Weiss Reacts to Valkyria Chronicles!
A/N: Welcome, one and all, to Weiss Reacts! Firstly, we'll have to announce the winner of the last poll, which is now closed as of the posting of this chapter. The winner was, as expected, Code Geass, and we will be featuring R1 in the coming chapters.
Regarding my new situation in college however, I announce that I may have to post less due to an increased amount of homework, advanced reading and such to take care of, so sadly, there may not be a return to the regular updates we had before the summer. Apologies, but that's how life goes. This goes for Lucina Reacts and any other fics I do as well.
With that in mind, let's get on with this chapter!
DISCLAIMER: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth, otherwise GODS ABOVE THEY GOT EDWARD ELRIC'S VA TO VOICE QROW TOO BUSY SQUEEING TO DISCLAIMER
Valkyria Chronicles belongs to Sega. Warning for minor spoilers.
All mentioned franchises and characters belong to their respective owners.
"You guys got ten times more boring!" Yang whined, pouting and crossing her arms. "Come on! We just kicked butt with, what, a bunch of god-slaying badasses from another dimension! Aren't you guys pumped for anything?!"
Weiss had a neutral, vaguely unamused expression on her face as she sat at their desk, scrolling through the dorm's collective games library. "Eh."
"Eh? Eh?!" Yang stared at her in disbelief. "EH?! For Dust's sake, we met the actual Lucina, not the rip-off Jaune's sister is! The actual, bona-fide, Falchion-wielding, dragon-slaying Lucina!"
"Eh." The heiress shrugged. "I live in a dorm with you and an insane mech pilot who regularly pilots a reality-warping giant robot. Compared to that, that was nothing."
"…..you three have no sense of adventure!" The brawler complained. "Come on!"
Blake snuggled up in her blanket, reading a book. "I'm tired. I can't be bothered to do anything."
"Shush." Ruby held up a finger, petting Crescent Rose- currently unfolded and resting in the bed next to her, replete with an eyemask slung on top of the blade- and tucking her blanket over it. "Cress is sleeping."
Yang huffed and crossed her arms, indignant. "You guys really are useless. I should've hung out with Rufu some more. At least she's more fun."
"Yeah, whatever, sure, just quit whining." The heiress waved her off, continuing to examine the library. "Wait, wait, what?"
"Huh?" Yang turned to her, looking at the screen curiously. "What's going on?"
"…..when did we get Valkyria Chronicles? Dust, what is Valkyria Chronicles?" Weiss pointed at the screen, where indeed, an icon for the above game was present on her desktop.
Yang stared at it briefly, thinking carefully. She blinked, trying to think about where the game came from, before snapping her fingers in realisation.
"Oh, right! I bought it because it was on sale and I had a bit of money left over." The brawler explained. "I wanted to get around to actually playing it, but y'know, training and shenanigans."
"That makes so much sense." Weiss sighed, nodding. "Well, regardless, it looks interesting. Do you mind if I have a go?"
"Well, the last time you played a game, you got owned by a narcoleptic girl with gaming skills, so-"
"Don't remind me about that Chiaki girl…." Weiss grumbled, seething. "I swear, it's like she's unreal or something! How can anyone be so ridiculously good at games?!"
"Eheheh…..yeah…" Yang laughed nervously, hoping to move the topic away from the AI they had managed to currently occupy with several copies of various first person shooters at once in Blake's hangar- speaking of which, she needed to check on Nanami with Blake.
Unlike Norn's AI, which was magically induced by Life Dust, Nanami's was the product of one prototype and years of programming by both her original creator and Blake, and thus very prone to glitching, being one of the very first extant completely naturally manmade AI in the world. Her narcolepsy was used to hide the glitching, but Blake resolved to fix the glitching at some point.
Of course, they'd succeeded in making a more human-like one than the product of years of study that created Penny, so the glitches were a fair price to pay to have one capable of truly simulating a person. Better than the other one, at any rate.
She was digressing, of course. This was the first time Weiss had picked up a game since Nanami had thrashed her at Team Fortress. Knowing Weiss, it sounded like a fun thing.
"Ahem!" Weiss cleared her throat. "Yang, do you mind if I try your game?"
"O-oh!" The brawler blinked, snapping out of her fugue. "Sure, go ahead. Right, yeah."
Weiss shook her head. "Tch. You weird me out sometimes. It's like you know something I don't."
