Blake Reacts to Music Standoffs; the Sequel, Part 1!

A/N: Welcome, one and all, to Weiss Reacts! Woo, have we got a...very...ahem, weird chapter today, being that in my usual need, I had to figure out how to top the last time we did this. Which we...hopefully did this time. I dunno. You guys are the judges of whether or not I topped the last standoffs chapter.

Yes, there will be more Fuckslayer. Blake loves that thing. And more metal. Maybe. Since I might as well...let's get this chapter started and the disclaimer might spoil a little of what this chapter's actually about-

Just kidding, did you think I was going to spoil it that easily?

DISCLAIMER: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth, otherwise Sun would be a (terrible) gamer.

All mentioned franchises and characters belong to their respective owners.

All songs belong to their respective artists/bands.

"...you know, you guys." Blake said, leaning back on a black cat beanbag. "You guys are bored, right?"

Ruby blinked, looking over at her teammate. "Uh...no? not really. I'm pretty content, actually."

Weiss shrugged. "Nah, not really."

Yang giggled, casually drawing yaoi on her desk. "I can entertain myself~"

The catgirl sighed. "You guys are boring." She glugged down a can of a strange brand of energy drink.

"What are you-" Weiss raised a finger, about to ask, but Blake cut her off.

"Kamogawa Energy. I had a box delivered. Also, you guys want some Morning Rescue?" The catgirl offered.

"I...don't know if that's another anime reference."

Yang shrugged. "Nah, at least one of those things is real. There is actually a Morning Rescue drink. They stock them down at Junes and that other import store."

Blake sighed irritably. "Guys, I want to do something! I want to do something FUN! Even if making a run down to Junes for Morning Rescue! Come on!"

Weiss glared at her. "Are you insatiably obsessed with manliness?!"
"Who said anything about manliness? I just wanted to do something fun." The catgirl pouted. "You know...maybe we should sign up for a music gig."
"A music gig?" Weiss stared at her. "You...realise we have to practice for that, right? We're not even a real band. Also, I'm the only one here with any experience with actual music!"

Blake shook her head. "Nuh-uh. I'm totally amazing at metal. As Yang knows..." She winked towards her partner, who grumbled.

"I still can't believe you made me dye my hair..."

Ruby raised a finger. "Well, actually...I've been practicing my bass since...the music festival. I kinda like those things."

"And I've been practicing drums in our spare time between classes and working with the giant mecha." Yang reminded her.

Blake nodded. "That'd explain the loud noises and smashing every time we do those stress tests."

Weiss rolled her eyes. "Even so, we're hardly professional musicians!"

Ruby chuckled. "You have a point, Weiss."

The heiress nodded, shrugging. "Yeah, how do you expect us to get into a professional gig?"

Blake snapped her fingers. "I've got an idea. We MAKE one."
"And how do you propose we do that?" The heiress stared at her. "We're not e-oh, right, you got several thousand Lien for selling that Spiral thing to my father."

Ruby looked unsure. "Um...I'm pretty sure Student Council won't approve of that..."

Minutes later...

Team RWBY stood in front of Ren in the Student Council room, who passed them back their event application form.

"Application accepted. The Vale MusicFest will be held in...a week and a half from today."

Weiss and Ruby shared a disbelieving look. "Ren, you're not serious."
"I am." Ren shrugged. "Just as long as Cinder gets to be judge, she said it's fine. Oh, and you're funding it out of your own wallet, Blake , so it's fine."

"W-what's Glynda going to say? What's Ozpin, for that matter, going to say?!" The heiress complained.

"Ozpin doesn't care as long as we don't kill each other, blow up the school or something like that. It's just a music competition, so it's fine." The gunslinger sighed. "Oh, and Glynda secretly likes these things, you guys know it."

Blake smirked smugly. "See? I knew I'd win."

"We just need two more judges. Cinder says we should draw one from one of the other competitors and another independent."
Blake snapped her fingers. "I know JUST the person to recruit, if I know who's signing up."

"And how are you going to get people to DO this thing, exactly?" Weiss pointed out.

"By judicious use of the Gilligan Cut!" Yang concluded proudly.

Hours later, again, in RWBY dorm..

Weiss pinched the bridge of her nose. "Don't tell me...you actually set up a stupid online ad and form."
"Of course I did." Blake shrugged. "How else do you expect me to raise awareness about this competition?"
"And you had to make it a stupid competition." Weiss sighed. "Blake, you're getting a little ahead of yourself, don't you think?"

"Nope!"

Ruby twiddled her fingers. "Uh...we haven't had much practice since the festival...as a band, I mean."

Blake shrugged. "We'll start tomorrow. We'll find out about the lineup afterwards! Besides, we got a week and a half to prepare."

