BGM-Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds OST-Theme of Spider-Man
Spider-Man: Watch out! Here comes the Spider-Man! Some masked lady showed up while I was searching for clues on Goblin. Apparently, Madame Web recruited her as my own secret undercover agent for the Goblin Nation that'll provide me the clues I need to stop Goblin's little gang. Thanks to her notes, I destroyed one of their hideouts, where I also met General Ironwood and gave me a tracker just in case. Nice to have backup. Just as long as my friends aren't involved. This is for their own safety. But I do wonder who that masked lady was? Something about her feels familiar.
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Vol 2 Issue 6: Painting the Town Green
Goblin Island
BGM-Mario and Luigi: Dream Team OST-Bowser's Theme
In his computer room, the Goblin King is observing many different holo-screens showcasing the girls of Team RWBYP. He stares at each documented pictures of the girls, studying footage of their fighting capabilities for a mysterious purpose. He scoffs with a devious smirk until he hears the door opening and notice Raven approaching, "Branwen, report."
"The recruitment team has returned after conquering the criminal underworld of another dimension. Their men are infected and now yours to command. As for the ISO-8 harvesting team, they should be almost done extracting another reality's ISO-8 in the next hour." Raven reported, maintaining her cover as a spy for Spider-Man to learn more about Goblin's plans.
"Good, good!" Goblin cackles, "My Convergence Device is working wonderfully. Thanks to the ISO-8, NO dimension is out of my reach to conquer. My resources are limitless! Soon, all the power will be mine. And when it is, I will exterminate all of my enemies and bring forth a new age." He chuckles sinisterly while Raven remains stoic behind the mask, "So, how is the completion of my ultimate weapon?"
"The ISO-Dust Reactor is finally stabilizing. Your mech should be completed in a few days, if there are no interruptions." Raven replied.
Goblin laughs, "All is according to plan! Now if you'll excuse me, I must return to Vacuo to overlook the completion of my castle. Stay here with Merlot and keep me updated on the other teams." He says while passing by the bandit huntress.
"Fine." Raven responded stoically. She glances around the computer room for a little bit until her gaze caught the images of Team RWBY on his computer, "Interested in children…?"
"Hm?" Goblin stops and slightly turns to face her, "Oh, them? I wouldn't say I'm interested, or impressed. They are friends of Spider-Man that like to snoop in other people's business. Annoying nuisances. Cannon fodder. Once I return from my castle, I'll personally see if they're worth my while. And if not, well, it's gonna hurt Spider-Man more than it'll hurt me." He cackles maniacally as he leaves Raven alone in the computer room. The undercover huntress stares back at the images, specifically at Yang's with a somber expression, displaying some genuine concern for her daughter's safety as Goblin seems to have plans to kill her.
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Beacon Academy
Team RWBYP are currently attending Professor Port's class about random nonsense they are not paying attention to. Weiss is patiently waiting out the minute left on her holographic clock displayed on her desk before glancing at Peter sitting nearby alone, looking very impatient as if he's in a hurry to an important meeting. She looks back at her clock just as Jaune slides up next to her.
"So, Weiss, y'know, uh, I-I was thinking after this, maybe we could go grab a bite to eat?" Jaune tries asking her out, turning to his teacher for a second, then turns back around, "And, uh um, I-I've got two tickets to that new Spruce Willis movie, if you wanna make the trip to Vale. I hear it's awesome." He pauses as his words seem to have no effect on the uninterested heiress, "Aaaand maybe after that, we could study together? I mean, you're smart and I'm, uh... Y'know."
Finally, the clock in front of Weiss gives a shrill beep as it changes from 3:59 to 4:00, and she dismisses it with a wave of her hand. The professor is temporarily unaware of the alarm while he is busy posing as a towering monster about to attack, "And then I-oh." Port straightens his stance as his students start to leave, "Timed that one wrong, I guess. Well, the stunning conclusion to this story will have to wait. Until next time!" He dismisses the class.
