BGM-Sonic Adventure 2 OST-SA2 in the Groove
Sonic: I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog! We just got a call from Nick Fury. SHIELD, GUN, and Atlas are under attack by Eggman and his fleet. We rushed in along with the Avengers to help deal with the fleet while me and a few others infiltrated the Egg Carrier to stop Eggman, or that's who we thought. Apparently, it's been Neo Metal Sonic impersonating Eggman the entire time! Should've saw that coming, but I'm more worried what happen to Beacon Academy. Spidey, leave Neo to me! Go save Beacon Academy and bring them home!
BGM End
Act 2 Issue 9: Battle of Alpha and Omega (Part 2)
Digital Nightmare Zone
BGM-Mega Man Battle Network 5 DS OST-Depth
Digital lightning strikes from the cyber heaven on this hellish cyber zone. Digital Nightmare Zone. A cyber zone that exists in the deepest part of cyberspace inaccessible by normal computers as if it exists "under the internet". Similar in appearance to the zones, Mad Matrix and Digital Circuit, Shadow the Hedgehog visited during the Black Arms invasion but darker and definitely more twisted. Almost a kind of "Cyber-Hell". The digital sky is a dark red as is the overall atmosphere. Very high-tech looking. Very digital. Very sinister that the hope of escaping this zone is impossible.
"We're definitely not in Kansas anymore." Ruby joked, staring at this digital prison from her school. Not long ago, Beacon Academy was seen to have vanished from the real world. Obliterated, some would think. In actuality, it was teleported into cyberspace, into this Digital Nightmare Zone.
"Chao chao." A neutral Chao looked scared from this digital hell, staring at the dark red sky from Beacon's very own Chao Garden with numerous other Chao like the Hero Chao and Dark Chao, the latter types taking a liking to this dark cyber network as evident showing their sinister smiles.
Weiss and Blake show up in the Chao Garden picking up the scared neutral Chao and a smiling Dark Chao respectively. "Oooh, don't be scared, little guy. We'll protect you and find a way back home, as soon as we figure out where we are." Weiss comforts the frightened Chao, warmly smiling at it to calm it down.
"Where ARE we, exactly?" Blake asked, holding the Dark Chao.
"Don't know. It looks like we're in cyberspace." Weiss guessed, judging from the dark digital environment surrounding their normal-looking school.
"We're in the INTERNET?" Yang remarks while hanging around a group of Chao protecting them. "This would be totally awesome if we didn't end up in cyber hell. We didn't even get a cool cyber suit like Spidey has."
"Wherever we are, we need to find a way to get out of here." Ruby approached her team in the Chao Garden. "There are friends and families out in the real world worried sick about us because they thought the school 'poofed' out of existence."
"I can already imagine Dad turning the house upside down trying to call us, but there's no signal or any way to contact people back home, which doesn't make sense since we're literally in the internet." Yang jokes, petting a frightened Chao that shares her yellow color scheme.
"Guys! Are you all okay?" Mary Jane approaches the Chao Garden since she was also caught in the energy that sent them all into cyberspace.
"We're fine, MJ. The Chao are little shaken up. Can't blame them since we're all like that. Is the Wisp Garden doing okay?" Ruby asked about the Wisp Garden, which Beacon also has as a little home for the Wisps.
"Same as here. Some confused, some a bit scared. C'mon. Everyone's meeting in the amphitheater for a head count to discuss how we're going to 'log out' from the internet." MJ gestured, getting Team RWBY to follow her to the amphitheater.
BGM End
Beacon Amphitheater
Team RWBY and Mary Jane walks into the amphitheater, which is probably the safest place in the school right now. The assembly room has become packed with students and faculty members, even some ordinary civilians who were visiting Beacon when they all got sent to this cyber zone. Everyone is rightfully terrified of their situation. They have no way to contact the real world and supplies are limited. Food and water might only last a week.
"Everyone, please! Calm down!" Ozpin's up stage along with Glynda and the other staff like Port, Connors and Oobleck to calm the school down and get them in order, but everyone is too confused and frightened they aren't listening. Luckily for them, Scarlet Spider and Hummingbird were also in the school when they got transported into cyberspace. Hummingbird thrusts her right arm using her telepathic powers to calm the whole school enough to listen to Ozpin.
"Thank you, Hummingbird. You and Scarlet Spider were a great help rounding up everyone who were caught in this mess." Glynda praised the Houston heroes.
"It was our pleasure. From what I could sense, it seems we're the only living beings in this world." Hummingbird replied, already done a telepathic scan of their cyber surroundings outside the school to find no other living being is here but them.
"Food and water are limited to about a week, so we need to think fast how we're going to escape this weird place." Glynda said.
