Weiss Reacts to Civilization V: Part 2!

A/N: Welcome, one and all, to Weiss Reacts! Just seven chapters to the end of the volume, and three to the end of actual feature stories. Good Dust, it's that time again already. Well, nothing much else to say, really. Just keep finding stuff for me to react to for next volume and keep on reading, ladies and gents!

Also, there may be some disruption in the coming weeks due to my laptop being suspect- I've just had to reformat it to fix a serious issue- so if I do not upload at all, it'll be either due to my laptop being on the fritz or me doing college work. Either way, let's get on with it!
DISCLAIMER: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth, otherwise there would totally be a Heimdall-based character in RWBY. (As Nora's brother.)

Civilization V belongs to Firaxis.

All mentioned franchises, mods and characters belong to their respective owners.

"I win." Yang stuck her tongue out at Weiss as she was victorious at a game of Team Fortress 2- Weiss had insisted on a one versus one fight without Yang calling on her mysterious friend Nanami- as she played from her laptop.

"You literally did nothing but sit in a corner and use that blasted sniper of yours!"

"Then quit trying to come at me with the Eyelander and use something better!"
"Must you always use such dirty tactics to beat me?" The heiress snapped, exasperated.

Yang raised an eyebrow quizzically. "All is fair in love and war, is it not?"

Ruby sighed, shaking her head. "Oh, these two are at it again."
"Weiss and Yang just always argue about anything." Blake mused, shaking her head in unison. "The day they stop, the Lagann sprouts wings and flies into the sunset."

"Did you ever tell her about Nanami?" The reaper inquired, frowning.

"She never asked, and frankly it's never been important enough." The catgirl responded. "Although, Nanami's been getting a little restless lately."
"Oh? How does an AI get restless?"
"She just….I dunno." Blake sighed. "I mean, I've been working on a couple of different projects, but I'm not sure if I can make her a…physical body. She really wants to see the world outside, so to speak.

I mean, Norn was a different case- she had her sapience granted to her by Life Dust. But to tailor a body specifically for an already-formed AI to inhabit would be quite difficult…."

"Maybe you can ask Sun to do it? Oh, oh, or that Isara girl? They're engineering geniuses, right?" Ruby pointed out.

Blake scoffed dismissively. "Sun's good, but not that good. And it'll be a cold day in hell before I go to a tank-building heretic like Gunther to work on my creations."

"Didn't you already get over the whole tank thing?"
"They're still heretics for rejecting the way of the mecha."

"If you're so good at all games, then what do you say to this?!" Weiss snapped, interrupting the two girls on the side. "Xiao Long, why don't you play a small game of Civilization V with me? If I win, you must buy me three boxes of vanilla sorbet as reparations."
Yang blanched. "Heck no! That game's boring! Not enough explosions! Too slow!"
"So you forfeit?" The heiress responded, smirking.

"…gggh. Dammit. I won't let you win, Weiss!" The brawler declared indignantly. "Fine! I have two conditions, if I accept this challenge!"
Weiss crossed her arms, studying her opponent curiously. "Name them."

"One, if I win, you have to buy me lunch for the next week and a half." Yang started, listing off her conditions on her fingers. "Two, we're playing with mods on."

Weiss shook her head. "Not likely. What, so your mods will be able to rig things to your advantage?"

"You get them too. I'll even install them for you. Considering your track record with computers, I'll have to- it's a complicated process thing to install mods for multiplayer and all that."

The heiress seethed irritably. "…..ggh….fine. Your terms are…..reasonable.

Of course, I doubt I'll lose to you. The Schnee Empire will not lose to a mere pretender."
Yang rolled her eyes. "Please. We know how this goes- you'll do badly, blame the computer and me instead of yourself and rage quit."
"Be quiet." The heiress retorted. "I plan to break the mold, so to speak."

Blake raised an eyebrow, her interest piqued. "This seems interesting."
"I love it when Weiss takes something so seriously." Ruby chuckled. "She's cute when she does that."
"You think she's cute when she does anything."

"It's not my fault she IS cute!" The reaper cried, her cheeks red.