"Finally!" Peter rushes out of class, leaving his teammates wondering where he's going.
Weiss picks up her Scroll while Jaune continues to talk to her. "Weiss? Did you hear me?" He asks while she walks away, not even looking back at him.
"No, no, no, yes." Weiss answered all his questions, making him groan and doing a faceplant into his desk.
As the rest of Team RWBYP walk out of the class behind him, Yang ruffles Jaune's hair without even looking. "One day." She quipped.
Team RWBYP's Dorm
BGM-RWBY OST- A Minor Hiccup
The girls are making preparations for today's investigations as they put on their new outfits. Ruby straps the red laces of her shoes, dressed in her Slayer outfit. Weiss grips the handle of her rapier strapped to her side, outfitted in her Snowpea attire. Yang slides the chamber of her left gauntlet, clad in her Hunter suit. And Blake tightens the black ribbons around her arms, dressed in her Intruder uniform.
"I thought that class would never end." Blake commented.
"Alright, guys, today's the day! The investigation begins!" Ruby shouts from the hanging bed, happily leaping off her mattress and onto the floor with her arms raised excitedly, almost landing on Weiss, who is on the bottom bunk.
"I'm so glad to see we're taking this so seriously." Weiss said sarcastically.
"Hey, we've got a plan! That's…moderately serious." Yang remarked.
Ruby looks around the room for a bit, noticing that Peter is nowhere to be seen. "Where's Peter?" She asked.
"He ran off, as usual, to who knows where! He's been ignoring us all day! I'm getting the feeling he's hiding something." Weiss retorted, unknowingly making Blake a little nervous that she might be suspecting his secret heroics.
"He's sick, remember? Maybe he ran off to see a doctor." Yang remarks from her bed.
"Are we sure he's sick? He looked fine to me. And he's the only one who knows more about Norman Osborn than us." Weiss responded.
"He's doing his best to hide his pain and doesn't want us to worry. You know how he is." Blake said, covering for her heroic friend.
"We'll check on Peter later. He's tougher than anyone I know. Everyone remember their roles?" Ruby looks around at her teammates, asking about their objectives.
"You and I will head to the CCT and check the Schnee records for any other Dust robberies or inconsistencies. Seeing as I'm in the family, it shouldn't be a problem." Weiss answered her partner.
"The White Fang has regular faction meetings to hand out orders and recruit new members. If I can get in, I can hopefully find out what they're planning." Blake states her objective.
"I have an old friend on the shady side of town that typically knows everything going on in Vale. Getting information out of him shouldn't be too hard..." Yang answered.
"Great, we'll meet up tonight near Yang to go over what we found. Let's do this!" Ruby says, pumping her fist.
"Yeah!" A sudden Sun said from outside the open window, smiling while hanging upside-down by his tail.
"Sun!" Blake reacts in surprise and alarm, as the whole team is taken aback by his sudden appearance outside.
"How did you get up here?" Yang asked him.
"Ah, it's easy. I do it all the time." Sun answered her.
"You do what?!" Weiss retorted.
"I climb trees all the time!" Sun said, without reacting to Weiss' scowl. He flips into their dorm room and asks, "So, are we finally getting back at that Torchwick guy?"
Blake steps forward telling him, "We are going to investigate the situation... as a team."
"Sorry, Sun. We don't want to get friends involved if we don't have to." Ruby apologized to him.
"Pfft, that's dumb. You should always get friends involved. That's why I brought Neptune." Sun said, gesturing out of the window.
The girls lean out of the window on top of one another to see the aforementioned teammate of Sun's standing outside, cool as he can be, "'Sup?"
"How did you even get up here?" Ruby asked him.
"I have my ways." Neptune replied, standing on a very thin ledge circling the building under the windows. "Seriously though, can I come in? We're like, really high up right now." He asked nerviously.
