Spoiler: V5C12
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We open effectively where we left off, Weiss taken down and Jaune running off to her, Ruby unconcious because Emerald found her one weakness, head taps, and everything coming across as ominous. Oscar breaks the mood by getting mad and canning Leo in the face and running off to see if everyone's okay. He hits Leo so hard he tumbles down the stairs like a ridiculous ragdoll until he slams into Hazel, barely even moving him. I don't...think comedy in this moment is the right idea, guys. Oscar goes to Ruby instead of Weiss to be like "we need you" and stuff and that...I mean yeah Jaune's got Weiss but come on man. Ruby got knocked out, Weiss is bleeding out on the floor (she's not actually bleeding, sadly).
Hazel threatens Leo (an odd thing given Hazel's supposed to be the most peaceful of team bad guy) for getting beaten up by a kid, but once he's told it's Ozpin he starts getting mad. And you wouldn't like him when he's mad. Given that he also directly helped this child get to where he was going at one point, I have to imagine Hazel is SUPER pissed. Also Ruby starts to wake up since a soft beating to the head, while her weakness, does not last long. Everyone's briefly happy, but then Hazel shouts out that he's gonna kill Ozpin over and over again for what he's done! Then he rips off his jacket in a very very badly animated and modeled way, takes out four large yellow rocks, and stabs himself in the arms with them. Look man. Even given that we've been given noo information on how dust is actually supposed to work, I DON'T THINK THAT'S HOW IT WORKS.
Regardless, it pumps him up like the Dust tainted Grimm from the RWBY video game, crackling with electricity because I guess orange is electricity. Fair enough. I wish we knew anything about Hazel or saw him fight "normal" before he did this so we'd have an idea of why this matters. Though Ozpin just going "oh no" in Oscar's head counts for something, I suppose. Same with him telling Oscar that no, no we don't fight this. We run. Qrowe appears to save Oscar from being squished, as team bad guy regroup to be like "wait that child that went to fight Leo iss...Ozpin? Weird!" and prepare to take advantage of the fact that they're winning. Which, given that they planned this rather meticulously as an ambush...you'd think they'd of known to take advantage of the fact that they're winning?
Cinder orders Leo to open the vault and...it's...the path to the vault is the big angel lady slave statue in the middle of the room. That's a really bad place to hide it, even if it is covered up with a lock that requires fitting a pocketwatch into a hole it doesn't actually fit. Also, not doing a good job of dissuading me from the whole "team Ozpin treats the maidens like items" thing with hiding the vault inside a statue of an enslaved women.
Nora, Ren, and Jaune stay behind to...take care of Weiss's wound (fair) and take...care of Ruby, who is just unconcious and Nora's just kinda sitting by her for moral support I suppose. It's up to Jaune, Yang, and...who's...who's left again? Qrowe and Ozpin are busy with Hazel so it's just Angry and Stupid Yellow Squad to the rescue. To save the day from...every single villain. Okay. Good luck guys. You'll...be able to get Leo at least?
Or not, because the rest of the villains aside from probably Cinder Raven and Vernal decide to stick around to stop them from going to the vault proper.
Okay, NOW Weiss is bleeding. But not like...out, she's just bloody around the wound. Fair, it is a fire spear it probably cauterized the wound. Just a little disappointed. At least chainsaw guy is happy. Jaune and Ren are doing their best...which currently consists of holding a hand over one side of her wound and hoping she doesn't die. All I really hope is that when they do save her, this doesn't make Weiss fall into Jaune's pants or whatever.
Vernal Cinder and Raven are all going down to the vault. I'd question why they'd...you know, allow Raven to go, given there's literally nothing that can prevent the two from overpowering her.
Meanwhile Ozpin is trying to take over Oscar so that they can survive the fight with Hazel, and Oscar doesn't want to. Oscar wants to fight for himself, and Ozpin told him to do as much, so he's going to do this fight himself! I mean Ozpin is technically you so...this feels kinda weird a decision on Oscar's part, but also fair. Hazel gives the big speech about how Ozpin didn't tell Oscar what he did to him, and how "your blood won't be on my hands. It'll be on his" which is actually a good sentiment to have for your obstensibly pacifist villain. Hazel is the only person here who makes me think he thinks he's a good guy. Hazel fights with Qrowe a bit and is like "Tell him Ozpin! Tell her how you killed her!" and my initial guess is that he's related to Amber. Ozpin very quickly explains...no. Dude just had a sister, and she died at school during a training mission. And that's why Hazel is super evil now.
That's...incredibly underwhelming, but alright. I mean it's FAIR, and it gives a nice contrast to all his fellows. It's one of the "inherent things" of this universe that I've kind of wanted to see. People die, they die hard and alone, and this is not a nice setting to live in. Of course you're gonna get people like Hazel. But it doesn't feel appropriate for him to throw his entire life away to a satan just to get revenge on...a bad headmaster.
