The Magic of Videogames
…or how Ruby and Sun became Better Friends™
Takes place between Volumes 1 and 2. This story assumes that team RWBY is at Beacon at some point during the Volumes.
This is intended to be a one-shot.
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY, and never will. It belongs to Rooster Teeth.
Yang and Weiss walked slowly back from the practice arena.
"That was a good match!" Yang cheered, brushing a hand casually through her hair.
Weiss rolled her eyes, but agreed. "It was... although your fighting style is somewhat rough around the edges," the Schnee heiress criticized. In response, Yang just shrugged.
"Hey, it works. It's not like I need a fancy fighting style to beat up Grimm – or people," the blonde added. "As long as I win, I don't see the issue."
Weiss seemed to bite back whatever her next comment was going to be, and the two girls fell silent as they approached their dorm room.
Then they started to hear the enthusiastic yelling coming from their room.
"What in the world…?" Weiss trailed off as Yang opened the door and they saw what was going on.
There was a sizable television set up in their room, taking up almost half of the space between the beds.
And Sun and Ruby were using it to play a videogame.
"No, Ruby, to the left!" Sun exclaimed loudly.
"Aaah, sorry! I'm on it," their excitable team leader responded.
Yang and Weiss just stared. Neither of them had any idea what game it was, and had even less of an idea of how this had occurred.
However, Weiss didn't care about the first, and wanted answers to the second.
"Just what is going on here?"
Both Sun and Ruby turned their heads towards her simultaneously, and Yang shivered. It was just creepy, how in sync the pair seemed to be…
The monkey faunus was the first to respond. "Well, I came to visit you guys, but Rubes was the only one here. Blake's off being… Blake-y, apparently, and you two were off doing whatever-"
"Sparring," Yang interjected.
"-yeah, sure." Sun continued. "Soooo we got to talking, and she mentioned that she hadn't played any videogames. Like, at all."
Ruby jumped in. "So Sun managed to find a TV, a game system and this really cool game! You go around this made-up world, killing monsters and solving puzzles in magic places-"
"-dungeons," Sun corrected her, already back to playing the game.
"-and you unlock your character's powers and save the world!" Ruby squealed with glee. "It's a two-player game, so both of us are playing but Sun's waaaay better than me at solving the puzzles. But I'm super good at the fighting part, so we make a super-awesome team!"
Weiss facepalmed.
Yang decided it was a good time to ask her question. "Hey Sun?"
Her fellow blond twisted, looking back at her again.
"Where'd you get the stuff?" His tail stiffened slightly as he tried to casually look away.
"…From a friend."
Yang blankly responded, "Right, okay," and watched as Ruby and Sun went back to supposedly 'saving the world'.
They actually were pretty good at the game, she noted, with Sun spotting hard-to-notice hints to get them through the puzzles while Ruby dominated whatever enemies they found in the game.
After a few minutes of watching, she turned to the twitching heiress beside her.
"So, wanna go and spar another few rounds?"
Weiss gave another glance to the crazy duo gaming in front of her.
"…Yes. Yes I do."
It was only halfway back to the practice arena that Yang realized something.
Sun had only been here a week at most, almost all of which he'd spent hanging around their team (or bugging them, if you asked Weiss).
When had he had the time to make friends with someone who even had a gaming system and television here, much less someone willing to let him borrow it?