After the students calmed them, they notice Scarlet Spider is one stage and immediately get excited and full of hope because they mistake him for Spider-Man, which isn't far from the truth since he is his clone. The darker, brooding, more serious clone that hates being mistaken for Spider-Man.
"It's Spider-Man!"
"Spider-Man! He might know a way to save us!"
"Spidey, do you have a plan to get us out of here?"
"Can I get your autograph?!"
Scarlet Spider groans with his head lowered and his arms crossed, "When will these morons realize I'm not that annoying half-wit?"
"You ARE his brother." Ozpin said.
"His CLONE, old man!" Kaine immediately corrected him.
"Which makes you perfect to fit his shoes. Spider-Man is the hero of New Vale. Our 'Beacon of Hope'. The students look up to him as their inspiration. Now it falls to you to continue providing them that hope until we figure out a solution of this dilemma." Ozpin told Kaine, encouraging him to be the temporary "Beacon of Hope" until they escape from this cyber prison.
"I thought that was supposed to be your job." Kaine quipped dryly, kinda insulting Ozpin.
"You are certainly filling Spider-Man's shoes for being disrespectful." Glynda glared at the stoic spider.
Kaine simply scoffs, "Whatever. Now, what would Spider-Man do in a situation like this?" He pondered to himself, trying to think of a strategy to save the school. "Probably find the source that sent us all to this place. Old man…" Kaine turns to Ozpin, who looks back at him, "That big tower in the middle of your school. It created that weird energy field that brought us all here. Know why?"
"No. The CCT Tower shouldn't be capable releasing energy at that magnitude." Ozpin answered, having no clue what really transpired his tower.
"If you don't mind, I'm going to investigate that tower and get some more answers. I'll be taking Connors too. I could use his brain." Kaine said, offering to investigate the tower.
"I'll help in any way I can." Connors nodded.
Scarlet leaps to the back of the assembly with Hummingbird hovering to meet with him as well as Team RWBY, Team JNPR, and Mary Jane. "Scarlet, where are you going?" Blake asked her stoic boyfriend.
"To the CCT Tower to find a way out of here." Kaine replied.
"Can we come?" Nora asked him.
"As long as you don't annoy me." Kaine walks out the amphitheater.
"It's not that hard actually." Yang joked.
"Then come at your own risk." Kaine remarked, leading his small squad along with Connors to the CCT Tower that's standing below a scary red vortex in the sky.
Communications Room, Beacon Tower
BGM-Mega Man ZX Advents OST-Dive into Depth (Tunes Ver.)
The heroic teenagers meet in the communications room floor inside the tall Beacon Tower. The teens watch Dr. Connors do his super-genius work hacking one of the computer terminals for answers how to escape cyberspace.
"I'm no computer science expert, but I'll do my best to figure out a solution to our 'internet problem'." Connors told his students, continuing to hack the computers.
"Don't stress out, Dr. Connors. You and Scarlet Spider are the smartest people in the school right now." Ruby assured him.
"You also possess a genius intellect?" Connors asked Kaine.
"I was literally born with Spider-Man's brain." Kaine remarked stoically, confirming he also possess the same intelligence as his original genetic template, Spider-Man.
"…That is fascinating." Connors had a confused eyebrow when he remarked that. He immediately focused back on his work hacking the CCT Tower and managed to learn a few things, "Okay. I think I've figured out what has happened. Someone infected the Beacon network with a computer virus that overloaded the tower's systems with cybernetic energy, causing it to discharge from the tower to form a teleporting energy field that brought us all into cyberspace."
"A computer virus? Didn't Goblin and Cinder try to do something like this?" Blake discussed.
"I don't remember any of them wanting to take us for a ride into the cyberworld." Weiss remarked. "Isn't there a way you can remove the virus and reverse the energy field to send us all back?" She asked the biology professor.
"Like I said, I'm a biology professor. Not a wiz in computer science. This virus is based off Max Modell's stolen Digitizer. I'll do the best I can though." Connors answered, not knowing how to really bring them all back to the real world.
"At least we've established Cipher's behind this, which also should've been obvious. Why did they send us here?" Yang asked with deadpan eyes.
"To be a big pain in the ass?" Kaine dryly quipped.
"Yeah, that sounds about right." Yang remarked casually.
"So we need Max Modell's help? But he's back in the real world and there's no way for us to call him or anyone." Jaune remarked, reminding everyone they are stuck in cyber hell with no method to contact the outside world.
Ruby gives a confident, determined stare to Kaine, "You thinking what Spider-Man's thinking?"
"That he's probably on his way to Modell as we speak to create a computer antivirus program that'll save us all? Yeah, that sounds about." Kaine guessed what his 'brother' should be doing as we speak.
"Ah ha! I knew you two share a psychic link!" Nora eccentrically points at the dark spider clone.
