Ruby Reacts to Omega Ruby!
A/N: Welcome, one and all, to Weiss Reacts! Firstly, I'd like to announce that we are, once again, covering Dagger of Faith's The Shadow of Fire- this time, we'll be catching up from chapters 31-45! Also, a tiny little thing about the fact that tomorrow is the anniversary of Weiss Reacts' first chapter! That's right, it's one year to the day this first showed up on the archive- isn't that just weird?
Anyway, let's get this chapter out of the way before you get tired of my ranting.
DISCLAIMER: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth, otherwise Ruby would have Grimm for pets.
Pokémon belongs to Nintendo.
All mentioned franchises and characters belong to their respective owners.
"Is it here yet?"
"No, Rubes."
"Is it here yet?"
"No, Rubes."
"Is it h-"
Weiss sighed irritably, putting down her mug of hot chocolate forcefully. "Your sister just said it wasn't here yet, you dunce!"
Ruby squeaked, hiding behind a chair in surprise at Weiss' sharp tone. "Sorry!"
"Ugh..." The heiress shook her head. "You're so childish sometimes, you know?"
"I'm just excited!" Ruby responded defensively. "It's, like, the remakes of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire! I grew up on those!"
"Judging by the apparent tendency towards puns we have around here, I'm guessing you grew up playing Ruby?"
"I think you're the only one apart from Blake who didn't grow up playing those at least once." Yang said, scoffing.
"Nah," Blake leaned down from her bunk, reading up on how to counter tanks more efficiently. "You would not BELIEVE how much of that I played. Which, granted, wasn't a lot, being that it was the White Fang, but eh."
Weiss raised an eyebrow. "Still not over losing to the Tankery Club?"
"I should have WON, dammit!" Blake snapped, indeed still sore about the loss. "If it wasn't for Isara cheating with that stupid smokescreen shell and the rest of them taking you guys out before we started, not to mention Nora and Sun stealing my designs..."
"In all fairness, you did try to take on a bunch of WWII era tanks- with one exception." Yang said, shrugging. "You were going to lose as per the law of underdogs."
"That's it!" The catgirl snapped her fingers. "All I need to do is invoke that law in my favour!"
"...I don't think that's exactly manly, Blake." Ruby pointed out helpfully, but it was too late. Blake had already left the room, laughing maniacally.
The brawler rolled her eyes.
"I'm going to get Alexander and Andreas to come in to give her an intervention on manly things. She's taking it a little too far."
Weiss gave her a sarcastic glare. "You think?"
Soon, someone knocked on their door. Ruby perked up and rushed to it, opening it quickly.
"Who is it?!"
"Uh..." Cardin waved at her slowly. "The front office told me to give this to you. Said you might be expec-"
"Oh thank you thank you thank you!" Ruby squeed happily and hugged Cardin tightly before taking the box.
"Eheheh..." The warrior rubbed the back of his head, chuckling. "No problem. See ya around."
As he shut the door, the reaper happily unwrapped her package.
"It's finally here..." Ruby raised the Pokémon Omega Ruby box above her head, giggling with excitement.
"Oh boy." Yang chuckled. "I wonder what's going to happen this time."
"This will probably be stupid. And adorable."
"If only you would play it..." Yang mused wistfully, chuckling.
"What, because you'd laugh at how unbalanced the game is and how unfair it is on me?"
"Weiss, only you, of all people, would fail at playing Pokémon." The brawler remarked.
"S-shut up!"
Ruby, meanwhile, excitedly grabbed her 3DS and booted it up, waiting with unhidden glee.
"This is going to be great."
"The intro...ohoho!" Ruby laughed. "Nicely done, Nintendo."
"That was brilliant, the fake-out reference to the old intro..." Yang sighed. "Those were the good old days..."
"How could people hate the good old Ruby and Sapphire anyway?" Ruby mused. "Those were perfect!"
"Mhm." Weiss listened to the discussion.
"I love the graphics, too." Ruby began gushing about the game happily. "I mean, it's all adorably 3D now and awesome and stuff but it STILL looks like Ruby and Sapphire and-"
"Okay, right," Weiss interrupted her quickly. "Which starter will you pick? I'm going to tell you now, Torchic is most adorable because it resembles a penguin the most, therefore it MUST be the best one."
"Mudkip!"
"...what." The heiress gave her a deadpan look.
"What?" The reaper looked around confusedly. "I liked Mudkips before that stupid meme."
