Equestrians react to RWBY

Operation initiation

The opening ends to an overhead view of Emerald Forest, where a black bird is flying slowly and magnificently, right up to the moment it gives a final shriek and Ruby crashes through it in a burst of feathers as she plummets downward.

Ruby: Birdie, no!

"Not the birdie!" Fluttershy cried, feeling sorry for the poor animal. Spike awkwardly patted her back in sympathy at this, since the others couldn't.

Ruby fires off a few rounds from Crescent Rose to slow her descent, then turns the weapon into its scythe form to catch the branch of a tree in her blade and fall downward at a slower pace.

Weiss, armed with Myrtenaster, summons a white snowflake circle under her and leaps off of it to the forest below.

Ren descends (with Nora Valkyrie briefly being seen next to him at a faster speed) and spins in the air, eventually using Storm Flower's blades to spiral around the trunk of a large tree and hit the ground, brushing off his clothes before looking up to see...

Yang: Woo-hoo! Yeah! Alley-oop!

"Not gonna lie, I would do the same," Rainbow admitted, liking Yang's way of thinking.

"His use of the environment was clever," Starlight muttered, wondering if it could be done in real life.

Twilight was fascinated by the move that Weiss did and started to write some notes down. She wanted to know if it was possible to make a levitating platform.

Yang, soaring right over the treetops, is using her gauntlets and its fiery force to push her through the air further and further north, spinning and laughing with each blast, even when she crashes through the leaves of a tree and leaps off two trunks to tumble to the ground.

Yang: Nailed it! (runs off)

Pinkie holds up a card that has the number ten on it as the other girls laughed. Rainbow, on the other hand, thought the landing could have been a bit more awesome though.

Pyrrha, her weapon in sword form and armed with a shield, crashes through several trees and rolls on a branch, immediately shifting her blade into a rifle and looking through the scope at Jaune as he continues to scream and fall helplessly. Pyrrha coolly transforms her weapon again to its spear form, takes a moment to evaluate her throw, and rockets the javelin deep into the forest until a "THUNK!" is heard.

Jaune: (in the distance) Thank you!

Pyrrha: (waving) I'm sorry!

"She's got quite an arm," Applejack said, impressed at Pyrrha's skills.

"It's more of her weapon doing the work, since it used the recoil of the shot to give it additional speed," Twilight explained, knowing how powerful the recoil is on guns. Seeing the human Applejack use her shotgun the last time she was in the human world was a bit scary, to say the least.

"Either way, she's good at this. Guess we can see why she's a champion," Luna muttered, impressed and silently wishing she could do that.

"I'm just happy we don't have to see him get hurt or die," Rarity said, shivering at the thought. Jaune might have rubbed her the wrong way with his flirting, but Rarity knew he was nice enough and didn't wish that on any of the characters.

In the middle of the forest, Ruby lands in a crouch, then darts off with a single mantra in her mind.

Ruby (thinking): Gotta find Yang! Gotta find Yang, gotta find Yang, gotta find... (shouting) Yang! Yaaaang! (internally, now seeing herself partnered with various people) Oh, this is bad. This is really bad... What if I can't find her? What if someone finds her first? Well, there's always Jaune. He's nice. He's funny! ...I don't think he's very good in a fight, though. Ooh! What about Blake?! So mysterious, so calm... Plus, she likes books! Then again, I'm not sure I'd be able to hold a conversation with her... Ugh! (shakes her head of daydreams) Okay... Who else do I know in this school? There's Yang, Jaune, Blake, aaaand...

"You might want to stop your inner monologue and pay attention," Spike said, seeing what's going to happen.

Time seems to slow down as Ruby skids to a halt in front of Weiss as she is turning to face her. She stops just in time for their eyes to meet, and a pregnant pause follows. This ends when Weiss turns on her heel and walks the other way.

"That is some bad luck," Spike sighed with a shake of his head.

"Depends on how they interact with each other, but seeing how their first meeting went..." Lulu said, thinking back to her first Nightmare Night. It would have been a disaster if not for Twilight helping her that night.

