We see Amity Colosseum's mountain biome being bombarded by several explosions all around the area. A participant, weapon in hand, is running from the mayhem before spinning around, ready to face their 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 her opponent, who barely manages to duck behind a rock to protect themself. Wasting no time, Penny does the same thing with another group of blades, homing in on the other teammate until they use their weapon 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 puppetmaster and uses the near-invisible strings attached to each hilt to lift the giant rocks up in the air, with the screaming opponents 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: (over the broadcaster's system) "And victory goes to Penny and Ciel of Atlas!"
Penny: (placing a fist in her palm and bowing in respect to her fallen foes, still smiling) "Thank you for a wonderful time."
The two victors turn to leave the stadium as one of the opponents feebly reaches out, only to get hit in the head by an errant stone. Watching from the stands, Ruby and Nick see them start to walk away and excitedly gets up form their seat with the rest of their teams to meet them at one of the exits.
Ruby: (catching up and spreading her arms as she calls out) "Penny!"
Penny: "Ruby! Nick!"
Penny then lifts up her own arms, she tackles Ruby into a hug that leaves them both of them on the ground, while Nick manages to step out of the way.
Ruby: (grunts, then groans weakly) "Why..."
Penny: (gets up energetically and gestures to her friends) "Ruby, Nick, this is my teammate."
Ciel: "Ciel Soleil." (bows formally)
Ruby: (raises her hand in greeting) "Hi! I'm Ru-"
Ciel: "Ruby Rose. 16. Hails from Patch. Leader of Team RWBY (Ruby). Rumored to have been personally recommended to Beacon Academy two years early by the Kamen Rider himself, for unknown reasons. Status: Questionable."
Nick: (not liking what Ciel just said) "A bit rude, don't you think?"
Ciel: "And you are; Nick Brown. 18. Hails from an unknown town, somewhere, up north in Mistral. Leader of Team NAAE (Unimaginable). And is none other then the Kamen Rider himself, but is currently attending Beacon Academy as a student for unknown reasons. Status:...Bizarre."
Nick: (forced, sarcastic chuckles) "And now you can also add; "I already don't like you", to your freaky info."
Yeah, that IS VERY freaky how she has that type of info...She's also rude.
Ruby: (silent for a second) "Sooo...Penny! (turning back to her friend) You two were incredible out there. How do you keep control of all those swords? It's so cool!"
Ciel: "Penny? (looks at her watch and gestures at it) I believe it is best if we move on to our next location."
Penny: (exchanges a look with Ruby and Nick before looking at Ciel) "Could we have just a minute to talk?"
In response, Ciel checks the time, then takes a step back and nods, starting the countdown.
Ruby: "So is she...your friend or..."
Penny: "Well, in a way. She's like how Blake used to be, but if Blake was ordered to spend time with you."
Ruby: "Oh. So, how Weiss was when school started."
Penny: "Precisely."
Ruby: (lowering her voice) "Does she know about...y'know...beep boop bop, does not compute?"
Ruby moves her body abruptly as if imitating a robot, leaving her arm to hang with a noticeable squeaking sound.
Penny: (shaking her head) "Oh no. General Ironwood doesn't really want anyone to know. Ruby, Nick, there's something I've been wanting to talk to you two about. (glances over at Ciel before leaning in and whispers to Ruby and Nick) I want to stay at Beacon."
Ruby: (looking troubled by the news) "Penny, they'll never let you do that."
Penny: (frowns, but then grins with mischief) "I know, but I have a plan."
Nick: (smirks) "Don't worry, Penny, I think I can actually make that happen. And if Iron-brain has a problem with it, he can just keep it to himself. Especially with how him having two seats in the Atlas Council has been put into question at the moment. Plus, I've been told that I have more authority then the members of the councils of all five Kingdoms combined." (thought) 'It's not like he and Penny's dad can control her anymore. Not after the modifications I did on her.'
A flashback to when Nick and Ruby were telling Penny that she is a real person, despite being an Android, back in the ally a while ago, as we see that when Nick placed his hand on Penny's shoulder, he secretly used his Semblance to alter her "physiology", making it so that she isn't affected by anything magnetic (So magnets don't stick to her body, and Pyrrha's Semblance doesn't affect Penny either). Nick also upgraded Penny's systems to prevent her from being hacked or affected by viruses, as well as removed the program that allowed Penny's father, Pietro Polendina, to control her remotely. Back in the present...
Ciel: (stepping back up to Penny's side and pointing to her watch) "It's been precisely one minute, ma'am."
Nick: "Why are you still here?"
