Summary: Ruby accidentally discovers Weiss' guilty pleasure.
Weiss has a secret that none of her teammates knew about, not even her girlfriend Ruby. She was quite ashamed of it. It was a guilty pleasure she did in secrecy. It was something she indulge in alone, away from everyones' eyes.
If her secret ever made it out to the public, she knew Beacon will be madly buzzing. It wasn't something held high in regards. Even her family would deem it as childish. Like a red hot branding iron, she would be marked as weird. And that was putting it lightly.
In her mind, it would've passed as a crime. But at heart, it was something she needed to satisfy on the daily basis. It couldn't compare to eating a piece of dark chocolate after brushing or compare to binge watching an entire series of soap opera. Her guilty pleasure extended beyond that.
"This is where your journey ends, McEggFace!" Weiss exclaimed in her best high pitch voice. She perfectly nailed it considering she was great at soprano. Weiss waved a plush toy in the air that looked exactly like Ruby as she tried to copy her voice. She had to admit, she did a splendid job on the imitation.
Her girlfriend collected a frightening horde of what she calls action figures. But to Weiss, they're looked nothing but plush toys. They were soft as they were stuffed with cotton. However, Ruby tapped into her inner mechanical craze and tinkered with every single plush toy to turn them into action figures. Interesting enough, each individual had a unique battle mode featuring the original owners.
"The name's Torchwick," Weiss gnarred, her voice instantly reaching deep. She was blessed that her vocal cord could hit pretty much every note. She waved the Roman Torchwick plush toy with her other hand in a threatening manner. "Most diabolical man known on Remnant." She drew the most wicked laugh she could ever possibly make and strutted the toy pompously. "Not McEggFace. Got that memorized Red?"
"In the power of friendship, we shall prevail!" Weiss frantically waved the Ruby plush toy, her voice hitting once again a high note. She was totally getting into character. "Team RWBY will defeat you, Lord Von Baco—"
"For the love of —" Weiss immediately hissed. She tried imitating how annoyed Torchwick would be at her childish remarks. She lifted the cane with a small touch of her finger, the gun now pointing at the plush held by her other hand. "Since you can't get my name right, I'll engrave it on your —"
"Umm..."
Weiss jumped at the sudden voice, her cheeks flushing in hot embarrassment when she knew who it was. She didn't hear the door open since she was too engrossed with the action figures and in her own imaginary world. It wasn't her fault she never experienced this during her childhood days.
"R-Ruby..." Weiss swallowed thickly. She finally looked up to meet her girlfriend in the eyes. As she expected, Ruby was completely dumbfounded at what she saw. Weiss cleared her throat. "You came back from class earlier than I expected."
"Are you —"
"It's not what it looks like," Weiss blurted out to cut her off. But it didn't stop Ruby from continuing her sentence.
"Are you playing with my action figures?"
Weiss quickly hid the plushies behind her back. "What action figures?" She played dumb, hoping Ruby would over look this.
"You know... The things behind your back?" Ruby pointed over her shoulders.
"What's behind my back?" Weiss looked over her own shoulder and just shrugged innocently when pretended to see nothing.
Ruby just blankly stared at her.
Weiss done the same too; she gave blank stares at Ruby.
They shared silence with each other until Ruby broke it.
"Can I join too?"
"Ruby!" Weiss shrieked and ducked behind the table as a pea size bullet whizzed over her head.
Tables and chairs were overthrown as a makeshift barrier. Many of Blake's books were lined up like a barricade to defend against their continous onslaught. They provided necessary protection considering these plushies packed quite a punch.
They battled across the room using a variety of Ruby's action figures as a necessary tool for war. These plush toys were no joke. Weiss experienced it first hand when Ruby selected a replica of herself.
She fired from the plastic Crescent Rose. Even though Ruby didn't exactly hit the right target, she almost did hit Weiss in the eye. Luckily, it nailed her just a little below the eyebrow. Weiss didn't need another battle scar there. One was sufficient enough.
