Vol 2 Issue 2: Patch

Osborn's Lab

The LMD version of Norman Osborn has been working on a few new toys for the White Fang, toys that could surely destroy Spider-Man and his friends. One new toy, specifically, is suit of armor, using a stolen prototype of the Atlesian Paladin-290 from the Atlas Military as it's base, with this suit being called: R.H.I.N.O.

"Darn that Cinder." LMD Norman said to himself as he works on the R.H.I.N.O. suit. "Can't believe that woman still thinks she could control me. No one controls Norman Osborn. NO ONE!" He then sighed as he moves on to another part of the big suit. "But I supposed I should hold out just a little longer, because soon, I will move on to the next step of my plan, the likes that which this world has ever seen." Norman lets out an evilish smile. "Cinder will learn what happens when you mess with me. The same could be said for Spider-Man and his little fan club. Oh yes, they will pay. They will all pay." He said to himself as he continues working on the suit.

Patch (Ruby and Yang's home)

BGM- Super Mario Galaxy 2 OST- Freezy Flake Galaxy

Through Yang's offer, Peter decided to spend his winter break with her and Ruby at their home in Patch, a large island to the west of Vale. Since it's the winter, there is snow everywhere on the ground, but the little group didn't seem to mind as they are all wearing a jacket and are driving on Yang's motorcycle as they approach the house.

"We're here!" Yang said in a song voice as she stops her ride right next to their house. Their house is a two story log cabin with a metal roof in dull red.

"So, this is where you two live?" Peter said as he gets off the motorcycle and takes out his backpack.

"Yup. Home sweet home." Ruby said with a smile in her face. "Trust me, you're going to love it here. Our dad will be happy to see you."

"Is your dad Solid Snake since he lives in a log cabin?" Peter asked, referencing Metal Gear Solid back on Earth.

"Who?!" The two girls asked him in confusion.

"Never mind." Peter said as they enter through the front door.

"Dad, we're home!" Ruby shouted for their dad. A few seconds later, a black dog comes running at Ruby. The little girl crouches down to meet her pet. "Hey, Zwei! How you been, boy?" She asked the dog, who responds with a lick to her face.

"Oho, who's that I hear?" A man coming out of the kitchen said, catching the teens' attention. The man has blond hair with two small strands sticking out from the top. He wears brown cargo shorts with a dark brown belt, black shoes, a red bandana on his left arm, and a brown leather vest over a tan dress shirt with the right sleeve cut off. "Well, isn't it my two favorite girls in the world!" He said.

"Dad!" The girls shouted as they run up and hug him.

"Ruby! Yang! It's so nice to see you two again!" Their dad as he hugs them. His eyes then wander to see Peter in front of him, giving him a nervous wave. "Who's that?" He asked before giving a suspicious look to Yang. "Yang, who did you bring?" He asked her suspiciously.

"Oh, this is our friend from school." Yang answered him as she looks at Peter. "Peter, this is our dad, Taiyang Xiao Long!" She introduced the two.

"Hello, Mr. Xiao Long! The name's Peter Parker. Your daughters were nice enough to invite me to stay at your place for the break, if you don't mind." Peter said while shaking their dad's hand.

"Not at all, Peter. I've heard so much about you from my daughters. I can't say how much I appreciate you helping them with their studies." The dad said to him.

"Well, your daughters were the ones who came to me for tutoring. I just accepted their request." Peter said with a smile.

"Ah, I see you are very modest as well. I like that." Taiyang said before moving to Yang for a bit. "You chose a nice one here." He whispered to her.

"Daaad…" Yang said embarrassed.

While Peter takes a second to smile at his friend's embarrassed state, he sees Zwei on the floor glaring at him, with his tongue sticking out. "Hello there, boy." He said as he pets Zwei on his head, with him responding with a lick to his face.

Ruby walks up to the TV to turn it on, but it appears to be not working. "Huh, that's weird. The TV is not working." She said.

Her dad walks up next to her. "Yeah, it's been like that since morning. I tried fixing it, but no dice. I was about to call the repair man to come and check the problem until you three came in." He said to her.

"How about I take a crack at it?" Peter asked as he walks up to the TV.

"Sure. Go right ahead." The dad said to him.

Peter walks up to the holographic projector lying on the TV stand. He crouches down and opens it up and starts fixing it, and after a minute, he's finished. "Done!" He said.

"Wow, that fast?" Taiyang said surprised. He then moves up to Yang. "You really did choose a good one here." He told her, making her groan in embarrassment.

Peter turns on the TV, which is currently showing a news report being talked about by Lisa Lavender about a building back at Vale. "It's been a few months since the Schnee Dust Company building here in Vale was almost destroyed thanks to the White Fang, but after so long, that building has been rebuilt with the state of the art technology that would make it almost impossible for the building to be destroyed again in the future." Lisa said from the TV.

"That's a relief." Peter said to himself as he gets up from the floor.

"C'mon, Pete! Let's take you to your room." Ruby said as she and Yang start heading upstairs.

"Alright, I'm coming!" Peter said as he grabs his bag and starts following them upstairs.