"We DON'T. I just know he's predictable." Kaine countered stoically.
"Even if Spider-Man were to bring an antivirus program through cyberspace, he'll find it's quite difficult to locate us. We've been transported into the deepest section of the internet, disconnected from almost all servers. An 'undernet', you might say. The deep web. Tracking us down would take weeks, a time table we don't have." Connors explained, saying it might be impossible for Spider-Man to find them if he tried.
"Hmm…" Ruby ponders an idea in her head for hope that'll contact Spider-Man. A moment later, she pops up an idea as if the lightbulb above her head lit up, "I know! We can use D-Sense!"
"The what?" Connors asked, not sure what the little huntress is talking about.
"It's an app our friend, Peter, is allowing Beacon to test out that'll allow others to come to you if you're in need of help, and vice versa. It uses its own private network, so we should be able to contact Peter, who will contact Spider-Man, to save us!" Ruby remarks with hope and joy that Peter's work in Horizon Labs will be used to save Beacon Academy.
"Oh yeah! He gave me that app too. We can use it as a beacon to find the school when he enters cyberspace!
"A beacon to find Beacon? Hilarious." Kaine quipped stoically.
"He is the 'Beacon of Hope', which you are doing a good job filling his shoes for." Blake smiled, proud of Kaine for representing Spider-Man's hopefulness in these dire times.
"Thanks." Kaine replied.
"That might actually work. Let me see if I can boost the CCT's signal to see if that'll provide any assistance." Connors remarked.
"You do that, Doc. See if you can also find other methods to send us back home in case Spider-Man's plan doesn't work." Scarlet suggested.
"Meanwhile, the rest of us will stay vigilant for Cipher sightings. They brought us here for a reason, so we need to keep our eyes sharp in case they might attack." Ruby added with a determined face.
"Understood. I'll work on bring back the school's defensive systems back online since it was also infected by the virus." Connors said, quickly going into work.
"This school has a defense system?" Kaine remarked, raising a curious eyebrow behind his mask.
"Tony Stark outfitted the school with awesome weaponary and shields a while back. Does that make you interested enrolling?" Ruby grinned at the brooding spider.
"Apparently, I already did." Kaine joked, referring to himself as Peter's clone since he studied in Beacon for a while. "Let's get back to the assembly. If this 'D-Sense' is our only method contacting Spider-Man and folks outside, we're gonna need the entire school to send out notifications."
"Shouldn't be a problem. After all, texting and using social media is what we young adults are most good at." MJ joked with a smile.
BGM End
Back in the Beacon Amphitheater…
BGM-RWBY OST-Battle of Beacon
Ozpin and the other staff members are still doing their best to keep their students organized and safe. Though they may be Huntsmen, they're still in training to become true Huntsmen. Even then, that might not mean much when trapped in the digital world where the rules are different and the environment is much more dangerous.
"Professor Ozpin!" Ruby calls out to the headmaster as her group returned from the CCT Tower and arrived on stage with their teachers.
"Have you learned anything?" Ozpin asked her.
"Yeah. We might have a plan to send us back, but we'll need the entire school's help." Ruby replied.
"To do what exactly?" Glynda questioned her plan.
"To be themselves." Kaine answered vaguely.
"And what does that mean?" Glynda remarked with an annoyed look.
"The kid will explain it. Just pay attention." Kaine replied, again vague and disrespectful to his elders.
Ruby walks to the microphone stand, tapping it to make sure it's working, "Is this thing on? Good." The audience slowly stops talking to pay attention what Ruby has to say, "Students of Beacon! I know you're all still confused how we got trapped in this cyberworld. About friends and loved ones worried about us in the real world. But we have a plan that'll reunite us all, and we all need to work together to accomplish it. All of you should be connected to the D-Sense network, the app downloaded on our phones meant to help one another! The plan is simple: All of us will each send a notification to the creator of the app, Peter Parker! He's the photographer who takes pictures of Spider-Man! If we can contact him, he'll contact Spider-Man to come find us and bring us home! But we need to hurry! Our enemy, Cipher, they're the ones that brought us here and they might be on their way to finish us off so we need to be ready for them! I'm not asking you to do much, so PLEASE, use the D-Sense to contact our friends!"
The students of Beacon heard her heart with serious determination. They all need to work together on this if they want to save themselves and teach Cipher a lesson for messing with the greatest Huntsmen academy in the world. The students turn to their cellular devices and tap the D-Sense app. Each and every student, including the staff send an urgent request for help to Peter Parker to send a request to bring their friendly neighborhood Spider-Man to free them from their cyber prison one by one.
"Hmph. Not bad, kid." Kaine actually compliments Ruby from her little speech.