"Coward!" Ruby shouted across the room, her action figure still standing tall along the edge of the overturned table. "Face your fears!"
"You're the one cowering!" Weiss hissed back. She shrunk again when the bullet flew and dented the wall. Professor Goodwitch was going to kill them but that was the least of her worries. "You're hiding behind the table and blindly firing!"
"Fight me!" Ruby ignored Weiss' commentaries.
Weiss growled and swapped out her plush toy for something that would pack a bigger punch. She wasn't like Ruby who personally knew what each toy was capable of. But she wasn't entirely at a disadvantage considered she had a taste of every toy.
Weiss propped up a Roman Torchwick toy on the table. "Fire in the hole!" She yelled out as she flicked the cane directly at Ruby. One squeeze. That's all it took for her to send a pea size bullet across the room.
As expected, the bullet punctured one of the books protecting Ruby and exploded. Pages flew everywhere and part of the book blew up in flames. Blake was going to be mad considering she just destroyed her filthy porn book. But no matter. Defeating Ruby was more important.
"Gah!" Ruby panicked. "We're under siege!"
Ruby quickly pulled out a Weiss action figure. With a raised rapier equipped with dust, it blasted away the fire before it dangerously spread.
"Take this!" Ruby flicked the rapier once more. Impressively, the toy was capable of mimicking Weiss. It launched a thin toothpick size of an icicle. Despite how tiny it appeared to be, it sliced through the air and dangerously pierced into the wooden table.
"You missed!" Weiss exclaimed arrogantly.
Another toothpick sized icicle shot through the room and pierced Roman in the head and out of Weiss' hands. It shredded a hole between his eye as the plush toy got nailed into the wall like some art exhibit painting.
"Hah! How do you like me now?!" Ruby taunted, her head poking over the table.
Weiss scowled.
She held up a Blake plush toy and fired Gambol Shroud. An extremely long but yet durable cable shot out and its blade hooked around Ruby's plush toy. With one yank, Weiss shredded the head off. The head flew off to the side of the room and bounced across the floor. It sadly rolled in circles before it became still. A part of her internally winced as she technically shredded her own head off, except it was in plush form.
"Nooooo!" Ruby bellowed out when her Weiss action figure no longer had a head. "My precious Weiss!"
"Surrender!" Weiss shouted.
Ruby cried out in sadness when the cotton escaped out of the body. It was fizzing out like a can of shook soda. "Never! I will enact my revenge!"
Immediately, Ruby pulled out a Yang plush toy and Weiss instantly knew to take cover. She hid behind the table as Ruby went on the offense. She fired Ember Celica and multiple bullets hissed in the air.
Splinters from the table flew out when the bullet smashed into the table. Thank goodness it wasn't like a Roman's fiery explosion. If it hypothetically was, the whole table would be scorching in flames. At least Weiss was sure to expect multiple deep holes. If she was lucky, then maybe dents.
"It's over for you!" Ruby fired maniacally. She laughed when the table started to chip away while many of the books had holes in them. Blake would totally be furious.
"In your dreams," Weiss snorted. She retaliated back when she held up a Coco plush doll.
"Oh no..." Ruby whimpered.
"DIE!"
Somehow equipped with multiple pebbles of bullets, Weiss unleashed them all. The machine gun automatically fired bullets in rapid succession. It pelted against the table on the other side of the room as it chipped away Ruby's line of defense, much like Ruby had done to her. Despite how it didn't pack enough punch like the Yang plush toy, Ruby would have a much harder time to counter back.
"You'll never win Ruby!" Weiss drew a short laugh as she watched the table slowly chip into fragments. "Bow down before your queen!"
"Never!" Ruby shouted behind the table. "I still have my ace card!"
Ruby sneakily held up a plush toy Weiss had never seen before on the side of the table.
"Is that...?" Weiss gasped.
"Meet Penny!"
