The Avengers stood up and faced Loki, more than ready to fight. Spider-Man had his arms out, ready to web the trickster, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow readied their respective weapons, Thor called Mjolnir to his hand, a suit had flown in and encased Tony and Hulk was cracking his neck and knuckles. "You made a bad move coming here, Loki." Tony said, raising a hand and readying a missile.
However, the god of mischief raised his hands in surrender. "Now, now, let's not resort to violence. I did not come here for a fight." He said.
"I say we smash him anyway!" Hulk snapped, but Thor put a hand up to stop him.
"If you do not wish to fight, then speak your business, brother." The god of thunder ordered.
"My brother being the civil one. Quite the surprise." Loki said.
"Get to the point before my arrow does, ram boy." Clint warned, drawing back his arrow further.
"No sense of drama or theatrics." The Prince of Lies sighed, shaking his head and rolling his eyes. "You see, as I continued to peer through different realms, I also discovered some alternate worlds and found something I thought you'd all find rather interesting." He explained, holding up an orb, which produced an image that shocked the Avengers.
Spider-Man was facing off against none other than Ruby Rose. "What?! There's a world were Ruby and I are on the same world?! And why are we fighting?" Peter asked.
"Honestly, I haven't checked yet. I thought I'd share the suspense with my dear brother and his friends." Loki explained, although there was clear sarcasm when he said "dear brother".
"What do you think, guys? Can we trust him?" Hawkeye asked.
"You should know the answer to that by now." Widow said.
"Still, I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to see this." Tony said.
"How about we just smash him and watch it ourselves?" Hulk asked.
Cap sighed. "He came here peacefully and offered us a chance to watch it together." He said, turning to their adversary. "Loki, if you can behave yourself, you're welcome to stay. At least until this video, or whatever you'd call this, is over." He said.
"How hospitable." Loki said with slight sarcasm, setting the orb down on a table in the center of a room, projecting an image about as big as the TV they'd previously been watching RWBY on.
Ruby Rose is running through the streets of New York with Crescent Rose at the ready, when suddenly, Spider-Man dropped down in her path on a web line, upside-down. "Hi there!" He said.
This startled the young girl and brought her to a stop. "Huh?" She asked.
"That weapon of yours seems very dangerous. The combination of a scythe and a rifle..." He explained.
"How could he tell there was a rifle in there?! I didn't even know until she came out and told us." Peter said.
"By 'he', you mean YOU?" Widow asked, looking at the younger hero.
"Let's not play the pronoun game. We'd never get to the end of this." Hawkeye said.
"Wandering around in a public place... I'm afraid I must stow your toy away, missy." Spider-Man told her.
"Stealing from a child? A young girl, no less? For shame, Spider-Man." Loki teased.
"Not cool, man. Not cool." Hulk agreed.
"Hey, it's not me, it's... Well, it is me, but a different me, not the one sitting here!" Peter said, panicked.
"He has a point, though. Something like that is definitely not something she should be running around the city with." Cap said.
"Oh, come on. It's New York. One of the most dangerous cities in the world. She needs protection. She could have all the weapons of Team RWBY and she still wouldn't be safe." Tony said.
Ruby was having none of this, however. "No way, mister! Crescent Rose stays with me!" She said, slinging the scythe over her shoulder and pointing at Spider-Man.
"Oh great, you named it..." Spider-Man said, rubbing the back of his head. He knew from experience people who named their weapons are never willing to part with them and will fight to keep them.
"Well, she did build it herself, to be fair. That's like asking Tony to get rid of his Iron Man suits." Widow said.
"Never!" Tony said, hugging the suit he recently exited.
"You ain't getting that scythe away from her the easy way, Spidey." Hawkeye said.
"Why is it never easy?" Peter groaned.
"Oh, well. Gotta do this the ol' fashioned way..." He said, taking his stance.
"Yes! Commence the battle between warriors!" Thor cheered.
"Get him, Ruby!" Hulk cheered.
"Hey! Who's side are you on?!" Peter snapped.
"You're the one that started the fight." Hulk said.
"Ha! For once, you're the villain, Spider-Man!" Loki laughed.
FIGHT!
Ruby rushed in first, swinging away at the Wall Crawler with her scythe, but thanks to his Spider Sense and quick reflexes, he easily dodged all the attacks, leaning back and knocking Ruby into the air with a backflip kick, attaching a web line to her and reeling himself in, unleashing a powerful aerial combo on the girl, knocking her to the ground, landing himself and attaching another web line to her, swinging her around and over himself, slamming her to the ground once again.
"Hey! Take it easy, other me! She's just a kid!" Peter said.
"Your webs and acrobatics skills do give you a significant advantage in the air. It'll be hard to compete with that." Cap analyzed.
"But don't forget, she's got you beat in speed." Tony said.
Ruby managed to recover in mid-air and landed on her feet. Spider-Man fired a couple of webs at her, but she dodged them both with ease and fired a pair of shots at the spider, who matrixed the bullets, webbing the second one and attempting to throw it back at her, but she had used this time to close the distance, dodge the returned projectile and started landing her own vicious combo on the hero.
"Ouch, that's gotta hurt." Hawkeye said.
"She may have jabbed you with the spike at the bottom, but after that it looked like she used the back of the weapon instead of the blade so she wouldn't kill you... I think at least. It was a little too fast to tell." Widow said.
"Also, I know you can dodge sniper bullets, but no way could you actually catch one and throw it back." Tony said.
"Yeah, even I admit that's a long shot. No pun intended." Peter said.