"Hehehe….yeah, yeah, just get on playing." Yang insisted. "You're cool. Just don't do any DLC that I may have bought or stuff, kay?"
The heiress regarded her suspiciously, staring shiftily at the brawler, before shrugging.
"You're just too suspicious at times…." Weiss muttered, shaking her head. She sighed, booting up the game.
Chapter 0
"Alright." Weiss cracked her knuckles. "So…..blah blah blah, generic empire is invading innocent little Gallia. Alright. When do I get to start the reign of the Holy Schnee Empire?"
"You're obsessed with the Holy Schnee Empire." Yang remarked. "You want to start that every game you play."
"The Holy Schnee Empire is an honourable aim! HONORABLE!" Weiss snapped. "Now shush. I'm listening to the narration."
"Good Dust, this girl shouldn't be in charge of her company, let alone a country…." The brawler quipped, whistling.
Weiss rolled her eyes. "Alright. So…..this….this Welkin guy, he's the son of a famous general, and yet the local police don't recognise him?!"
"….you serious?" Yang looked dumbfounded. "What?"
"Some police you people are. And his adop-wait, wait, wait a second." The heiress paused. "…..his adopted sister's called Isara? And his last name's….Gunther, right?"
Yang nodded. "Seems like it, so far as the cutscenes are telling us."
"….I just realised," The heiress started. "Don't we have an Isara Gunther in our year? She even looks and sounds like the one in game and even wears that shawl, too."
"You're right, we do!" Yang nodded. "She's that girl who Nora dragged into Tankery Club, wasn't she? The new girl? She's the one who helped with finding the teleporter trail back during the Festival too."
"…..that's a strange coincidence. Very strange indeed." The heiress mused. "We'll have to ask her if she's heard about this game before."
"Heh. Maybe it was based on her life or something. Y'know, like RWBY was for ours, only I'm more awesome than they made me." Yang remarked cheekily. "Oh, look, an actual fight!"
Weiss smirked. "Oh, finally. We can begin the rule of the Holy Schnee Empire! Die, pathetic pretenders!"
….
"That was easy." The heiress scoffed, having swept through the first map in two turns with the best rank. "Pathetic, for a bunch of invaders.
If that's all they have, this so-called war with Gallia won't last long."
"That was the tutorial." Yang pointed out helpfully. "It's meant to be easy."
Weiss shushed her. "Be quiet, you know not what you dare degrade.
Heh. This war will be my chance to FINALLY put the Holy Schnee Empire into practice."
"Please, you couldn't put it into place the last time you had elite soldiers under your control." The brawler shot back.
"Be q-quiet!"
Chapter 1
"Right. The university man who doesn't want to join the army, and the baker girl who would rather bake bread than fight. Why am I not convinced those two won't end up in the army?" Weiss commented.
Yang rolled her eyes. "Alright, Weiss, you don't have to rub in the fact that you're actually genre savvy now."
"You've been doing that to me for the last three years, Yang! You're one to talk!" The heiress shot back.
"Yeah, but I'm awesome. You don't have an excuse."
The heiress rolled her eyes right back. "Tch.
And these fools still want to invade Bruhl? They were annihilated by an apprentice baker and a university student!"
"A small group was annihilated by a university student and an apprentice baker." Yang corrected her.
"Be silent. They were still annihilated!" Weiss cried as she continued, surveying the map of the battlefield. "Pathetic! That's all they send after us, a bunch of scouts? Again? Do they not understand when they're beaten?
And all the game wants me to do is kill their leader? Tch. Easy."
'Is it me, or whenever Weiss plays a game, I'm the sane one?' Yang mused, a smirk forming on her face.
"Tch. Convenient that Alicia has a grenade, although I question why, of all people, a baker-turned-militiaperson has any form of explosives to begin with." Weiss mused, before throwing it into the leader of the scouts to kill him instantly. "…..hah! Easy fight!"
Yang wagged her finger. "Not yet it isn't."
Weiss stared at the screen in disbelief, watching as the invading force decided to bring in heavier armaments.
In this case, a light tank appeared on the battlefield.
"Cowards! You had to bring in a pathetic tank? I will STILL be-"The heiress was interrupted by the new objective.
"…..of course we run away from this pathetic tank. Fine." Weiss rolled her eyes. "I'll accept it. For now."
Yang giggled. "You're really getting into this, aren't you?"
