"wow it's been awhile since I played this game, I better have a practice go at it first before I play a game online, especially in case badTexas or any of her group comes along" Weiss said rolling her shoulders.

"Okay lets go into skirmish, hey Blood Gulch okay that will do" Weiss said setting up the game so it was her playing as a human against human AI on Automatic difficultly. She started by building the base up and waited for the enemy thinking it would be easy.

"Okay nope!" Weiss said quitting out of the game where she nearly lost badly before the first round of her troops were deployed, only to realise that they were rebels.

"Stupid rebels, anyway I've made it easier so it should be easy" Weiss said

"Chicken" Blake said opening her copy of Fall of Reach.

"Not for long" Weiss said as the game started up this time she selected random human for each side.

"Time to start" she said as the clock counted down.

"Okay here I go, better build some supply depots, a reactor and some turrets before I start to mount an army" she said waiting for everything to happen. she then looked at the unit options in the main base

"So I'm the doctor judging by the special unit: Gremlin" Weiss observed

"Remember Weiss, charging head on is not the best strategy" Blake commented

"I know that" Weiss said

"And you better research the Gunner add-on for the Warthog, they're just scouting units without it, making them unable to fight back unless you ram them into something" Blake advised

"Good Idea, and while I'm ad it I'll train a MARINE squad to keep at the base just in case of an attack" Weiss said.

"Come get some!" Weiss shouted as the rebels tried to defend their base from the four of her MARINE squads and a upgraded Warthog

"You're going all out again" Blake murmured

"I left some anti-infantry troops back at the base" Weiss argued

"But you are using majority of your military as a full assault unit

"Spartan on deck" the computer said

"A single Spartan unit huh?" Blake asked.

"Better than nothing" Weiss said

"You're training to fight some of the other players huh?" Briar asked walking in and seating down with her back against Weiss bed.

"What of it?" Weiss asked

"Nothing considering that the next group of opponents you'll face is New Republix" Briar said

"How do you know that?" Blake asked

"Insight" Briar sighed looking as Weiss had developed a Scorpion and was waiting for the Hornets she cued up to finished.

"Be careful the enemy has a dozen Hornets coming from the front" Briar said "And this time I'm not just guessing, they're right there" the mysterious huntress giggled.

"OH SHIT!" Weiss said instructing her MARINES to counter the hornets.

"I would upgrade your turrets to handle the infantry and air units" Blake said

"Mortars or?" Weiss asked

"Upgrade your turret into Rocket turrets to beat back the aircraft" Blake said while reading her novel.

"Good idea, but knowing our heiress she's still going to charge in guns blazing" Briar smirked

"Yeah, yeah I know" Weiss snapped.

"Okay so I've upgraded everything, got a huge army and nothing standing in my way, considering I destroyed most of the rogue human rebels" Weiss said
"She's getting cocky" Blake said

"I know, but with 13 Marines, three Spartans, five flamethrowers 6 Warthogs, a Scorpion, 3 hornets and a Wolverine do you blame her?" Briar asked as Weiss moved on the enemy based.

"Not really, but she has left some at the base hasn't she?" Blake asked concerned about Weiss' strategy as she selected all her units and moved them over to the enemy base.

"This is probably going to hurt" Briar said as she saw the enemy send out Hornets that were dealt with by the Wolverine. In a matter of seconds Weiss' MARINEs had destroyed the barracks and Air tower. Making sure that they couldn't make any more troops before she destroyed the base

"Wow that was brutal" Briar said "Even for a strategy game"

"That was fun" Weiss stretched before noticing something "Oh wow, haven't felt like this in a while" she mumbled before stumbling, only to be caught by Blake

"Take it easy, it has to be more than a simple long time of gaming. A condition maybe" Blake said helping Weiss over to her bunk and tucked her in

"No she's okay its just she gets tired for concentrating so much on the game" Briar said tucking her hair behind her ears and removing her glasses and putting them back in their pouch "Alot of gamer feel it after playing for a while" Briar said

"You sound like you've felt it before" Blake said
"You could say that" Briar smiled leaving the dorm to allow Weiss to rest.

"Who are you?" Blake asked.