Weiss Reacts to Kamen Rider Gaim, Part 2!

A/N: Welcome, one and all, to Weiss Reacts! It's been a while, hasn't it? Well, the main reason I stopped is because I actually went off to marathon Gaim again, and then college kicked me in the nuts repeatedly, had me over its lap and paddled me and then walked away with my wounded body left in an alleyway. I mean what? Anyway, enough chit-chat, let's get on with the chapter, I'm sure you guys have been waiting for Weiss to lose her marbles over things! Or maybe not. I don't know anymore.

DISCLAIMER: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth, otherwise- SCREW VOLUME 4 EPISODE 2.

Kamen Rider Gaim belongs to Toei Company.

All mentioned franchises and characters belong to their respective owners.

Episode 10

"Oh, sneaky little…."Weiss muttered, looking almost impressed. "Of course. Sack the others to get at the white Rider while you skulk around the forest full of fruit monsters and to find your friend, who is probably dead. Well, I can't deny the effort's there."

Yang shrugged casually. "Well, think about it. The white Rider's probably going to kick all their as-butts, I said butts-, so if Kouta can be nowhere near that while he finds out more, the better for him right?"

"I'm personally surprised," the heiress admitted. "He's been a complete dunce for the last ten episodes. Oh, wonderful, and now the idiot baker is joining in."
"Isn't that a good thing?" Ruby pointed out helpfully. "He's from the military, so maybe he'll beat up the guy in white, right?"

"This is a kids' show," the heiress retorted, scoffing. "If anything, the older you are, the more likely you are to lose to kids."

The reaper looked down. "That's….true."

Weiss groaned. "Oh, of course, they're already cheating with the Inves. Why did I not see that coming?"
"Well, I guess we figured out who the white Rider is," Yang declared.

"To nobody's surprise whatsoever," Weiss completed for her. "Seriously? This was meant to be a surprise?"

The reaper looked excited. "It's all going to kick off now, right? We're going to see a real fight?"
"Why are you getting excited about a bunch of children blowing each other up with fruit…..weapons," Weiss started berating Ruby, before realising her own folly. "Ah."

Ruby's eyes practically sparkled with excitement as she slowly nodded.

"…I'm surprised you found time to love me, between your cookie fetish and your weapon obsession," the heiress half-chided, half-teased her partner. "One thinks that someone might not be able to get between those."

"I-It's not an obsession!" Ruby protested, puffing her cheeks out and pouting. "It's a healthy adolescent weapon fascination!"

"I think you got that line wrong," Yang piped in, raising an eyebrow. "I don't think Lilly censored herself like that."

"Of course she wouldn't," Weiss grumbled. "That girl's even more perverted than you are…."

Episode 11

"You know, I never did understand how you can use a shield to beat people up," Weiss muttered. "Isn't it impractical to hit someone with the thing you're using to protect yourself?"

Yang shrugged. "Well, it's a big chunk of heavy metal. I think that'd hurt pretty bad."
"Well, actually, a shield could be used as a weapon, if it's heavy enough," Ruby began pointing out in a professional tone. "True, you'd leave yourself open, but then you'd also stun the enemy if you hit it right. Then again, maybe the defensive benefits of a shield are more useful than a weapon at that particular moment, so it might not be so easily ignored….."

"I forgot how much of a weapon nut my girlfriend was," Weiss muttered exasperatedly as the reaper continued explaining the intricacies of the uses of a shield as a weapon. "…..and you would think they'd all learn not to fight the clearly more skilled guy in white, but nooo. Well, first Rider's out."

…

"You would think that this Bravo guy would quit already," the heiress remarked. "Well, at least you can't fault his determination to ruin everything for people he barely knows."

Yang nodded in agreement. "He's like Team Rocket. Or, well, Roman before he flipped sides. He's the kinda villain who you know's absolutely powerless but is really fun."
"Yeah, I think you and I see him completely differently."

….

Episode 12

"Of all possible times after you find out that there's a whole world out there where these evil monsters of eternal suffering are coming from, you decide that now would be the time not to transform?!" Weiss shrieked for the umpteenth time. "…not that I can't fault their logic, but come on! I'd think the Inves are a worse threat than Yggdrasil!"

"Well, I mean, they have the guy who can basically fight everyone there to a standstill," Ruby pointed out. "They basically have the biggest guns."