"Scarlet said something nice? You really have gotten soft." Yang teased.
"I didn't stoop so low to earn praise from you." Kaine arrogantly crossed his arms in annoyance.
"Sheesh, you're stubborn." Weiss remarks with a glare while Blake giggles to herself.
BGM End
Horizon Labs, New Vale City
BGM-Mega Man Zero 3 OST-Prismatic (Resistance Base)
Debra Whitman is seen rushing through Horizon halls to open the security door that leads into Max's lab with important news regarding the disappearance of Beacon Academy. "Max! Did you see the news! Beacon Academy just disappeared without a trace and…" She immediately stopped talking when she notices her boss working on the computer with Spider-Man standing next to him, "Spider-Man?! What are you doing here?!"
"Debra! Great timing! Spider-Man has requested our help to save Beacon Academy from cyberspace." Max told his intern.
"Cyberspace? How do you know it got transported into cyberspace?" Debra walks over approaching her boss and hero.
"I scanned the residual energy reading Beacon was emitting when I arrived at the vanish site. Cipher somehow infected their CCT Tower with a computer virus created using Max's Digitizer. That's why I hurried on over here to see if we could create an antivirus program that'll bring them back." Spidey explained to the glasses-wearing intern.
"I see. I'll do my best to help." Debra sits next to her boss using her own computer to work together to create an antivirus program.
"I can't thank you enough for doing this. I have good friends who were at Beacon when it got teleported. I was too late to save them. If only I figured out Smythe's game was to distract me sooner." Spidey said somberly, with a subtle hint of anger not figuring out Smythe used the kidnapping of Jameson not just to have his revenge on him, but to also lure Spider-Man far enough away while Cyber hijacked Beacon's CCT Tower and transported them into a digital prison.
"Don't feel guilty, Spider-Man. You did the right thing saving Jameson's life, despite his harsh critics about you. And we still have a chance saving Beacon Academy." Max calmed down Spidey to assure him not all is lost and there's still hope.
"Thanks, Max. That means a lot coming from you." Spider-Man remarked.
"It'll still take some time completing this program. If only Peter Parker was with us." Debra said, not knowing Peter is standing right there in his superhero costume.
"Peter Parker got hurt during the Daily Bugle attack, but he's okay. Luckily, I have a friend coming who's more experienced with cyberspace than we'll ever know." Spidey referenced a particular person.
'I'm here, Spider-Man.' And right on que, Nicole shows up in her small hologram form projecting on top of Spider-Man's wrist device.
"Who's that?" Debra asked, curious about Nicole.
"Her name's Nicole. She's a sentient AI and a good friend of mine." Spider-Man answered.
'Hello, Max Modell. I'm an ally of the Freedom Fighters. I have already been informed of the situation about Beacon. Please, allow me to assist you if necessary.' Nicole kindly offered her assistance to the super-genius of Horizon.
"Thank you, Nicole. Your assistance is greatly appreciated." Max accepted her help, which will make completing this antivirus program much faster.
'Did you get the alert regarding Eggman?' Nicole asked the webhead with a worried look.
"I did. Two big simultaneous attacks at the same time CANNOT be a coincidence. Cipher and Eggman HAVE to be working together. That's why Cap's allowing me to sort this mess out with Beacon here. Sonic and the others can deal with that fake Eggman." Spider-Man remarked.
'That leaves us with Cyber's true identity, and I have evidence it might be Doctor Octavius.' Nicole informed him.
"Doc Ock is Cyber?" Peter replied, looking more confused than shocked.
'I managed to scan his data from our previous encounter and it matches that with Dr. Octopus.' Nicole told him.
"That doesn't make sense. Ock's in prison. I know he was once the Master Planner in secret, but I don't think it's that kind of thing again. Cyber must be using his data to throw us off his game. Besides, the way he fought. He was definitely more powerful than Ock, disguise or not. And what he said before about, 'I have no strings on me', must imply something. This time I'm going to figure out who Cyber really is and get to the bottom of all of this." Spidey declared, promising himself today's the day he learns Cyber's true identity.
Meanwhile, with the assistance of Debra and Nicole, Max was able to complete the antivirus program that's essential in saving Beacon, "The program is complete. I'm sending it to Nicole as code. You'll need to install the program into the CCT Tower's mainframe which will disrupt the virus and reverse the energy field that brought the school into cyberspace in the first place. That'll bring them back to their original location."
'I've received the program, Mr. Modell. We're on our way.' Nicole replied.
"Good luck, you two." Max wished the heroes the best of luck before they are sent into cyberspace.
Cyberspace
Spider-Man shows up in his Cyber-Spider Suit and meets with Nicole in her full lynx avatar inside cyberspace. "Okay. Have we discussed how we're going to find a combat school in the big, worldwide web?" Spidey asked.