Minutes later….

Brawler and heiress were sitting at their computers, looking at their opponent closely, as Weiss waited for her to start a game.

"It seems someone on this game actually appreciates my ambitions." Weiss clapped proudly, as her chosen civilization was, literally, the Holy Schnee Empire- replete with fanart drawn of Weiss with a queen's crown and a custom flag based on the Schnee family emblem. "Good on them, I may actually live out my dream thanks to their brilliant and much-appreciated work!"
"Your dream is to conquer the whole world?" Blake inquired. Weiss scoffed.

"Nothing so brutish. No, I merely want to guide the world into a new golden age, one of prosperity, pride and where adequately-sized chests are not objects of ridicule, Yang."
The brawler snickered. "If you got 'em, flaunt 'em."

Ruby giggled. "I love it when Weiss goes power-mad on video games. It's cute. Isn't it cute?"
"It makes me seriously wonder about her sanity sometimes." Blake mused. "And whether or not I could persuade her to fund my mecha building with that frame of mind…."
Yang shrugged. "All I know is Weiss'll be buying me lunch for the next week~"
"Fighting words, Yang, fighting words." Weiss retorted. "Start the game already so I can school you with the might of the True Holy Schnee Empire!"

"Relax, relax. I'm trying to pick a good civ to use. Hm…..I could always pick Reimu as a leader…or one of the vanilla leaders?" The brawler tapped her chin, thinking carefully. "I mean, Ruby nearly won with Siam last time, and Babylon was pretty good….ooh, but then we have Madoka as a faction leader, and her units are pretty good…."
"Good Dust, how many mods did you install?" Ruby asked, confused.
"Just a bunch based on Touhou, Madoka…..and I think I added one for, err…Ireland under Lancer. And the Holy Schnee Empire, although I'm disappointed that nobody thinks I'm awesome and sexy enough for my own mod….." The brawler pouted. "Screw it. Mami is best civilization. Let's go! And cool, they even have a vaguely Italian name…Nazione di Tiro?"

The heiress sighed. "Finally. May the best person win. And by that, I mean I will win."
"Getting a bit presumptuous there, are we, princess?" Yang retorted. "Trust me. I'll enjoy free lunches for a week off you."

Ruby exhaled, grabbing a nearby bag of cookies. "Well, this ought to be fun to watch, Weiss taking it uber-seriously and Yang trolling her like mad."

"It should be a bit more even-sided." Blake pointed out. "The last time we played this, Weiss nearly won, remember? The only reason she lost was because you backdoored us and got the cultural victory."
"Oh yeah….the new update removed that, didn't it?" The reaper sighed, frowning. "I loved winning by Utopia Project."

…..

"Hehe." Weiss cracked her knuckles as she established the crown capital of the Holy Schnee Empire- of course, named Rosenrot. "Year Zero of the Holy Schnee Empire has begun."
Yang rubbed her chin. "Hm…yeah, yeah, placing the capital of Yangland here was a good idea. Good access."

"This is more fun if you have more people." Ruby pointed out.

"But then we would never prove that I'm better than Weiss!" Yang reminded her, frowning. The heiress glared at her, before shaking her head disapprovingly.

"You keep thinking that. Your banter is utterly futile and irrelevant anyway."

"Haha." The brawler grinned. "It's getting to you, isn't it?"
'Alright, alright, well, I've got to hurry up and get me a huge army to wreck Weiss because she'll actually legitimately beat me on this if I'm not prepared.' Yang thought, attempting to formulate a strategy to deal with her opponent. 'Well, I've got to find Weiss, but then I've got to overwhelm her.

Dammit, Mami, why is your special unit all the way in the Industrial Era?'

Meanwhile, of course, Weiss was planning her own deal.

'Rapid expansion, of course.' The heiress mused. 'The citystates, if they do not submit to the empire, must be subsumed into it entirely. Yang will likely attempt to forcefully overwhelm me with an army, so I will need enough land to support an army of my own, even if it is less easy to defend.

And, of course, I have my own trick up my sleeve. These new wonders help me, it seems, and this newest one will be needed to fuel my rapid expansion and colonisation.'

