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“Alright, my turn next! Can’t wait to watch myself kick ass!” Yang was very enthusiastic about viewing her trailer, clearly excited to hopefully see herself in a fight.
Next to her, Blake rolled her eyes affectionately at her partner’s over-enthusiasm. “Yes, we’re all very excited to see you kick ass.” Yang clearly did not pick up on Blake’s sarcasm. “I KNOW, IT’S GONNA BE SICK!”
Yang’s lack of awareness doesn’t seem to dampen her partner’s mood, as Blake simply rolls her eyes yet again with a smile on her face and turns back to the screen.
As with the previous two trailers, it starts with a quote.
-"Scathing eyes ask that we be symmetrical, one sided and easily processed. Yet every misshapen spark's unseen beauty is greater than its would be judgement."
Yang is a bit perplexed at the quote. “That’s… a lot more philosophical than I was expecting.” Clearly she was not anticipating anything with a deeper meaning in her trailer.
-Yang is shown riding her motorcycle through the streets of Vale. She eventually stops in front of a club that is blasting music. Yang dismounts her bike and begins walking towards the entrance to the club.
”Oh, this is gonna be good.” Yang recalls this moment rather well. Though she doesn’t really recall that bird being there.
As the onscreen bird flies away, Qrow simply look on with pure contempt. Next to him, Ozpin likewise feels rather unenthused about seeing Raven appear.
-Drenched in a yellow silhouette contrasting the otherwise black entrance, Yang makes her way to the door to the club, entering through them and fully revealing herself.
Blake takes a moment to admire her partner’s figure onscreen, taking in every detail of her as she struts into the club.
-As she walks through the club, she sees Roman Torchwick ending a conversation with Junior. She makes her way to the bar where Junior stands.
“Wait, Torchwick was there?!” Ruby seems rather surprised to see one of their biggest enemies appearing in this club. She turns to Yang, seemingly curious if she knew anything about Roman’s appearance there. Yang notices Ruby’s confusion and gives her an answer. “This place is a total cesspool for crooks and assholes to get info and services, apparently he was there renting some of the owner’s goons.” Ruby lets out a silent “ah” as she returns to viewing the trailer.
-After getting settled at the bar, Yang places her order. Yang: Strawberry Sunrise. No ice. Oh, and one of those little umbrellas. -Junior: Aren't you a little young to be in this club, Blondie? -Yang lets out a chuckle before she retorts -Yang: Aren't you a little old to have a name like Junior?
“Dang, totally burned.” Ruby seems rather proud of her sister’s comeback.
-Junior: So you know who I am. You got a name, sweetheart? -Yang: Yes, Junior, I've got several. But instead of sweetheart, you can just call me sir. -She grabs his groin and squeezes it painfully causing Junior to cry out in pain comically.
Jaune, Ren and Qrow all cringe as onscreen Yang quite literally has Junior by the balls. Ozpin seems none too bothered by the action.
-Yang: People say you know everything. -She brings her scroll up to his face, showing him a picture.
“Mom……” Yang’s mood sours at the image of her mother, Raven Branwen. Noticing her partner’s distress, Blake leans into her shoulder. This catches Yang off guard briefly, but she eventually brightens up a bit, noticeably redder in the face, and wraps her arm around Blake’s shoulders.
-Yang: Tell me where I can find her and I'll let you go. -Junior: I've never seen her before, I swear! -Yang: Excuse me? -Junior: I swear, sir!
Everyone has to admit that it’s rather hilarious watching Yang totally dominate a situation like this, having Junior comedically submit to her.
-Junior's henchmen begin to gather around. -Yang: Hmm, looks like we have an audience. This must kind of embarrassing for you, huh? Awkward.... Junior: Listen, blondie sir. If you want to make it out of this club alive, I suggest you let me go. Now! -She lets go and Junior sighs in relief.
The men all relax as Yang lets go of Junior.
-Junior: You'll pay for that! -He puts on his sunglasses and walks away from her. Yang follows closely behind. -Yang: Oh Junior, I was just playing with you! Don't be so sensitive! Come on, lets kiss and make up, okay? -Junior stops and turns around. -Junior: Huh? Uh, okay.
