Story arc: Setting the stage. Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Antic Order. Hopefully more well written than last chapter, and most likely longer too! I'm too lazy to look at the actual word counts though, so I have no idea. :p
Also: having basically binge watched every episode of Sword Art Online in four days, I apologize ahead of time for SAO references and all future references to series you may not have watched.
As I did last chapter, I recommend you read Weiss Reacts as well if not instead, because it's amazing and technically my source material.
Disclaimer: I own neither RWBY nor Weiss Reacts.
The view from RWBY dorm was a sight Weiss had always loved. Not only was the Beacon courtyard beautiful-thanks to a certain caretaker who really should be paid more-but one could also see out across the Emerald Forest, with it's hills, and cliffs, and rivers. There were only two things that could make it better, in Weiss's mind: if it had been the Forest of Forever Fall instead of the Emerald Forest, and-
"Hey Weiss!" Called Ruby as she entered the dorm, startling Weiss out of her thoughts. Ruby was carrying several bags. Some of them looked like groceries, while others looked like they had come from a hardware store.
"H-hey." Replied Weiss, blushing and being thankful Ruby couldn't read minds. N-not that I h-have any f-feeli-ings for that dunce o-or a-anything... she told herself. "Did you go to a hardware store or something?" She asked her partner, gesturing to the bags.
"What? Oh, yeah. Yang sent me out to get her s-"
"Let me guess." Weiss cut Ruby off. "Antic supplies?"
Ruby looked at Weiss with the most serious expression she could muster. "Weiss, I could answer that question, but then I'd have to kill you." She stated, completely deadpan.
Weiss simply shook her head and turned away. "Your sister and her antics will be the death of me, meine l-" Weiss stopped suddenly, realizing both what she was about to say, as well as that she had slipped into German again. She always wondered how her family was German if Germany didn't exist in Remnant, but that was something to ask another day.
Ruby turned around from the cabinets where she was putting away the groceries. "What was that, Weiss? I didn't quite hear that." She asked.
"N-nothing. I j-just slipped into German again, that's all." Weiss quickly replied; quickly enough to make Ruby suspicious.
"Oh, okay." Said Ruby, not sounding entirely convinced. "Well, uh. I have to take these supplies to Blake, so, uh, see ya later I guess." Ruby turned towards the door and started to walk out.
"Ruby?" Called Weiss as Ruby started to close the door, stopping Ruby in her tracks so she could listen to Weiss. "Have you ever just sat and thought through how you felt your future would go?"
Ruby stepped back into the room and leaned against the doorjam, thinking. "Once or twice." She started. "Though it never seems to go how I would have planned. Why?"
Weiss didn't get a chance to answer. As Ruby finished her question, a voice played from the computer on Yang's desk, saying "Warning: humor st critical levels. Remedying situation in 3..."
"Damn it, Yang!" Yelled Weiss
"2..."
"Uh, Weiss? What's going on?" Asked Ruby.
"1..."
"Ask your idiot antic obsessed sist-AHHHHHH." Weiss yelled as a large red boxing glove popped out of the floorboards and punted Weiss out the window and into the sky. Ruby watched as a sparkle appeared to replace the spec that was Weiss momentarily before she was gone from view.
"That could have gone better..." Ruby sighed. "Oh well. She'll be back." Ruby continued cheerfully-despite the fact she was talking to no one, save herself-as she spun and walked out of the dorm on a mission to find Blake.
Blake checked once more that they weren't being followed before turning back to Ruby. They were at the furthest end of the garage at Beacon, not to far from where Yang's motorcycle was parked. "Alright." She started. "Before I open the lab, you have to promise not to tell your girlfriend where it is."
Ruby's eyes grew huge and her face turned as red as Crescent Rose. "W-weiss and I aren't together!" She said, a bit too quickly, shaking her head.
"I never said Weiss." Blake replied calmly. "Thank you for telling me who you're crushing on, Ruby. Next time don't deny it so quickly." She smiled at the younger girl before turning to the blank wall before them and pressing her hand to it.
"J-just don't tell my sister!" Ruby pleaded. "I'll never hear the end of it if you do."
Blake turned back to Ruby as the wall opened, revealing a corridor that wouldn't be out of place on an airship. "I'm not Ren. Blackmail isn't my style." Blake spun on her heels and started down the corridor to her laboratory.
Yang was already sitting in the lab, waiting for Blake to show up. "There you are!" She called, leaping out of her seat. "I've been waiting forever.
Blake shook her head and brushed past the brawler. "I was gone for ten minutes, Yang. Surely you weren't that bor-"
Yang grabbed her partner by the collar of her shirt. "Ten minutes is ten hours in Yang time. I could have died!"
Blake brushed her partner's hands away. "I'm fairly sure you're fine, Yang."
Meanwhile, over in the entrance to the lab, Ruby was staring at everything all at once, in complete shock over the scale of the chamber the lab was built in. The lab itself was a small glass dome with gadgets and gizmos lying around for sciencey doings. Beyond the dome, however, was a large chamber, reaching about a hundred feet tall and twenty five feet in circumference. All along the walls, all the way up, were alcoves that looked like they each had a complete set of tools for working on vehicles, as well as refuel them. At the top, it was wide open to the sky.
Yang sidled up to her little sister. "Impressive, isn't it, Rubes?"
"Woah..." Ruby squeaked out. "What is this place?"
"It's an old Bullhead hanger." Blake jumped in. "Beacon had a lot more of them than they do now. They sealed off this hanger when they downsized the fleet. Since it was just sitting here, unused, I saw an opportunity."
Ruby started to open her mouth to reply, but one of the computers started making noise again. "Warning: humor at critical levels. Remedying situation in 3..."
Blake sighed. "I thought I deleted that program."
"2..."
Yang nodded. "It was funny the first time. Now it's just gonna get boring for the audience."
"1..."
"aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" The three girls in the lab looked up just in time to see Weiss fall through the hanger's open roof. Seeing the ground approaching rapidly, she caught herself with a glyph. "Not a moment too soon." She sighed, before allowing herself to drop to the floor the last six inches.
"Uh, hi Weiss!" Called Yang, drawing the heiress's attention.
"If I hadn't just fallen from the sky..." Weiss started. "I would pound you into a pulp. Now... Where the hell am I?"
Well there it is. Probably slightly more crappy than the first chapter. White rose shippyness won't be a main theme except for Yang to incessantly tease Weiss about because reasons and stuff. I'm going to do my best to keep this fun and lighthearted, but I have trouble with that style. So... It may become less of a prank based comedy fic and more of a... Prank based action fic? I dunno. Leave some feedback.
Peace out peeps.