This fic is inspired from the new Spider-man Ps4 game. The dynamic of every character's relationships and connection is so detailed it's mind-blowing. Kudos to Insomniac for making an awesome game.
Another character that I adored during the game is Yuri. She's such a badass and I love her stoic, no-nonsense personality.
Summary: This is a brief one-shot dedicated to Spider-Man and Yuri. Follow them through the years as Peter tries to develop an alliance with NYPD captain Yuri Watanabe and eventually form a mutual friendship. (Pre-canon)
Requested by: Felipe Montenegro
FIRST MEET
The sound of blaring sirens echoed across the streets of Queens, New York. Detective Yuri Watanabe drove like a mad-woman. Chasing down a group of robbers in a speeding black van while trying to avoid pedestrians and other drivers.
"Detective Watanabe, what's your sit-rep?" A voice spoke from the police scanner.
Yuri grabbed the radio and immediately answered, "Code one! Officer in pursuit on 5th avenue. A party of four inside a run-away black vehicle, requesting for assistance."
"Ten-four. Will announce your back-up shortly." There was a pause on the other line, then the voice came back seconds later. "NYPD Unit seven is en route and will cut them off by the freeway."
"Copy," Yuri replies and steps on the gas to speed up. When she was finally catching up, the back door of the van opened and the three robbers in the back started shooting at her car.
Yuri ducks behind the wheel when the bullets cracked the windshield, making the car swerve. Her eyes widened when she spotted one of the goons bring out an automatic rifle and started firing rapidly at her. Yuri steers her car into an ally to avoid the shots. She kept her sights on the other side so she wouldn't lose her target. Once she reached the intersection she maneuvered her car back to the main road just in time to get beside the van she was chasing.
She made eye contact with the driver. He grabbed his gun to aim it at her direction. Yuri veered right, tackling the van with much force, the guy dropped his weapon. The driver retaliated and bumped her back.
They continued to clash at each other for a while. Civilians dodged out of their way as the two vehicles pass. Knocking hot-dog carts, bikes, and mailboxes aside as they sped through the asphalt. When the freeway came to view, Yuri stepped on the brakes to slow down. Another squadron was already waiting on the other side, using their police cruisers as barricade to block the robbers.
Unfortunately, the driver didn't stop. He accelerated even more, hoping to ram his way through the barricade. The police officers opened fire when they realized that the van wasn't slowing down.
A blur of red and blue suddenly crossed Yuri's eyes. Spider-Man came swinging down and thrusted his hand up just as the van made contact with it. Yuri expected the masked vigilante to be sent flying from the impact like any other human... or whatever he is under that suit. She'd never actually seen the guy in person before so she didn't know what he was capable off. But on the contrary, the opposite happened. It was the van that practically folded like tinfoil as soon as it hit Spider-Man's palm. The van lurched upward and toppled over, landing upside down in the middle of the highway.
Yuri slowly approached the crash, pistol at hand but slightly lowered. The other cops shuffled forward and followed her lead.
"NYPD! Step out of the vehicle now and put your hands were I can see them!" She warned.
No reply. Yuri walked closer, gun now aimed higher. A thump distracted her and she looked up. Spider-Man landed on top of the upside down van. "Come on out, guys!" Spider-Man says and Yuri noted how young he sounded, like he was just a teenager. "Do what the nice lady says and surrender peacefully."
Still no reply from the wreck. Yuri went to the back and jiggled the door handle. It was shut tight. All of a sudden and Spider-Man landed beside her.
"Allow me, Ma'am!" He said in a cheery tone. "Please step back!"
Normally, she doesn't want anyone nosing in her work but it gave her a chance to finally get a better look at the masked hero. His get-up looked like it was homemade. It consists primarily of a red sleeveless hoodie with a small black spider-emblem at its center, a blue sweatsuit underneath, a pair of fingerless black and red gloves, red boots. He wore a red ski mask over his face and big, dark goggles covered his eyes.
He shot webs at the door and tugged hard. They doors burst open but also got detached from the van. Yuri side-eyed him.
"Oops, guess I don't know my own strength." He said sheepishly while scratching the back of his neck. Inside they found the three thugs unconscious and on top of each other like a pile of dirty laundry. Behind them, a bunch of stolen alien tech was chained together.