"Young Ruby is proving to be a worthy foe!" Thor said.
"Indeed, brother. I'm hoping she squashes the spider." Loki said.
However, Spider-Man managed to recover, webbing Ruby's feet, flipping over her and webbing her arms to her side, before firing another web line and reeling her with a spin, before sending her flying with an uppercut. Ruby spun through the air, before recovering, switching her scythe to its rifle form and unleashing a hail of bullets on the web swinger, who managed to dodge or swing out of their way. Ruby landed on the ground flew towards Spider-Man, spinning like a drill. He managed to make a web shield to protect himself, but she broke through in and once again unleashed a devastating combo on the spider, slicing and jabbing at him with her scythe.
"Ouch. Looks like she's done with non lethal." Widow said.
"Guess you were right, Spidey. She is dangerous... to you!" Hulk laughed.
"You should NOT be standing after all those slashes." Tony said.
"Hey, I've gotten a few cuts and scrapes before. No biggie." Peter said.
"But never by something that big." Cap said.
However, Spider-Man was eventually able to block her attacks with more web shields and eventually even dodge, allowing him to counterattack and hit her with a MASSIVE combo, a few punches and kicks knocking her her into the air, allowing him to land a swinging kick, hitting her a few times in the air before knocking her to the ground again. However, she recovered and dodged another web line, hitting him again, getting her own small aerial combo and shooting him point blank. This launches them both back, but Ruby recovers first and launches herself back, spinning downwards and slashing Spider-Man several times, before shooting him once more and blasting him back again, sending him to the ground.
"Ouch." Hawkeye said.
"Wow. This fight is close. Each time one of you takes the advantage, the other turns it around." Widow said.
"The only problem with that is while Ruby's only taking blunt force trauma that isn't life-threatening, you're getting cut by a huge scythe or shot point blank by sniper bullets. And she has aura to protect and heal herself. You don't." Tony added.
"That could be trouble." Peter said.
"Ouch!" Spider-Man said as he got back up. Ruby began to dash past him several times, shooting or slicing all the while, but again, with his Spider Sense and reflexes, he dodged all her attacks and tagged her with a web line, pulling her off balance, reeling her in for a punch, but she vanished in a flurry of rose petals, appearing behind him and attacking again, but he dodged these as well. She once again turned her weapon into its rifle form and fired at the hero, who dodged the shots and eventually webbed the barrel, shocking Ruby. "Pardon moi!" He taunted as he rushed in, hitting her with one more combo, before using his devastating Crawler Assault and knocking Ruby out with one final flying kick.
K.O!
"Whew... That was a close one." Peter said.
"A fine match, Spider-Man. Truly a battle to be remembered!" Thor shouted.
"A pity. For a moment, I thought she had you at her mercy." Loki said.
"It still stinks you beat up a girl and you're getting away like nothing happened." Hulk grumbled.
"Hey, I feel bad enough as it." Peter said.
Ruby hit the ground, unconscious and Spider-Man landed not to far away, hands on his hips. "Man, that scythe was something..." He said, before hearing a camera click. "Wha..?" He asked, turning to the sound to see Frank West snapping pictures of the event.
"Ahh! Not him again!" Peter said.
"Who is that?" Loki asked.
"Frank West, infamous reporter who can't keep his big nose out of danger or other people's business." Tony grumbled.
"We have to save him every other week when he's trying to get a scoop on HYDRA, AIM or some other supervillain." Cap said.
"Spider-Man knocked a little girl unconscious? Daily Bugle is gonna pay top dollar for this story!" Frank said, running off.
"OH! You'll be in trouble if that prints!" Hulk said.
"Oh, man! The Bugle already makes people scared of me! If they think I go around knocking out teenage girls, the city'd start a manhunt for me!" Peter said fearfully.
"Better hurry after him!" Hawkeye said with a smirk.
"HEY! FRANK! NO, WAIT!" Spider-Man screamed, chasing after the reporter and leaving the unconscious Ruby behind.
"Really? You just left her unconscious on the ground?" Widow said.
"Yeah, that's NOT okay. I don't even want to BEGIN to think about what could happen to her." Tony said.
"Especially that late at night." Cap added.
"Hey! Again: not really me! Besides, if Frank got those pictures to the Bugle, I wouldn't be able to show my mask in the city again." Spider-Man said.
"You still could've put her some place safe first." Hulk said.
"Yes, I thought you heroes were supposed to protect people above all else." Loki said judgingly.
"Hey, you don't get a say! You're always putting people in danger!" Peter countered.
"I don't know, Spidey. The golden ram has a point." Hawkeye said.
"Speaking of: Loki, you did what you came here to do. Probably about time you get going." Tony said.
"With pleasure. I'd rather not spend more time than I have to with someone who goes around knocking out little girls." Loki said, getting up.
"This is gonna haunt me for a while." Peter groaned, facepalming.
Loki started to leave, before Thor stood up. "Wait, brother." He called out.
"Yes?" Loki asked with a sigh, turning to face him.
"It was nice watching that image with you. We should do it again some time." Thor said.
Loki sighed again and rolled his eyes, but smiled a bit. "Perhaps we'll see." Loki said, before disappearing.
Thor was a bit disappointed by this answer, but still held some hope. "I suppose that's enough." He said, sitting back down.
"Well, with that out of the way, let's see what Ruby gets up to when Spider-Man ISN'T knocking her out." Widow said with a smirk, playing the next episode.
"You guys will NEVER let me live this down, will you?" Peter asked.
"Nope." Hulk said.