Blake popped a piece of tuna into her mouth. "Wow. These two actually are taking this game seriously. Who knew Yang of all people would?"
"It's probably because she wants to beat Weiss." The reaper pointed out, munching on her cookies.

The catgirl chuckled. "True. I guess these two'll always be at each other's throats."
"Yeah, but, you know, it's….a little like, I mean they hate each other, but if you try to beat one, they'll back each other up." Ruby pointed out. "Y'know, like nakama or true companions….only less, err, true companion-ey."

"I would hope it's that. Otherwise the last three years would look very, very scary in hindsight." Blake remarked drily.

"That's right, my soldiers. Clear out these camps of barbarians!" Weiss commanded, laughing as she directed her warriors to destroy the surrounding camps just outside of the Schnee Empire territory bordering the capital. "Clear them and wipe their names from the earth!"
"Darn barbarians!" Yang snapped from her side. "Are you serious? Haven't been in the game fifteen turns and they're already pillaging my farms. Only an archer and a warrior, too….."

'This amassing of a huge army isn't working out too well…..' The brawler considered. 'Just have to clear out these camps and it should be fine….'

The heiress was completely confident in her strategy working fine, in contrast, and instead focused, once she had grown out her territory, on production in her one city.

"That's it, build faster….." The heiress muttered. "Soon, the glorious conquest will begin, and the Holy Schnee Empire will rise! See? We've already found you."

Indeed, one of Yang's scouts had located one of Weiss' errant warriors clearing barbarian camps.

"You've only got one city and not all that many soldiers." Yang pointed out helpfully. "You haven't got anything yet~"
The heiress exhaled deeply, simply looking down at the screen. "So you think, Xiao Long. So you think."

Twenty turns later…..

The map was not entirely filled yet, but it looked somewhat unfairly tipped towards the Holy Schnee Empire. A field of white and blue territory dotted with several cities ranged from the western edge of the continent, where the capital of Rosenrot stood proudly on the coast, to just towards a mountain range in the east, where it was no-mans-land with a couple of city states and barbarian camps. To the east, Yang's capital of Yangland was expanding its borders, but apart from two other cities, one placed through the range to check the expansion of the Schnee Empire, there were not many others.

Of course, Yang made up for it by having a large army, several units of which Weiss had already espied wiping out barbarian camps with ease via numbers.

Yang whistled. "Wow. How'd you expand so quickly?"
"Well placed settlers and exploitation of resources." The heiress declared. "I am a bit of a strategist, if I do say so myself."
"Oh. Not going to save you from me, though~" The brawler retorted, before declaring war on her ingame, moving several archers, spearmen and at least one visible catapult towards the border with the Empire. "And take a guess what I have next."

Weiss' face was completely deadpan. "What?"
"Terracotta Army wonder! You know, the one that doubles all your army units?" The brawler explained, grinning.

Weiss exhaled, before continuing to speak. "You mean the one I just finished building?"
Yang's eyes widened. "What." She quickly looked at her screen-

You may no longer construct Terracotta Army. The lost production has been returned to Yangland.

"WHAT?!" The brawler cried in disbelief. "HOW?!"
"As I said, rapid production and production focus." The heiress shrugged. "Honestly. How do you think I fuelled my expansion? I pumped out troops like mad."
Ruby looked awed. "That was masterstroke."
"Agreed." Blake commented. "Yang's entire scheme probably revolved around having enough army to overwhelm Weiss."

The heiress smirked. "Your move, Yang."
"Alright." The brawler shrugged for the umpteenth time, clicking around. "As you wish."
Weiss then watched as Yang's well positioned troops easily took one of her border cities, having surrounded it while she was distracted. The brawler smirked.

"My move indeed, Weissy~"

"Gggh." Weiss growled. "Touché, Yang, I'll admit I was distracted. It won't happen again."
Yang rested her head back on her chair. "So it won't, so it won't. Let's test that~"

Ruby cheered. "I believe in you, Yang! I think! Maybe. I dunno."
"Gee, thanks for the confidence, sis!" The brawler remarked drily. "Really appreciate it."