He meets the two girls upstairs as they stand outside of the bedroom. "Here's your suite, Pete!" Yang happily opens the door to reveal a single bed with plain bedding, a bedside table decorated with a vase of flowers, and a circular white rug. A large window occupies the wall next to the bed, hung with pale curtains.

"This is my room?" Peter questioned as he heads inside, observing his surroundings. "It's so…plain and empty." He said.

"Well, if you want, you could sleep in our room, especially in my bed." Yang said to him with a smirk.

"No! No! I'm good here!" Peter immediately retorted as he starts unpacking his things. "So, what are we doing first after we've unpacked?"

Ruby and Yang look at each before looking back at Peter. "We actually want to show you something." Ruby told him.

"Like what?" Peter asked curious.

"It's…about our mom." Yang said with a sad face, causing Peter to tilt his head in confusion.

Patch (Cliffside Forest)

Peter, Ruby, and Yang walk up to the edge of a cliff, where there lies a gravesite of a woman named Summer Rose.

"So, this is it, huh?" Peter asked as he and Ruby crouched down next to the tombstone while Yang stands up behind them.

"Yeah. This is the grave of our mom, Summer Rose." Ruby said with a frown on her face. "One day, when me and Yang were still young, she went on a mission and never came back. We don't fully know what happened to her, but we assumed to worst." She said while closing her eyes.

"Our dad didn't take the news well, either." Yang told him from behind. "He basically shut down when he heard what happened. But this isn't the first time we lost a mom."

"You girls had two moms?" Peter asked them.

"Yeah. Our first mom, my mom, Raven Branwen." Yang answered him. "When I was born, she just…left. Wished I knew why though, but I do have the feeling she's still alive though."

Peter put his hand on Ruby's shoulder to try and comfort her. "I'm sorry. Both of you. Losing both your mothers at a young age. No one should have to go through something like that. If you ever need anything, just come and talk to me."

Ruby looks at him with a smile. "Thanks, Peter." She said as she gives him a hug, with Peter happily accepting.

"Can I join this hug too?" Yang asked the two.

"Sure! Why not!" Peter said, as Yang crouches down and they all hug each other.

"Look at us! We're one big, happy family that lost a lot of people in our childhood." Yang said with a smile.

"Now if only our comedy can improve." Peter said.

"That's not going to happen with you two ever." Ruby told them.

"Hey!" Both Peter and Yang said together causing Ruby to giggle at their synchronized response.

Back at the Sister's House

BGM- Dragon Ball Super OST- Like That Cloud

"Man, that was good." Peter said as he has just finished eating pasta for dinner with the rest of the family.

"Glad you liked it." Taiyang replied with a smile. "I'm glad you will be staying with us, Peter. After I heard what happened to your family, it would cruel to just leave you alone during the winter.

"Yeah, thanks for that." Peter said with a smile. "It really is nice to actually eat with a family again, even though I'm just a guest."

"Peter, you are more than a guest, your part of the family now." Ruby said to him. "Remember, I consider you the brother I never had, so I think it's right to say you're another part of the family."

"Thanks, Ruby." Peter replied with a smile, making Ruby smile in response.

"I'll be taking that." Yang said as she grabs everyone's plate. "Time for me to start washing some dishes."

"Just make sure not to break some of them, okay." Her dad warned her.

"It was just one time, dad." Yang replied while walking over to the sink. What she doesn't see was some water on the floor as she heads towards the sink, causing her to trip by accident.

"Yang!" Peter shouted as he uses his speed and immediately catches her with one hand and uses his reflexes to catch all the falling plates with the other.

Taiyang was a bit shocked to see him react that quickly, as he barely saw him move at all. "Wow! That was amazing!" He said amazed.

"See, I told you he's awesome." Ruby told him with a smile.

Peter looks at the plates he easily caught and then looks at Yang. "You really need to stop falling for me." He made a joke with a smile, causing Yang to blush at his response. He helps her get back onto her two feet. "How about I do the dishes, if that's alright with you?" He asked her.

"Y-You sure?" Yang asked him since he's only a guest.

"Hey, I need to do something to repay you guys for letting me stay here. It's the least I could do." Peter said as he puts down the plates in the sink and starts washing them.

Yang sighed as her dad walks up to her, putting his hand on her shoulder. "He really is a good kid. Take good care of him." He told her before leaving. Yang stares at Peter at Peter for a bit while he washes the dishes, humming the Spider-Man theme song as he does so. She smiles to herself as she and Ruby walk out of the kitchen.

That night, after he has finished washing the dishes, Peter is currently resting in his bed, trying to go to sleep but couldn't, as he is thinking about his Aunt May.

"Aunt May…" He thinks to himself as he stares at the ceiling. "I've been here for months, still haven't found a way back to Earth. Then again, I also did travel back in time when I first came here, so right now, you are still okay on Earth. Madame Web said it was only a matter of time until I do come back, but the wait is killing me. I don't even know if you are still alive or not back in the present day on Earth, when I first got transported here. Knowing Goblin, he might have tricked me and killed you anyways, or he was lying and that he didn't had you at all, using some sort of LMD to trick me and come and fight you." Peter puts both of his hands on his face. "I don't know what to believe anymore, just that I have to have faith that you are okay somewhere back on Earth, and if you are, I promise that I will come back. I mean, hey, I did it before, I could do it again." He said, referencing the time he went to Mobius the last time he traveled through dimensions.