"I can't seem to trace any signal coming from Beacon. My guess they were transported to the deepest section of cyberspace." Nicole remarked.
"That's gonna be tricky to locate, not to mention forever. There has to be some signal we can trace." Spidey ponders some thoughts how they're going to navigate into the undernet of cyberspace to save an entire school without getting lost or traveling forever. Again, right on que suddenly, Peter's HUD quickly becomes bombarded with hundreds of notifications from Beacon Academy through his D-Sense app.
"Hello!" Spidey remarked from all these urgent help notifications.
"What's wrong?" Nicole asked, not understanding what is going on.
"Good thinking, guys. They're using the D-Sense network to send for help. I'm getting hundreds of notifications and a couple dozen friend requests from all of Beacon that's connected through D-Sense, creating a VERY strong signal that we can pinpoint their location with. This must have been Ruby's idea. Kid's gonna grow up to be a fine leader." Spidey activates his web-wings and jet boots to take flight in the air, "Hurry! We need to move at top speed! No doubt in my mind Cipher has something big for Beacon otherwise they would've never brought it here, and it's not going to be pretty!"
"Got it! Hold on a little longer, guys! We're coming to save you!" Nicole remarks with a determined, serious expression, flying at her best speed with Spider-Man to trace the D-Sense signal to find Beacon Academy.
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Meanwhile at Beacon…
It's quiet. Too quiet at Beacon Academy. The school is still trapped in the Digital Nightmare Zone with no Cipher sightings in sight, which got everyone suspicious. Students and staff remain vigilant guarding various sections of the school on the lookout for their cyber enemy or heroic backup from the real world.
At the CCT Tower, Connors continues his best trying to reactivate Beacon's defense systems while Scarlet Spider protects him and watches over the school outside the tall tower, sticking on the outer wall. 'Is the defense system back online, Connors?' Ozpin contacted the biologist.
"It's been tricky. Give me a few more minutes." Connors replied, typing rigorously on the keyboard.
Ruby and some other students guard the base section of the tower to make sure no enemy could infiltrate it, if they decide to show themselves. "Hummingbird, sense anything?" Ruby turns to the telepathic demigod hovering above a rooftop to sense for Cipher thugs.
"Nothing yet. I don't sense anyone coming." Hummingbird replied.
"What's Cipher planning? If they're going to attack, they would've done it already. I know they're up to something." Ruby wonders what's Cipher's goal here, trapping them in cyberspace and doing nothing else.
Suddenly, an enormous earthquake shakes the entire school while everyone was momentarily confused about Cipher's motives. "An earthquake?! A cyberquake?!" MJ remarks, glancing for the source of the earthquake.
BGM-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan OST-Mega Krang
The rumbling gets louder and louder as it sounds like it's coming from the library building. Then, BOOM, an extremely large and very scary-looking, snake-like robot burrowed out of the roof of the library with its two tentacles on both sides of its head, each with a claw at the end. "What the?!" Jaune remarked in surprise at what the whole school is looking at.
"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Cipher's S-02 robot's roar was so frightening it scared half of the Beacon populace screaming for their lives.
"Um, okay, buddy. If you're trying to scare us, it's working." Ruby quipped, visibly terrified from the sheer scale of the S-02.
The S-02 burrows through the ground with minimal effort to smash up and entangle around another building to get a good view of the whole school. It charges up a powerful mouth laser that it fires across the school, causing massive collateral damage and killing a couple dozen people that were caught in the blast. "GRAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The snake robot flails its head to the sky where a large red portal has open up that summons down an overwhelming Cipher army. Armored human thugs equipped with jetpacks and plasma weapons fly above the campus while the Cyber Slayer robots drop down to begin their merciless attack on the school.
"Objective: Destroy Beacon Academy!" A Cyber Slayer stated their primary mission: destroy the school and kill everyone in it.
"That's right, folks, let's get busy! Let's show both the real world and the cyberworld Cipher's not to be mess with! ATTACK!" A human cyber thug commands the army to fire everything they got on the school.
"What's up with the giant robot?!" Scarlet watched the onslaught from the top of the CCT Tower.
'It must be another of Smythe's mega bots!' Blake replied with the sound she's already fighting Cipher thugs down below.
"Alistair Smythe?!" Kaine remarked.
'We heard from Fisk Cipher broke him out of prison and is now working with them!' Blake explained.
"So that giant robot must be a Spider-Slayer then! If that thing destroys the CCT Tower, we'll never get home! I'll go deal with it! Connors, get those weapons online NOW!" Scarlet jumps from the side of the tall tower into free-fall, rapidly falling towards the Spider-Slayer destroying Beacon with its lasers.