"Still!"

Yang popped a piece of popcorn into her mouth. "We're getting interesting now~"

"Big surprise, the evil guy in glasses ditched you, Hase," the heiress remarked. "And now he wants to go join the buffoon in the spiky armor. Well then."

"Two dunces are better than one?" Ruby hopefully pointed out.

"Their duncery cancels out the potential benefits. Of course they aren't!"

….

Episode 13

Weiss exhaled deeply. "Okay, that's a lot worse than the Grimm. They give you a virus that makes their food grow out of you!"
"Well, I told you this series wasn't just for kids, didn't I?"
"That doesn't meant the whole fruit gimmick still isn't stupid!"

Ruby groaned. "Oh, they're making things worse now…"

"Are you kidding me? Why would this moron not fight against the Inves himself!? Zawame's hero my backside…." the heiress hissed. "…..well done, Bravo. You managed to piss off Kouta AND Kaito to the point they fought against you. The archenemies tag-teamed to wipe you out. When does that even happen?"

"You'd be surprised," the brawler suggested. "Besides, Kaito's a jerk, not evil. Oren's just a bigger jerk than he is. You know, like Kyoko."
"Oh, don't even remind me of that show…..oh. Wonderful. Now the white Rider's even stronger AND Hase's now a horrific monster from another dimension!" Weiss threw her hands up in the air. "Why would you even eat those things?! Did he want to die?"
The reaper frowned. "Oh that's hardly fair, Weiss. Not everyone learned not to eat unknown food like we did."
"I still can't believe they thought showing what happens when people ate Claymore Mushrooms was a good idea to eight year olds," Yang reminisced, shuddering at the memory.

….

Episode 14

"Don't make it any more painful than it has to be and kill him," Weiss stressed, rubbing the side of her head. "He was human. He isn't now. Or, at least…..not in any state to listen anymore."

"Well, what would you do if I turned into a Grimm and you had to kill me?" Yang inquired curiously.

"Stab you. Without hesitation." Weiss didn't miss a beat.

The brawler's eyes narrowed. "Ha ha. Very funny."

"…..honestly, though, I don't know. Don't ask me those kinds of questions, it's not that serious!"

Ruby cringed. "Well, I guess we know what happened to the old leader of Gaim now…."
"To nobody's surprise, Kouta killed him," the heiress declared, completely unsurprised by the twist. "Well, I can't say I didn't see it coming, but still….."

Yang concurred with a nod. "Well, to be fair to him, not like he could've known eating Helheim Fruits turns you into a monster of eternal suffer."

"Of course, he hasn't the guts to kill him and gets kidnapped by Yggdrasil AND watches him die anyway. So much for heroism."

…..

Episode 15

"….so this DJ Sagara guy is apparently….playing Yggdrasil against themselves too?" Weiss remarked, scratching her head. "This is utterly ridiculous. Just who is he supposed to be anyway?"

"Probably the guy who kicked this whole thing off," Yang suggested. "He certainly looks shifty enough, what with the whole 'busting Kouta outta jail' deal and all, but….."

"I'm not liking this one bit," the heiress remarked. "Not liking this at all."

Ruby shrugged. "Maybe he's just being nice. Not everyone's always trying to scheme around each other, Weiss."
"Not here. I have a feeling it's one of those kinds of series where everyone backstabs each other on a whim," the heiress grumbled. "So, in short, the ones I hate."

"I'm not losing this bet, dammit!" Yang declared. "You're going to love Gaim if it's the last thing I bet on!"

"Yeah, well, get ready to quit betting."

Episode 16

"Oh, good grief," Weiss grumbled. "Yes, use the evil monsters that come from the forest that has fruits that turn you into a horrific monster or into transformation trinkets as jewellery thieves. Excellent job! Might as well start leaving the Helheim Fruits out in a bowl with a sign saying "Eat Me"!"

"Well, that's one way to be creative with those things, you can't fault them on that," Yang replied, still frowning. "Not endorsing it, though…"

"…..oh, let me guess what Micchy saw," Weiss tapped her chin. "Maybe it's the last civilization these guys took over. Either that or he saw them acting like humans."

'…..when did Weiss get so savvy?' Yang thought to herself, frowning. 'At this rate, she'll be even better than me at it.'

…..

