Jaune Reacts to The Games We Play, Part 2!

A/N: Welcome, one and all, to Weiss Reacts! Sorry for the late update; I've just been enjoying the first few days of my three month holiday, while getting hyped for the FREAKING FFVII REMAKE. And now, I was not at E3, as some people think I was. I'm too poor for that.

Also, as certain people keep pointing this out, I'm going to point something out right back; Ryuugi outright told me NOT to do the Spacebattles version, as I already said last chapter. I am aware there are more than 26 chapters, but I'm also respecting the wishes of the author. So please, refrain from telling me I haven't featured all the chapters unless you want to petition him to let me cover all of the chapters.

Anyway, I may also not update as regularly as I may have been in the past; this is due to various things I'll be doing during the summer, so a heads up in advance. As I may reboot a certain older story in addition to updating Lucina Reacts and The Knight's Absolute Choice in addition to other things, this may affect Weiss Reacts' update schedule. Just a heads up!

With that in mind, let's finish this lovely story, eh?

DISCLAIMER: RWBY does not belong to me, otherwise we would have people with handguns that fire rockets.

The Games We Play belongs to rgm0005/Ryuugi. Warning for spoilers.

All mentioned franchises and characters belong to their respective owners.

Chapter 11

"That is a lot of maths relating to how I'll grind my powers." Jaune noted, tilting his head at the exposition as to how he planned on grinding both his newfound White Tiger skills and his mediation skill. "Guess that Wisdom score came into handy..."

Ruby popped a cookie into her mouth, looking at the screen. "If Adam's impressed by your Semblance, it must be pretty overpowered..."
"Dust knows what would happen if I had a Semblance in addition to this. It seems unfair enough as it is..." Jaune mused, rubbing his chin. "Eesh, Adam's cold. Not that I didn't expect it, but he's cold."

Ruby frowned. "No wonder Blake doesn't like him all that much. He seems pretty much like our Adam, actually."
"No kidding. Wait, wait, he's a gamer?!" The knight spat out in disbelief. "Also...it's a screwed up world when I have to get myself beaten to a pulp by a very scary man with a very sharp sword just to grind my ability to survive stuff..."

Ruby giggled. "Wow. You two bonding over beating each other- well, you getting beaten up by Adam, anyway? That...sounds pretty much like a Blake thing."
"Good Dust, no, Blake would be worse. At least Adam doesn't have a giant mecha or three at his disposal..." The knight shuddered at the thought of Blake training him by pounding him to shreds with the Lagann or whatever mecha she had down there; for one thing, he did not like the sound of that 'Megadeus' thing Yang was talking about a couple of days ago.

"Also, I'm going to hack something? Huh."

Ruby blinked. "Huh. Wonder what that'll be?"

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Chapter 12

"So I'm going to go infiltrate the freaking Schnee Dust Company- yep, Weiss would probably kill us for reading this stuff." Jaune sighed, rubbing his temples. "Like I said, serial escalation, thy name is this fic."

Ruby nodded in agreement. "Yeah, people tend to use crappy passwords. I know Yang's password is 'ballsdeep69', for one."
"Are you serious?" Jaune stared at her in disbelief. "Ballsde-"
The reaper nodded, sighing. "Yeah. I'm serious. I don't know why she thought that would be a good idea..."

"Man, do these people have any concept of information security?" Jaune stared at the screen in disbelief. "That's just...that's just really stupid. At least shred documents! Don't make private emails easy to get simply by rooting through your garbage!

Gggh, all this waste of scrolls and hologram generators. Just send them back in for repair or something, or recycle them! I'm pretty sure this kinda stuff ended up helping that one villain in that one book- I think he picked up a bunch of control devices he just needed to fix with a little solder or something..."

Ruby looked guiltily at him. "Eheh..."
"Oh, don't tell me you did this!"
"I...uh...may have thrown out one or two cracked scrolls instead of repairing them..." The reaper responded, twiddling her fingers. "Hehehe...sorry."
"Good Dust. I'm surprised Weiss hasn't taken you to task on it..."