Ruby squeeze the toy and red lasers shot out from its eyes. The beam of light looked similar to the red laser pointers she had seen in lecture. The same one where their professors would point at pictures in front of a class that was half awake.
But no.
It was absolutely not harmless.
The beam of light cleanly sliced through the table and marred their walls with a black singed line. Weiss stared in utter horror at what Ruby had masterfully crafted. Half of her line of defense broke in half thanks to Ruby and her new additional toy.
When Weiss peered over what's left of her table, she could see Ruby smirking as she waved the plush doll in a taunting manner.
Weiss frowned at the haughty smile.
She wasn't planning to go down without a fight.
"Rise everyone and sacrifice yourself!" Weiss summoned a Pyrrha plush doll. It took her awhile to discover what unimaginable things it could possibly do. But once she got a taste of its capabilities, the toy wasn't a joke either.
She waved Pyrrha's sword like how a conductor would.
All at once, every collection of Ruby's action figures rose from the ground. From the missing head stranded at the side of the room to the Penny plush toy within Ruby's grasp, everything was under Weiss' command. Ruby was creative enough to forge some kind of magnetic fabric for each toy. Who knew it would backfire on her.
"Don't do it Weiss..." Ruby shot up from the table and held her hands up, almost on the edge of surrendering. She knew she was going to lose this battle as an army of toys marched to her. It was beginning to look like a cheap horror film. "Don't do it..."
Weiss sat on top of the broken table as she emerged from her hiding, her leg crossed over the other. She smirked as she continued to orchestrate the army. There was no way Ruby can defend now. Weiss can almost taste victory.
"Don't do it," Ruby warned as she backed against the wall. Every toy simultaneously marched towards her, cornering her like a rat.
"Any last words my dear?" Weiss spoke sweetly. So sweet that Ruby could taste the wrath behind every word.
"Love me please?" Ruby meekly pleaded.
Weiss thought about it for a moment and gave a wry laugh.
"No." Weiss then flatly answered.
With one flick of the sword, everything obeyed Weiss. She set the tempo and a horde of plush toys jumped and toppled Ruby as it buried her alive under its soft mess. It was a shame that Weiss didn't know how to tap into every of the toys' power using the Pyrrha action figure. The best she could do was have them dog pile over her. But for the sake of keeping her girlfriend intact, she was blessed that she didn't figure it out.
"Gaaah!" Ruby cried out as she helplessly flailed an arm out through an opening. A swarm of smiling plush toys gobbled her in waves.
Weiss watched in amusement.
"My creations!" Ruby blubbed out. "Why have you foresaken me?!"
Despite much of Ruby's outcry, the girl startled giggling as she popped out of the horde. Even though every single one of them were equipped with deadly weapons, they weren't exactly heavy enough to keep her down.
"What. The. Hell."
Ruby and Weiss turned to Blake who was fuming at the front of the door. She wasn't mad... She was really mad. Books that were worth hundreds of lien were torn up as they were sacrificed in their war. The room was in a horrible mess.
"Blake, we can explain!" They both squeaked simultaneously.
Blake stomped towards Weiss and snatched the Pyrrha plush toy out of her hands.
"You better start running."
At once, Blake performed what Weiss had done earlier. The hordes of plush toys rose under her command, but unlike Weiss, Blake was strangely proficient enough to tap each and every individual toys' weapon.
She was the new conductor.
And she will avenge her books.
Prompt given by Karmisa!
Imagine your OTP:
Person A: This is where your journey ends, McEggFace!
Person A (in a higher pitch): Never, the power of friendship shall prevail! I will defeat you, Lord Von Baco-
Person B *walking into the room*: Are you playing with my action figures?
Person A: ...
Person B: ...
Person B: Can I join you?
I tweaked a bit of it.
I'm really happy with what people had submitted. It's literally what I think about when I sit and do my mundane lab work as I ponder over them.
I still accept prompts. This is probably your last chance. When I post the next chapter (whenever that will be), I will close it.
Like always, reviews are appreciated!