It was a quiet day in the dorm of Team RWBY, a somewhat rare occurrence when looking at the amount of activity that generally occupied the room. Within the dorm were two sisters, resting on their respective beds. The younger of the two simply lay on her top bunk, reading a novel she had already read several times before.

Ruby Rose eventually got bored of scanning the lines of text she had pretty much memorized by heart, and instead put the book down and looked to her older sister's bunk. Instead of seeing the expected snoozing form of Yang Xiao Long, however, she instead saw the blonde sitting up on her bed, staring straight at her scroll, constantly tapping the screen and cursing under her breath.

"Umm, Yang?", Ruby called out. "Are you-"

"What do you want?!", Yang snapped, looking up at her sister with fiery red eyes.

Ruby flinched as if she had been smacked. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean-"

"Oh, Ruby.", Yang cut off again, her eyes going back to their original lilac colour. "No, I'm sorry. I've just been playing this stupid game too much..."

"Wait a second.", Ruby said. "You were playing games on your scroll?"

The blonde nodded. "Yeah, you didn't know you could do that?"

"Not really."

"I'm pretty sure they give you ten free credits on the store to start off with.", Yang stated. "Go nuts."

She got up and tossed her own scroll to Ruby. "You can go ahead and scan my scroll for games you might want. I need to get some air..." And with that, Yang left the dorm, closing the door behind her.

Ruby found the store and looked at the different applications. Sadly, she saw none that really caught her eye, so she looked at Yang's scroll instead. On her scroll, she found a tab that read "Recently Purchased". Under that, she found a handful of games, one of the latest she had downloaded being "The Impossible Game".

This intrigued her, as Ruby had often based herself around the "nothing is impossible" creed. She hopped back to her own scroll and downloaded the game, quickly booting it up and getting to the menu. She selected the first level, and started to play the game.

"It's an orange box.", Ruby stated plainly. "What the-"

She was cut off as she immediately ran headfirst into something she could only describe as a spike. Her orange cube exploded with a depressing "pew!", and she popped up back at the beginning, the phrase "Attempt 2" highlighted at the top of the screen.

Ruby immediately furrowed her eyebrows. "So, it's going to be that kind of game..."

This time, she saw the spike coming, and tapped the screen. As she expected, the cube did a hop over the deadly triangle, continuing on its way. She felt somewhat happy, until she jumped headfirst into a group of two spikes. Back to the beginning, at "Attempt 3".

Ruby stared at the screen with a hint of determination. "I will do this. It can't be that hard..."

Attempt 23

Ruby was starting to become a bit unnerved. She kept dying on the pits, being unable to tap the screen in succession with the cube's landings on each individual square. On Attempt 25, however, she jumped over the first spike as usual, except she had held the screen for a bit too long. The cube jumped immediately after touching the ground, straight into the next set of spikes.

"Ohhh...", Ruby said, realizing her mistake. "You can press and hold to keep him jumping!"

When "Attempt 24" flashed across the screen, she remembered to tap and hold, and this time she got over the pits.

"Now we're making progress!", Ruby said aloud.

Right then, however, the music that was playing in the background suddenly picked up in intensity, and she began jumping on several hovering blocks over a very large pit.

"Whoa, whoa! What's happening?!"

Unaware of what to do, she had jumped straight in between two platforms, straight into the pit below. "Attempt 25" appeared on the screen, and she was back at the beginning.

Ruby sighed in disappointment. "I wonder what this little flag button does..."

She tapped it, and a small white flag appeared on the course. The words "Practise Mode" appeared on the screen, and the fast paced music had been replaced with a slower, calming tune.

Ruby sighed. "Practise makes perfect, I guess."

Attempt 64

Although it took more attempts than expected, Ruby had managed to clear the level on Practise Mode.

"Okay, then.", Ruby said. "Time to clear the level without any help."

She rebooted the first level, and off she went...

Attempt 88

Ruby was getting frustrated now. She had finally made it past the large pit, but after that she had jumped straight into a group of three spikes. How was she supposed to jump over that?

"I guess I'm supposed to magically grow wings, or something...", she muttered to herself.

Attempt 95

By now, Ruby had made it to the triple spikes four times. She was still unable to figure out how to actually get past them.

Right then, however, the door swung open and Yang reentered the room. She looked up at Ruby and waved. "Hey, sis! Find anything interesting?"

"Yeah, I found this one annoying game...", Ruby stated. With that she held up her scroll to show her sister the title. "Was this the one you were playing earlier?"

Yang grinned. "So, you got it, eh?" She walked over to Ruby's bunk and looked over her shoulder. "How far have you made it?"