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Chapter 13

"So Nature Affinity improves fuel economy. Huh." Jaune rubbed his chin, thinking about the implications. "Well, might be useful for desperate escapes."

Ruby stared at the screen in disbelief. "So...you're basically level-grinding by killing flocks of mini-Nevermores with a plane.

...Blake would probably be frothing at the mouth if she found out you got the awesome stuff and she didn't..."
"OH GOD DAMMIT SERIOUSLY! A GIANT NEVERMORE!" Jaune yelled, exasperated. "Come on! Can't I catch a blasted break? And the best plan I have is to crash the Bullhead into it and drain it of Aura? Well...at least that worked perfectly, even if it didn't kill the thing..."

"Like I said," Ruby shrugged, popping another cookie into her mouth. "Blake would go pretty mad if she saw this fic..."
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Chapter 14

Jaune was several steps away from crying out in exasperation. "Come on, really? Can't I catch a break in this fic? And I whine about having half the girls- and the boys- in this academy mobbing me and trying to jump my bones..."

Ruby whistled, watching the absolute flurry of blows Jaune was inflicting onto the Nevermore. "...and wow, you did absolutely nothing despite smacking it, what, a hundred times? So much for having a broken power."
"Yeah." Jaune laughed slowly. "So much for that...wait, what. What. WHAT?!

I SHOVED MYSELF DOWN THAT THING'S THROAT?!"

Ruby laughed, clapping in amazement. "Well, you certainly did. How the hell did you survive that?"
"I just...I just pulled a freaking Yang." Jaune uttered, shaking his head. "Wow. What the...what the actual hell. Like, I know she said all that stuff about Nevermores being hungry, but I never expected I'd be feeding the thing!"

"Serial escalation, thy name is The Games We Play." The reaper reminded him, shrugging. Jaune snorted.

"True, that. Also, loot?! That thing better have given me an Invisibility Cloak or something-well, no, it gave me a skill book that gives me what's essentially a Pokemon move, a mask that's basically named for the trope namer of that one thing I've forgotten, and a handy cloak that turns me into Superman.

Cool, although I can do without the face-eating mask implications."

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Chapter 15

Ruby nodded in approval. "Huh, it really IS like an MMORPG, with titles and all. I wonder when you'll get the 'Unlucky Duck' title or something."
"I'm surprised I haven't gotten that yet, looking at all the crap I get here..." Jaune mused. "Really, I mean, I turned into a broken badass who levels up and can kill Nevermores by shoving myself into their throats.

So the entire world decides to screw me over by throwing said Nevermores at me and making me end up with the White Fang. Wonderful."

The reaper frowned. "Oh come on! That's hardly fair! Why do you get the cool mind bullet stuff?! I just get my arms blown off!"

"Hey, I had to get eaten by a Nevermore to earn that power! Leave me alone!" The knight retorted jokingly. "...and I got...Magic Missile. Wow.

I'd be making DnD jokes here, if I knew how to make them and if Ren ever taught me how to play that game..."

Ruby, meanwhile, continued reading. "Huh. So the mask IS cursed."

"I wouldn't say that's cursed, but probably best not to overuse that thing. It does basically act like an invisibility cloak. I think. At least, it makes me harder to identify." Jaune sighed. "I lost the metaphor I was trying to make."

Chapter 16

"Ggh..." The dorm's door opened to admit Blake in. The catgirl looked sweaty, her face marked with grease and oil and one part of her shirt was slightly torn. The small bag at her side was similarly marked with grease.

Ruby turned around to wave at her. "Oh heewwhoooa. Blake, what happened to you?"
She strolled over to grab a chair, dabbing at her face with a towel. "Work. What's going on here?"
"Basically, we're reading about that one fic where I basically see life as a video game and get levels and crap." Jaune explained. Blake nodded slowly.

"So that fic O-Elf-sama hates for having more reviews, favourites and followers than his."
"...what?"
"Never mind. You wouldn't get it." The catgirl shook her head, shrugging. "That Adam?"
"...yes?"
"Wonderful. Haven't seen him in a while." The catgirl took out a tuna sandwich from her bag and started munching on it. Jaune tilted his head.

