(Nearly) Everyone Reacts to RWBY Volume 3, Part 1!

A/N: Welcome, one and all, to the most anticipated chapter of Weiss Reacts since the ending of the Yuletide Dance chapter, the reaction to Volume 3! Well, suffice to say, we all know how this goes. Pyrrha, Penny, Jaune, Yang- hell, everyone's going to need a very stiff drink after this one.

Well, we'll split the difference. You won't get your juicy reactions until the second half of this chapter! Muahahahahahahahah! You'll probably have to wait one more day to see the madness! Won't it be fun? It'll be fun. Know my suffering, for I too must wait; I must wait for the fools to release a release date for Fire Emblem Fates! taste my salt

DISCLAIMER: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth, otherwise there would totally be an Indiana Jones expy in canon. Massive spoilers if you haven't seen the volume yet!

All mentioned franchises and characters belong to their respective owners.

"Woo! This is the day we've been waiting for, ladies and gents!" Yang cheered as everyone piled into RWBY dorm to watch the long anticipated marathon of the third volume of RWBY. Weiss was crouched over a table, setting out glasses for everyone who was coming.

Obviously, team JNPR was coming to watch the show. Nora seemed really into it, to the extent that she nearly yanked Pyrrha out of their dorm and into RWBY's dorm, squealing joyously about 'ITS HAPPENING'. Jaune and Ren were forced to follow behind bemusedly as the hapless spearmaiden was simply bodily dragged like a ragdoll to the dorm. Velvet had also shown up, trying to steal a seat between Weiss and Yang and wearing glasses to boot, claiming that 'the creators wanted me to wear these and anyway they raise my audience appeal'. Luckily, Ruby had stolen the seat before Velvet could, leaving her plopped between Jaune and Nora on another couch.

Even Professors Torchwick and Fall had decided to join in on the fun, chatting over a piece of test marking. Judging from the rather low number in scrawled red pen, the unfortunate test taker didn't seem to have done well. Winter was sitting opposite Jaune and Pyrrha, on an armchair by herself.

"Alright." Weiss sighed, wiping her brow. "That's everything. Is everyone in?"

Ruby checked her scroll. "Just Penny left! She got her dad to let her come over for a night to watch RWBY with us!"

"I still don't know why we went an entire year without inviting that dunce over to have fun with us." Weiss grumbled. "You seem to like her after all, Ruby."
"Well….I mean, she lives all the way in Atlas…." The reaper explained. "It's not always easy to invite her over, you know? I'd love to, but-"
"Salutations!" Suddenly, Penny appeared, tackling Ruby to the ground with a flying hug. The reaper squeaked under her weight.

"H-hello….to you too…..Penny…..c-can you…..get off?"
"Oh! I am so sorry!" The puppet girl slowly pulled herself off of the reaper. "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"
"Apart from all my broken ribs and spine…..I'm fine….." Ruby croaked, heading over to her seat. Weiss facepalmed, rubbing Ruby's side. "…..barely two minutes here and you already nearly killed my girlfriend. Excellent job.

Yang, can we roll the episodes before more people get grievously injured?"
"I, for one, wish to properly enjoy these episodes for once." Pyrrha remarked, smiling as she adjusted her position, shifting to rest herself on the back of the couch she was on. "The last few attempts we had to watch the show as a group were quite…..chaotic."
"You call that chaotic?" Yang rolled her eyes. "Please, Pyrrha, you're just an amateur at antics. You hardly know what the meaning of antics is."
Weiss looked aside. 'And thank Dust for that. We need one person sane enough to rein everyone else in who isn't me.'

"Alright!" The heiress yelled. "Penny, just sit down."
"Where is Norn? Isn't she watching it with us?" The puppet girl inquired. Blake shook her head.

"She wanted to duck out to read up on something. You can see her, if you want, after we're done watching the season."

"Oh…." Penny frowned slightly. "Okay! I was just hoping to see her, is all…."

Ruby smiled at Yang. "Hey, Yang, can we start the show already?"

"Alright, sis!" The brawler flashed her a thumbs up. "Just need a remote aaaaaand there it is!"

The brawler threw herself back onto her spot on the couch just as Penny decided to grab a beanbag and sit in that. Yang threw her arm around Blake, hugging her to her side.

"Heeeeey, Blakey~ How are you~"

"H-hey! D-do you mind?!" The catgirl blushed profusely. "J-just start the show already!"