”EXCUSE ME?!” Qrow immediately makes his disgust at the situation known very vocally. Yang attempts to quell his frustration. “Relax Uncle Qrow, I didn’t kiss anybody.”
-As Junior leans in to make good on Yang’s offer, she punches him in the face sending him flying across the room.
Qrow and Ruby both sigh in relief that they didn’t have to watch Yang kiss some random goon boss who thinks he’s hot shit.
All of Junior’s nearby henchmen run towards her. Activating Ember Celica, she jumps into the air and punches down, sending the goons flying back.
”ALRIGHT, TIME FOR ME TO KICK EVERYONE’S ASS!” Yang is clearly at the peak of her excitement. While the others aren’t quite as enthusiastic, they still are excited to see Yang fight. Blake especially can’t wait to watch her partner in action.
-With a series of crazy kicks, punches, spins, recoil elbows and assorted other melee attacks, Yang quite easily dispatches of all the standard goons. She then turns up towards the DJ booth, noticing the DJ taking aim at her. As he fires down at her, Yang rushes towards him, avoiding all the gunfire, and propelling herself up and into him with her weapon. She uses the recoil of another shot to elbow strike them, before smashing them into the DJ table, and launching them off the booth.
Yang looks on in pride at the display of her beating down the thugs, though she knows that the fight is just getting started, and it only gets better from here. Blake is awestruck at her partner’s actions, completely enamored by her style.
-Back down on the dance floor, the two malachite twins step into the room. -Miltia: Melanie, who is this girl? -Melanie: I dunno Miltia but we should teach her a lesson.
Oh those two are so going down.
-Yang loads another belt of ammunition into Ember Celica. She then jumps off the DJ booth, firing several shells down at the twins, who manage to avoid all of them. -After recomposing, the sisters charge at Yang as she lands on the dance floor, continuing her barrage. As the sisters split to opposing sides, with Yang focusing her barrage on Melanie, they begin their counterattack, with Melanie dodging and deflecting Yang's bullets while Miltia takes a swipe at Yang from behind. -Ducking to avoid Miltia's strike at the last second, Yang turns and fires at her, only to have Miltia jump to avoid it as Melanie lands behind Yang and retaliates with a heel-kick. Yang blocks the kick with her gauntlets forcing herself back a distance away from the sisters.
Qrow had to admit that he was pretty impressed by Yang’s hand to hand combat skills. Tai clearly taught her well. The rest of Team RWBY and Team JNPR all looked on in awe, while Penny looked on very intently, analyzing and evaluating every single move made during the battle.
-Yang quickly grounds herself and fires a round at them, which Melanie deflects with a frontflip heel-kick off into a pillar. Miltia quickly closes in on Yang and delivers a couple of swipes that Yang defends against, only to have Melanie follow up with a series of jump-kicks while Yang is off-balanced. Blocking each attack, Yang quickly fires a round in response, which Melanie ducks to avoid. Miltia swoops in with a downwards swipe while Melanie sweeps Yang's right leg and finishes with a series of kicks that make contact, launching Yang across the stage. -Yang rolls and quickly regains her footing, firing both gauntlets to propel her back across the stage and landing a hard right punch onto Melanie's face, knocking her down. While Melanie lies stunned on the floor, Yang confronts Miltia in close-range melee combat, with Yang firing rounds with each punch thrown and Miltia defending with her claws. However, Yang overwhelms her with a low kick, a series of boosted body shots, and a final round from Ember Celica, blasting Miltia off the stage.
“One down, one to go.” Yang is at the edge of her seat in excitement watching herself fight the twins. Blake is likewise completely enraptured by the action on the screen.
-Melanie finally recovers from Yang's punch just in time to see her sister get flung into a pillar overhead. Yang confronts her by firing off a round at close-range, which Melanie again avoids by backflipping. After avoiding another round into the ground, Melanie retaliates with an upward leg swipe before kicking a third round point-blank in order to deflect it. Both Yang and Melanie resort to close-range melee combat, with Yang throwing boosted punches and blocking with her gauntlets while Melanie kicks and swipes as she defends with the blades of her boots. A hard side-kick pushes Yang away as each take a second of reprieve before Melanie closes in on Yang.