"Huh. I thought you'd be pretty angry at Adam. Didn't you always call him unmanly or something?"
"I'm exhausted from work, Jaune." Blake responded, breathing heavily. "I'm saving my energy up so I don't collapse and sleep on your shoulder so the fans don't start shipping Lunar Eclipse or something."

Ruby frowned. "...alright."

Jaune raised a finger, hoping to ask something, before shaking his head. "Of course, this thing has a party system. Why wouldn't I see this coming?"
"You get subtitles?!" Ruby uttered, giggling. "What, so you get an inbuilt translator?"

"That's...probably not how it works." The knight responded, shrugging. "I don't think that's how it works, anyway."
"Not the first time you'd have a weird Semblance..." Blake mused, rubbing her chin and studying the knight closely. "Also...huh. You know...that really does hit close to home, what their Adam said..."
"...let's not dwell on that too long." Jaune warned her gently. "Even if it is...unfair, about their whole situation...

...and now I scare Beowolves. Wonderful." Jaune clapped his hands once. "Well. That, err...and I got a bunch of new titles and a new Grimm Mask. And a quest."

"Lycaon." Blake nodded slowly, thinking carefully. "...huh. If I'm thinking right...that might make you pretty weak to lightning. Or something."

Jaune turned to her, confused. "Why?"
"...you wouldn't get it."

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Chapter 17

"Finally, I show up." Blake clapped appreciatively. "Excellent. And I...am not needlessly angsty. That's refreshing."
"Huh. So I just got an upgrade to one of my older titles. Sweet." Jaune nodded, smiling.

"And, just like her, I'd probably be tempted to slap you for doing that. Crazy person." The catgirl sighed. "Seriously, this power sounds broken."
"Oh, it is." The knight snorted. "It's just, the rest of the world is even more broken."

Ruby stared at the screen, reading carefully. "Wait, so you're going to there to dance and get information."
"Pretty much. But hey, at least I was good at something before this whole Gamer thing." Jaune admitted, rubbing the back of his head. "There's that."
Blake frowned. "Dammit, I'm gone again. Just great. Can't I ever be in a story without being shipped with Yang or something?"
"Huh? I thought you liked my sister." Ruby responded, tilting her head.

"N-Not important! And not like that!" Blake snapped, shaking her head. "D-don't get any wrong ideas!"

Jaune, meanwhile, already felt a headache come on.

"Great. So the only way I'm going to be able to grind my luck is gambling. This ought to end well, knowing my luck in this story already..."

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Chapter 18

Blake frowned. "Counting cards, Jaune? You cheat."

"Hey, I'm doing this all for a good cause!" The knight responded hastily. "It's not like I exactly want to cheat! I have to save the Faunus!"
"Eesh. You utterly crushed them." Ruby noted, wincing at how badly Jaune had managed to win at blackjack. "Wow."

"So, we're robbing an airship?" Blake inquired, interested. "Who from?"
"Schnee Dust Corporation." Jaune explained. The catgirl winced.

"Weiss would probably kill the writer if she knew."
Ruby shrugged. "Well, she's threatened to execute every other writer in this archive for being perverted, why would she kill this one? It's not like he's done anything perverted in his story."
Blake pointed at Ruby, nodding. "Point taken. What are we stealing it for?"
"We're rescuing a bunch of Faunus from basically slavery." The knight explained. "Oh, and I'm friends with Adam now."
"Friends? I'd suspect he just tolerates you." Blake responded. "He's not the people kind. I should know."

"Shortest route...ggh. That's going to go horribly wrong already, I can feel it in my bones..." Jaune muttered.

Ruby grabbed a can of energy drink from the cabinet underneath the desk, offering it to Blake. "Want one?"
"Yeah, thanks Ruby." The catgirl took the can gratefully, popping it open and gulping it down thirstily. "Wow. Is it really that easy to kill Grimm for you now?"
Jaune shrugged. "Ehhhh...it took me most of two chapters to kill the first one, and the latter half of another one to do kill a second big Grimm."