"B-but Mudkip is not a superior bird!" Weiss complained. "And from a logical point of view-"
"She should pick Mudkip because he curbstomps just about every single Gym with ease." Yang pointed out. "Also because Swampert is best bro."
"That settles it! Mudkip, I choose you!" Ruby declared, making her selection.
...
"Hmph. Torchic would've easily beaten that Treecko." Weiss huffed, crossing her arms.
"Let it go, Weiss, that was ten minutes ago." Yang said, chuckling. "Besides, he's not even a penguin."
"HE'S AN ADORABLE BIRD."
"We still beat it!" Ruby responded. "And WHAT IN THE NAME OF OUM IS THIS A LEVEL 16 TAILOW WHEN HALF MY TEAM ARE LEVEL 7"
"It's that new function in the game." Yang stated. "You know, the one where if you capture enough of one Pokémon, you get a chance of encountering higher-level versions in rustling grass with unique moves and better stats?"
"Why didn't I get that when I played Platinum..." Weiss muttered.
"And it has Steel Wing?!" Ruby cried, shocked, as it began knocking her weaker Pokémon out with ease.
"Um...um..."
"Q-quickly, Rubes!" Yang called out. "Do something!"
Frantically, the reaper fumbled around in her bag and threw a Pokéball at it before...
Weiss stared at the screen, dumbfounded.
"You are not serious. Yang, did you see that?"
"I saw that, alright." Yang was staring at the screen. "That...wasn't one of those critical captures where you have a chance of capturing it in one shake, right, Rubes?"
"No, that wasn't..."
In front of her lay a captured Tailow, almost twice her party's level, captured at full health with Steel Wing, right before the Rock Gym, too.
Weiss sighed.
"Of course she gets lucky." The heiress shook her head, exhaling deeply. "Games hate me."
"Or you're just bad~" The brawler responded teasingly.
"S-shut up, you imbecile!" Weiss snapped, before crossing her arms and turning away, blushing.
"T-the games a-are just hard...s-stupid..."
Ruby smiled at her reassuringly.
"Don't worry, Weiss. You'll get better at them eventually."
"And then I-I'll prove to Yang I can BEAT her at any game, not just Civilization..."
Yang smirked. "Good luck with that."
...
"Yaaay!" Ruby cheered. "I beat Roxanne!"
"Spamming Steel Wing would help." Weiss grumbled irritably.
"Jelly, Weiss?"
"Silence! I'll have you eliminated for treason, Y-Yang!"
"And now, ADVENTUUUURE!" The reaper declared happily. "Weeeee!"
Indeed, adventure was had! Many things happened!
"...okay, that was hardly fair." Weiss frowned. "It wasn't as if Brawly was going to put up a fight with that overpowered Tailow of yours, not to mention the level 20 Poochyena with Ice Fang."
"I call him Zwei!"
"Arf!" The actual dog himself barked happily, nuzzling Ruby's leg.
"Remind me to take him out on a walk later, Ruby."
"Hah." The reaper chuckled. "A bunch of Grunts are lining up outside aaaand...ohoho, I feel SO sorry for you, Courtney."
"Okay, that's just overkill." Weiss complained as Ruby's Mudkip proceeded to curbstomp her team, exactly as she had already curbstomped the others.
"That's hardly fair! This game is SO much easier than the older ones!" The heiress cried. "I BET you I could easily win this."
"Tell me that when you don't screw up Super Smash Bros~" Yang reminded her, giggling.
"M-must you remind me of ALL my failures?!"
"Do you want an alphabetical or chronological list?"
"Wow..." Ruby nodded slowly. "...Mauville really changed, huh?"
"I recall the days when it wasn't a giant mall." Yang nodded. "Not that I don't approve."
"Why does this remind me of the Vale Shopping Center?" Weiss rubbed her chin, thinking.
"Maybe because it's pretty similar?" The brawler pointed out helpfully, before they walked into the center square and into Wally leaving it.
"Apparently Wally's supposed to be more badass this time around." Yang recounted. "I mean, I wouldn't be surprised- everyone loved the guy."
"I wonder when that happens? Anyway, let's just beat him, yes?"
...
"...well, he did put up a fight." Ruby clapped slowly. "Both Wally and Wattson. I'm guessing we go on that New Mauville quest- oh wait, wait, what? We're going straight to Flannery? Okay..."
"I think they moved that quest later in the game. I'm actually pretty surprised at how easy you beat them both." Yang stated, chuckling. "I was sure it wasn't that easy."
"No, Ruby's just the luckiest girl alive." Weiss remarked, sighing. "Seriously, getting a level 16 and 20 before the second Gym..."
Minutes later...
"Okaaay...well, onward to the-wait, wait, wait." Ruby paused. "Awww come on! Really? I have to fight Team Magma before I get to heal up?"
"I think they accounted for your super luck, Ruby." Weiss stated. "It doesn't help your team's collectively under half health, too."
"Okay..." The reaper sighed, resigned to her fate. "Looks like I'll be sent all the way back to Mauville, too..."
She engaged the first Grunt in battle, shaking her head in defeat.
...
Weiss looked irritated. She glared at Ruby.
"Okay, how did you do that?!"
"Do what?"
"Get a crit almost EVERY attack and lose only one Pokémon to their team?!"
Yang giggled. "She'd be a good Nuzlocker, considering the amount of stupid luck she got just now."
Ruby laughed. "Give me some credit, Weiss. I have some skill."
"N-nobody gets this lucky!" Weiss cried. "Seriously?!"
"No, correction, Weiss, you don't get that lucky." Yang grinned, clearly enjoying this.
"L-let's see you try better!"
"As a matter of fact, I already have." The brawler swept her hair aside. "I've already finished the game."
"...y-you..." The heiress exhaled, conceding the victory to Yang again. "...w-why must you have a counter to everything I say?"
"Because I'm Yang, I'm the one the fans came to see- okay, maybe not- and I'm awesome and you love me."
"...I can question all of those except the 'Yang' part."
"I am WOUDNED by your lack of confidence in me!" Yang clutched her chest melodramatically, dramatically gasping.
"First, let's get this nice, convenient Wynaut egg from the springs, and then to beating Flannery!" The reaper announced.
...
"...wow." Ruby laughed, clutching her belly. "I know she was adorkable in the originals, but that takes the cake."
"She looks just like Weiss trying to be serious."
"I don't need to try, Yang." Weiss grumbled. "Not like you, anyway. You don't seem to take anything seriously."
"No, just not you~"
"As much as I'd like to spare her, she MUST get absolutely destroyed in my quest for the badges." Ruby sighed sadly. "At least she will go with some dignity, just as soon as I get around these stupid spring floor things."
"Oh, Gym Puzzles." Yang sighed, chuckling. "Good luck with this one, too."
"Ah, well, just means more people for Brokip, Zwei and Tailbro to take on, right?" Ruby said happily.
Weiss raised her eyebrow. "Brokip?"
"Mudkip is ultimate bro!"
Yang laughed evilly. "Ohohohoho, I taught her that meme."
"...Yang, I swear, I will END YOU if she keeps talking about things being 'bro'." The heiress stated as calmly as possible.
"First Blake's obsession with manliness and now 'bros'..."
...
"...WOOHOO!" Ruby cheered happily. "Without my Marshstomp, I STILL crushed Flannery!"
"...to be fair, your team are almost five levels over hers." Yang stated. "You DID spend about half an hour grinding.
"It's just so easy though..." Ruby mentioned. "I mean, when did Exp. Shares give experience to the entire party?!"
Weiss frowned, shaking her head.
"The kind of game that doesn't cheat you, like that stupid Platinum game I tried and failed at."
Suddenly, Blake returned, covered in soot, frowning.
"Well...I challenged the Tankery club again- or, rather, just Nora."
"I'm guessing that didn't go too well?" Weiss raised a finger.
"I'm going to need help to clean all this coal off of me..." The catgirl sighed.
"I suppose I'll put my game on hold for now." Ruby declared, putting the 3DS away and saving the game.
"Okay, Blake, grab me the sponges, we'll clean you up."
"Thanks..." Blake said, sighing. "I still don't know how I lost...I'm m -manlier than Nora..."
"Humility is a lesson we must all learn." Weiss stated with a smug grin.
"...touché, Schnee." Blake conceded, chuckling.
Yang, deep down in her being, frowned.
'No Weiss ragequits...I'm offended.'
END
A/N: Well...eh! That was...what it was! I may cover the other parts of ORAS later on.
So, next chapter, the Anniversary chapter! I hope you enjoyed this chapter, leave your ideas, criticisms, suggestions, thoughts, reviews and comments and I hope you have a GREAT day! Until next time!