Penny: "I'll talk to you two more soon later, Ruby, Nick."
The two Atlesian girls then leave, but Penny turns to give a wave of farewell to Ruby and Nick, who both do the same.
Port: (coming back over the stadium speakers to announce) "Our next match will begin in 15 minutes!"
Ruby: (suddenly looking really excited as she clasps her hands together) "Oh my gosh, that's right! It's time for-"
Time Skip...
Yang: (in the center of the field with Weiss at her side, stretching out her arms) "Well, now it's our turn!"
Weiss: "Just remember to keep proper form."
Yang: (chuckles) "Alright. (her tone shifts to talk strategy) You're from Atlas. What could we expect?"
Weiss: (listing off the facts as Yang loosens up her legs as well) "Well, seeing as their Kingdom, academy and armed forces are all merged as one, I think we can expect strict, militant fighters with advanced technology and carefully rehearsed strategies."
At that very moment, a rainbow zooms past the two surprised Huntresses-in-training, coming to a stop opposite them, revealing a pigtailed Faunus girl named Neon with roller blades and a cat tail swishing around her weapon next to a young man named Flynt, who's wearing a fedora and sunglasses, holding a trumpet in one hand.
Weiss: (recovering from her shock faster than the open-mouthed Yang) "...Or whatever they are."
Flynt: "Hey! (Weiss looks over to him as he gestures at her, smiling) You Weiss Schnee, right? The heiress."
Weiss: (bowing her head, smiling at the recognition) "I am."
Flynt: "I take it you're pretty good with Dust, then?"
Weiss: (shrugging humbly) "I do my best."
Flynt: "Yeah, my dad was good too. Owned a little Dust shop of his own."
He nods his head, eyes hidden behind his shades, until his smile turns into a scowl, tone turning hostile.
Flynt: "Till your father's company ran him out of business."
Weiss: "Oh. (looks ashamed now) I'm sorry to hear that."
Flynt: (sighs, before smiling again) "Don't be. After your father got arrested, and your mother took over the SDC, she helped my dad get his shop back in business. So, I don't have a grudge against your family anymore."
Neon: "Hey! Where'd you get your hair extensions?"
Yang: "This is just my normal hair."
Neon: "Ooh, really?"
Yang: (getting annoyed now) "Yeah! Is that a prob-"
Neon: (cutting her off) "You should try rollerblading sometime! It's super fun! (starts spinning in place as she continues rapidly) It'd probably take you a while, though, since you're so...you know, top-heavy."
Yang: (looks down at herself as the holographic roulette begins) "Excuse me!?"
Ruby: (rolling her eyes from the stands) "Oh, here we go."
Nick: "That's pushing the wrong buttons."
The field opens around the four combatants, and up rises the volcanic area, sandy desert, steaming geysers, and ruined buildings.
Port: (as both teams prepare themselves for battle) "Three! Two! One! Begin!"
Right as it starts, Flynt raises the instrument to his lips and blows, issuing forth a sound wave that blows both Weiss and Yang back from the force. Weiss is able to create a glyph under her to stop sliding back, but doesn't see Neon spinning into the attack and useing it to push herself forward so she can charge at Yang in a rainbow burst of speed and push her into the city portion. Flynt stops blowing as Weiss readies her Myrtenaster, a second passing until the musician starts playing again. This time, Weiss uses darker glyphs to move her forward through the cone of waves, making another one to get closer and closer so she can land a blow. Suddenly, however, Flynt stops playing, and Weiss is forced to move forward, earning a kick to the back as she slides past. She crashes through a red Dust crystal, and Flynt grins when he sees her lying in the area now spouting pillars of fire. Back in the ruined city, Neon manages to roll ahead of every blast from Ember Celica, skating on the railings and making faces at an irritated Yang. She continues to flip and slide over any terrain in her way, all the while repeating a mantra to herself.
Neon: "Never miss a beat! Never miss a beat! Never miss a beat! Never miss a beat!"
She eventually comes down to the ground and charges at Yang, becoming a rainbow blue while hitting the blonde multiple times. Yang grits her teeth, unloading the spent shells in her gauntlets, as Neon smirks and cracks her glow sticks, turning them blue. She comes forward again, dashing past Yang before she even realizes that her right leg is now encased in ice.
Neon: (giggles) "Hm-hmm! Look! (smacks her butt for emphasis) Now you're bottom-heavy, too!"
Getting quite irate now, Yang slams her foot down and frees her entire leg, but is unable to stop Neon from freezing her left arm now. She sees Neon rollerblading on rails and through archways, gaining distance until she speeds forth and kicks Yang back into a wall, cracking it behind her.
