." Weiss was wondering on what did Wraith want to report.
Tony was surprised on seeing Wraith for the first time in awhile. But, he was trying to puzzle the entire information that Weiss gave and piece it together.
Wraith would look at her and responds. "She is ready to respond to finally talk..."
"Really? Well, alright...You can lead me to her, now Wraith." Weiss got up from her chair and she would walk around the desk, and walks past Shimura, as she and Wraith are about to make their leave.
Tony would stand in their way. "So....Cinder's here? If so, let me come with you. I have some questions..."
"No, Shi--"
"Take. Me. With. You..." Tony said with a very serious look on his face.
Schnee sighed and Wraith looks at the headmaster, as she nods.
"It's fine. I feel like as if Tony needs some answers too."
"Ugh. Fine." Weiss said, as she crosses her arms and heads out.
Wraith and Tony follows pursuit, as they head out of Atlas Academy, to head for the Maximum Security Jail where Cinder was held up at.
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As they arrive to the Maximum Security Jail, Tony, Weiss, and Wraith enters the place but...They notice how every last inmate was bloodied up and all of the cell doors were open too.
Tony couldn't believe what he's seeing..."What in the hell happened in here?!"
Weiss and Wraith runs down the hall to Cinder's cell as they see the cell door broken into two and the wall inside the cell had a broken wall. They were shocked.
"Oh no...This is bad...Really bad!" Weiss was totally having a nervous breakdown, slowly and shook her head, she just runs out of the jail place to head out into town.
"Wait, Miss Schnee!" Wraith would catch up with Weiss.
Tony follows them on their exit, he had a bad feeling about this too. "What happened?!"
"Cinder has escaped!" Wraith exclaimed.
"WHAT?!" Tony couldn't believe this...Cinder already escaped?! How? Was it some people who helped her escape?
As soon as Wraith and Weiss stepped outside, they froze in total shock as they see Atlas, engulfed into flames already. In the town, you could see a few local huntsmen and huntresses fighting off the assassins from Utsuro's faction, and so much bloodshed being spilled out.
"You two, help out the city and if you find Cinder, bring her back!" Weiss said to the two of them.
"But, what about--"
"JUST GO!" Weiss said in a orderly tone and she went to Atlas Academy, assuming that's probably where that person who was responsible for this was.
Tony and Wraith looks at each other and nods, as they both go into town to help out people.
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In Atlas Academy, the front entrance was destroyed and there was nobody anywhere spotted inside the school. Security was knocked out, multiple teachers were killed, the hallways seemed to have fire-like scorch marks too.
Meanwhile in Weiss' office does see two samurai standing side by side with someone who was sitting down at Weiss' desk chair. The two samurai was Shirou Tanahashi and Kazuhiro Inoue.
The one sitting in the chair happened to be Jason Black, he was smoking a cigarette. He was holding, what it seems to be Tyler's gun, his brother's gun.
Jason was watching the chaos unfold and smiled.
"This is the kind of world our lord wishes to see. We will make it happen under his name...Beginning with Atlas...."
Jason said, as he watches the entire town getting engulfed into flames. He has a evil grin on his face, enjoying the chaos.
The scene suddenly cuts and episode ends here on a cliffhanger, as the ending credits rolls.
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Ending Theme Plays
Theme Song: Lily by Luck Life
The ending visuals begins off with a full sight view of the new bridge at Britannia Village and in the background is seen with a beautiful atmospheric view, in the daylight.
A slideshow transition shows the full view of Vale, Atlas, Vacuo, and Mistral, in the same atmospheric view as well.
I burned something for someone
Following the transitions would show Tony Shimura with his back turned and he held Ambrose Breaker onto his shoulder, letting it rest as the background visuals is him looking up at the light.
It made me suffocate
Tony Shimura is seen looking up, he doesn't seem to look back at all.
Then, a quick scene would see Tony and his father, Shinpachi Shimura crossing paths and he fades into the light, as it quickly transitions to Dean Ambrose walking past Tony as well. And Dean is seen fading into the light from the darkness as well.
Mixed up my priorities, emotions are swaying
Next would show Vanilla Frost and Nashime "Kita" Yoshida together, back to back. Vanilla is seen with a somewhat smile, but slowly turning into a sad look on her face as Kita is seen with a smile, yet with a concerned feeling for Vanilla.
I forgot how to be myself
A memory transition sees Vanilla and Tony on their final moment before Tony's departure. She had a memory of seeing Tony waving without looking back, leaving the village.
The memory slowly burns out into a transition to seeing Tyler Black looking back and he was standing in the middle of town at the village, following the war, four years ago.
Please, choose me
Tyler Black is now seen with his back turned as well but he is slightly looking back, as the background visuals with him facing the darkness and fog around him. He is seen with his hands in his pockets.
I feel pain in my heart
Tyler envisions himself crossing paths with Roman Reigns, as he fades away into the light as well. He tries his best not to tear up at all...But, he wakes up in his vision to see his mother, Lily Black singing into his ear from behind and all he sees his brother, Jason Black a front of him.
This sorrow and hollow feeling
Black slowly closes his eyes to the singing as tears slowly fell down from his eyes down to his cheeks.
Following this, would show Utsuro standing fully with his back turned as he had Saiko Mayama by his side and she was next to him, facing forward and she had her long sword in hand. Saiko had a psychotic smile on her face.
