Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY.
As promised, Team RWBY and JNPR were back in the gaming room and most of them were hyped, some shaking in anticipation as they were choosing a game to play.
"Are there any interesting-looking Wii games, Nora?" Pyrrha asked from her seat on the couch.
"There aren't many four-player ones here..." Nora trailed off, looking through the stock of games with Ruby, who was using her semblance to skim through the games, leaving a small pile next to her.
"I found one!" Ruby held up a game called Kirby's Return to Dream Land. "It looks cute, especially that puffball!" Ruby put the game disc in the Wii.
Yang grabbed the Wii remote that was beside her. "Player 1!" She announced.
Blake silently took another Wii remote, as did Ren. Jaune took one as well.
Yang selected the game from the menu and they got started on an already used file. Being player 1, Yang's default character was Kirby. Blake chose Meta Knight, and Jaune and Ren were Yellow and Red Kirby's.
"Hey, Ruby," Yang nudged her sister, pointing at the screen. "There's a stage called Cookie Country."
It took less than a second for her eyes to widen, showing off her famous childish but excited look. "Ooh!" Ruby squealed. "Are there cookies there?!"
"Let's find out," Yang selected Cookie Country as Ruby was practically shivering with excitement.
To her disappointment, she couldn't find any of them.
Going through the first stage didn't take too much time, even though they had yet to learn the controls. Once they fully understood the use of each button, they went straight to the boss door.
"Ooh, there's a fire power up," Yang smirked, getting the Fire Copy Ability. "Get your copy abilities!" She said to Ren and Jaune.
After a moment of thinking and testing, Ren took the Beam ability and Jaune decided on Cutter. As the game characters jumped down to the ground, a cutscene began.
"That jester hat looks silly," Nora commented on Ren's Kirby's hat.
"Wait, it that a tree?" Jaune exclaimed in confusion.
"With a face?" Yang yelled, making a face at the odd tree. It had oval shaped holes for the eyes and mouth with a wooden nose.
"Whispy Woods?" Blake questioned, her eyes on the name and health bar. "That's a weird name."
"And... Attack!" Yang happily shouted, wasting no time in blowing fire onto the tree.
The three Kirbies and Meta Knight attacked Whispy Woods, quickly bringing its health to the half point. By that time, the tree had grown bigger and, to Jaune's surprise and everyone else's amusement, ate Jaune's Kirby.
"No! Don't eat me!" Jaune exclaimed desperately, shaking the Wii remote to be freed as those spectating the game laughed. Whispy Woods spat him out, and Jaune gave a whoop of victory...
...right before he died by a Waddle Dee dropping down on him.
"OH, C'MON!"
They quickly defeated Whispy Woods and the tree shrunk, a very visible tear on its face. Yang obtained a feathery object coloured grey. Their characters did a victory dance, a happy tune playing in the background.
"Aww... They're dancing!" Yang grinned. "That's so cute..."
"We're playing next!" Ruby exclaimed, taking the Wii remote from Blake. Not even minding the sudden swipe, she walked back to the couch and took Ruby's spot.
Nora, Weiss and Pyrrha were the Kirbies and Ruby was Meta Knight. They went straight to the boss in Raisin Ruins, a desert stage. Pyrrha was Whip Kirby and Nora and Weiss were Water Kirbies.
"Oh my gosh, is this a ghost?!" Nora exclaimed in fright as two floating hands picked up a turban.
"It's a genie, you dunce," Weiss scoffed, her fingers a blur as she begun her attack.
"Pffft... What kind of name is Mr. Dooter?" Ruby laughed as Meta Knight slashed at the boss.
"I know, Dooter isn't even a word," Pyrrha smirked as Mr. Dooter juggled skulls and hurled them at the players.
"Why is he spinning around?" Weiss asked suspiciously, raising a brow. "If someone attacks you, you don't just jump and spin around."
"He looks happy, though," Nora's tongue hung out the corner of her mouth as the boss went into the second phase.
"He doesn't look happy anymore..." Ruby's eyes narrowed and her brows furrowed in suspicion as Mr. Dooter jumped and spun higher into the air, trying to squish them in the process.
"Hey, he can punch!" Yang grinned as the genie punched Pyrrha and Weiss. "I like this guy!"
"I don't! He's hitting us, Yang!" Pyrrha pointed out, glaring at Mr. Dooter as he released bats from his turban.
After Nora dealt the final blow and got a grey wing-looking object, the Kirbies and Meta Knight danced again.
"We just did the robot," Ruby snickered.
Everyone switched places again. Yang, Blake, Jaune and Ren were playing again as the same characters as last time, and they went to a stage called Onion Ocean.
"What kind of name is Onion Ocean?" Jaune questioned as they entered the boss door. "It doesn't sound appealing at all."
"... Is that an umbrella?" Yang asked no one in particular, unimpressed as her eyebrow raised. "Oh well, let's see what it does."
Weiss was surprised that Yang didn't comment when Jaune took the Ice ability, as was Pyrrha when Ren got the Spear ability.
"Fatty Puffer?" Pyrrha raised a questioning eyebrow. "... At least it's fitting."
"Shoot! He hit me!" Jaune panicked, trying to get back his power, the blue star with a snowman on it. He calmed down once he finally regained his ability.
"Stop drifting, Kirby!" Yang growled, her Kirby drifting uncontrollably with his parasol like Mary Poppins. Somehow, it managed to float right on to Blake's Meta Knight, surprising Blake and making Yang laugh.
"Get off my back, Yang!" Blake growled to the brawler, trying to get her off by jumping and shaking.