Neon: "You should cool off! Get it? Because you're angry."
Not appreciating the pun one bit, Yang smashes her arm against the wall, once again shattering the ice and the structure itself, unaware that her fist was covered in energy.
Nick: "Mmm. Looks like Yang's starting to use her Ki, and might she not even be realizing it."
Meanwhile, Weiss and Flynt are facing each other in the burning section, Weiss gesturing all around her with the blade and spinning wildly to summon four glyphs that shoot out an equal number of large ice chunks headed straight for her enemy. Flynt looks down and smiles, leaping forward onto his knees and blowing his horn just as a column of flame erupts right in front of him, diverting the fire to melt each of Weiss' frozen projectiles.
Flynt: (getting back up as he twirls his trumpet) "Too bad all that money can't buy you skill."
Weiss grimaces at him before revolving her hilt to use a white type of Dust. She aims a stream of wind at Flynt, who matches her power with his own blowing, creating a standstill until Weiss uses a mere gesture to form several more glyphs around the field. She quickly bounces off each one, striking Flynt with each attack, until she puts his foot down and starts playing once more. Weiss is still propelling herself around, but nothing prepares her for a second Flynt appearing next to the first, and then another, and another after that, each color-coordinated musician joining their waves of noise together to send Weiss flying back.
Jaune: (amazed from his spot watching the fight) "Whoa!"
Port: (turning to Oobleck in the announcer's box, both equally shocked) "What's this?"
Oobleck: "It appears young Flynt has just activated his Semblance! And quite a remarkable one at that. Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on Flynt Coal's Killer Quartet!"
The Flynts flip their hats around to the audience, then look up at the scoreboard to see Weiss and Yang down to half their Aura levels, but still in the game. He steps forward, absorbing each of his duplicates as he prepares to finish this. His teammate is still giving trouble to Yang, using a ramp to outrun her now red-eyed opponent.
Neon: (slowing down to admire the change) "Ooh! Flashy eyes! Y'know, you're actually kinda pretty when you're angry."
Yang: (shaking her head, eyes going back down to purple. She propels herself forward using her shotgun blasts) "Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!"
Weiss is getting back up and sees her sword, reaching out to it only for Flynt to step on the blade. She looks up at him before their attention is drawn to their partners.
Yang: "Get back here!"
Neon: (rolling around Yang in a lazy circle) "I wasn't trying to say that you should go on a diet, I was saying you really need to go on a diet!"
Yang: "THAT'S IT!"
Neon: (one more quick clarification for good measure) "You're fat."
Flynt looks back at Weiss before deciding to focus his attention on Yang, once more becoming four fighters and ready to blow her away. Weiss looks through the clones and sees Yang completely distracted, as well as a pool of lava bubbling away right in front of him/them. Without pause, Weiss jumps up and knocks the original into the magma just as it erupts several feet in the air.
Yang: (noticing what just happened) "What?"
Nick, Ruby, Blake, Amber, Erza and Atalanta: (simultaneously panicked) "Weiss!"
Port: "It appears we have a double knockout on our hands!"
Oobleck: "In fact, it looks as though Miss Schnee's Aura is almost depleted! She sacrificed herself to take out Flynt! Wait a minute. What's this!?"
"This" turns out to be Flynt, wobbly and almost at his limit, but standing back up from the smoke.
Port: "Ladies and gentlemen, Weiss Schnee and Flynt Coal both remain standing!"
Flynt begins walking toward Yang, a look of pure anger on his face.
Neon: (skating back over to her leader as he marches forward) "You did it, Flynt! Don't worry about her, she's easy! But kind of annoying."
Port: (as Yang finally reaches her breaking point, fists clenching and ground trembling) "Ooh, looks like Yang's angry! And you wouldn't like her when she's...upset."
Her scream of rage combining with the group of lava bursts from the rocks, along with her releasing a massive surge of Ki, as she punches out both several shots with both her Ember Celica and Ki Blasts at the two opponents, who manage to dodge the blasts.
Flynt: "Yo, Neon, go!"
He blows again and helps Neon rush forward, and Yang meets her in the waves of sound, using her shots to keep her from being pushed away as she attempts to get a hit on the girl. Failing that, she leaps out of the noise and blasts the ground where Neon is, then launching herself back to create some space. Her blasts almost gets Flynt, who's forced to change the direction of his tune and direct Neon elsewhere, still avoiding the blasts and even rolling on the debris being formed, though with a noticeably more shaky stance than usual. She rolls up on a ramp made from the debris into the geyser biome. Yang lands on the ground away from her and runs right at Flynt, rocketing forward even as he uses his Semblance once more to deliver a fourfold attack. Shooting behind her, however, provides the necessary boost to finally get close and clap her hands over the mouth of the trumpet. Less than a second of silence is broken by the musical backfire right in Flynt's face, becoming one person for the final time as he's knocked on his back and the buzzer rings.
