– Ruby and the remains of Team JNPR face difficulties on the road when they realise the only navigator their friend group ever had was Pyrrha, thanks to her innate sense of magnetic north. Eventually, in the dead of winter and with their supplies completely gone, they end up resorting to cannibalism. But don’t worry - Jaune is eaten first.

– Utilising both her keen sense of business acumen and utter ruthlessness, Weiss is able to enact a successful coup at Schnee Corp. She now spends her days enforcing her rule with an army of Penny 2.0s, and while she looks fondly on her tenure as a member of Team RWBY, she can’t help but think they were holding her back from her true potential in matters of world domination.

– The first day Yang decides to get back out there and live life a little, she loses her other arm in an unfortunate accident involving a particularly ravenous woodchipper. When she hears the news, a guilt-ridden Blake returns to offer to transplant one of her own arms to her partner, but ends up running away again before the surgery once she learns just how big the hospital bills will get.

– Neptune not only gets over his fear of water but turns out to be a swimming prodigy, and abandons his Huntsman career to pursue it. Once his teammates discover they too want to become swimming champions, the four of them become a swim team loaded with ambiguous boy love the likes of which the anime world has never seen. Their brief attempt to help their friend Yang out of her depression by turning her into the world’s greatest double arm amputee swimmer, while admirable, does not amount to anything.

– Mercury and Emerald, lost without Cinder, are soon captured by Ironwood, and tasked to join his and Winter’s secret project: The Suicide Squad. However, when DC decides to make a Suicide Squad movie, Mercury and Emerald are quietly killed off to avoid confusing audiences with the movie versions of the characters.

– An out of work Neo soon returns to her original passion: writing, and she produces a script for a Valeway play called Springtime For Torchwick. The script is controversial to say the least, and hasn’t gotten picked up yet. Still, she’s hopeful. We believe in you, Neo.

– Ozpin remains missing. Even Raven Branwen has to concede to his superior hiding skills, though she claims she did a more effective job by leaving behind a daughter when she disappeared. Nobody will at least give her that much, especially her completely armless daughter to whom Raven only briefly thought of sending a Get Well Soon card to before thinking better of it.



– One night while flying around in his crow form, Qrow hits a window and breaks his neck. Don’t drink and fly, kids.



– In the afterlife, Pyrrha discovers her destiny in the form of Tukson, the two falling in love after bonding over their shared experience of being killed by bad guys. Amber, meanwhile, manages to end up in a coma in the afterlife, then comes out of it for four seconds before dying again. Somehow. Nobody knows where she ends up beyond the beyond, but it’s fair to say wherever she is, she’s suffering.

– Bonus leaked concept art of Volume 4 Yang:

