Blake Reacts to Music Standoffs, The Sequel; Part 2!

A/N: Welcome, one and all, to Weiss Reacts! And yes, the insanity has been ramped up with freaking Hokuago Tea-Time showing up to school Blake in musicality! This looks like it'll be fun...for me, that is. Kukukukuku...

Maaaan I'm going to enjoy this. A lot. Hahaha. Ahahaha. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*clears throat* Okay enough ominous evil laughter, now it's time to write boring chapter that you guys will probably hate anyway. I dunno. *shrug*

Self-deprecation awaaaaay!

DISCLAIMER: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth, otherwise Cinder would be Lust. Come on. Tell me you didn't see that coming.

All mentioned franchises and characters belong to their respective owners.

All mentioned songs belong to their respective bands/musicians.

K-On! belongs to Kyoto Animation.

"What?" Weiss blinked, looking between the girls walking past them, who were apparently Hokuago Tea-Time, and Blake, who looked slightly concerned.

"You know, Hokuago Tea-Time?" Blake gestured towards them again.

"I heard what you said." Weiss grumbled. "What I don't get...is who are they? Why are you so worried? They just look like a bunch of high schoolers. Not even older than us-"

"Who are they?!" Minako popped up from nowhere, looking offended and wearing HTT badges, the familiar logo of the steaming teacup adorned on badges and hats all over her. "Why, just the most adorable band ever! They're adorable! Absolutely adorable!

Although one of their friends kinda sounds like me, which is weird, but you know, blah! This is amazing! Blake, you got them to-"

"Minako, please, explain to Weiss who they are in a manner that someone who doesn't care about anime does so she can see how screwed we are." The catgirl calmly stated.

"Oh, right, I forgot." Minako frowned. "Um...basically? They're cute schoolgirls- well, I think they're in college now- who started a band in high school and are pretty popular over in Japan.

That brown-haired girl at the front? That's their frontman, Yui. You'd do well to watch out for her."

"Is she a douche?" Weiss inquired.

"No, she's ditzier than Ruby and Velvet combined."

Ruby glared at her. "Hey!"

"Dear lord." The heiress facepalmed. "So Blake is worried about a group of moeblobs led by a complete- albeit adorable- ditz?"

"You don't get it, do you?" Blake grabbed her shoulders, shaking her in desperation. "They do this music thing every day. EVERY DAY! And they've done it for longer than Madrigal, who've only been around for three years- those girls have been at it since before we even WENT to Beacon!"

Yang scoffed. "Really, Blake?"

"Huh?"

"That's a bit...unmanly, don't you think? You're seriously going to let a bunch of unmanly moeblobs beat you?" The brawler teased her.

"...why you..." The catgirl glared at her, clenching her fists, before staring over at the band.

"S-screw your moe! Manliness will prevail! Stay back, you moe fiend!"

"Teehee! Bunnies!" Yui, unaware of Blake's tirade, was busy hugging a rabbit Faunus boy, who, by the looks of it, seemed to be in heaven at the moment, seeming about to faint in the grasp of the girl. Blake's glare only grew harsher.

"I swear...from this moment onwards, and until we win this competition...

Hirasawa Yui, you are my enemy!"

Weiss facepalmed. "Is she serious about this? This...Yui girl, she isn't by any chance a magus or a Huntress, or a, Oum-forbid, a Persona user?"

"Nah. Just a normal girl. She's pretty good with the guitar." Minako explained, resisting the urge to squee at her favourite band's frontman hugging things adorably- plainly visible by her trembling, clenched fists.

"Great. So Blake has declared war on a ditz because she's apparently unmanly. Why am I not surprised?"

Blake slipped on her triangle shades. "I swear...team RWBY, we are GOING to beat Hokuago Tea-Time! We're going to prove that no amount of moe's ever going to beat being the manliest men ever!"

Yang cheered, pumping her fist. "Yeah! We'll show 'em!"

"Uh...I...err...I kinda wanna talk to Ritsu...and, um...get an autograph..." Ruby twiddled her fingers shyly, embarrassed. The catgirl glared at her harshly, making the reaper cringe.

"Are you insane?! We do not fraternize with the enemy!"

"S-sorry, s-sir! I-I mean, ma'am!" Ruby quickly saluted.

Weiss facepalmed for the umpteenth time in so many minutes, sighing in irritation. "You know what, fine.

I'm in, if only because the alternative is to let you idiots fail. If you make that poor girl cry, though, I don't know you. At all."

"Yeah!" Nora cheered, clad in a white shirt that seemed to be incredibly tight around the chest area, lederhosen, and a green hat with a red feather set to the right. She placed her right arm on her hip, and pointed to the sky. "I will achieve greatness! For the Great Pancake Sloth in Pancake Land!"

"Nora..." Weiss breathed heavily, trying not to lose her temper. "...why in the name of Oum are you in lederhosen?"
"It's all part of the plan!"
"Wha- you know what, I don't even want to know." The heiress threw her hands up in exasperation.

Nora nodded. "And as well you shouldn't! I'll go hug Ren now! REEEEEEENNNNN!" With that, the girl ran off, presumably to glomp Ren into a wall or something.

Weiss turned to her teammate, who was still leering at Hokuago Tea-Time. "Blake, please tell me you're not going to try to kill them."
"Of course not! That wouldn't be nice. And it'd be unmanly. But I'll just have to beat their stupid moeblob moeness with the REAL force behind the universe! Manliness!"

"I'm not going to like the next couple of days, aren't I?" Weiss looked over to Ruby, who shrugged.

"Eh. If I get an autograph from Ritsu or Emerald, I'm happy."

"When did Emerald and Mer-oh." Weiss looked over to see a large crowd gathering around Emerald and Mercury, who had arrived almost the moment she spoke. Emerald, it seemed, was clutching her little Cinder doll, while Mercury was basking in the attention.

"Of course, the chances of that are stupidly high, them showing up literally seconds after me talking about them."

Later, at practice...

"Right, ladies." Blake passed her out a new piece of sheet music as they picked up their instruments. "We're going to need an incredibly manly song to counter the moe the enemy will likely bring out."

"...did you actually put this all down to a science?" Weiss stared at her. "Seriously?"
"The balance of moe, badass and sexiness has long been an honored equilibrium in just about every universe ever!" Blake scoffed, as if such should be obvious. "Duh!"
Yang nodded. "Yep. It's true. "You've got to have moe, sexiness and badassery. It's just the way things work."
"Right..." The heiress shook her head, sighing and reading the lyrics she was passed. "What's this supposed to be?"

"A manly song by none other than..." Blake took in a breath. "Iron Savior."

"...this sounds like something my father would sing." Weiss rolled her eyes. "Really?"

"We HAVE to be manly to beat the moe! Don't you understand yet?!"

The heiress stared at Blake, but grabbed the microphone. "Okay, fine. Let's do this, I suppose.

Ruby, Blake, Yang, hit it."
Blake nodded, pulling up Fuckslayer. "Right, ladies. 'Dragons Rising' is a-go!"

Blake and Yang opened up the song with its signature riffs.

Weiss calmly took a deep breath, before beginning to sing.

"When I look at tomorrow...who will I be, what will I find? Seems I'm drowning in sorrow...everything changes, my life's redefined!

When I look at tomorrow...where will I go, what will I see? Seems I'm stuck in this hollow! Stuck in this heap, this heap of debris!

Oh there's a pain, deep down inside of me...ohh, I don't know, what is my destiny?

I've been the dragon and once I was strong! Look at me what I've become!

Now I see...

A dragon again I must be! I must regain what I lost long ago! The fires inside me still glow! To the skiiiiies!

The dragon again will arise!"

...

"To the skiiiiiiies! The dragon again will arise!" Weiss belted out, concluding the song and allowing Blake, Yang and Ruby close out the song with the coda, before sighing.

"...my father would listen to this song every single day..." She remarked. "It sounds a lot like his life."
"Makes sense. He is the Dragonslayer, after all." Yang noted. "But yeah, that song was awesome!"

Blake held up a finger, listening in. "Wait...do you guys hear that?"

"...watashitachi no, kore ga precious heart beat, utau yo, treasure heart beat!

Listen!"

This was then followed by heavy clapping. Blake clenched her fists.

"...the enemy is practicing in the room next to us." The catgirl mumbled. "And they have that damned moeblob Mio leading, too, judging by the voice..."

"Who was Mio again?" Weiss inquired.

"The tall, black-haired girl who looks really refined and beautiful. Y'know, like a typical yamato nadeshiko." Yang reminded her.
"Oh. At least I can tell her apart from Blake." Weiss quipped.

If Blake heard the comment, she didn't say anything. "We'll never win without someone who can stand up to the moe! We need our OWN manly symbol! A manly lead!"

Weiss glared at her. "What, can't I lead?!"

"You're a tsundere. People find you too moe to be manly." The catgirl dismissed her. "No...we need someone manly. Someone who exemplifies badass. Someone...who nobody would ever expect!

If people would expect someone like Mio to lead, then we can't have that!"

"Elsa?" Yang offered.

"No. She's too adorable. We can't do that. No..." Blake rubbed her chin, before snapping her fingers. "I've got the best idea."

Minutes later...

"So." Sir Lyserg the gentlemanly Utahraptor looked over at Blake, sipping a cup of tea. "You want me to act as your mascot, yes?"

"Yes." The catgirl nodded. "We needed something that represented manliness and badassery to be our mascot to counter their moe. We thought a gentlemanly dinosaur would to the trick."

"I'm flattered." The dinosaur adjusted his monocle. "I agree to help you win your competition. I haven't had a lot of practice with my bass of late anyway."

"Sweet!" Blake cheered.

Weiss rolled her eyes. "You're joking."

"I assure you, Lady Schnee, I am not."
"And you and Ruby get to ride on his back." Yang pouted. "Why don't WE get to?!"
"Because we're promoting them and we want to make it look like even the less badass part of our group are more badass than everyone else."
Weiss leered at her. "Do you want to get eliminated?!"
"I can take you and you know it." Blake shot back, smiling smugly.

Sir Lyserg sighed, adjusting his monocle once more. "Very well. Ladies Schnee and Rose, when would you like to begin the ride?"

Ruby waved her arms around, cheering. "Oh! Oh! Let's do it now!"

The dinosaur laughed, before lifting the girl onto his back, and then offering Weiss a hand.

She rolled her eyes. "...fine." Sighing, the heiress took Sir Lyserg's hand and clambered on to his back.

Blake produced two hats, passing them to Weiss and Ruby. "Oh, by the way, you're gonna need sailor hats."

"What?! Why?" The heiress grabbed hers, looking at it with distaste.

"Because we need to grab attention!"

"...I swear, Blake, if it wasn't for the fact that I'm supposed to be on your team, I would punch your lights out." The heiress grumbled and put the hat on.

"The things I do for this team..."

Minutes later...

Ruby and Weiss, donning sailor hats, rode out on their dinosaur comrade to find the crowds. Ruby was enthusiastically waving around, giggling. Weiss barely moved, more than a little irritated with the situation.

Meanwhile, a huge crowd of first years had gathered around the two famous participants, Madrigal and Hokuago Tea-Time. The former was taking autograph signings, with Emerald squeeing when she found Cinder asking for an autograph and hugging her tightly, while as for the latter...

Mio seemed to be crowded with various students, male and female, squeeing at her apparent adorableness. From what Weiss could see of her very embarrassed face, she wasn't too pleased with the attention.

"Blake may have a point..." Weiss grumbled. "That crowd looks bent on squeeing at her. Bunch of perverts..."

"Oh, relax." Ruby chuckled. "We've got this." Taking out an air horn, Ruby raised it into the air and blew it, attracting people's attention to them and turning the crowd away from the others. Emerald didn't seem to care, as she was too busy hugging Cinder. Mio just looked relieved that the tension was taken off of her, wiping her brow in relief.

"Whoa..."
"...they're riding on a dinosaur!"
"T-that's cool!"

"Can I ride?! Can I ride?!"

The reaper smiled at her girlfriend. "See? That worked perfectly."

"I suppose..."

Nobody noticed a pair of hands drag off Mio around the corner with a loud squeal.

"Relax, boys." Blake casually stood up in front of her teammates. "You'll all get your chance. We're just here to promote team RWBY! We're the manliest, most badass band around here! We'll do the impossible! Break the unbreakable! We'll make your ears explode!"

Just who the hell do you think we are?!"

"Hey, guys!" A loud, energetic voice Ruby recognised as Ritsu shouted out over Blake. The entire crowd looked over to see a very ashamed Mio clad in a maid costume, trembling and shivering adorably.

"U-um..."

Sir Lyserg, Ruby and Weiss were abandoned in a heartbeat.

Blake's eyelid twitched as she watched everyone gather around her opponents. "T-that's...I don't...what?!"

"We'll beat them in the music contest." Ruby said, watching the crowds fawn over the moeblobs. "We'll beat them there."

"Why do I feel like that's a pointless endeavor?" Weiss remarked.