Oobleck: "Oh, sour note for Flynt!"
Yang slides back from the blast, searching for her remaining opponent as Neon tries avoiding the geyser spouts.
Neon: "Never miss a beat! Never miss a beat! Never miss a..."
At that moment, her front wheels catch on a crack in the ground, losing her balance and causing her to shed a few quick tears.
Neon: "...beat?"
Time catches up as she pitches forward, trying to roll up in a ball only to get caught in the blast of a geyser. She's helpless to do anything as Yang smirks, fires off a single shot, and hits her screaming target in an explosion of sparks and smoke, as well as a third buzzing sound.
Yang: (continues to look enraged until she blinks her eyes back to purple and realizes something) "Weiss!"
She runs back into the fire section and kneels next to her ash-covered teammate.
Yang: "Weiss! Are you okay?"
Weiss: (gets up and coughs some smoke before weakly responding) "I may not be singing for a while."
Yang: (looks both worried and relieved until she breaks out into a joking smile) "You know, I'm not sure that was proper form."
Weiss: "Oh, ha ha." (suffers another coughing fit)
Neon: "WHAT!? We lost? We lost?"
Yang and Weiss' attention are drawn to her, now devoid of color, as she freaks out.
Neon: "Team FNKI (Funky) lost? That was...that was... (color returns to the suddenly-overjoyed redhead as her eyes turn into rainbow sparkles for a moment) ...amazing! Oh my gosh, you guys were super crazy awesome! We should definitely party together sometime, right Flynt?"
Flynt: (getting back to his feet) "That was a gutsy move, Schnee. (he pauses) I dig it."
Yang and Weiss smile at the good losers and see the rest of their team coming to the injured heiress' side.
Blake: "Good job, you two!"
Ruby: "Yeah!"
The team stays like that, cradling Weiss in their arms and soaking in the cheers of the crowd. Meanwhile, at a certain large warehouse...we hear the sound of angry yelling as a table gets slammed at a wall, resulting in the shattering. We then see that the person who threw the table is the robed figure, as Adam Taurus approaches him.
Adam: "Will you cut that out? You've been throwing tables at the exact same wall several times since the Breach. I'm surprised that wall doesn't have a massive hole in it by now from you throwing 30 tables and/or crates at it for days. I also question on why the authorities haven't shown up, with your constant yelling."
Robed Figure: "What do you expect, Adam Taurus?! The Breach failed! And that idiotic weakling, Roman Torchwick got captured! Why aren't you upset as well?! All but one of the members of your worthless Black Fang left, and joined the White Fang!"
Adam: "Of course I'm furious at those traitors. But the Kamen Rider may find our location if you keep acting this way! And besides, It's not like we needed Roman Torchwick anyways. Remember, I was against working with a filthy Human in the first place."
Robed Figure: "One: you aren't one to talk, since you always have anger issues. Two: Roman Torchwick was a member of Spider who went independent. Meaning he had connections within the criminal underworld both within Mistral, and here in Vale. Connections that could be useful in our plans. And three: WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THE KAMEN RIDER DOESN'T ALREADY KNOW WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW THE WHOLE TIME?! But it doesn't matter...in a few days, we will eliminate Vale."
Adam: "Perfect. I'm looking forward to ending the Kamen Rider's legend for good."
Suddenly, the masked leader strangles Adam by the neck with an arm made entirely out of pure darkness.
Masked Leader: "Let me once again make this clear to you, Adam Taurus. You stand no chance against the Kamen Rider. And besides...the only person who will kill the Kamen Rider...is me."
He then releases Adam, who falls to his knees and catches his breathe, as the leader walks away.
Adam: (looks at the masked leader with distain) "Have it your way...Shadow."
Shadow: (thought) 'The Kamen Rider most likely already suspects that there is something amidst. Given that he fought the Jyamato Grimm at the Forever Fall a while ago. Which was why I told Salem not to release them yet. Plus, those useless twins from Spider revealed their abilities to become Kamen Riders. No matter...these weaklings are nothing but mere pawns, while I am the King. I look forward to ending your life...Nick Brown. And you thought you and your allies had the upper-hand when you changed the past. But...how wrong you were.'