"It's gonna be tough for the both of them," Celestia admitted, knowing that first impressions help, and these two didn't have the best ones.

Ruby: (following her slightly) Wait! Where are you going?! (stops and kicks the ground dejectedly) We're supposed to be teammates...

Weiss is seen struggling through the forest, giving an occasional grunt or "Ow!" as she pushes plants out of her way. She brushes herself off and sighs in relief when she hears a voice above her.

Jaune: (apparently struggling to free himself) Come on, come on! Stupid...!

"I'll say it again, that Pyrrha girl gots some good aim," Applejack said impressed once more.

"Makes you wonder if she practices that," Starlight muttered to herself.

Weiss sees Jaune hanging a few feet in the air by the spear embedded in his hood and the tree behind him. As he gives up trying to pull it out, he looks down and sees Weiss, giving an embarrassed wave. Weiss simply heads back in the direction she came from, and Jaune groans in dejection.

Weiss: (as she passes Ruby and pulls on her hood) By no means does this make us friends.

Ruby: (overjoyed as she's dragged away into the bushes) You came back!

"The start of an awkward friendship?" Fluttershy said uneasily.

"It remains to be seen," Celestia answered in all honesty.

"Oh, c'mon, help the guy out," Rainbow groaned and looking at the screen angrily.

Jaune: (seeing the scene and waving his arms) Wait! Come back! Who's going to get me down from here?!

Pyrrha (below): "Jaune?" (he looks down at his savior) "Do you... have any spots left on your team?"

Jaune: (crossing his arms) Very funny... (he eventually looks down at her and gives a smile, which she returns)

"At least she's giving him a chance," Pinkie said, waving a flag with Jaune and Pyrrha's face on it.

"And they seem to like each other," Rarity muttered, feeling her romance senses tingling.

The scene changes to Weiss trudging through the forest, with Ruby back a ways behind her.

Ruby: What's the hurry?

Weiss: I will not let my mission be delayed because you're too slow! I swear, if I get a bad grade because of your— (a smiling Ruby suddenly appears next to her) What the...?

Ruby: I'm not slow, see? You don't have to worry about me!

"That's pretty fast," Fluttershy said in amazement.

"Please, that's nothing," Rainbow bragged while giving the red riding hood girl props.

Weiss: (looking back, slightly amazed) When did...?

Ruby: Weiss, just because I don't exactly know how to deal with people doesn't mean I don't know how to deal with monsters! (gets an arm around a skeptical Weiss' shoulders) You're about to see a whole different side of me today, Weiss, and after it's all over, you're going to be like, "Wow! That Ruby girl is really, really cool... (somewhat mousily) and I wanna be her friend!"

Ruby disappears in a shower of rose petals, which Weiss waves away from her face just as she hears crackling and rustling in the bushes around her.

"That's a bit of a stretch, Ruby," Twilight said, thinking it wouldn't be that easy.

"She's trying, but then again, she's trying too hard," Celestia said, remembering her last two students doing some powerful magics.

Weiss: (calling out to Ruby) You may be fast, but you still excel at wasting time! (silence, save more noises) Ruby? (the forest darkens, forcing Weiss to lean in to try and find her new partner as a pair of red eyes are seen glaring behind her) Ruby...?

The camera revolves around Weiss, as multiple pairs of red eyes stare at her from the bushes and a deep growl is heard. She turns around until she spots a large, jagged Beowolf emerging from a bush and approaching her.

"That's a bit concerning," Rarity pointed out, wondering if Weiss could best them or not.

Weiss: Ruby!

The Beowolf roars as the scene goes black, and the ending credits play.

"That felt short," Pinkie yelled, scaring everyone in the room.

"Gotta agree with her. Not much happened," Applejack admitted

"It wasn't a bad episode, but could have had more," Celestia said.

"I liked the Jaune part," Fluttershy sighed while Rarity nodded silently.

"Let's start the next one now. I want to see some action," Rainbow cheered, with Luna silently agreeing with her friend.