A little while later...
Yuri eyed the thugs as they cut cuffed and shoved into police cars. One of the beat cops approached her and she turned to see her fellow officer, Jefferson Davis.
"Did you get something out of them?" He asks solemnly.
"No," She regretfully says, "This is the second time that a gang tries to steal alien tech from the government lab and we still don't have any leads on who's the mastermind behind all this."
"We're all hard at work," Davis reassures her, "I'm sure we'll find a lead soon."
Yuri nods and then suddenly sees Spider-Man being crowded by people taking pictures of him on the sidewalk.
"I'll be right back." She tells Davis before heading towards the crowd. She hears the people gush and awe as Spider-Man tries to tell them to settle down and not use flash photography.
"Hey, kid!" Yuri called out to him. He turns and she signals for him to come closer, he follows and jogs up to her.
"Hi, Madam Detective." Spider-Man says in a cheery tone again, which was starting to annoy Yuri. "Need anything?"
She crossed her arms over her chest, "Just wanna ask... how old are you?"
Spider-Man seems taken aback by her question, but he answered anyway. "I— uhmm... I'm sixteen Ma'am."
Yuri narrows her eyes at him, she could tell that he told her the truth, but she didn't expect him to be honest. "Look, kid. I appreciate the help, but next time you should leave the fighting to the adults."
"Oh you don't have to worry about me." He replies bashfully, "I mean I did stop a speeding van with my bare hands."
"True. But what if you did get hurt? Don't you have a family that will worry about you?"
"With all due respect, Ma'am. I can handle myself." His tone becomes serious, "Someone once told me that with great power, comes great responsibility and I aim to do just that. I was given these powers for a reason so I can't just sit around and do nothing when I know I can help."
Yuri studies him for a moment. She was impressed of his spirit and willingness to take action. She guess she can give him the benefit of the doubt, although she will keep an eye on him. Teenagers tend can be reckless at some point.
"Okay then." Yuri finally relents. "I'll see you around, kid."
She started walking away when she heard him asks, "Wait! I didn't get your name."
"It's Yuri." She says without looking back.
FRIENDS?
"RRAAAARRGGGHHH!" Rhino roars as he rampages along Brooklyn Bridge. Chaos ensued after Rhino started plowing the cars aside using his paws.
Spider-Man swung nearby, and landed on one of the bridge railings. "You know. Rhinos aren't violent creatures. They usually just roam the wilderness freely and don't cause this much destruction."
That got Rhino's attention. The big man growls loudly, "I WILL SQUASH YOU, BUG!"
"Actually, spiders are arachnids." Spider-Man sassed but Rhino was already lumbering towards him in full speed. Spider-Man jumps out of the way and lands on the villain's back. He shot webs at Rhino's shoulders and to hold on so it looked like he was horse-riding a giant rhino.
"Yeehaw!" Spider-Man hollers as he imitates a cowboy. Rhino grunted and tried to shake him off. He finally did after a couple tries when Peter lost his balance. Then crashed into a bus back first.
"Owww," Peter groans, he felt dizzy. Then his eyes widened when he felt his spider-sense tingle. He looked to his right and saw Rhino bring his gigantic fist down at him. He stops it with both hands to avoid getting squished but Rhino used his free hand to swat him away.
He fell down on his butt again, making Rhino laugh. "Puny spiderling is weak, this is too easy."
"FYI, buddy. It's Spider-Man." Peter retorts and quickly shoots a web at Rhino's face. The big guy roars again as he started to pound his face onto the cars and even the floor, trying to get sticky thing off his eyes.
Seeing him distracted, Spider-Man leapt into action. He webbed Rhino's ankles and yanked real hard, causing him to stumble back. His hands were still clawing at the webbing on his face when his foot tripped on the railings. He started to fall face first into the ocean but Peter used a web bomb and glued him to the bridge's leg. Rhino tried to wriggle out of the webbing but was unsuccessful. Spider-Man came to down to see his enemy and chuckled at his predicament.
"Awww, can't get out? Too bad..." He did a feint sigh of pity, "... I almost feel sorry for you."
Rhino bellows angrily, "WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE, I WILL KILL YOU!"
Peter smirks under his mask. "Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you."
...
