Team RWBY was sat around in the canteen slightly bored, they'd run out of things to do and Yang's jokes were starting to wear thin. "What's a lawyers favorite bird?" "Yang no" "La Eagle" Ruby groaned as every joke stole a part of her soul. "Does anyone have any ideas of something we can do?"
Weiss put her book down "Why don't you read a book?" Ruby didn't seemed to amused with that idea, flopping out on the table "Is there a spare one?" Weiss looked at Blake, Blake shock her head "Not that one" Yang looked at the cover of the spare book "Defiantly not that one!" "Is the snack counter open yet?" asked Ruby weakly
"It's been open for about half an hour" stated Weiss only for Ruby to disappear in a cloud of rose petals. Yang finally pulled out her scroll and started flicking through the news, more White Fang robberies down in Vale and the every present mystery man Spiderman, having stopped 5 of the 10 robberies that happened that night. "Well it seem our wall crawling friends been up to stuff again." showing the other a picture of a White Fang member web up to a lamppost.
Weiss pulled out her scroll and looked though the news "Spiderman and Team RWBY defeat a Nevermore? We did most of the work why does his name come first?" Yang shrugged "Internet traffic?" Blake nodded "People must be trying to find out who he is so his names going to be everywhere online"
Ruby returned with a plate full of cookies, sitting back down she began to eat a cookie every second, it was an impressive sight. Blake reading through the reports of the White Fang robberies frowned slightly "They seem to be stealing a lot more dust than they were last week" "You think there up to something?" asked Yang "Probably, or Spiderman forcing there hand, if half of the don't get the dust they need to rob twice a many shops just to keep a steady supply"
"So this Spiderman forcing the White Fang to steal more? Are we sure he's not working for them?" asked Weiss, all of them paused even Ruby from her cookies. "We could ask him? I mean his talkative right?" suggested Ruby, all of them looked at her "What it can't be difficult we pick a dust shop that hasn't been robbed stop the robbery and wait for Spiderman to turn up"
"I'm not doing a stake out. There are over 65 hundred shops that supply dust in Vale and there's only 4 of us" stated the ever pessimistic Weiss. "We'll just have to split up and search more ground" stated Yang "Spiderman must have a home base or something if we can find that we can find him, if he's not with the Fang he's probably going to working out of somewhere outside security cameras not frequently visited.
"Abandons warehouses sound like your idea?" asked Yang "Probably the closest were going to get"
"Come on lets find use a spider!" stated Ruby then proceeding to eat all the cookies possible, then running out the door.
Team RWBY had split up, all of them searching through the abandoned warehouses under Vale's highway system. All of them didn't seem to have any way in or out that didn't involve climbing 50ft. The sun was still about half way in the sky with some cloud cover, it looked to be a rainy night tonight, the quicker they searched all of these places the better.
Ruby had take the north, Weiss the east, Blake the south and this left Yang with the west, closest to the rest of the city in terms of footpaths. jumping down from a broken window of a very empty warehouse she looked for the next one, then towards the rest of them left to check. "Well I'm over half way though, how know i might find some cool junk"
Walking to the next warehouse Yang slowly pulled the door open and stepped inside and looked around, very high ceiling like the other and poorly lit, big old derelict construction vehicle standing in the center of the room. Faded yellow paint, almost burnt off by something, large gaping hole were the engine should be. "We'll there's your problem" she muttered to herself taking a closer look.
There seemed to be burn marks on the floor were the exhausted would have been, and the silhouette of two figure seemingly etched into ground as a layer of fine dust. Yang stopped and pulled out her scroll taking picture of everything in the warehouse, this wasn't the spider but it screamed White Fang.
Leaving the warehouse full of well a crime scene, Yang moved to the next warehouse, pulling open the door to find it empty, as she looked around heard footsteps outside and a voice listing random things. "Okay so i got the potassium I needed and separating the sodium should be a pinch, oh this next batch well defiantly be the best for a while." Yang kept quiet and looked outside throw a very broken window.
Outside was that boy from the library, carrying a box full of junk under his arm. Same pale green shirt and blue jeans and everything, he causally walk into the warehouse next door, somehow moving a massive container out of the way with a simple kick of his foot. "Wow"
Yang opened up her scroll 'I think i found him. Going to check' she pocketed her scroll and sunk out of her warehouse and towards the a window of the other warehouse. Peering inside Yang sore this teen start a fire in a large oil container with a set of post in the corner and web hammock decorating the place.
"Right webfluid!" said the teen fiddling in his pocket and placing a small silver canister on a small wobbly looking table.
Yang lowered herself for the window, and started to crawl around towards the door, she had no idea how receptive this Spiderman would being to guests, but it was worth a shot. Yang stood up and looked at the door. "Well this can only go well" she whispered to herself.
Slamming the door open Yang smiled "Hi, you must be the new in the neighborhood!" she greeted leaving the unmasked Spiderman to jump all the way to the ceiling out of surprise. "Jesus!" he yelled as he landed on the ceiling. "Invite yourself in why don't you?" he swatted on the ceiling. Yang looked up at the very skinny lad "You are Spiderman right?"
"No, I'm his landlord" said the boy jumping down, he glanced her up and down before coming slight vacant for a second, the brief seconds, but she sore. "Have we met before?" he asked pointing. "We literally fought a Nevermore together yesterday" she said crossing her arms. "Sorry it's been a rough week for me, trying to forget things as they happen" he said wandering back to his open fire.
There was an uneasy tension. 'This is the worst first impression I've ever given someone ever' thought Yang "The name's Yang, do you have a regular name or is it Spiderman on the birth certificate?" she asked looking around the empty building. "Here might as well be" he muttered back as he poured something into his little silver capsule. "Here? What does that mean?"
"I'm an illegal immigrant of sorts, no paper work in the world at all" stated the Spiderman "Well is there something less weird I can call you other than Marvin?" "Spidey?"
He said turning around to face Yang, then looked around slightly paler than before "Is this a hidden camera show?" "Nope" Spidey then jumped up poking his head out of a window. "Wait you fought the bird with the others?" he let out a groan "Your a huntress aren't you" "Yes, well in training"
Spidey turned and looked down "Am I in trouble?" "Not with me or my team, well maybe Weiss" "Which one was that?" "The one that you saved" "Oh the Ice Queen looking one"
Yang looked as Spidey then seemed to pass on the wall "I don't suppose your not going to tell anyone where I welll.."paused looking out on the very empty warehouse "Where I live" Yang put her hands to her hips spinning around looking at everything "Well I'm not the leader but I think we can come to an arrangement" Spidey seemed to sigh in relief "If you tell us your name and why your here"
"Us who's us?" he said just as Ruby entered the room appearing in a cloud of petals. "Woah Yang you found him where?" the excited young girl was directed to the figure on the wall. A mortified look on his face. "I managed to keep my secret idenity in a world full of S.H.I.E.L.D Agents and other superheroes and i get rumbled by Goldielocks and Little Red Riding Hood, Johnny's not gonna let me live this down"