The S-02 rampages like a wild animal through Beacon, burrowing under buildings to destroy while also dodging weapon fire from Huntsmen. It burrows out below a few Huntsmen to eat before noticing Scarlet Spider approaching from free-fall. "Scanning target: Scarlet Spider. Threat level: High. Recommendation: Activate Spider-Slayer protocol!" The huge snake bot charges a humongous laser from its mouth and fires directly at the falling spider.
"Ah crap!" Kaine moves out of the way of the laser just in the nick of time. "I do not have time for this! Time to slay the slayer!" He blinds its eyes with webbing so he would web-strike the face and knock it back a bit, landing on a tentacle and immediately swings off it around to web-strike the glowing red energy node on the back.
"We're coming, Scarlet! See any weaknesses?!" Ruby asks while she, Hummingbird, and Glynda rush to assist Scarlet Spider against the humongous Spider-Slayer.
"There looks to be blue and red energy nodes! Target those!" Scarlet says while web-shooting one of the small blue nodes on the body from midair.
"See them!" Ruby runs along the body of the giant S-02, jumping from its lock-on lasers to use her sniper-gun to fire the blue energy cores from a distance. Glynda uses her telekinetic Semblance to clunk together debris to launch at the Slayer, distracting it so Hummingbird could generate divine fireballs to destroy more blue cores.
With those four keeping the giant slayer busy, the rest of Beacon hold the line against the seemingly endless Cipher army. Students band together with friends and other fellow students to take down the cyber thugs attacking their school. You got Team CRDL tearing through the human thugs. Professors such as Port and Oobleck knocking out thugs from the sky. Velvet of Team CFVY uses her Semblance to mimic Spider-Man's moves, albeit imperfectly since she's not a spider that can crawl walls, but at least she can help her team demolish robots and thugs using a hard-light copy of his useful Web-Shooters.
Team JNPR hold their own against these cyber goons well. Jaune stabs through a Cyber Slayer while Pyrrha the small, spider-like drones back with her Semblance. Ren stands back-to-back with Nora as he shoots while she clobbers their surrounding enemies.
Team WBY are also doing well landing blows on Cipher thugs. Weiss is seen taking down a few robots using a combination of Myrtenaster's strikes as well as her using her Glyph Semblance, while Blake fights off a group of Cipher soliders, before using her Semblance to dodge a dual sword-wielding solider before getting overwhelmed by more Cipher members, but they are all suddenly knocked back by a combined attack from Yang and a surprising Mary Jane, who is equipped with repulsor gauntlets Peter gave her a long time ago.
"MJ, you're fighting too?" Blake asked, surprising the not-huntress is fighting alongside them.
"I didn't take self-defense classes for no reason." MJ quipped, before turning around against more Cipher robots and combines a repulsor blast with Yang's shotgun bullets to easily destroy them. She and Yang share a smile before they all notice the Spider-Slayer: S-02 have tackled Scarlet Spider to a nearby rooftop, "Scarlet!"
Kaine slowly stands up, injured but still alive and a little pissed off. He is soon joined by Ruby, Hummingbird, and Glynda when they all confront the roaring Spider-Slayer on the roof, "GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"You're getting on my last nerves!" Kaine and the others bombards its blue eyes with projectiles while jumping over its sweeping laser attack. They had to quickly jump over its tentacle slam that reveal it's large, red core inside its mouth.
"Scarlet, the core!" Ruby points.
"RAAAAAAH!" Scarlet zips to the mouth slowly pull out the core so he could web-swing kick it. The S-02 has reached its limit and couldn't take another big attack like that. It uses its final move, unleashing a vacuum vortex from its mouth to suck the four in to its stomach to be obliterated. "Cut it out, you overgrown washing machine!" Kaine angrily shouted at the vacuuming robot, trying so hard not to get sucked in along with the others.
"Look, that antenna's gonna break." Ruby points to the antenna in front of them on the rooftop.
"Maybe more than that thing can chew!" Glynda believes that's the key to destroy the Slayer. Trying so hard to concentrate while trying not to get sucked in the mouth of a giant robot, Glynda focuses her telekinesis on the antenna. And with little assistance from Scarlet's webs, they tear the antenna off the ground and throw it at the S-02's mouth to try and eat and fail, causing the machine to drop off the rooftop to explode into oblivion, destroying Cipher's big weapon on the school.
BGM End
Scarlet's group drops down in front of Beacon Tower, exhausted but alive they managed to destroy the Spider-Slayer. At the same time, they notice Beacon's defense system is back online thanks to Dr. Connors. Stark Industries' installed weapons rise up from ground and various buildings that weren't destroyed yet and return fire on the Cipher, finally giving the Beacon the breathing time they need to make this battle even in their favor.