"That Gamer thing really IS broken." Blake muttered. "And I thought our whole TTGL-ripoff gimmick was broken."
"You think?!"

Blake started twitching. "That...Levant thing is triggering my mini-moe senses. I'm not liking that."

"I thought you got over that?" Jaune reminded her. "Y'know, when you actually beat mini-moes?"

"BABY STEPS!"

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Chapter 19

"White Whale? Why not call that thing Moby Dick or something..." Blake scoffed, rolling her eyes. "And, of course, the irony of us using this, a symbol of unity, to free Faunus who are basically NOT united with anyone in this world, doesn't escape me."
"That's ironic?" Ruby inquired, confused. Blake sighed.

"Did you just go full ditz on me, Ruby?"
"No, I was just genuinely confused, is all."

Jaune frowned. "I hope sneaking into secure facilities and robbing airships isn't going to be a regular occurrence. My parents would probably kill me if they found out..."
"I'm surprised they didn't kill you over something else as it is." Blake remarked. "Good Dust. And a chokehold? Jaune, I didn't know you had it in you."
"I'm still not liking this idea. I can just feel it in my bones, something's going to go horribly wrong..." The knight muttered, breathing in deeply.

Ruby chuckled. "Must be your luck, what with absolutely nobody noticing that you're probably far shorter than anyone who's got the right to be on that ship-"
"Nope, I lied." Jaune slapped his forehead with his palm. "Something just went wrong. I think I just saw Weiss on the other side of that scroll."

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Chapter 20

"Good news, it's Blake. Bad news, I'm screwed!" Jaune remarked. "So...uh...yay?"

Blake frowned. "I'm offended you think you're still screwed. You've got me in on that plan."
"Unlike you, their Blake isn't a gung-ho badass who spawns drills out of her behind." The knight retorted.
"It's not exactly my behind-"
"You get what I mean!"

Ruby tapped the monitor. "Oh, well, that's not...quite true."
Jaune turned back, reading the words carefully. "Oh come on. Weiss boarded the freaking ship?! Crap, she really is going to kill me. And, of course, she's almost eight levels over me. Wonderful."

Blake rolled her eyes. "And, exactly like our Weiss, she's an ice queen. Joy.

"And everything goes horribly wrong! What the actual heck?!" Jaune cried. "Come on! Can't I do one thing without everything exploding?!"

"...well, you're definitely dead." Ruby winced, watching Jaune attack Weiss out of desperation.

Jaune groaned, exasperated.

"Well. I'm surprised this fic continues to twenty-six chapters..."

Chapter 21

"Wow. Well, that was...uh...unexpected." Jaune blinked. "So I beat Weiss?"
"You had two elementals and control of the whole ship." Blake pointed out. "You're an unmanly coward who can't beat her in a real fight, you scum. But, you beat her."
"And I kidnapped her." The knight remarked. "Oh, good Dust, this really did escalate quickly."
Ruby frowned. "I doubt Weiss would be that easy to beat..."
"If Jaune's that overpowered, this early on, I don't think Weiss stands a chance. Especially as this story seems like it takes place a year or two before we all went to Beacon..." The catgirl noted. "We didn't really get all that powerful before heading here, either."

Jaune groaned. "I am so screwed..."

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Chapter 22

"I'm surprised I haven't been blown to shreds yet, given Ozpin's there." Jaune commented. "And now I'm freaking kidnapping Weiss?!"
"You've got some balls, using her to save Adam and freaking doing that to her father's face..." Blake remarked, gulping down another mouthful of energy drink. "And this is all before Beacon?"

Ruby stared at the screen. "Wow, Jaune. Didn't think you could be that cold."
"If I did this in real life, my mom would probably kill me. Well, Weiss would kill me, and then my mother would blow my corpse to pieces..." Jaune muttered. "First kidnapping Weiss, then threatening to blow up her dad and everyone else...good Dust..." He put his head in his hands, shaking his head.

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Chapter 23

"Come on..." Jaune pleaded, flinching. "Just get this stuff over with..."
Blake tilted her head. "The situation really is tense."
Ruby was busy munching cookies like there was no tomorrow. "I know, right? This is soooo tense! I don't even know if everyone's going to get out alive or not!"