Inside the dorm room, the group are standing in a circle as Ruby lays down the new plan, "Alright, I'll go with Weiss. Sun, you can go with Blake. And Neptune, you can go with Yang since Peter isn't here and she doesn't have a partner." She says, pushing Neptune past Weiss as the blue-haired teen slips her a wink, causing Weiss to look mildly shocked but then comes to her senses quickly. "Everyone good?" She asks if everyone is ready.
"Actually, Ruby, why don't you go with Yang? After all, she is your sister." Weiss asked, only saying this to be close with her crush.
Ruby pushed Neptune, who is stiff as a board, right next to Yang. When she is done pushing him, he rocks back and forth looking nervous. Yang put her hand on his shoulder to stop him from rocking. "But, Weiss, who would go with you, then?" Ruby asks her partner.
"Well…I guess Neptune could come with me." Weiss replied.
Neptune puts on a suave look and points at Weiss, as the team leader cracks up rejecting her idea, "Hahaha, nah!"
Weiss is obviously less than amused, yet powerless to stop Ruby from pulling her by the back out the door. "But! But!" The heiress sticks her arms out fruitlessly trying to get back to Neptune.
Beacon Tower
After leaving their dorm, Ruby and Weiss are walking down the path towards the vertically tall Beacon Tower that looms over the sparse trees growing around the crossroads below.
"Woooow! I forget how big the Transmit tower looks up close!" Ruby said in amazement.
"You should see the one in Atlas!" Weiss remarked.
"That was the first one, right?" Ruby asked.
"Correct. Atlas developed the Cross Continental Transmit System to allow the four kingdoms to communicate with one another. It was their gift to the world after the Great War." Weiss answered, giving a little history lesson to her partner.
"Ooo, look at me, my name's Weiss, I know facts, I'm rich!" Ruby acts high and mighty to be annoying to her partner, snorting into her hands at Weiss' frown.
"Don't be a pest! Besides, the only reason we're here is because you like the tower so much! We could have just as easily made a call from the library!" Weiss retorted.
"I know, but it's so coool! Ooh, I'm going to take a picture!" Ruby grabs her Scroll from a pocket on her clothes, but in her excitement, the device is launched from her hands, bouncing along the pavement until it lands at a sudden Penny's feet
"Oh." Penny picks up the Scroll and extends towards the clumsy teen, "You dropped this."
"Penny?!" Ruby said, shocked to see her weird friend, as she hasn't seen her since their epic battle against the Elementals weeks ago after her strange disappearance.
"Uuuh…" Penny said, similarly surprised.
"Where have you been? We haven't seen you since that night at the docks!" Ruby asked her.
"S-Sorry. I think you're confused." Penny suddenly hiccups after lying, throwing the Scroll into Ruby's hands, "Uh…I've got to go!" She turns quickly and walks away.
"What was that about?" Weiss asks, turning to Ruby.
"I don't know, but I'm going to find out." Ruby starts walking in Penny's direction as she shouts back to her partner, "You go make your call! I'll meet up with you later!"
"Wait!" Weiss reaches towards her leader, but seeing the futility of stopping her teammate, she lowers her hand and sighs angrily.
Ruby managed to catch up with Penny as she descends the steps until she gets in front of the non-eccentric redhead, "Penny! Where have you been? It's been weeks!"
"There seems to be a…misunderstanding." Penny replied.
"What?!" Ruby responds as Penny continues to walk away. Ruby slides down the rail next to her. "Penny…Is everything okay?" She asks, but Penny continues forward without reaction. "Penny, please stop!" She grabs her by the arm, prompting Penny to finally stop and listen to what she has to say, "Look, I don't know what's wrong, but you have to listen to me! Those guys we fought at the docks and created the Elementals, we think they're up to something big. Something bad! I need you to tell me what happened to you that night! Please... As a friend." She pleads for her help.
Penny sighs, glancing to her sides swiftly, as she walks over to Ruby's side and leans in close. "It isn't safe to talk here." She looks around suspiciously, much to Ruby's confusion.