"It's not! Just WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?! I won't give up just yet!" The catgirl roared. "We're going to practice day and night! DAY AND NIGHT!"
Yang shrugged. "Eh. We're gonna need to cut to the actual music thing now."
Blake stared at her in surprise. "WHAT?! WHY?!"

"Elf's running out of time and we already did all the good music practice jokes."

"But I-"

The day of the MusicFest ...

Team RWBY stood behind stage, having finished watching Madrigal perform their hit song 'Like a Grimm in Heat' to rave applause. Blake rubbed her chin.

"Nicely done...but it just isn't manly."

"Your manliness strategy worked so well, didn't it?" Weiss remarked. "Every time you've tried something manly, those guys just come up with something to counter us! I mean, you tried to sell protein shakes and that Mugi girl just gave everyone cakes! We sold NOTHING!"

"Not to mention the fact that everyone's been buying more plushies of the girls than mecha merch."

Yang pointed out.

"It seems my help wasn't enough..." Sir Lyserg, a bass guitar slung around his neck, bowed his head in shame. "I apologise duly, Lady Belladonna."
"No need." Blake clenched her fist, determined. "We WILL beat Hokuago Tea-Time! We CAN'T LET THE MOEBLOBS WIN!"

Weiss stared at her. "Are you sure you're not letting this get a little out of hand?"

"Of course not!"

"...right. You've been obsessed with beating them, and yet I don't think a single one of them has tried." Weiss noted. "Except maybe that tomboy who reminds me of Yang."

"Hey! I'm more awesome than Ritsu!" Yang retorted. "I have taste in pranks!"
"The day that happens, I'll see flying Boarbartusks." The heiress muttered. "Taste in pranks..."

Ruby chuckled. "Wait...is that Cinder and their old high school teacher fighting in the back row?"

She pointed over to the back row- where the judges table was-, where, indeed, Cinder and a brown-haired, bespectacled woman with a yellow sweater were pulling on each other cheeks and being pulled apart by Glynda and Ozpin. Vaguely, Ruby could hear them arguing on the likelihood of team RWBY's victory- the other woman considered it nil, while Cinder considered it definite.

"...props to Sawachan for having the balls to take on Cinder." Blake clapped. "But no props for not betting on the right winner. And here I thought she was fit to be a judge."
"She's clearly going to be biased..." Weiss grumbled. "How did she get onto the panel anyway?"

"Bribery." Blake sighed, looking at the empty seat between Cinder and the other judge. "...and she was a no-show. Probably realised that Adam wasn't here..."

"And next up..." Fox, the emcee, called out. "Team JNPR, represented by Nora Valkyrie! Give them a round of applause!"

The hall clapped as Nora, clad in her tight-fitting shirt and lederhosen, skipped happily onto the stage, posing and clapping happily. She waited for the applause to dial down, before clearing her throat and flexing her fingers.

Weiss looked over at her teammates. "What is she doing?"

"It looks like..." Yang held up a finger. "I think she's-"

"Pancakes pancakes paaaaancakes!" Nora yodelled loudly. "Paaaancakes pancakes panpancakes! Pan! Cakes! Pan! Cakes!

Paaaancakes pan pancakes! Paaaaancakes! Pancakes pancakes paaaancakes! Paaaaaaaaaaaaaancakes!"

With a deep breath, she mustered one final whisper. "Pancakes."

She took a deep bow and skipped off of the stage. Needless to say, the audience was bewildered, as was Weiss.

"...what did I just..."

"I don't know." Blake shook her head. "Just...I don't...know."

"I'm hungry now..." Ruby complained.

"Uh..." Fox rubbed the back of his head. "...next up, Hokuago Tea-Time!"

The girls rolled onto stage to mass applause. Blake scoffed.

"Hmph. Moeblobs. You just have your moment. We'll beat you. Easily."

Weiss rolled her eyes. "At this point, you should know just to phone it in. We've lost this."

"Not true. We haven't had a chance to play yet!"

"Sshh!" Yang shushed them with her finger. "I'm trying to listen to their spiel before they start playing, you idiots!"

It was too late, however, as Yui had already finished her spiel, leaving only the song to be sung and played.

"Kimi wo miteru to itsum haato dokidoki! Yureru omoi wa mashumaro mitai ni fuwafuwa!"

Blake felt the sheer fluff and adorableness wash over her. She clenched her Core Drill tightly, shaking her head.

"No...the cuteness...I cannot allow it to influence me! I will win! I will win, dammit!"

