(Back in Argus, multiple Manta aircraft engage in dogfights against Manticores and Sphinxs above the ocean. The Leviathan itself slowly trudges through the water approaching the city. Some aircraft fly by for a gun run on the towering Grimm. The Leviathan, however, simply dives below the ocean and swims)
Air Control: All units, be advised: Leviathan-class Grimm has submerged but is still on approach. Preparing hard-light shields, over!
(Elsewhere, Ruby and her friends overhear the radio chatter with looks of horror on their faces. Caroline continues to struggle to get the Colossus' arm cannon out of the water with it being covered in ice and rock Dust)
Manta Two-Two: We're getting slammed by hostiles out here! Where is Cordovin?!
Cordovin: This is your fault! Do you hear me?!
Yang: Ruby!
Onslaught: Glad to see both of you ok.
(Yang and Blake Belladonna can be seen running out of the forest to rejoin the group)
Ruby: Yang! Blake! Are you okay?
(Yang and Blake notice the disabled mech)
Blake: What happened?
Vortex: A long story. That what.
(The group then hears the Leviathan roaring)
Yang: Was that a giant Grimm?
Brawl: Yes it is and it's on it way.
Weiss: Yes... and we just ruined the only thing capable of stopping it...
(The group wastes no time boarding the aircraft. As team COMABT boar their and they both begins to fly away. Ruby watches with pity as Cordovin continues to struggle to move the mech. Cordovin herself yells out in anger)
Cordovin: This is your fault!! YOUR FAULT!!! This is... (gives up)
Soldier: (over radio) Ma'am, what's your status? We need an answer, over!
Cordovin: ... your fault... (looks down sadly)
(With ruby and her friends on their aircraft)
Blake: I'm so sorry.
Yang: Don't be. This isn't on you.
Blake: But—
Ruby: You're safe, that's all that matters.
(Blake smiles at her leader and the two hug. Ruby looks to Yang and the two share a smile)
Maria: I suppose I have to be the bad guy and say it, getting the lamp to Atlas is still our top priority, and right now we have the perfect opportunity to head straight for it. We may not get another chance like this.
(Onslaught then come on the radio)
Onslaught: I hate to say it but she right if we say and help then their just going to hunt use till we're all behind bars.
Yang: No way!
Weiss: We can't leave, not like this.
Blake: It's like you said, a Huntress is supposed to protect others to the bitter end.
(Maria looks to Ruby, who just shrugs and smiles. Maria smiles back. On team COMABT ship they all look at each other and smile as they continues to fly)
Ruby: We need to head for the Leviathan. Jaune, can you and Ren be ready to mask our ship?
Ren: I think we can manage.
Ruby: Onslaught do you think you and your team can distract the leviathan.
Brawl: You kidding we got more them enough fire power to keep that breast eyes on us.
Jaune: Got a few ideas?
Ruby: I've got one.
Qrow: Eyes up, everybody. It's back.
(The Leviathan swims for a bit before resurfacing above the water, letting out a terrifying roar)
Onslaught: Alright team all weapons online. I want missiles. Lasers, Gun, drop booms, Our dust crystals all of it. if it's a weapon get it online.
Brawl: You got it boss.
Blastoff: System coming online now.
Swindle: Let hit this thing with everything.
Vortex: This is going to be fun.
(The ship guns come out and the missiles pop out as the bottom of the ship opens to the drop bombs)
Manta Three-Four: Argus Base, this is Manta 3-4! Leviathan has hit the shallows and resurfaced! We need those shields up now, over!
(From the city, a large crowd gathers as they look out to the ocean with concern. Terra Cotta-Arc is seen making her way through the crowd, eventually reuniting with her wife Saphron and their son Adrian, before looking out to the ocean again in concern. As the Leviathan approaches Argus, a hard-light Dust barrier is erected, halting its progress)
Manta Two-One: Target stopped! Engaging, over!
(A pair of Manta aircraft are seen firing shots at the Leviathan. Suddenly, the Leviathan unleashes an energy beam attack from its mouth. It shifts the beam over to one of the poles powering the hard-light Dust barrier, destroying it. The Leviathan roars)
Onslaught: Oh gods it blow right through it's like it was glass.
(Ruby and her friends watch in horror from their aircraft)
Oscar: It tore straight through...!
Air Control: All squadrons, fall back to evacuation procedures. Disengage Leviathan! I repeat, disengage! Over!
Ruby: No, wait!
(Ruby runs up to the radio)
Qrow: Ruby!
Ruby: We can stop it!
Air Control: Who is this? Identify yourself!
Ruby: I'm a Huntress. My team and I are heading to the Leviathan and can weaken it for you to attack!
(Everyone looks at Ruby in shock)
Jaune: We can?
Ruby: I can.
Maria: Ruby, when I said trial by fire.
Ruby: I did it at Beacon and at the farm.
Weiss: You really think you can do it now?
Ruby: I don't have a choice.
Vortex: (comms) Ruby right I don't think any of our weapon can get through it's skin so right now she the only card we can play.