"This game is testing my skill, and I refuse to lose! I've had enough of games humiliating me, whether be it through glitches or through some sort of super-gamer beating me at it!" Weiss declared.
"I swear, this will be the first game I will be good at. THE FIRST!"
Chapter 2
Weiss rolled her eyes. "Oh, how mature. Calling a pregnant woman fat. Alright, whatever- and they call you professional.
Although Isara's one trick hand with a rifle, for a girl her age. I think."
"…..alright, this has to be more than a coincidence." Yang commented, as the Edelweiss tank was revealed. "I mean….it's weird that they're keeping a tank in the barn, and a little convenient….but I'm pretty sure that's the same tank our Isara was working on."
"….that's about as weird as when Lucina met our Lucina." Weiss nodded in agreement. "It's….a little weird.
And seriously? Now Welkin knows how to run a tank?! Ggh…this story just gets more unlikely by the minute. Oh well, at least I can annihilate these Imperial fools who think they can face me. All I need do is wait a few turns…."
….
"Success! You fools!" Weiss declared triumphantly. "You cannot face the wrath of the Holy Schnee Empire! Professional soldiers getting thrashed by a bunch of barely-adults with a decades old tank….pfft.
I'd hate to be their commander."
Yang smirked. "You're seriously enjoying this."
"It helps you're not rigging it this time, like you've done almost every other time!" The heiress snapped.
"I've rigged it once, Weiss. Once. Get over it."
"STILL!"
Chapter 3
Weiss scoffed in disbelief as the narrator described the empire's takeover of Gallia. "Really? The morons couldn't win against a university student, a baker, and a little girl armed with an old, banged-up tank, and you expect me to believe they beat the whole country?
They must have some sort of secret weapon to do that."
"True, true." Yang shrugged, agreeing. "…..and really, Welkin, you compare her to a rhinoceros.
I don't know much about this Alicia, but I know girls, and I don't think I'd appreciate being called a rhinoceros. I personally prefer a sexy kitten~"
"More like a blonde brute." Weiss quipped.
"S-shush! You don't understand the sexy!"
"I'm sure I do. I live with the only person on this earth considered sexier than you."
"B-be quiet…." The brawler looked more sullen suddenly.
"Capture and hold the west bank. Alright. Should be easy." The heiress breathed in. "Especially with this group. They should hold up not at all against me…."
….
"Ggh. Of course. Sending several tanks and they still can't stop me." Weiss declared as she won yet another mission at the highest rank. "They really should brush up their skills."
Yang smiled. "Good for you. You're actually good at this game."
"Hey, when I'm given a chance at being good, I will be good." The heiress shot back.
"What's this about Weiss being good at a game?" Blake commented, looking down at them.
"Weiss is actually pretty good at this one game I bought to play but never did." The brawler explained. "It's amazing, in a way."
The catgirl chuckled, clambering down from her bed. "Oh, I've got to see this."
Chapter 4
"How atrocious." Weiss turned her nose up. "This…Rosie woman reminds me of Cardin back in his worst days. Racism….tch."
Blake twitched, shaking her head. "I'm sure she gets better. I doubt any good game except, I dunno, a black comedy would have an unrepentant racist as a main character."
"The hell is wrong being Darcsen anyway?" Yang mused. "If it wasn't for the cat ears, Blake and Ren could pass for that. Seriously, black hair is grounds for discrimination now?"
"….okay, now that just sounds silly, although I'd assume it's not just that and more cultural differences." The heiress responded. "….and be silent, peasants! Challenging my authority…fine! We'll just have to prove you wrong!"
…..
"…What. We…..did we seriously drive a tank underneath a river to attack them?" Weiss inquired, disbelieving. "That…..well…..that's just insane. That sounds like something you'd come up with, Blake.
It worked, anyway. Morons didn't even see it coming. These scouts are far too useful for their own good."
The catgirl scoffed. "You kidding? No, I'd just blow the bridge up. Screw that."
"…..why did I feel like you'd answer like that?"
Chapter 5
Weiss facepalmed, exasperated. "A serious security breach like that? How did they NOT notice a path while they were setting up a base?! Morons! Setting all of two or three guards…."
"Hey, actual landmines." Yang whistled. "Finally."
"No match for our tank." The heiress reminded her as she marched up one of her shocktroopers down the aforementioned path to take out more of the guards. "Not even close."