Episode 17

Weiss grew even more irritated, if such a thing was possible. "Oh come on! Really?! And now he's turning on him, too. Calling it now, he leaves Kouta to die in Helheim sometime after shooting him in the back."
"You know, if someone tried to kidnap Ruby to bait me out," Yang mused. "I wouldn't negotiate for her."

"You'd break their legs and take a page out of Nora's book?" Weiss suggested. The brawler stared at her as if she was insane.

"No, of course not."

"Oh?" The heiress was intrigued now. "What, then?"
"No, Nora would be lenient compared to what I'd do. They'd wish you had Nora instead of me."

Yang even winked as if she'd simply said that she was going out to town for a walk or that she was going to go play video games.

Ruby laughed nervously. "Hehehe….luckily, I won't get kidnapped, so you don't have to do that. Right? Riiiiiight."

'Right now, my own sister scares me more than the Grimm,' Ruby thought, shuddering.

…..

Episode 18

"You would think these people would jump at the chance to prove they'd be the best dancers in the city and to get people off their backs," Weiss complained. "Seriously, what is it with these shows and people never getting along without having the villains almost literally lighting fires underneath their feet?"

"Poor communication kills, and people like 'em some violence," Yang pointed out, with another shrug. "'Sides, makes for good television, right?"

The heiress grumbled irritably, as she often did. "Good television my foot. Just once I'd like to have these kinds of issues actually resolved halfway through the show instead of right at the end. Oh, that's just…..just wonderful. Hello, Bravo, as if we didn't already need enough stupid, now you're going to show up and throw a bunch of monsters at people? Obsessed much?"

"Well, he is a war vet," the brawler reminded Weiss. "Maybe he's just getting bored or something. Still seems pretty scummy to do that to a bunch of kids."

"And you wonder why I hate him, Yang."

…

Episode 19

Weiss' irritation continued to mount with the show as she continued watching. "….you know, if you just explained what was the actual deal with the Helheim Forest, maybe you wouldn't need to beat each other up so much. I'm seriously starting to hate this trope."

"Hey, sometimes it can lead to good things, right?" Yang offered up weakly.

'Dammit! I'm losing Weiss. At this rate, I'm going to lose this bet…..'

"…Micchy, for the love of all Dust, STOP MAKING THINGS WORSE!" the heiress yelled at the screen. "Good DUST, I seriously hate him already. Get Kaito to beat some sense into him, since there's no way Kouta will do it."

Ruby chuckled. "You're really getting into this, aren't you?"

"No! Seriously, what aren't you two getting? The only reason I'm still here is that this show hasn't done anything stupid enough to make me leave!" Weiss retorted, seething. "Ugh-wait. Wait. Did he actually offer to explain what's going on? Good Dust, finally. We might be getting somewhere today!"

…..

Episode 20

"...of all the times to decide not to fight the monsters, you decide it's when they're actually former people and it's when you know THAT THIS WILL HAPPEN HERE IF YOU DON'T?!" Weiss snapped. "Come ON, Kouta! For a hero, you're kind of a coward! Get over it already!"

"Hey, there's worse, right?" Yang pointed out. "He could be Shinji."

"…..who even is Shinji?! I don't watch anime, Yang. You know this!"

"You seriously haven't heard? Y'know, 'get in the freaking robot, Shinji'? That?"

"You know I have other things in my life aside from whatever shenanigans you get up to, right?"

The brawler was simply completely and utterly shocked. Weiss shrugged, continuing to watch the show.

"…..wonderful. And now we know that, aside Micchy's brother, the company responsible for saving the world are a bunch of scumbags. This situation's going to just get worse and worse, isn't it?"

Yang simply nodded, not bothering to argue. "Well, what can you expect from the guy who wrote Madoka Magica, am I right?"

"This story started with dance teams and fruit ninjas, not the literal apocalypse."

Episode 21

"…..you know what, I'm not even surprised by the fact that Yggdrasil's big tower building is actually a massive weapon to destroy literally the whole city," Weiss remarked resignedly. "Because of course it is."

"Well, when the apocalypse is probably going to come and turn everyone into fruit zombies living in a giant forest, burning everything to the ground seems like a fair option," Yang commented. "I mean, I'd totally do that if it was a choice between becoming a fruit zombie or burning everything down to protect people."