Air Control: Manta 5-1, your ship is currently flagged as hostile. You will receive no support, over.
Ruby: (picking up radio) Fine, we'll do it alone if we have to.
Brawl: (comms) hell yeah.
Ruby: We can hit it while it's stopped at the next barrier. Ren, you're up!
Onslaught: Don't worry ruby we're keep the Grimm off your back.
(Team COMBAT fly forward as they blast and shoot every Grimm they see to clear a path while Ren and Jaune proceed to combine their Semblances, masking the airship as it weaves between the air battles between Grimm and Atlas forces. The Leviathan makes its way to the next barrier and charges its energy breath again)
Qrow: We're too late! Pull up!
(The Manta aircraft pulls up out of the way as the Leviathan fires its breath, destroying the next barrier and toppling a cupola off one of the buildings in Argus. Ren and Jaune collapse as their Auras are drained)
Jaune: Damn it...!
Ren: That's all I've got!
Blake: It's on the move again! We need to stop it!
Yang: What do we do?
Blastoff: I have an idea Weiss do you think you can use your Queen Lancer to fly ruby close to the Grimm?
Weiss: Yeah why?
Blastoff: Good then ruby were need you to use your sliver eye on the beast. While we hit it with everything we have.
Ruby: sounds like a plan.
(The Leviathan continues to approach Argus, but suddenly, the aircraft carrying Ruby's group opens up its hatch doors)
Nora: Eyes on us, ugly!
Swindle: Amd don't forget below you.
(Nora and Yang fire their respective weapons at the Leviathan while team COMBAT ship fly around it shoot it with everything all on it arms it legs it back and belly anything to get its attention)
Blake: Is it working?
Maria: Unfortunately, yes! Hang on!
Onslaught: (comms) don't worry we're getting its eyes on us.
(Blake runs over to Weiss, who is maintaining a Glyph she activated. Ruby is seen riding on the back of Weiss' Queen Lancer summoning)
Ruby: (to herself) Okay, okay, you can do this... You have to do this!
(Eventually, Ruby stops in front of the Leviathan. She closes her eyes and begins to concentrate, the noises all around her slowly muting out)
Yang: Ruby? Ruby, hurry, something--
(Ruby takes out her earpiece and tosses it into the water below. She closes her eyes again to concentrate. As she concentrates, Ruby thinks back on various memories. She thinks of her father and sister, when Zwei first arrived at Team RWBY's dorm room, when she and her team are about to start a food fight, and when they get noodles after their victory in the tournament. She then thinks of Penny Polendina, then to when she first saw Jaune, of Team JNPR, of Pyrrha. Suddenly, Ruby starts to frown as bad memories start to flood her mind: the night when Jaune trained alone with a recording of Pyrrha, when she saw her friends wounded as Beacon was being evacuated, when Yang sank into depression over the loss of her arm. Ruby whimpers upon remembering the deaths of both Pyrrha and Penny. Suddenly, Ruby opens her eyes again and notices the Leviathan standing face to face with her)
Ruby: What?
Yang: Why'd it turn away?!
Onslaught: The lamp does she still have it the Grimm are attracted to it?!
(Ruby then remembers she has the Relic of Knowledge on her belt, which caused the Leviathan to have its attention on her)
Ruby: No, no, no, no!!
(Suddenly, the Leviathan opens its maw and lunges toward Ruby)
Ruby: (reeling back) J--JINN!!!
(Suddenly, time stops. Everything slows down and freezes, even Yang who calls out her sister's name)
Yang: Ruby!
(Ruby then breathes a sigh of relief as she hears the rattling chains of Jinn)
Ruby: I'm sorry... I don't have a question for you. I just... I just needed a little more time...
(Ruby looks to Jinn, who has a stern look on her face)
Jinn: I know... and while you don't seek knowledge, just this once, I shall give it freely. I will not allow you to use me without a question again... (smiling) Even if this was clever.
(Ruby nods at Jinn. She then turns to face the Leviathan again and closes her eyes to concentrate once more. Time slowly starts to go back to normal. She thinks back to when Team RWBY decorated their dorm room, when Weiss gave her coffee, when Blake cheered for Weiss in Professor Port's class, when Yang was training her before leaving for Beacon, when Team RWBY celebrated their victory after saving Vale. Ruby smiles as she thinks back to the Beacon Dance and Team JNPR again, and then to when Qrow arrived at Beacon, to talking with Oscar, and then to Maria, and to Penny again. And finally, Ruby thinks back to her mother, her white cloak blowing in the wind as she overlooks a cliff watching a sunset. She then turns around, offering a warm smile. Her own Silver Eyes reflect back to her daughter's. Ruby's own eyes then shine bright, the brightest it has ever been. A massive white light engulfs the area, turning the Leviathan to stone. The citizens of Argus and the Atlas military cheer as the Grimm threat has been nullified. Ruby's friends give proud smiles and Maria breathes a sigh of relief. The light retracts back into Ruby's eyes, and she turns around to look at the city of Argus still standing)
Swindle: She did! She did. That crazy girl did.
Vortex: Yeah wait go ruby. That my sister.