"Looks like Connors got the weapons back online. Wished it was sooner when we were fighting the giant robot, but whatever I guess." Ruby joked, before noticing the rest of Team RWBY, Team JNPR, Ozpin and Mary Jane approaching them to be relived they're okay.
"Are you guys okay?" Jaune asked them.
"We're still alive, for the moment. I hate fighting Spider-Slayers." Kaine cracked his stress neck.
"At least you manage to destroy one of Cipher's bigger weapons on the school to give us a fighting chance, but this battle is far from over." Ozpin said, saying this battle is not yet won by either faction.
BGM-Mega Man Zero 3 OST-Exiled One (Omega)
"Hmhmhmhm. You are right about that." A familiar, cold-sounding voice that chills the bones slightly frightens the heroes of this cyber battle. Everyone turns around to be surprised by the sudden greeting from Cyber, the leader of Cipher, and standing beside him are his two chosen generals, Hazel Rainart and Tyrian Callows, in Cybernaut Armor.
"Hazel Rainart and Tyrian Callows?" Ozpin remarks, showing a worried expression mixed with the emotion of shock.
"And that guy in the cloak! That must be the one who attacked us in the sewers!" Nora glares at Cyber, the mystery villain who attacked Team JNPR during their hunt for the Lizard weeks ago.
"I am Cyber. I am your end." Cyber introduced himself with a calming, yet scary tone.
"So YOU'RE the one behind all this, huh?" Kaine asked with a fearless cross-armed stare at Cyber. "You sent Kraven to hunt me down along with Hummingbird and Belladonna! You saved me the trouble looking for you! Now I'll finish you off!"
"I wasn't expecting you to be here, Scarlet Spider, but your inclusion is irrelevant. All is going according to plan. The only thing left for you is despair." Cyber threatened.
"We still have hope! We'll stop you and your little cyber gang!" Ruby said determinedly.
"Hope is useless against our power!" Hazel countered dryly.
"Ha ha ha! Don't you ever get tired of the whole 'justice' thing?" Tyrian chuckled with a crazy smirk.
"Don't you and Hazelnut ever get tired of being a loser's lapdogs?" Kaine coolly roasted them, Cyber, and even Salem who's not even here with that insult, which definitely got under their skin except for Cyber.
"I do not have time for you or your petty insults." Cyber remarks calmly.
"Then why are you here attacking us? Why did you send Beacon to cyberspace?" Ozpin demanded answers from the Cipher leader.
"I thought it should be obvious by now. The relics of a 'lost species' will NEVER understand." Cyber insults humanity with that answer, charging up a powerful shockwave that blasts the heroes off the floor to give him and his generals more breathing room. "Dispose of them. I will claim our prize." Cyber orders Hazel and Tyrian to finish off the heroes while he teleports to parts unknown.
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BGM-Mega Man Zero 2 OST-The Last - The Wish Punished
Hazel and Tyrian fearlessly confronts the heroes to a fight in front of the CCT Tower. Hazel takes out two new Wisp Iso-8 crystals: the Purple Frenzy crystal and the Violet Void crystal. He activates his Semblance as he injects the crystals into his body as it begins to change, "GRAAAAAAAAAAH!" The dark energy from the Nega-Wisp Iso-Crystals envelops his body with a dark and sinister purple aura as his armor becomes a dark purple. He transforms into a demonic version of himself with a face that resembles Sonic's Frenzy form when he absorbs a Purple Wisp, possessing many demonic teeth and a large icky tongue as well as pure yellow eyes. "UUUUUAAAAAAAAAARGH!" The newly-transformed Dark Hazel lets out a scary demonic scream accompanied with a powerful dark shockwave.
"What's the point of this? You were already ugly before." Kaine continues with the fearless mocking, not giving a damn about Hazel's transformation.
"I'll kill you, and Ozpin!" Dark Hazel said with his new demon-like voice.
"MJ, I think you should go find a good place to hide." Ruby highly suggested to the non-huntress redhead.
"Good thinking." MJ agrees and runs to a safe place to hide from the chaos while her more experienced friends take on these fiends.
"YAAAAAAARGH!" Hazel immediately rushes to fight Ozpin, his sworn nemesis, slashing his claws on the blocking headmaster with the cane before the heavy hitters from Team RWBY and Team JNPR helped him knock him back to roar again.
Meanwhile, Scarlet Spider and Blake work together double-teaming against the armored Tyrian, dodging his quick tail strikes and wrist blades to find an opening to attack. "Where's Cyber? I find him more interesting to trash than this trash!" Kaine insults Tyrian, clashing his stingers with Tyrian's blades.
"He mentioned something about a 'prize' that's somewhere here in Beacon!" Blake remarks, using her shadows to avoid Tyrian's poisonous acid blasts from his tail.