"Alright, alright." Yang rolled her eyes. "Sheesh. You guys are so impatient. We should savour this! This is gonna be a great season! It's gonna be awesome!"

"…the more she says that, the more I'm scared." Jaune muttered aside, shuddering slightly. "Why do I not like that feeling?"

Round One

"New intro." Yang whistled appreciatively. "Loving that."

Pyrrha nodded in agreement. "I always wondered how the singer of these intros became so good at singing. She is rather impressive."
"Everyone's looking just plain done." Jaune noted. "…that's not looking good."

"….you know…..I need to pay a visit to Mom sometime." Ruby reminded herself. "Maybe next week. I've never taken you up there, have I, Weiss?"
"Not at all." The heiress shook her head. "I've only ever seen it in pictures, to be honest."
"Heh. Damn straight my little sister's a little badass." Yang scoffed, folding her arms. "…..hoo boy. So a bunch of randoms in the tournament?"

"That brings back memories, this Vytal Tournament." Weiss nodded, looking towards Pyrrha. "You won that year, didn't you? The year when we first came to Beacon?"

"I did indeed." The spearmaiden recalled, the awards ceremony being but a distant memory; she beat out Sun Wukong for the champion's slot. "It is why I dropped out of the Cockerel Festival in the early stages, to be honest. I wanted some rest."
"Well, that explains how the rest of us mortals had a chance at winning." Yang remarked, smirking. "We should be praising our new goddess, eh?"

"Good ol' Amity." Cinder remarked, chuckling. "You know, I haven't been there ever. Maybe sometime, when the-wait, the Tournament's this year, right? Maybe I could buy tickets and see you guys there in person."

Winter smiled. "A group outing. That would be nice, especially to grant our friends our support."

Nora cheered. "Woo! Best fight! Best fight! Eat it wannabes! You ain't got anything on team RWBY!"
"Nice to know you have faith in us, Nora." Weiss gloomily remarked. "Well, for my part, I am proud of the part I played in this fight. Not that any of you failed. You all did well."

"Yay! We won!" Ruby cheered happily. "…..hey, totally not evil Emerald, Cinder and Mercury!"
Cinder whistled. "I look young. Well, I still do, but I look younger."
"Freezerburn for life." Ren whistled as Weiss and Yang were revealed to be team RWBY's representatives in the next round, only stopping when the brawler and heiress shot him intense glares.

"That's not good." Weiss blinked. "My card's been cancelled. Something's wrong-oh. That's low.

He's trying to make me talk to him? Heh. If he's as abusive as I hear he is in this world, I can understand why I wouldn't."
"So we're next." Pyrrha noted. "I see. I wonder how we do?"
"Well, considering they have you on their side, I think you have a high chance of winning!" Penny cheerily noted.

The spearmaiden softly chuckled. "Hardly. My team are the reason I made it so far, after all.

I am only one girl, after all. I can't fight a whole army."

"That's because we haven't tested that out yet." Yang remarked mischievously. Weiss smacked her around the back of the head.
"Not appropriate, Yang."
"What?! That wasn't even perverted!"

New Challengers

"Excellent strategy." Pyrrha nodded in approval. "I must say, they got our personalities right, too. This is exactly what we did against these people."

Nora snorted, giggling. "Arkos. Of course you would use your own ship name!"
"Even this version of you is a hopeless dunce." Weiss sighed, shaking her head. "Jaune, you really are the worst….

And Jaune….seriously?"
"What? I wasn't that good at commanding people back then!" Jaune protested. "In my defence, I got better, right?"
Weiss rolled her eyes. "That's arguable."

"Woo!" The berserker cheered. "WHO's the queen of the castle? Me! That's right! ME! I single-handedly just won the match!"

Weiss grumbled irritably. "No need to get so smug about it, Nora."

Ren merely smiled. "Exactly as planned. And…..that must be Qrow, then, watching us."
Ruby, at the mention of her uncle, squeed. "Uncle Qrow?! Yes! Love this show! I love it! Hey, guys, did you know he might be dropping by soon?"
"Uncle Qrow's dropping by?" Yang raised an eyebrow. "For what? Why?"
"I dunno, he just said he'd drop by." Ruby shrugged, shaking her head. "Dad called me last night and said he told him to tell us that he was coming to Beacon!"
Weiss' eyes narrowed. "Well, that seems utterly suspicious.

And seriously, Neptune? You are named for the god of the ocean, why are you afraid of water?! Incompetent…..I can only agree with Qrow on that part, calling it an absolute mess. "
"Ah. My airship." Winter nodded, smiling. "That must be my cue to appear in this series."