"Nah, I'll sit here while you attack it," Yang smirked, putting the Wii remote on her lap.
"Get off me or we'll both get hit!" Blake exclaimed in annoyance. Right after she said that, she got hit by the water Fatty Puffer spat at them and died.
"Wait! Don't leave me!" Yang whined, quickly picking up the controller and attacking, sending the pufferfish into its second phase.
Blake came back as King Dedede and jumped out of Fatty Puffer's way as it spun in to a ball and rolled towards them.
"This guy needs help," Ruby said, making a funny face. "He can become twice his weight in seconds!"
As if it was offended by Ruby's comment, the pufferfish suddenly spurted a large amount of water on to the players.
"Fatty Puffer used Hydro Pump!" Yang exclaimed as if she were the announcer in a sports game. "It's super effective!"
Blake hit the pufferfish with her hammer, finally ending its ridiculous attacks, and obtained a grey wing like the one Nora retrieved.
"I want to be King Dedede!" Nora shouted with a grin on her face, rushing over to take Blake's controller, prompting Blake to frown. Why did they always have to take her controller first?
This time, Nora and the three Kirbies went to White Wafers, a snowy stage, and smashed their way to the boss.
"This game makes me hungry," Nora remarked.
"What's the fist one?" Ruby wondered, taking the Copy Ability. "Fighter?"
"Wow, it's like it was made for me," Yang smirked as she noticed Weiss taking the Ninja ability. "Looks like the Ninja one was made for Blake." Blake frowned continued to grow, but this time, it seemed as if she were in thought.
Pyrrha took the Fire Copy Ability and they set off to fight the boss, Goriath.
"He looks like he has a mohawk and a goatie," Nora commented on the snow beast's appearance.
"Ooh! This is a brawler!" Ruby cheered as her Kirby delivered a powerful punch.
"What happened to his arm?!" Weiss gasped as his arm stretched to the other end of the battlefield in an attempt to punch them.
After a while of icicle attacks and Super Saiyan moves, the three Kirbies and Nora defeated Goriath, obtained a part of a starship, and danced. Ren and the Kirbies went to the boss in Nutty Noon next.
"Alright! I'm taking the Yang Copy Ability!" Yang grinned, taking the Fighter ability.
"Yang, it's called Fighter," Jaune corrected her, taking the Cutter ability.
"I'll call it Yang because it suits me, thankyouverymuch!" Yang smirked at Jaune.
Blake took the Whip ability, wearing a little cowboy hat, and jumped on the star, taking them to the next boss, who would be Grand Doomer.
"That was way too easy," Jaune bragged. "Our objective is right there, let's take it!"
Jaune's Cutter Kirby jumped up and took the prize as celebratory music played and his Kirby smiled happily. The happiness quickly faded as Kirby fell flat on his face. A creature gobbled up the prize.
"WHAT?!" All eight teens exclaimed, surprised. Jaune instead screamed, "WHY ME?!"
Grand Doomer flew above them and swooped down on them. The players quickly attacked, Jaune throwing sword-boomerangs at it, Yang punching it, Ren smacking it with Dedede's hammer and Blake whipping it, the cracking of said whip loud. It disappeared and reappeared multiple times before vanishing and hit Yang.
"Hey! You made me drop my ability!" Yang growled at the orange winged creature, eating a red star with a boxing glove on it, becoming 'Yang' Kirby again.
Once Grand Doomer was at half-health, he went into the background and sent a flurry of sludge balls at them. The players dodged the attack. When his health meter was almost empty, it refilled, split into four golden segments with a white star on each. Suddenly, the boss was then a rock with eyes and stars on it. It sent waves of little enemies at them through portals, three at a time.
"I got the glowing one," Blake said, swallowing a glowing enemy, having lost her Whip ability. She then had the Ultra Sword ability, her Kirby wearing an elf hat. She hit it four times and the boss had a sliver of health left. Blake hit Grand Doomer one last time, sending its health to zero, killing it.
The grey mast was collected and Nora and the Kirbies went to Egg Engines, a factory-like stage. The fight against Metal General wasn't very eventful, other than the fact that Nora died and came back as Kirby.
"We're doing the last boss, if you don't mind," Weiss said politely to Yang.
"Alright, play away!" Yang smiled.
The group fought Landia, four small orange dragons in a huddle, next. Nora was Bomb Kirby, Ruby was Cutter, Pyrrha was Ninja and Weiss was Leaf. At the start of the battle, Nora chucked bombs at Landia, which she enjoyed immensely as she was laughing maniacally, and Weiss turned into a bush as the others attacked.
"Weiss! Help us out!" Ruby exclaimed, throwing sword-boomerangs and dodging attacks.
"Yeah!" Nora agreed whole heartedly. "You can't defend yourself forever!"
"I'm waiting for the second phase," Weiss said matter-of-factly. "I want to have full health by then."
As soon as the words left her mouth, Landia entered second phase, and the four dragons separated and attacked with fireballs, sometimes getting into a formation and shooting energy beams. Weiss chickened out and stayed as a bush for the whole battle.
"Weiss!" Pyrrha tried to stay calm, but couldn't keep all of her anger from seeping in to her glare. "You didn't do anything for the whole battle!"
"Um... Oops," Weiss said nervously.
"Wow, Weiss," Yang smirked at her. "Never thought you'd cower away in battle."
"I did not cower!" Weiss defended herself, gripping the Wii remote tightly.
"Whatever you say," Yang shrugged, her smirk unwavering.
If one listened closely, they could hear the sounds of an angry heiress throwing a Wii remote at the blonde bruiser.