"It's the Chaos Emerald! Now I understand! This entire plot was to retrieve the Chaos Emerald we have stored in the school! He must have pinpointed its location!" Ozpin finally realizes Cyber's plan while holding his own against the brutal Dark Hazel.
"You had a Chaos Emerald here all along?! No wonder he took the school! Good thinking, old man!" Kaine berated Ozpin while dodging the evil faunus's tail slams.
"We have to stop Cyber before he gets away with the emerald!" Ruby remarks, slicing Tyrian's back while he wasn't looking.
"I agree. Team RWBY. I order your team to go protect the Chaos Emerald. We'll hold these two off. I'll send you the instructions how to reach the vault." Ozpin sent the instructions through his Scroll while simultaneously avoiding Hazel's ferocious assault of energy blasts.
"Got it! Let's go, team!" Ruby leads her team to stop Cyber before he collects the Chaos Emerald hidden within Beacon.
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Beacon Vault
BGM-Mega Man X8 OST-VS Sigma Demo
Using the chaos he brought outside as a distraction, Cyber Mecha teleported into the Beacon Vault unopposed and undisturbed. The cloaked menace walks through a vast vault dimly lit by wall-mounted torches that cast a pale green light as he approaches the end of a corridor.
"The emerald is near. I sense its power, hidden in a chamber created by Ozpin. A while back, there used to be four ancient Relics hidden beneath each Huntsmen Academy, but they don't house them no more. Ozpin thought he was clever hiding the Chaos Emerald in this vault, believing the search would be more difficult for intruders like Salem than the other three chambers. But I'm not Salem. This is MY world to control. There is nothing you can hide from me here." Cyber charges cybernetic energy into his hands as he crosses them together before thrusting them outward to manipulate cyberspace to affect this vault. Digital energy spreads from his body as it turns the whole vault digital, causing the floor to look black with a pulsating green grid pattern, summoning a red wire-frame version of the Relic chamber doorway at the end of the corridor.
"And the rules of the Maidens do not apply here. Only the king of cyberspace can open this chamber." Cyber thrust his left arm to mentally open the door to the Relic chamber that houses the purple Chaos Emerald held inside a mystical energy barrier floating in midair. The cloaked villain dispels the barrier with his power, telekinetically pulling the Chaos Emerald into his left hand to grasp and feel the immense power for himself.
As expected, his Digital Spider-Sense warns him someone has come to stop him from escaping with the emerald. Cyber casually tilts his head to avoid getting sniped by a familiar sniper shot. "A little late, aren't we? I was expecting you." Cyber turns around to face his young adversaries, Team RWBY, who have arrived to stop him.
"Surrender the Chaos Emerald, Cyber! Now!" Ruby threatens Cyber by pointing her scythe at the fearless cyber-criminal.
"Why ask something you so obviously know the answer to?" Cyber insulted her intelligence.
"Give it up! We trashed the previous Kingpin! Don't think we can't handle his wannabe successor!" Yang insulted with a threatening glare.
"Being the Kingpin is but a minor step of a larger goal. You still don't know who I am, don't you? But I know all about you, and you've played your parts beautifully," Cyber said mysteriously that puts Team RWBY on guard as he continues talking, "Soon, the time will come to usher in a new age. I will lay waste to your city and send a signal to the world that I am not to be trifled with. Very soon, I will rule all. But first…"
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BGM-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan OST-Shredder
Cyber vanishes from the girls' sight, leaving them in shock if that's his natural speed or he's teleporting. Ruby gets the sense something's about to appear behind them, and the team follows to block a sudden energy sword strike from Cyber with their own weapons. Sparks fly from the intense struggle before they reach a stalemate. Cyber's eyes glow a menacing red from within the darkness of his hoodie as a dark red aura slowly emanates from his body. Team RWBY stands strong and fearless against this powerful, mysterious adversary that gave Spider-Man a run for his money last time. Their toughest battle begins now. Team RWBY versus Cyber. Who will come out on top?
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BGM-Sonic Forces OST-Fist Bump Instrumental (Tee Lopes Unofficial Remix)
KFX Here: The Battle of Beacon has only begun! Cyber has stolen Beacon's emerald, and it's up to Team RWBY to get it back and stop him! And there's still the battle against the Egg Fleet raging on at the same time. The war in the real world and the cyberworld is reaching its halfway point.
Next time: Sonic versus Neo Metal Sonic in the real world! Team RWBY versus Cyber Mecha Spider-Man in the cyber world! Spider-Man racing to Beacon's rescue! Tons of epic, thrilling battles back-to-back! You do NOT want to miss this!
Question of the Chapter: So far, how would you compare this "Cyber" Battle of Beacon to the Battle of Beacon from the RWBY Volume 3 finale?
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