"To this one group of three spikes that I just can't get over."

Yang bit her lip. "Yep. I can never make it past them, either. You have to time it perfectly."

She took her scroll back and climbed down. "I suggest you don't play too much. It'll really get to you soon."

"Okay.", Ruby nodded in understanding. "I probably won't play too much more."

"You better not.", Yang said. "You still have that three-page paper to do for Professor Oobleck."

Ruby frowned down at her sister. "You haven't done it, either!"

"Meh.", Yang shrugged. "He understands me."

Yang left the room once more, and left Ruby to sit and play her game. She jumped and dropped where necessary, and then made it past the pit once more. She remembered what her sister had said, to time the jump. She focused, and then jumped just when she was about to hit the spikes. She watched as the cube hopped over the deadly triple spikes.

Ruby was so overjoyed that she didn't pay attention to the pit in front of her, and she slammed straight into a box.

She shrugged as "Attempt 96" appeared. "At least I know how to get over the spikes."

Attempt 132

Ruby had completely lost track of the time. But it didn't matter much, she was making progress. Although it was somewhat rare for her to get to the triple spikes, and even rarer to actually pass them, she was getting a pretty good idea of when and when not to jump.

"Okay, made it past the pit...", Ruby said to herself. "Jump...jump...jump! Okay, made it past the triple..."

Ruby always began to get nervous at this point, as failure would send her a far way back. She made sure to focus, remembering from previous attempts when to drop and when to jump. "Jump, jump, drop, jump, drop, drop, drop, drop, jump!"

Surprisingly, she managed to make it past the second large pit, cued by the rise of intensity in the music. She got startled by another group of triple spikes, but somehow managed to jump over it.

"Omigod..." Ruby said to herself. "I might actually make it!"

She jumped onto another set of ascending blocks, and held the screen as she went higher and higher. She knew what was coming, there was going to be another drop at the top. She focused, watching the screen with severe intensity...

And jumped into the floating spike anyway.

"Damnit!", Ruby cursed, tossing her scroll to the side. "Are you serious?! I was there! I had made it so far, but I decided to jump into a floating freaking spike?!"

She jumped from her bunk to the ground, muttering to herself and holding her head in her hands. "No more Impossible Game...I have to do Oobleck's paper..."

She moved to one of the desks, sweeping everything aside, and grabbed her work. She slipped her headphones on and began to write.

However, the more she wrote, and the more she listened to her music, the more "The Impossible Game" theme would intrude in her mind, and the more she would think about getting past the level. By the time she had written two paragraphs, she was tapping her feet in anxiety.

"Okay.", Ruby said to herself. "Maybe a few more attempts."

Attempt 184

Blake Belladonna walked down the hall to her dorm. She was tired, she had spent the first half of the day doing nothing but studying and training. It was time for her own "cat nap", before she went back to work.

She reached the door and opened it, expecting to find the room vacant, but instead she found two of her teammates sitting on the floor, one of them looking very stressed yet determined, frantically tapping her scroll. The other, being her partner Yang Xiao Long, sat behind her with a look of worry on her face.

"Oh, hey Blake.", Yang said, looking at the faunus.

"Umm...hey.", Blake greeted back. "What are you...?"

"Ruby's been playing this game on her scroll recently, and now she's addicted to it."

"I'm not addicted.", Ruby stated without looking up. "I just want to finish this."

Yang sighed in exhaustion. "Just give up, Ruby. It's not called 'The Impossible Game' for no reason."

"No! I'm not giving up. I'm-"

Ruby suddenly twitched violently as a sudden "pew" emitted from her scroll. "Damnit, Yang!", she snapped at her older sister. "You distracted me!"

Yang stood up with an angry look on her face. "You distracted yourself! Now stop playing that game!", she said angrily while grabbing for Ruby's scroll.

"No!", Ruby shouted back, making sure to hold it out of Yang's reach. "I need to beat it!"

"You need to finish Oobleck's assignment! It's due tomorrow!"

"I already finished it!"

"That's a lie, and you know it!"

"Shut up and leave me alone!"

As the two sisters wrestled on the floor. Blake climbed up to her bunk and started reading her book. "Doesn't look like I'm going to be getting much sleep any time soon...", she mumbled to herself.

Attempt 247

Unlike most struggles between the two sisters, Ruby actually managed to win the fight over the possession of her scroll and was now sitting on the edge of Yang's bunk, continuing her attempts at the game. The owner of said bunk was laying behind Ruby, occasionally mumbling comments like "You're not going to beat it...", or "Triple spikes again, huh?"

