A fifteen-year-old girl with exceptional combat skills is hand-picked by a famous headmaster to join his elite school for training Huntsmen and Huntresses.

And so the adventure begins.

The airship carrying the new students arrives at Beacon Academy and Ruby faces the daunting prospect of having to meet new people and make new friends.

Professor Ozpin welcomes the new students to his school and Ruby, Yang, Weiss and Blake find themselves all in the same room together for the very first time.

The students are introduced to the initiation process.

The pairing of Ruby and Weiss gets off to a rocky start.

Yang teams up with Blake to fight Ursae while Pyrrha explains the concept of Aura to Jaune.

Professors Ozpin and Goodwitch assess the students while Jaune and Pyrrha's search for the relics doesn't go as well as Yang and Blake's.

Trapped between two huge Grimm, eight students split up into the nascent Teams RWBY and JNPR in a fight for survival.

Team RWBY faces its first task together: creating bunk beds.

Ruby and Weiss both struggle with Ruby's promotion to team leader.

Jaune struggles with combat lessons while Cardin makes a name for himself as a bully.

Pyrrha offers to help Jaune with his combat lessons, but it doesn't go well.

Team JNPR is disquieted by the amount of time Jaune is spending with Cardin.

Jaune decides to stand up to Cardin's bullying.

Team RWBY's cohesion collapses when an argument about the White Fang becomes personal for both Weiss and Blake.

While the rest of Team RWBY search for the missing Blake, Blake and Sun investigate the local White Fang activities.

We open to Ruby giving her mother's monument the run down of the past two seasons and after a few reveals and lampshading the naming choice of the writers, Ruby is off. It's the first day of the 40th annual Vytal Festival Tournament and its team RWBY vs. team ABRN. But while this battle occurs, there are shadows beginning to stir under the light of this event.

It's Team JNPR vs. Team BRNZ and Team SSSN vs. Team NDGO.

Starting the last episode ends, Ruby follows Weiss as she races across Vale to greet a woman who turns out to be Weiss's older sister, Winter. As the sisters begin their journey back to the school, they're interrupted when a drunkard picks a fight with Winter. He turns out to be Ruby's uncle, Qrow. Awesome fight and property damage ensue, until it's broken up when Ironwood shows up followed by Ozpin and Glynda.

Later, Qrow, Ironwood, Glynda, and Ozpin have a meeting where a lot of harsh words ensue.

The first doubles match of the tournament puts Mercury and Emerald against Yatsuhashi and Coco. Later Qrow and Winter spend some quality time with their families.

Penny reveals to Ruby that she wants to remain at Beacon and mentions that she has a plan to make that happen.

Yang and Weiss fight Team FNKI representatives, Flynt Coal and Neon Katt.

Qrow and Ozpin discuss Ironwood's recent actions and Qrow asks Ozpin if he's chosen the "guardian" yet.

We open to Pyrrha getting her world rocked as Ozpin and co. tell her the secret history of Remnant. Later we start the opening of the singles matches with Yang vs. Mercury.

The episode gives a glimpse into the past about Cinder's motivations, how she recruits Emerald and Mercury, how she connected with the White Fang, and how she managed to steal the Fall Maiden's power. We also cut back to the present to see the immediate aftermath of what happened after Yang's victory against Mercury in the tournament.

Team RWBY rally around Yang when Ironwood tells her she's been disqualified then Qrow and Yang discuss Yang's mother. Jaune and Pyrrha have a heart-to-heart which distresses Pyrrha due to her confusion about Ozpin's offer. The next fight is confirmed to be Penny versus Pyrrha while Ruby finds herself confronting Mercury, who is supposed to be on his way back to Haven.

Mercury fights Ruby to prevent her interfering with Penny and Pyrrha's fight. The tournament match ends in disaster and Cinder hijacks the airwaves with a grim message for the world's audience.

Roman and Neo sabotage the Atlesian military ships while the Grimm and the White Fang begin their attack on Vale.

War breaks out with battles occurring on the tournament field, the city and the school. Formerly adversarial tournament teams unite to fight the Grimm together while Ruby goes after a rogue airship that has turned on the rest of the fleet. Cinder's virus makes things worse by turning the robotic Atlesian army against both the city and its defenders.

And then the Grimm Dragon appears...

On the airship, Ruby fights Roman and Neo while Ironwood joins Glynda and Qrow on the battlefield below. The students fight Atlesian Paladins while Blake confronts Adam in the school's cafeteria, leading to a showdown between Yang and Adam.

Meanwhile, in the secret vault, Ozpin, Jaune and Pyrrha attempt to transfer Amber's Aura to Pyrrha... and Cinder shows up.

While Oobleck and Port oversee the evacuation, Ruby and Weiss hunt for the missing Jaune and Pyrrha.

At Beacon Tower, Cinder appears to defeat Ozpin so Pyrrha fights her alone to try and save the tower. Ruby's arrival just in time to see the end of the fight triggers a mysterious power she didn't know she had.

The episode ends with Ruby deciding to travel to Haven in search of answers.

More than ever before, the allied forces standing against Salem need to be united. But after Ironwood refused to continue evacuating Mantle, our heroes need to choose a new path forward -- if only they could agree on one.

Ruby, Nora, Blake, May, and Penny set their sights on Atlas Military Command. Meanwhile Yang, Ren, Jaune, and Oscar handle evacuations in Mantle. If they can get everyone to the crater in time, they just might be able to save them.

The fate of humanity requires our heroes to infiltrate the most heavily-guarded facility in Atlas -- all in a day's work.

Jaune, Ren, and Yang's pursuit of a mysterious new Grimm results in unexpected complications. Ruby, Weiss, and Blake find a new place to lay low. Cinder receives an ultimatum.

This is it. Their chance to tell the world the truth. Will their message be heard?

It's time.

It's all out war in Atlas. Our heroes face an impossible problem. Where do they go from here?

We're not alone.

The clock is ticking on Jaune, Ren, and Yang's rescue mission. The Ace-Ops hold the line against against Salem's forces.

As the fog of war covers the kingdom, Atlas nears it's breaking point.

Tensions rise in Schnee Manor as our reunited heroes find themselves backed into a corner.

It's risky, dangerous, and nearly impossible -- but it's the best plan they've got.

The best laid plans...

Sometimes it's worth it all to risk the fall.

In which a mysterious location is uncovered.

In which Team RWBY gets more than they bartered for.

In which the rules of a game are broken.

In which new acquaintances are made.

In which a dessert is assembled.

In which old friends reunite.

In which plans and schedules are made.

In which some tea is spilled.

In which a door is encountered.

In which a choice must be made.

In which our heroes return.

The Junior Detectives take on their toughest case yet...

Jaune tries to develop a new perspective.