Inside Beacon Tower
Weiss walks through the grand, glowing lobby of the tower with pride, avoiding the central terminal and heading straight for the elevator doors, which slide open automatically and close when she's inside. The voice of the CCT AI is projected from a panel near the door. 'Hello. Welcome to the CCT. How may I help you?' The AI asks the heiress.
"I'd like to go to the communications room, please." Weiss replied.
'Absolutely. Could you please place your Scroll on the terminal to verify your identity?' The AI asks of her. Weiss takes out her Scroll and places it as directed, 'Perfect! Thank you, Miss Schnee.'
Upon the elevator going up, Weiss' expressions shift from pleasant to serious. As she enters the room, she sees four symbols on a computer, each one representing each kingdom of Remnant. She walks up to the front desk where a holographic secretary appears in the seat.
"Welcome to the Beacon Cross Continental Transmit center. How may I help you?" The CCT AI asks Weiss in a polite manner.
"I need to make a call to Schnee Company World Headquarters in Atlas." Weiss replied.
"Absolutely." The AI starts beeping for a few seconds. "If you could head over to Terminal 3, I'll patch you through."
"Thank you!" Weiss smiles and nods before walking over to her assigned cubicle-like computer, passing a few Beacon students in uniform, with one of them talking to their mother about things back at Signal Academy. She sits at her own display while taking a deep, unhappy breath to prepare for the call ahead. The face of a short-haired brunette appears on the monitor with the Schnee snowflake rotating behind her.
'Thank you for calling the Atlas-Oh! Miss Schnee! Good afternoon! Would you like me to patch you through to your father? I think your sister Winter might be here as well.' The Schnee Corp Operator asks the heiress, having not realize who she is talking to until she looks up.
"No, thank you! I was actually wondering if you could find some files for me. I've compiled a short list." Weiss said pleasantly.
She takes out her Scroll and places it into a slot on the keyboard, creating a few noises as the Operator looks at the data from her side of the screen, 'I see…If you don't mind…what may I ask is this for?' The Operator asks her curiously.
"School project." Weiss lied.
'Um…There are some sensitive documents on this list, ma'am.' The Operator said nerviously.
"Well then, I'll be sure to treat them with care." Weiss remarked.
'Right…' The Secretary said, still nervous, 'Very well…' A few noises are heard for a few seconds, 'The data is being transferred to your Scroll now.'
"Wonderful! That will be all, then." Weiss smiled.
'Are you sure you wouldn't like me to patch you through to your father before you go?' The Operator asked her again if she wants to talk to her father.
Weiss loses her smile, but quickly replaces it, "Yes, I'm sure."
'Well, then…Have a nice day!' The Operator said as the call is dropped, and so too is Weiss' happy act, seen in the screen's reflection.
With Ruby…
Penny stands alone near a two-story building with patio furniture and is looking around nerviously when a hand grabs her shoulder, causing her to jump. She turns to see Ruby grinning, causing her to smile in return as they stroll down the street.
"I wish I could help you, Ruby. But I don't know anything about those men." Penny responded to a question she was given.
"Well, what happened to you that night? We were all together, and then you just disappeared! Were you kidnapped?" Ruby asked.
"Oh, no, nothing like that!" Penny replied.
"Then where did you go?" Ruby questioned.
"I've never been to another kingdom before. My father asked me not to venture out too far, but, oh you have to understand, my father loves me very much. He just worries a lot." Penny frowns.
"Believe me, I know the feeling." Ruby sympathizes with a grin, causing Penny to grin back. "But why not let us know you were okay?"
"I... was asked not to talk to you. Or Weiss…or Blake…or Yang…or Peter. Anybody really." Penny responded.
"Was your dad that upset?" Ruby asked.
"No, it wasn't my father…" Before Penny can continue, she and Ruby hear the sound of megaphones announcing something, turning around the corner to look at the platform in the center of a plaza where the holographic image of James Ironwood is seen before six AK-130 Androids, who are in turn standing in front of two large metal storage cases with the spear-and-shield emblem on their doors.