"Worse Than I Expected." Jaune grumbled. "Oh, I think it's far more than that. Now, I'm alone, with nothing but two elementals, flying to wherever, trying to finish the mission without the people who can actually finish it with me!"
Blake frowned, shaking her head. "Come on! I just got here! Can't I have a bigger part?!"
"That's the part you care about, and not the whole 'your friend just kidnapped your other current friend and is now currently ditching you with a bunch of angry Hunters' part?!" The knight cried, disbelieving.

"Would it hurt if I said yes?"
"Dammit, Blake!"

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Chapter 24

Blake tapped her chin thoughtfully. "Heh. Ironwood really hasn't got any clue what he's doing, has he?"
"Neither do I!" Jaune cried. "How have they not caught me yet?! And now I'm going to smack right into Beacon?!"

Ruby raised a finger to point something out. "Well, not into Beacon, but..."
"And throwing Grimm into their path to distract them now?!" Jaune groaned. "Yep, if it's real life or a fanfic, I can't catch a freaking break!"

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Chapter 25

"Y'know, when I wake up the king of the winds with wings large enough to block out the Sun, there's something SERIOUSLY wrong here!" Jaune yelped. "Can't I catch a break here?! SERIOUSLY?!"

Blake rolled her eyes. "Least Ziz isn't some big green serpent or something. You got lucky there."
"Well, I have freaking Intimidate as a passive ability, and I essentially have Air Slash, so why can't this thing be Rayquaza, I have NO idea!"

Ruby giggled. "Aww, he's giving you a ride!"

"Good Dust." The knight groaned. "Good Dust. Why. WHY DOES THIS STUFF HAPPEN TO ME IN FANFICS?!

SERIOUSLY?! I AGREE WITH ME! HE DRAGGED ME ALL THE WAY ACROSS TO DUST-KNOWS-WHERE BECAUSE HE WAS STARVING! I DON'T EVEN THINK GRIMM EAT THINGS!"

Ruby shrugged. "Aaaand welcome to my world in fanfics."

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Chapter 26

"Well. Good news, I'm stranded on a freaking frozen desert island in the middle of nowhere, with a broken ship and a bunch of new elementals. Bad news, I'm still screwed! I still haven't completed my mission!" Jaune sighed. "If it was this bad here, I'm screwed when I get there."

Blake shrugged. "Well, at least you achieved the power of being the Avatar, at least."
"Not technically, but eh." Ruby shrugged. "Five elements...you just need a wood elemental to replace Xihai and you've got the basic elements."
"There probably IS a wood elemental..." Jaune mused. "Now if only I had a luck elemental...

Well, that's it for the story, I guess. I'll leave the review?"
"...yeah, sure. Why not?" Blake stated, shrugging.

From: GoldenKnightOfArc

Uh, appreciate the attention, and all. Thanks.

But Dust dammit can't you let me catch a break for once?!

-Signed, Jaune Arc

PS: Make sure Weiss never sees this, she'll kill you if she does.

Jaune frowned. "I guess...I just don't get lucky anywhere I go, huh?"
"Nope. You're basically what would happen if Touma and, I dunno, someone from Madoka Magica had a kid. Might as well take 'fukou da' as your catchphrase." Blake shrugged casually.

Just then, Yang and Weiss burst into the dorm, clutching bags of assorted clothes and whatnot. All three people in the dorm looked up.

"Heeeey, guys!" Yang waved at them, smiling. "What did I miss?"

"A lot." The knight responded, before placing his head in his hands again. "My luuuuck..."
Weiss' eyes narrowed as she studied him. "What's his problem?"
"He read a fanfic." Blake responded, looking down at him.

"Welcome to my world, Arc."

END

A/N: Woo, that's done! Next chapter, Weiss Reacts to Hot Springs Episodes! A huge shout out to everyone responsible for making this chapter possible, and a huge thank you for everyone who waited patiently- and who didn't incessantly remind me about the Spacebattles version- for this chapter!

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