Team Fortress 2
"Blake, I'm boooooored!"
Ruby was bored, as in, extremely bored. It was Spring break for the students at Beacon, meaning there were no classes to attend to for a weak. Sure, there was plenty for Ruby to do in her spare time such as studying, sparring, socializing, but Ruby deemed those things "lame" and would much rather find something else to do.
"Well have you tried reading like me?" Blake asked. "We have a whole bookshelf for you to go through."
"Yeah but I already read most of those books, and the ones I haven't read are ones Yang wont let me read for some reason, likes Ninja's of L-"
"Play a game!" Blake was quick to cut Ruby off before she started asking questions about her... special books. "I mean, didn't your dad send you a laptop? Maybe you can play something on there?"
Ruby decided to give her dad's laptop a try. She remembers him saying that he created a Steam account and bought a few games but never had the time to play any of them due to how busy he was at Signal, so he just decided to send it over for Ruby and Yang to use.
Ruby opened up Steam and she saw her dad's profile in the bottom right corner: C00lDragonGuy123, and his profile picture was of his tattoo. "Geesh, dad can be so lame sometimes." Ruby decided she needed to change it to something else. With some careful thinking, she thought of a name that was infinitely cooler!
xXx_RedReaper_xXx, with a profile picture of Zwei that she saved on her laptop.
"Ah, much better!" With that out of the way, she went to the game library to see what games Dad had bought. Most of them were... visual novels, whatever the heck those were. There was, however, one game that caught her attention: Team Fortress 2. All she knew about this game was that it was a shooter, which was enough to get her to want to play it.
Upon starting up the game, Ruby greeted with a disturbing image of a bald man with a red valve on the back of his head.
"Gah what the heck!" Ruby screamed at the top of her lungs.
"What is it?" Blake jumped off of her bead with Gambol Shroud at her side.
"Oh it's nothing, really. Sorry Blake." Ruby was rubbing the back of her head sheepishly. Blake simply rolled her eyes at her leader's antics and decided it would best to just leave the room and go to the library.
Once she left, Ruby brought her attention back to the laptop, which was now showing the tittle screen. It displayed a few options such as Multiplayer, Co-op, training, etc. There was also a picture of a man in a suit and mask smoking a cigarette.
Ruby decided to skip training and head straight into the action in multiplayer. She selected capture the flag and the game began searching for a sever to play on. "Oh boy I can't wait. I wonder if the others would want to play this lat-" Ruby's inner monologue was cut short by the sudden sound of explosions and gunfire. Apparently the game was already in progress on a map called 2Fort, and she was automatically assigned to BLU team, which made her username somewhat ironic.
The screen then showed a wide variety of classes for her to choose from. There was a shotgun wielding cheetah faunus, a soldier with a rocket launcher, a masked man wielding a flamethrower, a black man with an eye patch holding what looked like a grenade launcher, a bear faunus holding a minigun that, in all honesty, paled in comparison to Coco's. After that there was a man with a hardhat and wrench, a Sniper with a cool looking hat and shades, and the man in the suit she saw on the main menu.
"Hmm, they all look pretty cool. I guess I'd be pretty good at the sniper, but it'd be nice to try something else out... What do you think Zwei?"
"Arf!"
"Scout it is!"
Once she selected him the game placed in a small room with a medical cabinet and two different exits. She noticed a couple of other people popping up next to her, although half of them weren't even moving. "Hello?" Ruby asked with no response. "Why aren't you guys moving?" Yet again, no response. "Fine, I don't need you guys! I drink milk!" Ruby stated storming out of the respawn room, not realizing that in order to talk you have to hold down the "v" key.
Once she was outside she noticed at least six Snipers lined up on the walkway with an Engineer in a metal lounge chair drinking beer, much to her confusion. Simply ignoring them, Ruby was ready to test out her skills as a Scout. According to the character select screen, the Scout's semblance allowed him to double jump. Utilizing this, Ruby jumped on top of the roof of the bridge that was in the middle of the map. An enemy heavy began firing at her and before she knew it, she was down and out for the count.
"What was that? Why didn't one of those six snipers do something?" Ruby was fuming over her first death, but she soon realized that she was overreacting. "It's OK, it's just a game."
Ruby respawned in a different room this time, but she didn't care, she just wanted to get back into action. This time she took the path downstairs and made her way onto the bridge where a RED Pyro was waiting. Ruby managed to take him out but was forced to jump in the water after being set on fire. Things seemed to be going good so far, until she turned a corner and was mowed down by a large automated turret.