"The AK-130 has been a standard security model of Remnant for several years, and they have done a fine job. Wouldn't you agree? Wouldn't you agree?" Ironwood asked the clapping audience, causing the drones to take a jerky bow, "But... the kingdom of Atlas is a kingdom of innovation. And fine, well that's just not good enough, is it? Presenting... the Atlesian Knight. 200!" The doors to the cases roll up, and six new, bulkier, shiner automations stand at attention before knocking their obsolete predecessors down to the applause of the watchers, "Smarter, sleeker, and admittedly, a little less scary." Ironwood said while the robots flex and pose as a demonstration, "These models will become active later this year, but they won't be alone! Now, the Atlesian Military has always supported the idea of removing men from the dangers of the battlefield. However, there are still many situations that will undoubtedly require... a human touch."
"Ruby…?" Penny worriedly turns to her friend, who has become too drawn to the presentation.
"So, our kingdom's greatest minds, in cooperation with the Schnee Dust Company, are proud to introduce... The Atlesian Paladin!" Ironwood's image is replaced with the hologram of a robotic white behemoth, featuring hinged piston legs, large guns for hands, and a rectangular head, standing at least twice as tall as the Knights below it, 'Now, we couldn't have him here for you today, but these mechanized battle suits will be seen defending the borders of our kingdom within the year!' Ironwood's voice said to the clapping audience.
"Whoa…" Ruby remarks, hunching in awe of the awesome new robot.
"Ruby? Maybe we should go somewhere else." Penny said to her with concern.
At the side of the stage, two armored soldiers see Penny, pointing her out and calling in backup. Penny backs away and then breaks into a dead run, which snaps Ruby out of her weapon-awe-induced stupor.
"Penny! Wait! Where are you going?" Ruby asks her, turning back to look at the soldiers chasing after her friend. Realizing Penny's situation, she swiftly follows her in an attempt to catch up down the winding alley.
"Down here! She went this way!" One of the Atlas Soldier said to his partner.
Penny and Ruby run across the street with the soldiers following them, though a honking car nearly runs one over. He manages to brace his hands against the hood, which somehow stops the vehicle, and his partner runs along after the girls.
Ruby is still trying to catch up with Penny, but a high stack of crates on a flimsy support is easily cut down by Crescent Rose, causing a wooden avalanche of boxes to block the path. Seeing Penny right ahead of her, Ruby leaps into the air and lands on the alley wall, ricocheting off to grab Penny around the middle. "This way!" Ruby grimaces before the two disappear in a flash of red and rose petals.
Ruby dashes away as fast as she can while carrying Penny, but the strain is too great, and they crash to the ground a short while later, with Ruby falling all the way into the street. She gets up slowly, and in her dazed state, she doesn't notice the large truck coming up from behind her until the honking is too late of a warning. She stands up just as she's about to be hit, but from out of nowhere, Penny pushes Ruby out of the way and holds her palms out.
In the split second where the two make contact, the ground beneath Penny cracks and crumbles into pieces, and the From Dust Till Dawn truck is lifted a little ways into the air by the girl's sheer strength. She puts it down, and the Shopkeep stares in awe at the crumples in his hood, just like the Huntress who got saved.
"Penny...? Ruby said with her eyes wide, terrified, and a bit uncertain.
"Are you okay?" Penny asks the Shopkeep.
"Uh-huh…" The Shopkeep said with a nod, obviously scared.
Penny backs away, looking at Ruby's frightened expression, then at the bystanders murmuring to each other in an attempt to understand what just happened. In her panic, she runs from the Atlas soldiers still chasing her down and bumps into Ruby, knocking the poor girl out of her stupor as her friend tries to get away again.
"Penny! Come back!" Ruby starts going after Penny as the people look at the destruction Penny has caused with her bare hands and the soldiers find they lost their target.
