A/N: Shout out to the special guest 9741Hmai who was a boatload of fun to play with in WOT
Also shout-out to CC-2224 Commander Cody for being there at odd hours again... he will also be writing one of the next chapters
ENJOY
Ruby had sat through a ridiculous amount of classes without faltering. Her team was worried to say the least. They spoke about her current condition with mixed reactions ranging from "I wonder if she found out her grades?" from Blake, to "At least the dolt is focusing on classes now." From the resident Ice Queen. Except whatever they thought was going on in her head was completely different than what she was actually thinking. Ruby's thoughts bounced between how to properly capitalize upon the first tanks strengths in a way to dissipate its weakness.
"The Vickers is slow, that's a weakness… however it has a powerful gun for its tier from what I gather. Im going to have to play more battles to move onto the UC 2-pdr and the Medium II." Ruby mused as her mind was running faster than it had before. She looked around the room at the various eyes staring at her as she heard Professor Port let out a cough.
"Ruby! Are you deaf girl? Eyes up… pay attention to the class you are in." Professor Port said as Ruby nodded in response.
"Yes Professor Port." Ruby said in a dejected manner. She propped her head up on her hands as the lecture continued. Yet all she could think about was the battle she was in yesterday. It was fun, fast paced, and quite hilarious. Not three minutes later the bell rang, signaling Ruby's release from Professor "Poops", Ruby's own name for professor Port, class. She bolted from the room leaving a trail of rose petals behind her as she sped towards the cafeteria.
Pyrrha, Jaune, Ren, and Nora were seated at their usual table sharing conversation with Blake, Weiss, and Yang. Pyrrha spoke up to Weiss as the other talked.
"So Weiss, is something troubling Ruby?" Pyrrha said as Weiss looked at her with a look of what appeared to be disgust on her face.
"Well not necessarily, but she was on the computer yesterday for quite a bit with her headphones on. The dolt was most likely playing one of her video games instead of studying for any quizzes we may receive." Weiss finished with a 'humph'.
"Oh, I see." Pyrrha said as the table shook with a fierce impact. Pyrrha looked to her right and saw everyone starring at a small mountain of ice-cream, frosting, and cookies. Something that Weiss could only describe as "Diabetes on a plate". Yang opened her mouth to speak as the mountain started shrinking. As the mountain grew smaller everyone's jaw dropped when ruby swallowed another huge bite without chewing.
"Ruby… a little much?" Yang said as she pointed to the veritable mountain of sugar in front of Ruby. Ruby paused for a few seconds before shrugging and shoved the last bit in her mouth.
"Wll ith nt thatth muth yng!" Ruby sputtered out as she finished her dese… lunch in two more huge bites. The rest of the table looked at Ruby with wide eyes as she got up to put her tray at the trash bin. One thing Yang would never figure out was where all the food Ruby ate went. It never went to her thighs nor did it go to her stomach. All she could guess was it went straight to fueling her semblance… or that part of her semblance was that she did everything faster, even digesting and metabolizing food.
"How does she do that?" Nora broke the silence as she started in amazement at Ruby. A rough diagram of ruby eating was drawn on paper in front of Nora who was studying it jotting down new notes and scratching out old ones.
"Nora….. What…. Are you doing?" Ren said dryly as Nora looked up from her notes.
"Shhh Ren! I'm observing her eating habits!" Nora said in a shushed yell. Ren just mouthed 'Okay' and backed off before things got serious. Ruby returned and before anyone could say anything the bell rang signaling the end of lunch and classes for the day.
"Okay so what are we going…?" Before Yang could finish, Ruby word vomited and sped off.
"Okseeyouguyslaterihavetosomethingsandthenyeahsobyeyeah" Ruby said in one breath before leaving the group smothered in rose petals. Ruby sped up the stairs and past several students sitting on the benches in the garden. Ruby rocketed down the halls of the dorm and through her team's door. She sped into the closet and, in record time, returned in her pajamas. Even though it was only 1:00pm she wore her black tank-top with a heart shaped beowolf head on it. Her pants were white and covered in pink, "light-ish red", roses. She zoomed up to the top bunk and plugged her headphones into her laptop before logging into World of Tanks.
She was greeted with her name and her tier one tank as its scratched metal surfaces beckoned to her. She attached the upgraded gun to the tank, a 15mm BESA machinegun. Ruby was excited to try out the new machinegun she purchased for her tank and she quickly hit the battle button. The games match maker quickly set to work pairing her up with a pretty even pairing as the screen turned black and the image of the map popped up along with the leader boards.
Province
Standard Battle
Battle Tier: 2
"Tier II… Alright." Ruby sighed as she was put into the game, on her left was one of the cutest looking tanks in the game, a T18 tank destroyer. She could tell by the triangle above the player's name. The tank next to it was a Russian tank destroyer, it didn't look as cute but it had a very long gun. She read the players name and looked quizzically at its weird spelling.