"Heh, I guess that's what the Engineer guy can do. If that's the kind of fire power he's packing I wouldn't mind giving him a try." Ruby, being the weapon aficionado she was, couldn't help but gush over the idea of having that kind of weapon.
After switching to engineer, Ruby made her way down to the intelligence room (witch was made much easier to find thanks to all the signs on the walls) and began building her base. After many trips to the ammo pack outside the room and several wrench swings, she now had a level three sentry and dispenser at her disposal.
"Hmm, I guess I could just leave this here to guard the intelligence Oh, I should go build a teleporter for my team," Ruby said with her usual enthusiasm. Things were finally going her way.
"Spy's sappin mah sentry!"
"Wait what?"
"The enemy has taken our intelligence!"
"But my Sentry should have-"
"Sentry down!"
It was at this moment Ruby was crying in the corner with Zwei comforting her over her loss.
"M-my poor baby." Ruby decided it would be best to try out another class. After looking thru them carefully, she went with the Heavy weapons guy, a class that offered similar fire power as the Engineer except this time she could be more offensive. There was, however, one thing she did not account for: Heavy is slow.
"Ugh, come on," Ruby moaned. "Your slower than Port!" Ruby was a patient girl, she truly was, but if there's one thing she couldn't stand it's when people moved too slow. Ruby made it onto the bridge where she was greeted by another Pyro, and by the looks of the ridiculous hats he wore it was probably the same one from before.
Ruby's minigun cut through the Pyro like wet paper. Needless to say, she was quite proud of herself. Unfortunately her victory was short lived. Just as she was walking across to enter the enemy base she was killed in a single hit. The kill feed showed a Spy laughing at her. "Oh you think that's funny, don't you?" Ruby was starting to get extremely salty. "Fine two can play at that game."
Two could not play at that game.
Ruby made the fatal mistake of trying to out-spy a Spy, and it went about as well as you'd expect. She switched to him, turned invisible, tried to hunt him down, got set on fire by a Pyro, and then got backstabbed by the Spy again.
However, Ruby learned from this. She learned that the Pyro made for an excellent counter towards the Spy. So naturally, it was her turn to try him out. It started off OK, she burned a few Medics, scared away some Scouts who were afraid of taking even the slightest bit of damage, and even manged to reflect some rockets after she learned how to.
Once again, things were looking good. The only problem was that the Spy from earlier was nowhere to found. Granted that's what you'd expect from a class that could turn invisible, but even then this was just odd. "Where are you?" Ruby wondered, and within a split second her question was answered.
"Mr. E Meat is now dominating xXx_RedReaper_xXx."
"Are you kidding me! What kind of even is that?"
Blake was now back from the library with some new books in her hands, along with a rare smile on her face. A trip to the library always put her in a good mood.
"Hey Ruby," Blake greeted, "why is your face so red?"
"Mr. E Meat is dominating me!"
Aaaaaand there goes the good mood.
"W-w-what kind of game are you p-playing?" Blake asked with a face as red as Ruby's, but for all the wrong reasons.
"It's a first person shooter," Ruby stated with a hint of spite in her voice. "He keeps killing me over and over and it's getting on my nerves." With that misconception out of the way Blake was back to her previous mood.
She placed her books down on the bed and began reading. Ruby promised to keep it down this time, but that was easier said than done. It took every once of will power to keep herself from turning into Yang. Speaking of witch...
"Guess who's back!" Yang busted through the door breaking the silence yet again. Weiss was with her as well with some shopping bags. "Weiss Cream over here bought us all some-"
"Hold that thought Yang, I need to teach PinkThunder a lesson!"
Everyone in the room looked over to their leader as she was tapping away at her keyboard. "And who exactly is PinkThunder?" Weiss asked with a shocked expression from her leader's outburst. "Some stupid Demoman on the enemy team," Ruby explained, although she couldn't be bothered to look away from the screen for even a second.
"... Well, Weiss brought some cookies and-"
"I don't care about cookies!"
It was at this moment Ruby finally stopped playing. Her eyes, once filled with wonder and innocence, were now nothing more than bloodshot pinpricks. She slowly turned her head towards her teammates and was met with looks of horror. She was a monster.
"What have I become!"
Meanwhile...
"Nora, how much longer do you plan on playing," Ren asked with concern.
"Long enough to see xXx_RedReaper_xXx beg for mercy!"
AN: I hope you guys enjoyed. I got this idea after reading a few other RWBY Fanfics with the same concept. Be sure to tell me your thoughts and give suggestions. RWBY and all the games featured in this story belong to their respective owners.