….

Twenty more turns later….

As the day drew on, the pair had managed to advance in eras and in numbers of troops. Weiss held more cities and more wonders, whereas Yang held more troops and had whittled away at the heiress' empire, taking a city here and there.

There was an ongoing struggle between the Empire and the Nazione di Tiro over a city, Kreuzelburg, situated near the coast, as almost every two turns, it had changed hands between the two. Apart from that, however, the borders had remained generally stable, as Weiss was able to repel Yang's invasions but lacked the troops to go on a full-out invasion.

Blake frowned. "Wow. They look a little stuck."

"I think they've been fighting over Kreuzelburg since turn…thirty five?" Ruby recalled, pumping more cookies into her mouth. "Is someone going to do something?"
"Just give up!" Yang commanded. "I'll have the city eventually anyway."
"You don't have enough troops to funnel permanently into a small city like this." Weiss retorted sharply. "You can't stop me."
The brawler scoffed. "Really? What am I doing now?"

Weiss smirked audaciously. "Failing to notice my troop movements."

Yang's eyes widened again as she scrolled to the side of the screen to see Weiss' cannon and pikemen taking over one of her cities entirely, and another group taking back the first city she'd captured.

The brawler sighed. "Very well, touché. I'm still going to win, though."
'And I think I know how to do it.' Yang mused, smirking. 'She can't resist this, anyway. Not this idea.

I just need a few more turns to implement it….'

…

A few turns later….

Weiss laughed. "You're sending in your entire army into my territory?"
"I've got the power to take your capital, and your army can't deal with my group!" Yang grinned, smirking. "Let's go!"
The heiress rolled her eyes. "If you're hoping to beat me in direct combat, you do have far more than me."
"Yes. Fair fight, I'd say." Yang chuckled. "You'd do the same for me."

Weiss sent her own army into the oncoming mass of Yang's Tiro musketeers and pikemen, pushing against them to destroy their lines. The Empire forces met the Tiro forces and showed themselves magnificently, with no side gaining a definite advantage even through numbers.

Yang smirked, knowing what she had planned would completely catch her by surprise. 'Now's my chance.'

Weiss harrumphed. "You know, your army managing skills aren't bad. Maybe if you weren't so easily defeated, we could stand to learn from you."

"Then, you would know about our own men." The brawler responded, grinning. "Missing, of course, but masters of the keeping of the house.

And speaking of which, as master of subterfuge, You didn't notice this, did you~"
Suddenly, several pikemen, a cannon and some musketeers were moved towards the capital of the Empire. Weiss smiled, having already set a plan into motion to counter her attack.

"Just waiting."
"For?" Yang raised an eyebrow, curious. The heiress sighed. "Oh, this."

You have lost your capital.

"WHAT?!" Yang stared at the screen in disbelief as it showed her capital being overrun by Empire troops. "COME ON!"

Weiss huffed. "Hum. Guess I win."

"NOOOOOO!"" The brawler cried. "HOW?!"

"You see, I had the same idea to distract you with a large army while I sent a smaller one to annihilate your capital. Which means the rest of your army was too preoccupied to notice me ransacking your cities." The heiress declared, before cheering.

"I am GOOD at a game! Face it!" Weiss laughed. "I am GOOD! And you now owe me!"

Yang grumbled. "Dammit!"

Ruby sighed. "Maybe you shouldn't have challenged Weiss so much."

"Or made better plays." Blake pointed out. "You made a couple."

Yang shook her head, hanging it in defeat. "I…I lost to Weiss. Weiss.

I am worth nothing as a prankster anymore."
"I WIN!" The heiress raised her fist triumphantly. "I! WIN! AHAHA! HAH!"

And so, Weiss enjoyed one of her only victories upon a video game of any sort.

END

A/N: Next time, if I'm not too screwed, sleepy or stuff, Weiss Reacts to Team Outings! Yes, team RWBY is going out as a group for fun. Running out of ideas, but then this volume's nearly over and we've got all the good ones for next volume.

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