"Um…Uh…" Penny comes to a stop once she gets out of the alleyway, looking around for where to run next.
"Penny!" Ruby runs up to her exasperated. "Please! What is going on?! Why are you running? How did you do that?!"
"I-I can't!" Penny said nerviously. "Everything's fine!" She lies with a hiccup. "I-I don't want to talk about it!" She said with another hiccup.
"Penny, if you can just tell me what's wrong, I can help you!" Ruby remarks with great concern for her weird friend.
"No, no, no, you wouldn't understand..." Penny said, retreating from her friend.
"Let me try! You can trust me!" Ruby said to her.
Penny finally relents as she comes up to Ruby's face desperately. "You're my friend, right? You promise you're my friend?!" She asks her.
"I promise." Ruby replies softly.
Penny stays silent for a second, then, looks down at her hands, "Ruby…I'm not a real girl." She shows Ruby the toll of stopping the truck that would have killed her: Parts of her palm's skin have ripped away, revealing the gray metal underneath.
Penny stares sadly at Ruby's face, now completely astounded by her friend's secret as all she can simply say is, "Oh."
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BGM-RWBY OST-Painting the Town
"Penny, I-I don't understand…" Ruby responds, rightfully confused after learning of Penny's secret.
"Most girls are born, but I was made. I'm the world's first synthetic person capable of generating an Aura." Penny explains, turning her head to the side sadly, "I'm not real…"
Ruby takes Penny's hands in her own, "Of course you are. You think just because you've got nuts and bolts instead of squishy guts makes you any less real than me?"
"I don't…um…" Penny leans in close to Ruby's face, "You're…taking this extraordinarily well."
"You're not like those things we saw back there." Ruby taps her metal chest, "You've got a heart, and a soul, I can feel it."
"Ooohh…oh Ruby!" Penny grabs Ruby into a hug and shakes her back and forth. "You're the best friend anyone could have!"
"I can see why your father would want to protect such a delicate flower!" Ruby said with a muffled groan.
Penny releases Ruby, fully back to her happy self, "Oh, he's very sweet! My father's the one that built me! I'm sure you would love him!"
"Wow." Ruby giggles. "He built you all by himself?"
"Well, almost! He had some help from Mr. Ironwood." Penny replied.
"The General!?" Ruby reacts in shock. "Wait…Is why those soldiers were after you?"
"They like to protect me too!" Penny remarked.
Ruby scoffs quipping, "They don't think you can protect yourself?"
Penny replies, "They're not sure if I'm ready yet... One day, it will be my job to save the world, but I still have a lot left to learn. That's why my father let me come to the Vytal Festival. I want to see what it's like in the rest of the world, and test myself in the Tournament."
"Penny, what are you talking about? Save the world from what? We're in a time of peace!" Ruby asked before gasping, "Does it have to do with Norman Osborn?" She asks her quickly.
"Yeah!" Penny happily nods. "Ironwood told me he also goes by the name The Goblin-."
"Check down here!" A solider cut her off as two Atlas soldiers approach them.
Penny immediately grabs Ruby by the shoulders, "You have to hide!" She lifts Ruby above her head effortlessly.
Ruby struggles and screams as she is carried toward the dumpster, "Penny, wait! What are you doing? You don't have to go with them! I can help you!" She argues as Penny throws her in the trash and lifts the lid so she can still talk.
"It's okay, Ruby. They're not bad people; I just don't want to get you in trouble. Just promise me you won't tell anyone else my secret. Okay?" Penny gravely stares at her.
"I promise." Ruby said, lowering her head into the garbage as the lid is put down, but she lifts it a little to peek at the scene outside.
"There she is!" One of the soldiers said as they approach Penny.
"Sal-u-tations, officers!" Penny greets them.
"Why were you running? And what happened to the other girl?" The soldier asked her.
"What girl? I've been by myself all day!" Penny lies with a loud hiccup, then smiles.
"You shouldn't cause such a scene." The soldier said.