"I'm surprised you managed to lug that thing all the way up here." Yuri comments as she and Spider-Man observes Rhino being taken away by the RAFT authorities.
"Aw shucks, it's no biggie." Spider-Man shrugs timidly. "Spiders can carry up to a hundred times their own weight. Me, I can bench press 20, 000 pounds and not break a sweat."
"I see." Yuri nods then looks at his outfit. "I see you got a new suit."
"Yeah, I made it."
She raises her brow, "You can sew?"
"Uh-huh, my aunt taught me. She thinks I'm doing this for my home-ec class."
"Mmhmm," Yuri mumbles wearily, "Well, thanks again for the assist."
"All in a days work, Sargent Watanabe." He salutes.
"Hah... that's Lieutenant to you now mister."
"Oh wow! That's great! Congratulations on the promotion, Yuri."
"Thanks." She says in her usual stoic expression.
"So does that mean you're my boss now?"
"Hmmm, how about this." Yuri grabs a business card from her wallet and hands it to the masked hero, "I'll be your source of intel so you will know where the trouble is. And in return, you will provide me information of whatever gangs or crazy villains you come across, deal?"
Peter reads the card and see's Yuri's name and number written down in it. "Thank you. I'm glad you're trusting me with this."
"As long as you don't tell anyone I'm helping you." Yuri gravelly says, "I'll lose my job if they find out."
"Why?"
"Not everyone in the force likes you, especially my boss. So promise me you'll keep it in the down low."
"Wow, does that mean we're friends?"
Yuri sighs and heads back to her crew.
Peter smiles, "I'll take that as a yes."
TAKING LESSONS FROM A KID
"Smoking is bad for your health you know."
A voice from above her made Yuri look up. From the rooftop of their station, Spider-Man was crouched on top of the water tower. His arms were crossed as he gave her a disapproving look. Yuri ignored him and continued to smoke the joint between her fingers.
"Busy day in the office, I needed a break." She was about to take another puff of smoke when Spider-Man webbed the cigarette and snatched it away from her hand.
"What the hell?!" Yuri yelled.
"I'm serious, Yuri. This isn't good for you." Spider-Man persists as he throws away the cigarette.
"Why do you care?"
"Because I'm your friend."
Yuri snorts and rolls her eyes. "You don't need to worry about me, kid. I do this all the time." She takes a can of beer from the backpack beside her and took a swig from it.
"Really?! Smoking and Drinking?" Spider-Man shakes his head. "What's going on, Yuri?"
Yuri leaned her arms against the roof's railings. She didn't speak and continued drinking.
"I'm not leaving until you tell me."
Still no answer.
Spider-Man gave up. He pinched the bridge of her nose in disappointment. "Fine, I'll leave you to it." He turns his back to her but not before leaving a message, "When we first met, you displayed concern for me when no one else did. So as your friend, I'm just returning the favor." And with that, he jumps into the night and swings away.
Yuri stops and stares at her drink for a moment.
"I'm just returning the favor."
Yuri puts the can down and heads back to work.
SAVING HER LIFE
When Yuri's team arrived at the scene, the Sandman was already causing havoc in Grand Central and everything was in chaos. He had destroyed all the ATM machines and taken the money out. People were running around in panic trying to get away.
"This is Lieutenant Watanabe, requesting for back up in Grand Central. Please advice we have a code five. I repeat we have a code five! Suspect Identified as Flint Marko. Prisoner number 550639."
"Copy, Lieutenant! All units, we have an urgent code five situation. Location: Grand Central." The police dispatch says. "RAFT authorities have responded and is en route. ETA: 15 to 20 minutes."
Yuri groans, "We don't have the time." She then turns to her crew, "Rally all the civilians, make sure they get out safely."
They all nod and follow her order. Yuri takes her cellphone from her pocket and quickly dials a number.
"Hello..." A familiar teenage voice greets from the other line, "Anything I can do for you, Lieutenant?"
"How soon can you get to Grand Central?" She didn't bother beating around the bush.
"Uhmm, I'm at school right now. We have an obstacle course test for our PE class." The boy replies.
"Skip that. There's something going on here. I'm afraid we can't deal with this on our own and RAFT can't get here any sooner."
"O-oh, umm okay. I'll be there in 5, just need to make an excuse." He says and drops the call.