The heiress sighed, grabbing a nightdress from the dorm cabinet. "I can already sense this going horribly, horribly wrong." With that, she headed into the bathroom to change and brush her teeth."

Blake yawned, closing the browser and shutting down the computer. "Yeah, I'll close in for the night too."

Yang giggled. "You've got serious balls, going professional with just us."

"I trust you guys to be my manly backup." Blake winked. "I know we've got this."

"Awwww...you do love us." The brawler laughed as she turned around in her bed and went to sleep. Blake nodded as she climbed up.

"Right."

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world...

"What's that you're looking at?"
"Hey, what's a 'Beacon'?"
"Sounds like a school! Apparently one of their students put up an application form for people to go join a music competition. Should we join? I'm sure we can rustle up the money for a plane trip to Vale."
"That sounds amazing! That would totally get us more famous! We should do it! And this 'Vale' place sounds cool!"

"I wonder if they have good cakes there..."

"Hey, quit fooling around! We've got to sign up for this thing! All in favour of doing it, raise your hands and say I!"

"I!"

"It's official, this'll be our first gig overseas! They even gave us a picture of who to look for if they needed anything! "

"Wait...is this girl some cosplayer? She's got cat ears."

"Who cares?! This is a good opportunity! I'm taking it!"

The next day...

Weiss woke up, yawning. "Ugh...that was strangely unrefreshing." She looked over at Blake, who looked as if she'd been awake for a long while, a bowl of Grimm Pieces cereal and milk to her right, checking the applicants to the festival.

"Madrigal...so we'll be seeing Emerald and Mercury there..." The catgirl noted. "...huh, team JNPR wants in? Okay...Sun wants in! Really?! Eh..." Blake scribbled down something on a piece of paper. "I don't like this, but it's nothing we can't handle...

And...Oum, is that supposed to be ATT or HTT? Eh...I'm going to go with ATT." Blake chuckled, rubbing her hands together. "Excellent. Adam's coming. At least that phone call to her didn't go wasted. She'll show.

And I can kick his-"
"Ahem." Weiss cleared her throat, causing the catgirl's gaze to dart towards her. "Blake, what are you doing?"

"Just staking out our competition." The catgirl stated nonchalantly. "That's all."

"...I already don't like this." Weiss grumbled. "Let's just get everyone up so we can practice for this stupid thing."

"Already ahead of you." Yang popped in from the bathroom. "Let's go. I think we can practice in Professor Amadeus' room." Lifting her custom-made guitar from the closet as she passed by, the brawler headed off out of the dorm.

Weiss sighed, looking over at the still sleeping Ruby. "We're not going to be ready for a long while, are we?"

"Just get your girlfriend out of bed so we can go practice a song or something."

The heiress grabbed a cookie-scented candle and wafted it over Ruby.

"Hey, sleepyhead. It's time to get up."

"Just...a couple more...minutes..." Ruby mumbled in her sleep. "...mom..."

"Mom?" Weiss blinked. 'Is she talking about...Summer?'

"...oh...it's just Yang...sorry, I thought you were mom..." The reaper muttered.

'Or Yin...that makes sense. Yin's her stepmom, after all...'

"Ruby, get up." Blake called out. "We have cookies, cookie-flavoured ice cream and cookie-shaped cake."

Ruby awoke with a start, looking around.

"WHERE"

Weiss jumped back in surprise. "S-seriously!? She wakes up from that?!"

Blake giggled. "Excellent. Ruby, you'll get your cookie things as soon as we get one practice done."

The reaper pouted. "Awww...you're a meanie..."

Weiss rolled her eyes, passing Ruby her cloak. "Just change into something that isn't pajamas, please."

"Fine, but I better get cookies after this!"

Minutes later, in Professor Amadeus' room...

"Right, ladies." Blake said, passing out sheet music. "We're going to play a Blind Guardian song!"

"I actually have a good bunch of lyrics-" Ruby raised her finger, but Yang shushed her.

"Elf can't write lyrics, so you can't either. Oh, and he can't have the real Blind Guardian show up in a fic, so he has to have us do their songs instead."

"Do we HAVE to play a metal song?" Weiss complained.

"Of course! Metal is manly! We will triumph upon our opponents with manliness! It is certain!"

"...I don't even know why I bother arguing." The heiress sighed. "Right, who's the vocalist?"
Blake nudged her head towards her. "You."

"What?! Why?!"

"You have the best voice here."

"B-but-"
Yang shrugged. "It's true. You are the best singer."
"I agree." Ruby raised her hand. "You're pretty good at it."

"I..." The heiress lowered her head, sighing. "I hate you morons."

