RWBY V6 C13

## Plot

The episode starts somewhere in a forest. Neo has successfully stolen a Mistral airship for her and Cinder to get to Solitas in. Also, they have new outfits. Neo uses her Semblance to make the ship appear to be an Atlas one to anyone else. Cordovin blames the others for what's happened. Blake and Yang show up. Cordovin keeps blaming them as they fly off in the airship, but she seems to realize that she's at fault as well, and doesn't respond when the base calls her. Blake apologizes for not shutting off the radar, but Yang says she shouldn't be. Ruby says that all that matters is that she's okay, and they hug, while Ruby gives Yang a look. I swear, if anyone mentions Bumblebee, in a negative or positive way, I will break something. I. Don't. Care. About. Shipping! Maria says that getting the lamp to Atlas is still their top priority, and they won't get a better chance than this. The others naturally refuse. Jaune and Ren can mask their ship. True, it looked like Jaune's Aura broke during the mech fight, but either it didn't and just looked like it did for some weird reason, or his Aura recharges faster than normal like Hazel's. The Leviathan resurfaces, and the military base gets a hard light barrier set up. Everyone in Argus is watching, including Terra, Saphron, and Adrian. When it hits the barrier, the ships shoot it, but that doesn't even bother it. It breathes fire and destroys one of the beacons, which causes the whole barrier to go down. The military base orders everyone to disengage and start evacuation procedures. However, Ruby says that she and her team can weaken it for them to attack while it's stopped at the next barrier. Cordovin hears this. The military refuses to help them because their ship is flagged as hostile. Ruby can stop it with her silver eyes. She did it at Beacon and at the farm. She doesn't have a choice. She has to do this, because she's the only one who can. Ren and Jaune use their Semblances to mask their ship from the Sphinxes and Manticores. However, they don't make it to the next barrier before the Leviathan destroys it, forcing them to pull up. Jaune and Ren's Auras break. Yang and Nora distract the Leviathan with their weapons' long range capabilities, while Weiss remotely pilots a Lancer with Ruby on it. Yang tells her to hurry because something's wrong, and she throws her earpiece into the water to concentrate. She thinks of happy memories to try and activate her silver eyes. They're mostly recreations of scenes from the first three volumes, and they're beautiful. However, she starts thinking of sadder memories, like Jaune's grief over losing Pyrrha; Yang, Blake, Nora, and Ren hurt at the Fall of Beacon; Yang in her apathetic bedridden state, and Penny and Pyrrha's deaths. She opens her eyes, and sees the Leviathan staring right at her. It was either attracted to her negative emotions, or the relic she's still carrying. Or both. It lunges at her, and she calls for Jinn, which stops time. She apologizes for summoning her, saying that she doesn't have a question, she just needed a little more time. Jinn says she knows, and tells her that just this once, she'll give her knowledge freely: She won't allow Ruby to use her without a question again… even if this was clever. Ruby thinks of more happy memories, and the one that finally allows her to activate her silver eyes is thinking of her mother, Summer Rose. Cue the FNDM losing its collective shit over seeing her for the first time. I love her hair. A short snippet of a new song plays as Ruby uses her silver eyes. It's called Indomitable, and it's inspired by a quote from Monty about the human spirit. *There's a light that shines And its power is mine! Though our body's weak and breakable The spirit is indomitable!* God, I need this soundtrack yesterday! Complain about whatever you want about RWBY, but if you say the music is bad, you are one hundred percent lying to yourself, even if rock isn't your thing. It looks like Ruby managed to turn the Leviathan into stone like the dragon, but its head breaks free, and you can see its right hand twitching if you look closely, proving that she just encased it in stone. However, Cordovin shows up in the mech, having cut the cannon arm off somehow. She kills the giant Grimm with a drill that was hidden in the other arm. Ruby thanks her for the help and apologizes. Cordo allows them to head to Atlas, telling Ruby that the Atlas military can handle the rest of the Grimm. Qrow tells Ruby that she did great, and she hugs him and says she loves him when he puts his flask away. Maria tells him that he wasn't half bad himself. The kids may have done all the heavy lifting, but he was there when they asked for help, and to catch them when they fell, literally. He tells her that it was pretty incredible to see the Grimm Reaper in action. It looks like Blake and Yang have told the others about what happened to them and Adam. Weiss is sorry that Blake went through that nightmare, but she's glad that Yang was there for her in time. Yang holds Blake's hand and says they were there for each other. Everyone looks at Ruby, and she tells them to stop it. Ren points out that she petrified a Leviathan after diving down the barrel of a cannon. She says that they've all done crazy stuff before too, and points out that Oscar made a successful crash landing despite being a fourteen