Yuri brings out her gun and aims it at Sandman. He was already stashing the wads of cash inside a duffel bag when she announced, "Drop the bag, Marko! You're under arrest."
Flint Marko turns to her and warns her in a threatening voice, "I don't wanna hurt you. Leave now."
Yuri clicks her tongue, "Not a chance." She nods at her men. They nod back at her signal. Yuri fires a shot at Sandman's hand. It crumbles into sand and the bag drops to the floor. The other officers followed suit and started shooting at the criminal. He seems unaffected by this as the bullets that were hitting him passes completely through the sand structure of his body.
Angered, Sandman molds his fist into a giant sand hammer and pummels a police car. The officers surrounding it ducks out of the way as he smashed it flat. Yuri sends another shot flying, and this time it hits the side of Sandman's head.
Sandman's head exploded into sand but the sand quickly recovers. He glowered at Yuri then morphs himself into a giant sand monster. He picks up a car then throws it at her direction. Yuri shuts her eyes and braces herself for the impact, but it never came. When she opened her eyes, Spider-Man was holding the car infront of her.
"Hiya, Yuri." He chirps and sets the car down gently. He holds out his hand to help her stand up, "Good thing I was just in time or this would have crushed you."
"Y-you saved my life," Yuri says in shock.
"Hold that thought will you? I need to take care of this guy," He jerks his thumb to the villain behind him then leaps into action.
"Wow, everyone's robbing the bank nowadays." Spider-Man says as sees Marko gathering the money and trying to escape. "What's a matter? Can't pay rent?"
Sandman clenches his jaw and throws a punch at him. Spider-Man easily dodges his attacks and then throws a punch of his own to his stomach which unfortunately backfired, his fist got stuck inside the sand and it wouldn't budge.
"Uh-oh," He looked up and got punched in the face with Sandman's sand fist. He got thrown back and tumbled on floor.
Peter holds his head when he sat up and winces, Sandman looms over him, in sand monster form again, then grabs him by the neck. Spider-Man chokes as he felt the his throat getting squeezed.
Then they here the sound of screeching tires come their way. They both looked to their left and saw Yuri driving a Porsche and heading towards them, but instead of hitting Sandman, she hits the fire hydrant near them. It explodes and water shot out from the ground, dousing the both of them. Sandman started to dissolve when he felt the water came in contact with his body.
Spider-Man saw the opportunity and wriggled free from his grasp. He grabs a hose from a nearby firetruck and unleashes a stream of water on Sandman. The sand from his body started to disperse and he melted along with it.
...
"Hey." Yuri calls Spider-Man and he faces her.
"Hey. What's up?"
Yuri clicks her tongue. She can't believe she was saying this but she owed it to him. "Thanks again back there."
"Well, I couldn't just let that car turn you into a pancake now would I?" He chuckled and for the first time she went along with his joke.
"No seriously," she says again. "I'm grateful that you saved my life. For that I owe you one."
She saw his eye lenses on his mask widen and she could tell he was smiling underneath.
"Hmmm," He puts a finger to his chin as he thinks, "How about you tell me when your birthday is."
She glares at him. "Not a chance, kid."
"Okay. Maybe just stop calling me kid from now on." Spider-Man suggests. "I am turning eighteen in a couple of months. And being called 'kid' is weird and unprofessional, especially for a superhero."
Yuri smirks, "Alright, fine." She agrees and he pumps his fist in celebration.
Then his eye lenses widened again as if he remembered something, "Holy wheatcakes! I gotta get back to school. Aww man, my gym coach is gonna kill me."
He shots a web at the nearest building and bids her goodbye before swinging away.
Yuri watches him as he soared in the sky. "Goodluck, Spider-Man." She finally acknowledges him by his hero name.
Author's note:
- The fight scenes were a little hard to write but hopefully you guys understand it.
- I will only do stories based from the Insomniac's Spider-verse, so if you want to request please refer to the Spider-Man 2018 ps4 game. (And I can't make stories about the DLCs because it hasn't been released yet)
- Sorry of the locations and cop codes are not accurate enough. I've never been to New York before so I'm not familiar with the travel times from place to place and I'm not a cop so I don't really know how they talk.
Let me know what you guys think. Hope you liked it!