Weiss clapped. "Excellent. We'll get some sanity in this show for once."

"Am I not sane?" Penny inquired hopefully, smiling.

"No."

"…..oh." The puppet girl looked down, defeated. "That's….okay."

It's Brawl in the Family

"Uncle Qrow! Uncle Qrow! Uncle Qrow!" Ruby and Yang chanted as Winter and Qrow fought on screen. Winter herself meanwhile frowned.

"I am hardly that cold or critical." The lady complained. "But…perhaps that is one part which differs between me and my counterpart.

For my part, I am impressed I can stand up to a veteran like Qrow for so long….."
"He's just a total badass." Yang remarked, scoffing. "I'm surprised you haven't lost, especially considering he's pushing all your buttons."
"I wouldn't know." The lady admitted. "Her armaments and Semblance are wholly different from mine, unfortunately."

Cinder, for her part, looked at the screen curiously. "Hoo boy. This is about me. Well….I personally don't want to know what kind of stuff I have boiled up. If Qrow's calling it 'fear itself'…."
"It's probably all those pictures of you in burrito parlors." Torchwick remarked drily. "Seriously, you got through those things faster than a fat kid goes through hamburgers."
"That's rude, Roman. Don't you know we have kids around?"
"You're the one who dresses them in maid costumes for fun, lady! I just end up being your slave monkey!"

"Uh oh." Jaune cringed. "…..that dance thing finally comes back to bite us in the butt. Did nobody really check to see if she'd done anything to it afterwards?"

Blake sighed. "Terrible computer security. Surprised that some enterprising hacker with time and money hasn't just turned the whole thing to Mistralian cheese. I could draw better ones up in my sleep."

"Trained Hunters against students." Weiss grumbled. "This ought to go well…."

Yang wagged her finger. "It went well enough when Pyrrha fought Mercury."
"She's also got magnet powers and has the skill of a literal demigod." The heiress reminded her. "As if she didn't need enough overkill."

Lessons Learned

"Awww…." Velvet frowned. "We're barely even in this episode! Cursed to have no screentime everywhere we are, it seems."

Vivi popped up over her head, patting her bunny ears comfortingly. "Piiii pipi."
"The fate of a side character is never happy…." The bunnygirl sighed, shaking her head sadly. Yang looked over to her.

"Say, where is your team, anyway?"
"They were kinda busy." Velvet shrugged. "Homework and stuff. You guys did all of yours, so you guys could watch this stuff and….you know, have fun!

Oh, and Elf already had trouble dealing with team RWBY, JNPR, me, Penny, Winter, Cinder AND Torchwick in the same room without adding another three people…."
"…whatever." Weiss shrugged. "…see? This is an absolute slaughter! Coco and Yatsuhashi barely stood a chance. That was ridiculous!"

Winter smiled. "That is…..more like it, as they say. I feel much more amenable to my counterpart if she's training you as a sister should."
"Awww…." Nora giggled. "That's so sweet!"

"I try my best, Miss Valkyrie. I try." The lady responded, chuckling slightly.

Yang nodded. "He has a point about it being kinda suspicious that everyone stopped doing stuff when Roman left…."
"What can I say? They like a stylish leader." The bowler-hat wearing man remarked. "Suppose they just lost the will to fight without someone like me in charge."
"Doubt it. You couldn't lead a horse to water." Cinder remarked snappily, shutting him down. "You can barely teach a class here."
"Hey, in my defense, I have to deal with Miss 'BLOW THINGS UP' and Miss 'RECLAIM THE SEXY' over here!"

"And reclaim the sexy I will!" The brawler declared proudly. "Eventually!"

Weiss sighed. "Good Dust, Yang, seriously? We have guests!"
"Reclaim the sexy!" Penny cheered. "Reclaim the sexy! Wait…..what does that mean?"
"Oh, now look what you did!"

Pyrrha sighed, patting Penny on the head. "Don't ask."
"Huh? What's wrong? Why is everyone looking at me so weirdly?"

"And also, that scene's totally wrong." The brawler scoffed. "I would so totally kick Uncle Qrow's as-butt. I said butt, Weiss! Put that hand down!"
"…hmph." The heiress retreated, crossing her arms.

"I would totally own him at video games? The hel-heck kinda person they think I am?"