"It'd probably work, too," Ruby added, before frowning. "…..if he didn't have a mad scientist and a bunch of crazy people as underlings."

The heiress simply pinched the bridge of her nose. "This is going to blow up in someone's face soon enough. In whose face, I'm not sure."

….

Episode 22

"…..now that surprised me," Weiss conceded, as the reveal about Yggdrasil's plan to protect humanity was made. "…still a bad situation, but at least someone's trying to do something about it aside from burn literally everyone down. Now if only they'd start telling each other that. Seriously, can you people communicate?!"

"I mean, to be fair, I don't think Takatora wants this random guy muscling in on his operation," Ruby pointed out rationally. "Maybe he's one of those types who thinks they can handle the problem on their own."

"Considering his underlings are all insane or sociopaths, I think he's even stupider than the guy he thinks he's fooling. I mean seriously?!" Weiss complained. "Oh. NOW it hits him that he probably killed his friend in the first episode. Now it does. You should've figured that out ten episodes ago when Hase turned!"

….

Episode 23

Weiss, for once, was not irritated by the show.

"Well done. Now we're getting somewhere with this whole mess," the heiress declared with relief, an impressed expression on her face as Gaim destroyed the Scalar System. "Now that Kouta's stopped crying about something he literally should've figured out ages ago and actually has a thing to fight Yggdrasil with, maybe they'll quit trying to get him out the way and fix this."

Yang smirked to herself.

'Excellent. I might just have Weiss hooked in yet. Just need to get her to finish the show, is all, and that bet is mine.'

…..

Episode 24

"And of course they prove me immediately wrong," Weiss grumbled. "Nope, the Over Lord Inves or whatever just have to be stupidly powerful. That's not even fair."

"We're just over halfway through the series. What did you expect?" Yang inquired, genuinely curious.

"Not this! Good Dust, how much weaker than the Overlords is humanity if they can beat up the only people who can do something against them?!"

…..

Episode 25

"NOW you realise that things aren't all about dancing teams anymore!" Weiss snapped. "Good grief, how did this guy get into the military?! Is he seriously not understanding there's something wrong with the world?!"

"He's comic relief," Ruby remarked with a shrug. "Maybe he's just oblivious."

"Yang's comic relief and she's nowhere near as oblivious. An idiot, maybe, but not oblivious."

"Aw, thanks," the brawler drily replied. "Nice to know you love me too, Weiss darling."

"…might as well try to finish this show," the heiress commented. "At least it might be getting somewhere soon enough."

To be continued….

Episode Count: 25/47

A/N: Heh. I suppose I owe you guys an explanation about where I've been since the last update.

Well, part of that has to do with real life. I've had plenty on my plate these last few months, both mandatory and self-inflicted; exams, family meetings, university applications, and of course I've also been distracted IRL with video games (recently got into Overwatch and been distracted by Warframe, and of course Shadows of Valentia's been great) and anime (if any of you have been following the last fic I uploaded, you'll know I've been watching Your Lie in April, among other things).

But a large part of it has been my waning interest in RWBY, caused by a variety of issues I've had with the show that, until now, I've not really had a chance to get off my chest. To anyone who might disagree, this is just my personal opinion; don't take me as some sort of authority on RWBY.

Volume 3's ending was, for me, mostly perfect. The only thing I did not like, and to this day still cannot come to terms with, was Pyrrha's death, which was, for me, a massive turn-off from the show. Truth be told, I didn't actually like Pyrrha originally; she mainly grew on me throughout Volumes 2 and 3, to the point that, by the time of the Volume 3 finale, she was (and remains) one of my absolute favourite characters from the show. It didn't just get to me as a fan, but as a writer, I found it such an awful waste of potential, and so utterly pointless from both an in-universe and real life perspective, that it more or less, to me, seemed as if the writers basically just needed to kill someone off to up the ante. I'll forget, for a moment, that the image of her death was one of the very first things Monty came up with for the series; it was just so utterly pointless from any perspective that I've considered that I personally felt as if it was merely just done because Monty thought it would look good. The ante was upped already from the moment Yang was framed and disqualified, or Penny died, or Beacon was blown up, or Yang lost an arm, or Ozpin was killed fighting Cinder; killing her off basically didn't do anything that we didn't already feel. It also required Pyrrha to grasp the idiot ball so hard in regards to dealing with Cinder that, the more I thought about it, the more I felt like her death was just so forced and contrived. I do know that other people don't feel the same way about it; I've watched many people give me explanations or heard many explanations as to why Pyrrha's death was a good move, a necessary move, but I've been unconvinced by any of them.