year old farmhand. However, he tells them that he didn't land the ship on his own. While they were crashing, Ozpin spoke to him. Instead of taking control though, he guided him through it, and then he was gone again. Look, I know a lot of people didn't like volume 5, and even if I did, that doesn't mean I wish stuff like this hadn't happened. Quite the opposite. I wanted and actually expected Ozpin to guide Oscar through things instead of taking control, and I was kind of upset that during this volume Oscar never overtly called him out on or experienced some sort of trauma or paranoia over Ozpin forcibly taking over his body during that massive fight at the end of volume 5. Yang asks if that means he was watching them this whole time. Oscar doesn't know, but it at least means he was looking out for them. Everyone sees Atlas for the first time, including us, the audience. It's even prettier than Mistral. It's also basically a floating island, and it's tethered to the ground by what looks like Mantle. Suddenly, everyone notices the entire Atlas air fleet above them. They're set up like they're expecting an attack. The credits roll, set to a new song called Nevermore. It's Blake and Yang talking back to Adam, featuring not just Casey Williams, but also Adrienne Cowan. It quickly became my new favorite song. At least until the full version of Indomitable came out, then that became my favorite, because it's clearly a Monty song through and through. *Nevermore Nevermore Will I be afraid Nor will I run away It's behind me Freedom is finally here You may have taken the lead, but I'll even the score You won the battle, you won't win the war Not now and Nevermore You talked of subjugation I answered your violent plea Youth and infatuation Kept me too blind to see You think you're someone's hero You're hiding more than your eyes I challenge your weak manifesto The goal of a savior is not to be lionized Back when it started I thought that justice was your goal Then in the darkness You lost your mind, I lost my soul That's in the past and I won't be controlled Nevermore Nevermore You'll torture my heart and my head Nevermore Nevermore Will I be afraid Nor will I run away It's behind me Freedom is finally here You may have taken the lead But I'll even the score You won the battle, you won't win the war Not now and Nevermore You had me down, defeated A state that I can't allow It's over, my fear's retreated I'm more like an army now You offered hope, salvation Gave me a place to be But your vision of liberation Was all about you It would never apply to me I won't stay a martyr It's my turn to take back what you stole And this time I'm smarter I made a vow I'm not alone Not dying now We're protecting our own Nevermore Nevermore You'll torture my heart and my head Nevermore Nevermore Will I be afraid Nor will I run away It's behind me Freedom is finally here You may have taken the lead But I'll even the score You won the battle, you won't win the war Not now and Nevermore There's no cause to celebrate Another soul consumed by hate and spite Another destroyed life There's no pleasure, there's no joy It's just the story of a boy who lost his way Into shadows strayed He'll see the light of day Nevermore Nevermore You'll torture my heart and my head Nevermore Nevermore Will I be afraid Nor will I run away It's behind me Freedom is finally here You may have taken the lead But I'll even the score You won the battle, you won't win the war Not now and Nevermore* In the post credit scene, Emerald is about to talk to Mercury in Salem's still wrecked meeting room, but they notice her doing something disturbing outside. She's made a fleet of Beringels with wings. Yeah, flying monkeys, the Wicked Witch, I get it. Although technically speaking, they're flying gorillas. Hazel tells them that if you want something done right, you should do it yourself.

## Review

Ugh, volume 7, please get here sooner before I go into shock and withdrawal! Plus, seven is a lucky number. Like volumes four and five, I know this was yet another divisive volume for some people, enough that they even said that they're dropping the show. The general consensus seems to be that the first half was a very good improvement, but not so much with the second half. I don't know what specifically bothered certain people about it, except maybe more cliffhangers, and Adam's death upsetting people for some reason because, in their opinion, he was poorly written and should've been a morally grey character. I personally disagree and am just glad that he's finally dead. Oh please, people getting overly upset because their theories and head canons didn't come true is nothing new to this or any other fandom. Imagine what it was like when there were just the trailers. As for dropping the show… okay, fine, that's entirely your choice, even if I think that's an overreaction. I know about all of the accusations and drama and controversies that came out after this episode aired, and a lot of people took sides. I'm going to do my best not to talk about it, because Rooster Teeth said that it's not going to affect the creative content of RWBY, and until or unless that's proven otherwise, I'm going to keep my personal opinions to controversies to myself, and all I ask is that you all do the same. Thank you, and maybe I'll see you guys around something that *isn't* RWBY related.