Yang took her place behind the drums, twirling the drumsticks in her hands. Blake, meanwhile, pulled her guitar case- embossed with a golden pair of triangular shades- and opened it, as smoke streamed out to reveal...

Fuckslayer, the slayer of gods, the destroyer of ears and the manliest guitar known to man. All in the room felt the sheer might of the instrument emanating from it, such was its universe-rending power.

The catgirl picked the guitar and hugged it tightly, nuzzling her cheek into it and cooing to it.

"I love you so~"

Weiss rolled her eyes. "Perfect, now you're acting like Ruby and Crescent Rose."
"Don't insult Cress!" Ruby pouted. "And besides, he's only my second love! You're always first!"

"...I don't know whether to be offended or flattered that my girlfriend considers her trusted weapon second to me in love." The heiress remarked drily, but sighed, reading the lyrics and sheet music.

"So...Battlefield. Right." She cleared her throat, and nodded to Blake.

"Get ready."

Blake stood behind Weiss, flexing her fingers. "Here goes nothing..."

With a sweeping movement of her fingers, she opened the song's beginning chords, and all the girls felt the power of the instrument reverberate within their very beings, empowering them and strengthening them.

Weiss felt stronger, like she could belt out songs at the top at her voice without end. She opened her mouth to take in breath, before singing.

"It can be seen that there's blood on the green! Only God knows I'm innocent! Take, take me home!

A dark seed reigns within me, like the storm rules over the sea! I challenge thee, do not cross this bridge!"

...

"Waaaar and anger shall reign! The clash of iron can be heard! By blindness you're driven insane...I'm lost in anguish and grief!

Sorrow won't wane 'till you die! A shattered body deeply hurt and darkness will cover the light...

...it's gone foreveeeevermore!" Weiss finished the lyrics, letting Yang and Blake round out the coda with a combined riff on the guitar and beats from the drums.

With the final beat, Weiss exhaled, shaking her head.

"I don't know how I managed that, I seriously don't."

"All that Rammstein singing must have really helped." Blake quipped. "You're pretty good at singing, I'll give you that. Both pop and metal."
"Pfft. What did you expect? Nothing less from me." Weiss scoffed. "This is what I...well, used to think I was born for."

Ruby smiled. "Nicely done."

"Mr. Kürch himself would be proud." Yang chuckled. "Okay, guys, shall we do another, or do we take a break?"

Blake moved to speak, but suddenly, she held up a finger. "Wait."

"Huh?" The other three girls said in unison.

"Do you hear that?", asked Blake.

"No..." The brawler shook her head. "I heard nothing."

"It's...a loud gathering." Blake noted, her cat ears twitching. "Down on the ground flo-you don't think they're here yet, the competitors? I can see Adam's band, Madrigal and Miku getting here early..."

"Perhaps they just wanna scout out the venue." Ruby shrugged, slinging her bass off and carefully propping it up against the wall. The other placed their instruments aside and left the room to head down to the front gate to see what all the hubbub was.

When they arrived, a huge crowd had gathered around the gate, with some squees audible.

Blake blinked. "...must be Madrigal or something. Adam's band isn't this popular."

"Uh..." Ruby raised a finger. "I don't think Adam showed up."

"Huh?"

"I don't see anything...too White Fang-like."

"Good point, they do use a LOT of their imagery." The catgirl nodded. "Perhaps...no, I've got to take a closer look." With a swift movement, Blake grabbed her teammates and slid through the crowd, hoping to catch a glimpse at their opponents.

This movement was stopped when Blake got to the front and realised what- or rather, who- she was looking at.

The group seemed to be a bunch of young- not much older than team RWBY, in fact- girls, clad in casual attire, carrying a bunch of instruments and luggage with them. Had Blake not noticed what they were wearing, she would have written them off as uninvited guests. What caught her eye, however, were the coordinated brooches all four of them wore, proudly, on their chests, with a very familiar symbol that even in her obsession with mecha anime, she knew she could recognize.

She blinked in disbelief.

"Guys." Blake prodded Yang's shoulder. "Remember when I said I couldn't tell if it was ATT or HTT?"
"Yes?" Weiss nodded slowly.

"...It was most definitely HTT." Blake stated. "Most definitely. We're screwed."
"Why?"

Blake took a deep breath.

"Because it's freaking Hokuago Tea-Time walking through Beacon's front gate, that's why!" Blake declared.

END OF PART 1

DISCLAIMER: K-On! belongs to Kyoto Animation.

A/N: You heard right. We're about to pit a band of moeblobs playing moeblob songs against a band playing the most manly songs on this good earth. Yes. The hints were slightly obvious if you picked up on the small hints throughout the last couple of chapters.

Also, because following up 'Battlefield' with 'Fuwa Fuwa Time' can be nothing but hilarious.

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