"What are you..." Weiss facepalmed. "I swear, I don't even know what you're talking about half the time!"

"O-ki ni iri no usa-chan daite kon'ya mo oyasumi!

Fuwafuwa TAIMU! Fuwafuwa TAIMU! Fuwafuwa TAIMU!"

"Do you not FEEL the moe eating at you?!" Blake grasped her teammate's shoulders and shook her.

"G-get off of me, you moron! I will have you eliminated, dammit!"

Yang and Ruby merely sighed happily. "So...cute..."

Blake glared at them. "T-traitors!"

...

"Fuwafuwa TAIMU!" With that, team RWBY was left to listen to the final chords, before watching the audience clap loudly, awed by the sheer skill of the singing and playing, in addition to whatever this 'moe' effect was that Blake spoke about.

Blake sighed. "I...we're going to need something stronger than Iron Savior to counter the moe."

"What do you mean 'stronger'?" Yang stared at her. "You can't get any stronger! We can't risk using Blind Guardian! That would destroy the school with Fuckslayer!"

"Correct. I have...however...a different band to play from." The catgirl produced several sheets, handing a lyric sheet to Weiss.

"Just sing that and keep to the rhythm."

"A new song?" The heiress stared at her. "Are you mad?"
"You managed it back in chapter 72 of volume 1, you can do it again here."

"B-but I actually CARED about that festival!"

"You care about this one too."
"I-I don'-"

"And up next, team RWBY!" Fox announced, putting the girls on edge.

Ruby gulped. "W-well...this is it, guys."

Yang looked around, twirling her drumsticks. "Mhm."

Blake cracked her knuckles. "Yep. Lyserg, you up?"
"As ready as can be, Lady Belladonna." The dinosaur nodded.

Weiss sighed. "Fine, I'll sing the stupid song. But you owe me after this."

Slowly, the girls took front stage, looking around and taking in the applause. All four of them collectively took deep breaths, preparing to play a new song.

"Well, Weiss..." Ruby looked over at her. "Here goes nothing."

"Indeed." The heiress muttered, before breathing in and beginning to sing.

"Just give me a reason to keep my heart beating, don't worry it's safe right here in my arms! As the world falls apart around us, all we can do is hold on...

Hold on!"

The power of Weiss' voice in conjunction with Fuckslayer's Spiral Energy powered riffs would, normally, wow an audience and take them into a state of amazed awe from the very beginning.

However, it seemed this day, it didn't work too well. The audience seemed...still enamoured with what had transpired earlier.

Blake looked over at Weiss, giving her a meaningful look. 'Try harder', she seemed to say.

Weiss mentally sighed. 'Fine...let's do this. It's not my pride that'll be blown, anyway, if we lose.'

"I risk everything if it's for you! I whispered into the night telling me it's not my time and don't give up! I've never stood up before this time, demo yuzurenai mono itta kono te wo hanasanai...

So standup, stand up! Wake up, wake up! Never give up, kuru wa shimi hodo setsunai!"

...

"It finally begins..." Weiss finished, bowing her head and grasping the microphone tightly.

The audience looked awed now, awed with both the sheer power of the song and its musicians.

They rose up and clapped, showering team RWBY and Sir Lyserg with praise.

Blake smirked. "See? I knew we would win-"

"And the winner is...by several votes, Hokuago Tea-Time! Second place is Madrigal! Third, team RWBY!" Fox announced.

The catgirl's mouth slid open in shock. "What."

She collapsed to her knees, looking to the sky. "NO! I LOST! MY MANLINESS FAILED ME! HOW COULD I LOSE TO MOEBLOBS?! MOEBLOOOOOBS?!"

Yang sighed. "Well, it was inevitable. It was a good try, but they had more experience than we did.

I'm going to go over and tell 'em 'good game'."

Ruby nodded eagerly. "Hey, me too. I want an autograph from Ritsu-chan!"

Weiss just crossed her arms, smirking at Blake.

"So much for your manliness."

"...I'm...worthless..." Blake pouted and curled up into a ball, despairing. "Moe has won over manliness...the impossible...truly has been done..."

Needless to say, though they did not win against their opponents, Weiss was thoroughly enjoying the results of the festival.

END

A/N: That really did take far too long. Dammit. I need to remember there's something called 'bedtime'.

So, next time, Nora Reacts to Trollfics! Yes! This means Cornonjacob's hilarious fic that we mentioned a couple of chapters back!

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