RWBY V7 C10

## Plot

The episode starts with a brilliant tracking shot of Mantle, with all the chaos, panicking citizens, and Grimm. Nora saves a Faunus mother and her child from a Sabyr, but she, Weiss, and Marrow still have a lot more to deal with. Blake is running from a Megoliath and two ice style Ursai, one of which she destroys with another fire clone, and she distracts the other one with more dust clones until the Megoliath steps on it. When it charges at her, she gets away from it with a shadow clone. Elm stops it in its tracks, and throws it into the air after Yang plants sticky bombs on it to kill it. Blake tells the scared civilians to head to the nearest shelter. Yang says those shelters are going to fill up soon, but Elm says they're all they have. Meanwhile, Qrow and Clover receive new orders from Ironwood. The civilians are scared and angry and demand that they be taken to Atlas. Before things can get out of hand, a broadcast comes on of Robyn and General Ironwood. The two are holding hands in view of the camera so everyone knows that they're telling the truth. Ironwood tells everyone about Salem as Jaune, Ren, and Vine save more people from the Grimm. The public, including Cinder and Neo, find out about Watts and Tyrian, and that they're behind the murders and the sabotage of the heating grid. This is why Ironwood was forced to divert resources from Mantle, for the Amity Communications Tower. The camera switches to a head shot of just Ironwood as he announces that Amity Tower is finished and ready to launch. He's withdrawing all defense forces from it so they can help evacuate Mantle. His and Robyn's speech is able to unite everyone. Tyrian is angry, but Watts says that Ironwood's heart has cost him his mind. Robyn announces that she's heading down to Sector 17 to help with the evacuation. Tyrian will head there to kill her and cause more chaos while Watts heads to a now defenseless Amity Tower to sabotage it. Cinder is angry that Watts and Tyrian beat them here. Vacuo was supposed to be the next target, but the timeline has changed. She tells Neo to find Oscar and take the lamp. They both want revenge on Ruby, but Cinder needs the lamp first to get back into Salem's good graces. She tells Neo that Ironwood is as predictable as his drones. If they threaten what he has, he'll flock to protect it. She's going to find the Winter Maiden tonight. Elm transforms her hammer into a rocket launcher to kill two Megoliaths at once. Penny arrives to help Ruby and Harriet with a super strong and old one. Ruby tries to use her silver eyes, but can't during the chaos of the battle, and looks at her hip where the lamp once was. Penny is thrown far away, and she confirms to Ruby that she's okay. Her comment about the ancient Megoliath's tusks gives Ruby an idea. Penny distracts the Megoliath and slows it down with a giant laser, and uses a smaller one to heat up one of its tusks. Ruby breaks it off, and Penny throws it onto the ground. Ruby trips the Megoliath, which falls and impales itself on its own tusk. That was awesome! Everyone comes out of hiding and applauds them, calling Penny the Protector of Mantle once again. While checking for stragglers by herself, Robyn is confronted by Tyrian… however, then Qrow and Clover show up to give her some backup, revealing that it's a trap. When Watts enters Amity's stadium, the exits are all blocked off, revealing that Ironwood lied earlier about the tower being finished to lure him out. However, as Watts himself says, he isn't going down without a fight. Ironwood may have dual pistols, but Watts has control over Amity's biomes, a hard light dust shield thanks to his rings, and a revolver. The episode ends as the two men prepare to fight. I personally liked this chapter just fine. It was short, but it was clearly meant to be a set up chapter leading into the final climactic ones. Plus, there's plenty of action and great cinematography.