However, Pyrrha alone wasn't enough to kick my interest in the show, as painful as losing her was. Although her death was a large part of why I lost interest in RWBY, it wasn't the only factor.

Volume 4 was, for me, a massive disappointment. There were many parts I loved about it, don't get me wrong; more Ren and Nora is always good, and we finally got development for everyone's favourite underrated couple, more screentime for Qrow's nice, and we finally got to see Taiyang as a parent. However, for me, the many complaints I had about this volume outweighed what I liked about it massively. The climactic villain of the Volume, the Nuckelavee, was very impressive in appearance, but it was so utterly unrelated to the main arc of the series that I felt it was a massive letdown compared to the likes of Maiden!Cinder or even Roman. Fighting it was really only cathartic for Ren and Nora, which wouldn't have fallen so flat for me had they not introduced the Nuckelavee literally less than half a volume before ending it. Tyrian would've been a far better choice, but again, they failed on this front; having him essentially take Qrow out of the fight, while menacing, was a waste of what could've been a great final battle for the Volume. I also felt that Blake was a hell of a lot less sympathetic than she has been for the last three Volumes; I understand she's trying to push people away, but that doesn't excuse how badly she treats Sun, who, as far as I can see, is literally just trying to be the best friend he can be, which irritates me, given Blake is probably my second favourite. And of course, my absolute favourite, even above Blake and Pyrrha, which as you should all have figured by now is Weiss, spends most of the Volume literally powerless and trapped in the Schnee family home. The pacing of the Volume was pretty slow, too; in the larger scale of things, nothing really happened, and the big reveal about the headmaster of Haven was a last-minute thing that served more to attempt to build hype for the next Volume than anything else. In my personal opinion, Volume 4's entire arc, in any other show, could and should be condensed into a three-parter, several episodes to portray the protagonists' recovery from Volume 3, and then the main plot could continue. And the more they portrayed Jaune and Ruby's reactions to Pyrrha's death, the more her death smacked of pointlessness to me; a perfectly good character, one who, in my opinion, was utterly underrated, was reduced to a plot device, a motivation for the main characters to move on. That was merely the cherry on top of a Volume that, for me, was my least favourite, even beyond the Jaunedice arc of Volume 1 or the unsatisfying ending to Volume 2.

Again, take my opinion with a grain of salt. I am stating an opinion, not challenging anyone's enjoyment of the show.

These two factors were my main reasons for losing interest in RWBY. I was honestly more disappointed than furious; RWBY seemed so promising during Volume 3, and although I was willing to let Pyrrha go, I was NOT willing to let Volume 4's absolute disappointment slide so easily. Hence, I left RWBY behind, moved on, and did other things, leaving this fic in the dust.

However, as time moved on, I resolved that I needed to finish this. I had so many plans for this fic, so many things I had left to do. It feels fitting that I'm writing this and submitting this days before the premiere of Volume 5- which, I hope, moves a hell of a lot faster than Volume 4-, because I decided, when I decided to do this, that the show must go on, and that I had to give RWBY a second chance, a clean slate. After all, I still love the setting, and the characters are still great, and I'd feel like a hypocrite if, after saying so long ago the show must go on after Monty's death, I abandoned my story for a far pettier reason.

So, in short, I lost interest in RWBY, and I got my groove back, and that's why I'm here. Because the show must go on.

Anyway, as to how the rest of the Reactsverse will go, I do have updates lined up. I have decided to prioritise this, Corrin Reacts and the other two fics coming out tonight because I already have updates lined up for them; the others (Lucina Reacts, Hajime Reacts, Corrin Reacts Gaiden and Homura Reacts Redux) will get updates in the coming weeks when I get time to sit down and write them. I've decided to see them all to the finish; it'd be an injustice not to.

So, I hope you enjoyed everything prior to my rant (and sorry for bothering you all with it, but I just needed to get it off my chest for once), and please leave your ideas, comments, suggestions, responses, reviews and thoughts and I hope you have a GREAT day. Until next time!