"9471Hmai…hmmm, that's weird to start a name with numbers… oh well." Ruby quipped at the player's strange name. Then she noticed a shield next to the players name with a "1" I it and the same was repeated with the T18 that was next to her. The clock hit 20 seconds as she observed the team lists. She was in the middle. Tanks of all nations and types adorned both sides. There were even two artillery in the game. Tanks that were most prominent were the T2 medium American tank and the Chi-Ni Japanese tank. Then a message popped up in the chat, it was the T18 next to her, the one in the group with the AT-1.
DELTAGOD (T18): GLHF all
Ruby looked at it when some people from the other team and their team responded.
D3TH_2_Arty (SU-18): U 2
9741Hmai (AT-1): GLHF all
DELTAGOD (T18): AT-1 and I will cover from hill
9471Hmai (AT-1): Affirmative!
Ruby looked on and observed the chat as the numbers ticked down to zero. Everyone raced down the hill towards a flag and the made a hard left towards a red flag across the field and two rows of buildings. Ruby was about to follow a hapless MS-1 as a whistling was heard. A slow shell arced towards him impacting his side obliterating him.
Hobbit_Wobbler (MS-1): Their T18 has the derp ;_;
Ruby wondered what he meant by this as a wave of hostile tanks shot down the hill towards her. Her clip had just loaded as the hostile Leichtraktor approached it fired and a grey arc appeared on Ruby's screen as Ruby opened fire. Ruby's gun reduced the hostile to zero health in no-time. Adding a 1 next to her name on the leader boards.
Ruby still had half a clip left when a hostile AT-1 sped towards her. It fired and the shell impacted her treads destroying them.
"NOOO!" Ruby whined as the AT-1 sped around her and pushed its gun into her side. She heard a whistle and then the AT-1 exploded. Above the map appeared "Loltraktor_44 (AT-1) destroyed by D3TH_2_Arty (SU-18)" Ruby let out a cheer as she typed into the chat.
The_Cookie_Huntress (Medium I): THX
D3TH_2_Arty (SU-18): NP
Ruby smiled as she looked at the scores, 12:6. It was a pretty quick match but it was still longer than her first match. Then the scores rose to 15 on her team as the last enemy tank was destroyed.
DELTAGOD (T18): GG
9741Hmai (AT-1): GG
Cranky-ol-man44 (T1 Cunningham): GG red team
The screen faded as ruby was returned to the garage. She leaned back as she looked at her results and opened up the research menu. Ruby beamed as she found she could unlock all non-tank unlocks on her tank. She finished up and saw that she had enough experience to buy either the UC-2 pounder tank destroyer or the Vickers Medium Mark II. Ruby moved her mouse decisively and researched and purchased the Medium Mk II. Ruby laid back and put her hands behind her head as pride welled inside her heart. That's when she saw the research cost of the next tank.
"One thousand!" Ruby sighed as she saw the 180 EXP gun and the 80 EXP turret.
"Its gets harder!" Ruby whined as she pulled her pillow over her face.
"What gets harder?" Ruby darted up as she looked over to Yang, Blake, and Weiss who just stood there, the later of the two just looked at Yang. Weiss had her hand pinching the bridge of her nose as Blake just looked at the floor.
"Really Yang? You had to go there?" Blake was not amused at the innuendo Yang had just made to her oblivious sister.
"What did she say?" Ruby said as Weiss just looked at her.
"Nothing… she … said… nothing." Weiss said as she walked over to her bed and sat down. Flopping over letting her hair splay out onto the bed. 'She may be an oblivious dolt, but she's our oblivious dolt' Weiss thought as Blake slunk over to her bunk and pulled out a black book. Blake really did act like a cat, everyone knew she was a cat faunas but she acted exactly like a cat. Kneading the bed with her hands, playing with yarn, and purring when she sleeps.
"So what's up sis?" Yang said as she tiptoed up to Ruby's bed. Ruby sighed before looking at Yang. Silver dishes met with Lilac orbs as Ruby broke the silence.
"Well I was just playing this game you know." Yang perked up when she heard game, she just had a thing for video games.
"I'm listening." Yang said in a sing-song tone, laying down on Ruby's bed. Ruby went on describing the game to Yang, who was behaving quite well, in all its detail. Yang seemed to like the game as she picked up her laptop and entered in her own account info. "That_Buxom_Blond" was Yang's user name. Ruby didn't know what the word meant but she paid it no heed. Instead, Ruby squealed with joy as Yang started downloading the game onto her laptop. The games had just begun.
A/N: CC-2224 Commander Cody is to thank for starting team RWBY of with a "YANG" as its second member joins
Remember If you play with me you can be in the next chapter ;) just PM me or friend me on WOT at DELTAGOD
(P.s. Hey Hmai My TOG II can still feel that S-51 shot to this day)