Also I don't know how powerful jamming dust into your body is but Qrowe, a master hunter and general badass, cannot beat him. How much did Raven hurt you during that fight we didn't see ever that a man who seems to have no fighting history beyond sticking rocks in his arms can beat you so soundly? Anyway, Oscar...tries to talk Hazel down (against Ozpin's wishes) by bringing up that his sister probably knew the risks of being a hunter, and still chose to help people.
Bitch no. Look at OUR MAIN CAST. No body knows that. No body in this world thinks that! This is arguably a good plot point, why are THE HEROES SAYING IT, NOT THE VILLAINS. Aaand then Ozpin forces Oscar to let him take control, because again...while giving people bird powers is not inherently evil or sketchy, EVERYTHING ELSE OZPIN HAS EVER DONE IS.
Back with the dying heiress, Ren isn't sure what to do. I know they put bombs around the place but this is a fighting school. Go find the nurses room AND FIND SOME ****ING BANDAGES. Do SOMETHING REN! Don't just sit their holding her hand while she dies! I mean, maybe he's using his aura power to keep her emotions calm so she doesn't freak out from dying, I don't know. Point is, HELP!
And then, finally, the expected happens. Jaune awakens his aura power and it's healing. We then cut away mid "awakening gasp" for reasons I don't quite understand. We're off with Cinder, Salem, and Vernal now, on the elevator down to the vault. Cinder is making small talk, but because she's ridiculous it's super evil sounding. She's just asking if Vernal is excited to be opening up the vault. There's no reason for her to be sinister about it! I mean she's PROBABLY going to kill Vernal in a backstabbing, because why not, but still. She doesn't have to say it evilly.
The elevator descends, and they're at the vault. It's a regular old gate that doesn't even cover the whole area. You could probably jump it, especially in this series. My guess is that magic is involved of some sort to stop you from getting through it, to get at the tree inside (or the tree is the vault) but otherwise this doesn't look very impressive a vault. No wonder Leo defected. Cinder says it's far grander than Beacon's.
Which means they know where the Vault for Beacon is. Which means they should have the Relic for Fall. Except the Relic is inside Ozpin's cane because that's super obvious, especially now. Also, speaking of budget concerns on Ozpin's part, if this vault is more impressive than Beacon's, and yet Beacon's is better hidden or shielded or whatever, why is this one so easy to get into if the villains haven't gotten into Beacon's yet? Besides, wasn't the problem that they couldn't FIND the vault?
Meanwhile, Ozpin continues to fight Hazel as Qrowe fights Leo. Which should end in about five seconds, considering. Ozpin does some fancy moves (but it also sounds more like Oscar than Ozcar, if you catch my drift) and it's...not really impressive or interesting to watch.
Back with Weiss, she's coming back to life. For some reason it's taken this long for Jaune to ask what is happening. No one knows, and that's weird to me. Also Ruby's up and she see's Yang fighting Emerald and Mercury. So...time to intervene? Except no, she's conflicted between sister saving, or Ozpin saving. Also Qrowe somehow hasn't beaten Leo yet despite EVERYTHING we know about BOTH of these characters. Ruby tells Jaune not to stop...whatever it is he's doing, and Ren offers to help Ozpin (since Qrowe just got punched into space by Hazel). Ruby will go help Yang. Also Nora will provide cover for Jaune so no one thinks to attack the medic doing medic stuff...which doesn't seem like a thing any of them will do, and Nora is hyper destructive whereas Ren is precise and has rapid fire weapons. Just saying, Ren would provide better covering fire.
Ruby helps out Yang, and delivers...a line that would work if literally anyone else had said it. Yang asks if she's okay, and Ruby says "no. I'm angry" in her tiny little squeak voice.
Back at the Vault, we approach the mystical glowing fall themed door, inside the tree with orange leaves falling from it, and prepare to open...the spring door. Why is this not the Fall Maiden door? Everything about it looks more "Fall" to me than Spring. It's such a weird design choice they've made. Anyway, to open the vault all she needs to do is touch it. Then Cinder will go inside and get the Relic. Raven of course prepares to backstab Cinder, but she starts talking and as we know talking is a free action. Cinder taunts Cinder, then hits Raven with a freeze attack that she's never been shown to be able to do before and then impales Vernal with her insect hand, spewing out darkness from what is likely to be a horrible torn off stump limb. Oh and we actually get to look at it, and it is! Cool! Sweet!
Only, surprise twist! Vernal dies, but there's no power inside. Raven breaks out of the ice and reveals she's the spring maiden!...with dark red eyes instead of orange eyes like the fall maiden fire eyeballs, which means that again, why did they have this orange stuff be the spring maiden stuff? Anyway, the episode ends!