Blake shook her head. "You're actually worth something at this game. Not a single casualty yet, and you're playing riskily, too."
The heiress smirked. "Of course. I intend to finish this game and prove to the world that I, Weiss Schnee, am capable of finishing a game without failing at it!"
"…..well, can't say that's not a noble goal." The brawler admitted.
Weiss started laughing as the boss of the stage, a massive tank with an equally massive gun, dwarfing her own tank, appeared.
"Pathetic! That's all they have? That will not stop me from annihilating them. Not at all!" The heiress declared, laughing maniacally.
Indeed, within two turns, Weiss had wiped out almost every other unit on the stage except the tank, courtesy of a sniper planted on a cliff facing the camp and lucky placement.
She secured the base objective, laughing again.
"Tch. We didn't stop the fools from evacuating…..but we still annihilated them." Weiss declared proudly. "The Holy Schnee Empire is growing!"
"Holy Schnee Empire?" Blake inquired, raising an eyebrow.
"It's Gallia, not the Holy Schnee Empire." Yang corrected her. "Weiss is just power-mad because she's good at this."
Chapter 6
"Dark arts?" Weiss inquired, as the battlefield- a barren wasteland- had its origin described. "And of course, as expected, it's blamed on Darcsens like Isara.
I'd personally expect someone like Professor Faust to have accidentally done that. Whatever they think the Darcsens are capable of, it's nothing compared to what that woman does in her spare time for science or whatever twisted reason she has."
Blake rubbed her chin, thinking. "Knowing the genre, it probably wasn't the Darcsens and they just got framed by history or something."
Yang shrugged. "True enough."
…..
"Easy." Weiss scoffed as she completed the mission in four turns, having managed to annihilate the enemy again. "Not even a challenge."
Blake clapped. "I must say, you're a trick hand at this. Maybe you rigged it."
"Unlike you, I don't rig anything. I'm far above such useless antics." The heiress declared. "Heh. If this is how easy the game is, then I'm going to simply surge through the rest of it."
Chapter 7
"….a bunch of ruins built by the precursor Valkyrur or whatever, and of course, the completely unassuming baker girl can open it." Weiss scoffed. "Alright, well, we already know she has something to do with them."
Yang facepalmed. "Seriously. SERIOUSLY. You...dammit, Welkin, you're supposed to be a genius and you had the enemy prince in front of you and DIDN'T KILL HIM?!"
"He had that bodyguard of his." Blake pointed out. "And judging by her looks, she probably would've dropped them before any of them could fire a shot."
"Still! I doubt she can stop bullets that easily! Dammit!"
Weiss laughed as the battlefield for this chapter was revealed. "Of course! The prince brings his stupidly large tank.
Alright. This should be a breeze like last time."
….
Thirty minutes later….
"ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" The heiress roared.
Most of the other missions, she had swept through the battles with ease, with masterful troop placement and excellent aim from her.
Here, however, she was stuck. The giant tank the enemy had called in had managed to obliterate the Edelweiss in one turn twice. Her lancers- anti-tank troopers- were being pounded by the anti-personnel turrets on the sides of the tank, or sniped from behind by enemy snipers. And to compound matters, this had been her third try.
"Come on…..fourth time's the charm…." Weiss declared, restarting the mission yet again…..and watching as, despite her best efforts, the Edelweiss was annihilated on the first turn the enemy got, despite all the damage it took.
"…..gggh…..SCREW THIS!" The heiress yelled, standing up and walking off, leaving the room and slamming the door behind her.
Blake sighed wistfully. "Well…..guess that was too good to last."
"…..yeah." Yang shrugged. "Too good to last indeed.
…eh. I'll have a go. At least someone in this dorm has to be able to beat that tank."
An hour later, Yang shut off the game, having made even less progress than Weiss did in beating said tank.
END
A/N: Fun fact: That's not me being lazy. As of this writing, I STILL haven't gotten past Chapter 7 in VC myself. The Batomys- the enemy tank I left unnamed- is a pain in the backside. Google it if you don't believe me, you'll see about ten guides to get past chapter 7 alone.
Next chapter, Weiss Reacts to Sick Episodes! We really do need a sick episode for once. Don't worry, Code Geass will be featured- or rather, R1 will be- soon.
So, I hope you enjoyed that, leave your ideas, comments, criticisms, reviews, suggestions and thoughts, and I hope you have a GREAT day! Until next time!