Ruby, however, stayed determined, making sure to keep a constant level of focus on the task at hand. She would occasionally get to a far spot in the level and stop breathing entirely, but then would curse and hold her head in her hands, signalling yet another death.

Yang spoke yet again from behind Ruby. "I will admit that I've never made it as far as you have...yet, I've also never been to Attempt 247, so..."

"Shut up.", Ruby mumbled without looking up.

Ruby began to freeze up as she got closer and closer to the two sets of triple spikes. She had still yet to pass them, even though she had been there too many times to count. She channeled all her focus as she neared the spikes...and jumped over them.

She took in a sharp amount of air to clear her head as she began traversing yet another pit with floating spikes below her. She observed the blocks, jumping, dropping, and jumping again...except she had jumped too late. The orange box had simply jumped into a spike dangling straight above her head.

Ruby froze, pausing the game to fully comprehend what had just happened. She noticed Yang behind her, not daring to make any sudden movements or noises.

Instead of getting angry, however, she took a deep breath and continued with the game. She had almost made it. She had almost beaten The Impossible Game.

Attempt 312

No one was daring to speak anymore. Jaune, Nora, and Pyrrha had entered the dorm in order to watch Ruby play, and Yang was still laying behind her, having given up in trying to get Ruby to stop the game. Blake was still reading on the top bunk, but she had her ears alert to what was happening below her, catching on to the deep breathing, or lack thereof.

After 311 attempts, Ruby simply looked sombre, like all she wanted was to finish the game. And so on Attempt 312, no one dared to even make a sound as she once again passed the dual triple spikes and jumped across the final pit.

The observers' eyes widened as Ruby actually made it past the pit, jumping over the wall of spikes and hitting solid ground. Ruby caught her breath, not daring to fidget. She was at the end, just a few more spikes-

"Hey, Ruby!", Weiss Schnee called out as she entered the room. "I was meaning to ask you..."

She trailed off as she noticed everyone looking directly at her except for Ruby, who was still staring directly at her scroll, now placed precariously on her lap. She had jumped straight into the final set of triple spikes, and now the orange cube was simply running into the first spike repeatedly.

"Attempt 313"

"Attempt 314"

"Attempt 315"

"Attempt 316"

At this point, everyone was looking from Ruby to Weiss, wondering who was going to speak first.l The younger of the two ended up being the first to act, simply getting up and stuffing her scroll into her pocket.

She walked towards the door, smiling at Weiss as she passed her. "Hey, you should try out The Impossible Game.", she advised as she walked past. "It's a pretty interesting experience."

And with that she opened the door to the room, stepping outside. "I'm going to train for a bit.", she announced on her departure. She shut the door and walked away from the dorm.

Yang sighed and got up as well. The JNP section of Team JNPR simply stood staring at their feet or at each other. Blake was simply pretending to sleep.

Weiss looked around. "Umm...what's happening?"

Yang strode towards the door as well. "What's happening? Well, I have to alert Ozpin about a possible murder tonight." And with that, she exited the room.

Pyrrha looked up at Weiss and smiled apologetically. "We...should probably go too."

She took Jaune and Nora's hands and guided them out of the room, Jaune winking at Weiss as Pyrrha shut the door.

Weiss walked over to her bunk, scratching her head in confusion. She sat down and looked up at the sleeping form of Blake on the top bunk.

Weiss frowned. "You're not really asleep, are you?"

Blake simply opened one eye and looked towards the heiress. "If I were you, I'd sleep with Myrtenaster underneath my pillow tonight."

Well...there you go. I decided this time I would try writing a different type of story, going for something that too many people are familiar with: video game rage. I know that the fanfic "Team RWBY Plays" is quite similar to this one, but I'm aiming more towards feelings of anger and annoyance between the characters instead of party games and such.

Let's see...this story was inspired a lot by "Team RWBY Plays", and also by other titles like "Weiss Reacts" and "Sun Ragekong". It's very possible that I'll make a second chapter to this, and I will be taking any requests given into account. Only one rule: No games that have already been used in "Team RWBY Plays", especially not Slender. People have done Slender to death, and I'm going for at least a bit of originality here.

It will also help if I've played the game before. I did have to watch several videos of people playing The Impossible Game before attempting this, and I eventually had to play the game myself. Having already made serious progress in Geometry Dash...I beat the first level on Attempt 105. I did get quite angry while going at it though, so I used that mentality when making this.

As for my other story, Codename: ARME (which you guys probably haven't heard of since I released it on the same day that about 50 other RWBY fanfics were released), I'm not sure when I'll continue that. I might wait until Volume 2 has come to an end and the hype has died down before I go at it.

Hope you guys enjoyed this new fanfic, feel free to leave a review or suggestion.