Blastoff: So now let's hit this thing and blow it to bits.
(Suddenly, Ruby hears a stone crackling behind her. The Leviathan's head manages to move and tries to aim at Ruby)
Ruby: No...
Cordovin: I'll take it from here!!
Blastoff: What the cordovin? She ripped the mechs arm off?
(Suddenly, Cordovin shows up in the Colossus, its arm cannon now detached. Everyone looks in shock. Without the weight of the cannon, the Colossus begins to run toward the semi-petrified Leviathan)
Cordovin: (smiling) After all, I was sworn to protect the people!
Brawl: well I'll be. She is good and not a mean old lady.
(The Colossus' left hand then transforms into a giant drill. Cordovin uses the drill to destroy the Leviathan, causing it to dissipate. The people of Argus cheer while the Arc family looks on with stupefied expressions. The Colossus then walks over to Ruby. Its cockpit opens up revealing Cordovin herself standing in a stern military manner)
Ruby: Thank you. And... I'm sorry.
Cordovin: The Atlas military can handle the stragglers.
Ruby: What, uh... What are you saying?
Cordovin: (smiling) I'm saying I don't think anyone would notice if one more ship went missing in my lengthy report.
(Ruby smiles back at Cordovin, who then turns the mech around and runs off to join her men in taking down the remaining Grimm)
Onslaught: (comm) well then come everyone. We got a mission to finish.
(Both airship soon leave the area and fly a few hours till their close as they see the night sky)
Maria: We should have just enough fuel to make it.
Onslaught: (comms) and if not we go you guys.
Ruby: Thanks, Miss Calavera. Too onslaught.
Qrow: Hey, Ruby. You did great out there today, kid. Just don't go giving me heart attacks like that again.
(Qrow is about to take a drink from his flask, but ultimately decides not to. Ruby hugs her uncle)
Ruby: I love you, too.
(Qrow smiles at his niece as she walks away to join her friends)
Maria: You weren't half bad yourself today, Qrow.
Qrow: (smiles before sighing) I feel like they did all the heavy lifting.
Maria: But you were there to help when they asked for it, and you were there to catch them when they fell. Literally, if I recall.
Qrow: Thanks. You know, it was pretty incredible getting to see the Grimm Reaper in action.
Brawl: (comms) yeah grandma you're awesome.
Maria: Ha, you should have seen me when I was your age!
(Qrow smiles as the two of them look out the cockpit's window to the night sky. In the back of the aircraft, Weiss, Blake and Yang sit together)
Weiss: I'm sorry you went through that nightmare. But, I'm glad Yang was there for you in time.
(Blake and Yang smile before the latter takes the cat Faunus' hand)
Yang: We were there for each other.
Nora: Took the words right out of my mouth.
(Everyone then looks to Ruby)
Ruby: Hey, stop it!
Ren: You petrified a Leviathan... after diving down the barrel of a cannon!
Onslaught: Yeah ruby were supposed to be the crazy unpredictable ones here. But all and all I was a pretty gutsy move.
Ruby: (laughs) Don't act like you all haven't done crazy stuff before! I mean, Oscar made a successful crash landing! He's a fourteen-year-old farm hand!
Jaune: That was seriously impressive.
Blastoff: (Come) yeah farm boy that was a pretty good crash landing.
Blake: We'd have been cramped in their ship without you.
Oscar: I... thanks, but... I've been meaning to tell you guys... I didn't land the ship on my own.
(Oscar thinks back to when the airship was about to crash land)
Oscar: We're gonna crash! We're gonna CRASH!!
Ozpin: Stay calm, it's going to be okay.
Nora: Ozpin took control?!
Oscar: No, he guided me... And then he was gone again.
Yang: Does that mean he's been watching us this whole time?
Swindle: (comms) well he is a spirit. So yeah.
Oscar: I don't know, but... it at least means he was looking out for us.
(Everyone ponders this revelation before Qrow speaks up)
Qrow: Hey, if you've never seen Atlas in person before, you don't wanna miss this.
(Ruby and her friends walk up to the cockpit window)
Ruby: Is it weird that I'm sorta nervous?
Yang: No, I'll believe we've made it to Atlas when I see it.
Weiss: Well... believe it.
(The airship comes out of the clouds, and the floating city of Atlas is seen coming into view)
Nora: Wow!
Blastoff: Home.
Maria: You know, you make the trip up to Atlas over and over, but you never get used to that view. (her prosthetic eyes start to act up again) Oh, come on!
(Weiss leans forward and has a nervous look on her face. Ruby notices this)
Onslaught: (comms) um guys you might all want to look up at the sky.
(Weiss dose and is surprised)
Ruby: Weiss, what is it?
(Everyone looks up, and notice above the city of Atlas many Atlas Airships)
Weiss: The Atlas air fleet... I knew all of our ships were called back, but...
Qrow: They're set up like they're expecting an attack.
(Suddenly, the radio turns on)
Atlas Air Control: Manta 5-1, welcome home...
Blastoff: (dad what have you bin doing and planing)
Onslaught: I don't like this.