-Feinting with her boots to keep Yang off-balanced, Melanie shifts herself along the stage, forcing Yang to back-step continuously. This leaves Yang unable to ground herself while defending against Melanie's feints and kicks. A longer series of kicks from Melanie allows Yang to finally ground herself, spin to dodge Melanie's last kick while retracting Ember Celica, and land a body blow with her left elbow. Yang quickly grabs Melanie's right arm and uses it to twist and spin the rest of Melanie's body, using the built-up momentum to land a final devastating jump-kick to Melanie's face.
Everyone winces slightly at the force from that final kick, all of them clearly imagining the pain that Melanie probably felt in her jaw. Ruby is the first to comment on the action they just witnessed. “THAT WAS SO COOL!” Yang smirks smugly and looks towards her sister. “Oh it ain’t over yet sis.”
-The holograms in the club suddenly turn off and a spotlight shines on Junior as he brings out his Bazooka. Junior: You're gonna pay for this.
”As if.” Yang is clearly not impressed by Junior’s choice of weaponry.
-Junior fires off a stream of rockets from his weapon's bazooka form, and Yang backflips and siderolls to dodge several. Upon righting herself, Yang then destroys several more incoming rockets with well-placed shots from Ember Celica. -Advancing, Junior changes his weapon to its bat form and strikes at Yang multiple times, with the latter managing to defend and block all but one, causing her to recoil and stumble. This gives Junior an opening to hit her in the face, sending her flying backwards into a glass structure.
Blake looks on with concern for her partner, but Yang simply places a hand on her shoulder and reassures her. “Relax, I’ve got this.”
-Yang pushes herself to her feet, her hair ablaze and shining gold. She then slams her fists together, creating a minor shockwave, before dashing forward. Junior arms his rocket launcher and starts firing wildly, each shot missing as Yang sidesteps and evades them. She quickly closes the gap between them, dodging a strike from Junior before laying into him, landing seven punches, each amplified by her weaponry. The final punch sends Junior flying back, his weapon broken in two, one piece of it in one hand, a lock of Yang's hair in the other.
With the exceptions of Winter, Ozpin and of course Yang herself, everyone in the audience freezes in fear at the sight of damage to Yang’s hair. Blake turns to her partner, noticing that even now, Yang’s eyes have gone red from rage. Ruby decides to give Junior a proper send off. “And a goodbye to Junior, we knew him not at all other than the fact that he was kinda a creep, good riddance ya blowhard.” From behind them, Qrow chuckles at Ruby’s choice of insult.
-The sight enrages Yang, who promptly engulfs herself in a huge explosion of fire, which shatters the dance floor. She then charges Junior at a rapid speed, landing one final blow square in the jaw, which sends him flying through a window into the street, incapacitated, ending the fight. He lands fully knocked out in front of Ruby, with Yang exiting the club shortly after.
”Oh, so that’s what happened.” Ruby seems to have gotten a sense of satisfaction from finally learning what went down that night.
-Ruby: Yang? Is that you? -Yang: Oh! Hey sis! -Ruby: What are you doing here? -Yang sighs before the screen cuts to black. -Yang: It's a long story. The RWBY title pans from the left of the screen before unveiling all four characters: Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long.
”That was so cool!” Nora voices her opinion on the final trailer. To her right, Pyrrha also speaks up. “Yes, it was rather entertaining.” Behind the gang, Qrow pipes up as well. “You did good Firecracker, nice one.” Yang smiles and lets out a prideful hum at her Uncle’s praise.
”So those were the trailers I suppose.” Ruby is the next one to speak. Next to her, Penny follows up on what she says. “Next we should be getting to the actual show itself, likely starting from when you all began at Beacon.” To be honest, nobody in the audience could wait to see how the show handled their adventures at Beacon.
They were ready to properly star the show.