Are throbbing right here
After would show quick transition shots shows Gintoki Sakata balling up his fist, Ryuuto Yoshida looking outside at the sky with a slightly serious look on his face, Shinsuke Takasugi gripping his fingers onto his covers, and Ray Rowe gritting at his teeth in anger.
Then, three moments sees Yang grabbing onto Gintoki's hand, Vanilla hugging Tony from behind, and someone reaching their hand out to Tyler.
Tears, please don't overflow
A brief moment shows Tyler with tears falling down his cheeks.
Then, it shows multiple scenes with the following:
Tony crying a front of Vanilla after she saves him and embracing her in a hug.
Kita also crying for Dean after finding out about his death.
Gintoki tearing up before him executing Shoyo Yoshida with a crying smile on his face.
Dean in his final moments with Tony, tearing up as well.
Roe Ket in tears as well after Kaiku and Sagura helped her get through her trouble of being alone.
Kaiku, Sagura, and Velvet in tears following Tony's return before the war.
Following this scene can be shown with Ray Rowe hugging his sister, Kazuko while both of them are in tears.
I breath out quietly
Tony Shimura and Vanilla Frost shouting out to Cinder Fall as they began to hit their combo move on her.
After this would show Velvet Crowe holding hands with Shinpachi Shimura, tearing up before his death.
Following this moment would see Saiko Mayama in her mental breakdown after failing to re-capture Tony. During this breakdown shows, Utsuro lending a hand down for Saiko.
Saiko slowly reached out to Utsuro's hand as the scene fades out into the light.
I held it in so no one'll notice me
Next scene is transitioned to seeing Himiko Ren can be seen running after someone and reaching out to them, as she sees that person walking away.
Then, a quick transition sees Ray Rowe walking away as she is running towards for him. He looked back slightly at her as he turned his head back to forward and he fades away from Ren.
Himiko didn't get to catch his hand in time, either once he did fade away.
She tears up as Ruby Rose and Emilia Rose walked up to her as both of them, places a hand on her shoulder. Jake is seen with a smile on his face, as well as Emilia.
A new scene was added with Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Lie Ren, and Shizuka walking away from Beacon Academy, heading off to Vacuo.
What's "being myself?"
A new entire scene can be shown with Jason Black, standing in the forefront of Weiss Schnee's office at Atlas Academy, alongside with Shirou Tanahashi and Kazuhiro Inoue standing side by side.
Updated scene; Next moment sees Mutsuko Crowe at Course Academy, watching her students from the window of the school and is seen sitting on her office chair with Sami Callihan, Velvet Crowe, Benjamin Shimura, Kaiku and Sagura Shimura in the background.
Mutsuko had a suspicious look on her face as she slowly sat up and looked up at the sky from the window. While,
Please, someone answer this question
Following the scene with Crowe, it transitions back to Tony, Wraith, and Weiss standing outside of the prison to see Atlas engulfed into flames.
The three all was serious as they began to part ways.
Tony would shoot a bullet and Wraith would do sword slash, which brings it into the next scene.
What do I have? What can I do?
This scene would do a downward-like spiral transitional scene to seeing Tyler still sleeping under his own subconscious and Lily holding onto her son.
Until someone slowly reaches out to Tyler, at least in his mind and somewhat hears a voice as well, shouting out to him.
The scene was updated; A quick scene sees Tony singing "What do I have?", as he was standing looking up at the sun and Tyler singing out in his sleep, "What can I do?" looking down at the ground in the nighttime.
As the wind blows, I stared at the light
Tyler opens his eyes slowly, as he saw Roman, Tony, Dean, and himself together in his vision, as he saw themselves togetjer in his vision, he tears up a bit but in his real vision sees just Tony with his back turned, with him looking back at Tyler with a smile on his face. And Roman and Dean can be seen standing behind Tyler and they push him towards Tony.
Quick memory shots shows Tyler growing up with Roman, then teaming with him, Dean, and Tony, as they head to Beacon, and finally the last shot sees Tony and Tyler high-fiving Dean and Roman as Dean and Roman fades out into the light.
Tyler starts to smile, as he turns around finally. Tony looks behind as well fully from his earlier shot, as well as Vanilla and Kita.
The ending visuals would end with seeing Tony and Tyler with Vanilla and Kita back to back as their teen selves, as the adult Tony, Tyler, Kita, and Vanilla looks at their teen selves.
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"Alright! That wraps up Episode 28! Hey, RWBY: After the Fall fans, this is your favorite professor, Ozpin!"
And for a moment Oscar Pine takes over for a moment. "Hey! Who told you to takeover, Oz?!"
"Well..." He did speak through his mind.
"Well, nothing! Damn...Anyways, my name is Oscar Pine. Yes, I am back yet again! I hope you all enjoyed Days Are Numbered! And what a crazy cliffhanger we got! Atlas is getting destroyed, just like how Utsuro wanted. And crazy it only took for Weiss not to be around to see it too. That's actually crazy. And where is Cinder?! We don't know, but...It doesn't mean we can speculate! So. get to speculatin'! Anyways, thank you all for tuning in! And there is no preview for Episode 29 because something massive is bound to go down\. So, I hope you all come out for that one! And...Here's the episode title for the next episode! Episode 29, Trouble In Atlas! Very intense episode title, right? It should be a good one. See you all on the next one!" Oscar waved at the audience goodbye.
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Next Episode: Episode 29, Season 3 - Trouble In Atlas!