"Are you okay?" The other one asked her.
Penny shows off her injured palms, "Just a scratch."
"Penny, your father isn't going to be happy about this."
"Please, just come with us."
"Yes, sir!" Penny agrees, walking away with the soliders as Ruby looks on in sadness, until a rat screeches from below her feet, causing the young Huntress to fall and close the lid on herself.
With Yang…
In the ruined parts of Vale, the sound of an engine gets closer and closer until Bumblebee pulls into the street and stops, showing Yang behind the handlebars in her matching helmet.
She takes off the helmet as she gestures with her thumb to the music playing nearby, "C'mon, my friend's right in here!" She said as she gets off her bike, revealing Neptune right behind her, with his hair and goggles messed up with a petrified expression of terror on his face.
"Cool…" He said, sounding dizzy. He shakes his head, somehow perfectly fixing his appearance, and gets off the cycle, looking around worriedly, "And where exactly is…here?"
The music from Junior's Club gets louder once inside with Junior behind the bar adjusting his cuffs as his henchmen stock the bottles, carry boxes, and otherwise stand around on the dance floor, until, Hurry, close the door! She's coming!" A scared henchman shouts while running inside, as he and his pal proceed to roll the doors shut and keep them closed with their bodies.
"What are you two idiots doing?!" Junior asks as he walks out from the bar.
His henchmen shout incoherently until an explosion knocks them to the ground and forces the doors open, allowing a familiar face to walk in through the smoke. "Guess who's back!" Yang continues to smile and pose as eight guns are pointed in her face with an equal number of angry henchmen behind them. Though this doesn't faze her, she stops and glares at the recording studio where the track is messing up until the frightened bear-headed DJ takes the needle off the record and retreats back under the table.
"Yeah, so could you define 'friend' for me?" Neptune casually asks her as the henchmen continue hoisting their guns.
"Stop, stop! Nobody shoot!" Junior orders his men as he cuts his way through the crowd, straightening his tie and asks, "Blondie! You're here. Why?"
"You still owe me a drink." Yang grabs the club owner by the arm and drags him to the bar through the hired guns.
"Whoa-ho-ho-ho, what a woman..." Neptune breaks from his lovestruck staring to see the twins Melanie and Miltia Malachite standing beside him, "'Sup?"
Together they scoff saying, "Whatever." as they walk away with their noses in the air.
With Blake…
Meanwhile, Blake's fingers trace three scratch marks on a wall before peeking around its corner and seeing a pair of horned Faunus as they are ushered into a building by a bearded man. She turns to Sun next to her telling him, "This is it."
"You sure?" Sun remarks, receiving a glare from her as she starts moving towards the entrance while unfastening her bow, "Y'know, I'm just gonna take your word for it." He quipped.
The two walk inside the building to a hallway filled with cases, seeing another man announcing "New recruits, keep to the right!" at the young pair as they follow. "I don't get it." Sun says while holding out the half-mask in his hand, "If you believe what you're doing is right, why hide who you are?"
"The masks are a symbol. Humanity wanted to make monsters out of us, so we chose to don the faces of monsters." Blake answered.
"Grimm masks…That's kind of dark." Sun remarked.
"So was the guy who started it." Blake says while putting on her mask and walks on.
"Always sunshine and rainbows with you…" Sun quips while following her lead.
The new recruits to the White Fang are moving in a line to the side of the stage, a mere few dozen compared to the hundreds of white-vested, black-hooded soldiers to their left and up above in the balconies. Blake and Sun look around themselves when they stop, and a fully-masked man with tattoos standing starts speaking before the large sheet emblazoned with the bloody wolf and claw marks.
"Thank you all for coming. For those of you who are joining us for the first time tonight, allow me to introduce a very special comrade of ours! I can assure you, he is the key to obtaining what we have fought for so long!" A White Fang Lieutenant said as he introduces Torchwick to the stage as he smiles confidently, even as the crowd starts protesting.