Never Miss A Beat

Penny smiled. "Finally, I appear in this show! Is this what they call déjà vu?"
"It's something, alright, to see yourself do all this." Jaune remarked, smiling. "Probably."

"A plan to stay with my friends? I wonder what that is?"

Yang scoffed. "Probably something like mailing you to us or something. That'd be hilarious."
"That would hardly work." The heiress retorted. "She's not small enough."
"Dad got Zwei to us, why not Penny?"

"Mailing yourself to others as a method of transportation…." Penny noted down, causing Weiss to stare at her.

"D-don't take it seriously!"

The brawler cheered. "Woo! Just us! Against a Nyan Cat wannabe and her jazz-playing boyfriend. Woo."
Weiss grumbled for the umpteenth time. "Are you kidding me? Well, now I'm getting blamed for what my father did! That's hardly fair!"

"Top-heavy?" Yang tilted her head. "I'd take that as a compliment! If you've got 'em, flaunt 'em!" To prove her point, she puffed her considerable chest out. Blake turned away, sighing.

"For the love of Dust, Yang, sit down."

"Just saying!"

"Hmph. Acceptable." Weiss crossed her arm as she sacrificed herself to defeat Flynt. "Hardly something that someone of my calibre would have to resort to, but it will do."

"Uh-oh." Cinder's eyes widened. "Well…..other me just figured out how to hack Penny. That's….not going to end well, is it?"

Pyrrha blinked, confused. "…..so they chose me as this….Guardian? Why? What…..what do these Guardians have to do?"
"That really doesn't sound too good." Jaune gulped, moving a little closer to her as the episode ended. "Let's hope it ends well."

"As do I." The spearmaiden sighed, nodding. "…if someone must be ready for such a responsibility, I cannot foresee it being easy…."

"Things are getting deep." Yang whistled. "Ah, well, it's typical RWBY. It'll be fine next episode, right?"

Fall

"The Maiden story, huh?" Cinder tilted her head. "You know, I've heard that one so many times, I think I can tell it off by heart."

Pyrrha nodded as her counterpart did indeed recount it. "…..fairy tales are true, it seems. So these Maidens possess unique powers that pass on to the last person they think of-

Wait. Does that mean that if a Maiden was murdered…."
"Probably, yeah." Weiss nodded, finishing her thought. "…..still, that was unexpected. Wait! They plan to…oh. Oh my."
Pyrrha tilted her head as Amber appeared on the screen for the first time. "…she looks familiar, but I can't quite place my finger on why.

So they plan to…..turn me into the Fall Maiden with her Aura? I…..can't imagine that will end well."
"Especially with other-me skulking about." Cinder added. "She's probably hacked it or something."

Yang smirked. "Alright! It's my turn! Let's get mixing! And-

Wait. Mercury. What are you- WHAT?!"

Suddenly, the whole room grew silent as the end of Yang's fight dawned upon them and the end of the episode left them with that to contemplate.

"….what." Jaune stared at the screen in wide-eyed confusion. "D-did…did Yang just…."

Weiss nodded slowly. "She was just…f-framed."

"…did….did I just get arrested?!" The brawler cried in shock. "What the hell?! What the hell was that?!

I thought this was RWBY! Not…..what!?"

Penny frowned. "This is getting quite, as they say, intense…"

Jaune looked worriedly at Pyrrha for a moment, frowning. "Especially with this whole 'soul' business…..

I hope if she does go through with it, she'll get out okay. I mean, yeah, it's not our Pyrrha, but…."

"That was indeed shocking." Winter commented. "…..we may need a moment before we continue."

Weiss nodded in agreement, releasing a loud breath. "Agreed. We're taking a break.

This…..really isn't going to be a light-hearted end, is it?"

"It had better be!" Yang roared. "Someone's going to get smacked otherwise! I just got arrested for Dust's sake! And not for something awesome, either!"

"Since when is any crime awesome?!"

Torchwick looked away, muttering under his breath.

'Oh, Weiss.' The man thought, shaking his head as he adjusted his hat, brushing a stray strand of hair from his eyes. 'If only you knew. You've got no idea, do you?

You'll see, soon enough.'

To be continued…..

A/N: You'll just have to wait for another day to get at the main event, it seems! At least Pyrrha, Penny and Yang get spared one more chapter before canon punches them all in the gut! Well, harder than it did for Yang, at any rate.

So, I hope you enjoyed that, leave your ideas, suggestions, criticisms, reviews, thoughts and comments, and I hope you have a GREAT day! Until next time!