While he was thinking to himself, Peter hears a knock on the door. "Come in!" Peter shouted from his bed, not feeling like moving at all to open it up. The door opens up to reveal Yang in her pajamas but with a ponytail hairstyle. "Oh, hey Yang." Peter greeted her. "I like the ponytail. You actually look…really, really good with it." He complemented her, making her blush.

"Thanks." She replied while trying to hide the blush.

"So, what are you here for?" Peter asked her while he sits on the edge of the bed.

"Just wanted to check up on you, to see if you're doing fine." She said as she sits next to Peter.

"Yeah, well, it was thanks to you that I'm doing fine. Thanks." Peter said to her.

"You're welcome." She replied with a smile. She then looks up to ceiling as she thinks of what to say to Peter. "You know, for the past few months, I sort of knew the two of us had a lot in common." She started a conversation.

"Besides the bad puns we make on a daily basis?" Peter said, causing her to chuckle for a bit.

"Yeah, besides that." She said before continuing the conversation. "But you see, I kind of had a feeling that you were always a bit troubled on the inside behind all those jokes, and now I know why." She turned her head to Peter. "You've been thinking about your Aunt May for all these months, trying your best to find her, just like me."

"You mean with your mom? You're first mom?" Peter asked her.

Yang nodded in response. "Ever since I found out about my first mom, I've been searching for her almost nonstop, which almost got me and Ruby killed at one point. Even to this day, I still try to find her, just not as obsessed as I was before. But I'm starting to lose hope that I could ever find her." She said with a frown.

Peter comforts her by putting his hand on her shoulder. "You will find her. You just got to have a little faith. Heck, I remember I went through a similar situation as you are right now." Peter told her.

"You have?" Yang asked him while looking at him in the eye.

"Yeah. You see, before they died, my parents were actually government spies sent on a mission before they died." Peter told her, trying not to say anything that might spill he's from another world.

"Really?! That's so cool!" Yang said.

Peter continued his story. "At one point, I remember finding some old newspaper clipping at my house that said that my parents were traitors to the country. So, I decided to go and look into it myself, and eventually found evidence that proved they were secret government operatives and helped clear their names."

"Wow…I had no idea." Yang said.

"So, if I were able to find out the truth of my parents, I'm sure you can find out where your mom is at and why she decided to leave you. All you have to have is a little faith." Peter said to her.

Yang smiled as a single tear dropped from her eye. "I always knew there was a reason why I liked you so much. You never quit, even when it all seems hopeless at the end." She puts one hand on Peter's hand. "Thank you."

"Hey, it was no problem." Peter replied with a smile. The two looked at each other for a while, gazing at each other's eyes. Then, slowly, the two move their heads closely to each other, closing their eyes as the two get ready to kiss one another. But thanks to the Parker Luck, that didn't happen, as Ruby opens the door.

"Hey guys. What's going on?" The tired and sleepy Ruby asked the two embarrassed lovebirds.

"Ruby?! What are you doing here?!" Both Peter and Yang asked her at once.

Ruby rubs her eyes as she is still really tired. "Just wanted to check up on Peter. What were you two doing just now?" She asked them.

"N-Nothing! Nothing at all!" The both replied at the same time.

"You two were about to kiss, weren't you?" Ruby asked them.

"No! We weren't!" They replied.

"Mmm-Hm. Not buying it." Ruby said as she puts her hand on her hip. "Anyways, I'm going back to bed. See ya tomorrow." She said as she left the room.

Peter and Yang let out a sigh of relief, still embarrassed from Ruby's sudden appearance. "That was a close one." Yang said exhausted.

"You can thank the good, old Parker Luck. I swear, it just like to kick in without my notice." Peter told her.

"Well, maybe next time then." Yang said as she gets up from the bed. "Whelp, I'll see you tomorrow." She said as she heads towards the door.

"Yeah. Good night." Peter said as he lies down on his bed. Yang nodded as she closes the door behind her, allowing Peter to sleep peacefully with a smile on his face.

*BGM-Dragon Ball Z Kai- Next Episode Preview (Wings of the Heart Version) *

Spider-Man: Hi, I'm Spider-Man. Any reason why we have a giant Rhino Suit rampaging through Vale?

Yang: Aren't you supposed to be the expert when it comes to Supervillains?

Spider-Man: I wouldn't say I'm an expert when it comes to villains like these.

Yang: Still, that thing is trashing the city if we don't do anything about it.

Spider-Man: So, let's go teach that Rhino a few tricks, why don't we?

Next time on Spider-Man: Battle for Remnant:

The R.H.I.N.O.

Spider-Man: I still have no idea what you call that thing on its head.

KFX here: Here's some of that Peter/Yang development some of you have been asking for. Here's hoping you liked it. Next chapter, both Spider-Man and Yang will take on the Rhino, which is based on its appearance from the Ultimate Spider-Man comics.