Roman waves mockingly at the protesters, "Thank you, thank you!" He speaks as his business partner, the silent Neopolitan, walks out from behind the sheet, "Please, hold your applause!"
"What's a human doing here?!" An Antler Faunus shouts, pointing at Roman from her place right in front of Blake and Sun.
"I'm glad you asked, dearie! Now, I'll be the first to admit, humans... are the worst." Roman salutes as an example, "Case in point. So I understand why you would love to see us all locked away, or better yet: killed!"
"So, is he going somewhere with this?" Sun quips, while leaning over to Blake.
Roman continues, "But, before the claws come out, I'd like to mention the fact that you and I all have a common enemy. The ones in control, the people pulling the strings, the dirty, rotten humans that run our kingdoms!" He says, as the crowd changes their tune and starts agreeing with him, "Government, military, the schools, even that pesky Spider-Man, they're all to blame for your lot in life!" He says, letting the crowd cheer as the two heroes share a look, "And they're all pests that need to be dealt with! Fortunately, I'm the best exterminator around…No offense to any rodents in the room."
With a snap of the fingers, the curtain falls, and the whole mass of Faunus applaud at the sight of the large Atlesian Paladin-290 behind it, the mark of the White Fang painted on its shoulder. Along with the mech is the humanoid, but immensely dangerous Spider-Slayer robot, sporting a white color scheme with red spider-like eyes and a blue oval-shaped screen acting as the face, which can project the controller's face when activated.
"Uh, that's a big robot…" Sun remarks worriedly at the Paladin.
"How did he get that? And what's that spider-looking robot?" Blake questioned.
"As some of you may have heard, this right here..." Torchwick taps the giant Paladin, "…is Atlas' newest defense against all the scary things in the world. And thanks to my 'employer', we've managed to snag a few before they, uh, 'hit the shelves'. And this right here…" He then taps the Spider-Slayer, "…is one of first of hundreds of Spider-Slayers currently in production thanks to The Professor. Once our Spider-Slayer army is complete, Vale's greatest hero, Spider-Man, will be utterly squashed like the bug he is!" He proclaims, causing the crowd to cheer for him again.
"Spider-Slayers…?" Sun remarks in shock.
"Peter…" Blake mutters in worry for her spider-friend.
"Now, many of your brothers have already moved down to our new operation in the southeast. If you'd rather stay within the city, that's fine... But if you're truly ready to fight for what you believe in, this is the arsenal I can provide you. Any questions?" Roman asks, as the White Fang's roaring applause tells him the answer.
We should get out of here." Blake says to her friend.
"Will all new recruits, please come forward!" The White Fang Lieutenant shouts, as the line surges forward with the two heroes forced to follow if they don't want to get caught.
"Welp!" Sun quipped.
Back at Junior's Club…
"I don't know!" Junior puts down his glass as he sits behind the bar separating him from his interrogator.
"How can you not know?" Yang crosses her arms in annoyance.
"I don't know who this Norman Osborn is and I haven't talked or seen Torchwick since the night you first came in here." Junior leans over to point in Yang's face, "He paid up front, I lent him my men, and none of them ever came back."
"So where did they go?" Neptune rushes to Yang's side to raise a question of his own.
Junior pauses for a moment while staring at the dumb student, "What kind of stupid question is that? They never came back!" He looks at Yang asking, "Who is this guy?"
Yang pushes Neptune out of the way with one hand, forcing him to straighten and stand to attention, "Don't worry about him, worry about me if I don't find what I want!" She angrily says to the bar owner.
"I already told you everything! Torchwick hired my boys, and I guess he wasn't happy with them, which is something I can relate to!" He shouts this at his own men, who grumble and walk away in response, "The only other thing is that there's this new crime boss calling himself 'The Goblin' that recruited a lot of Torchwick's men for his own gang to start a possible gang war, but that's it. That's all I know!" He said everything he knows to Yang.
"Come on, Neptune." An unsatisfied Yang turns from the bar and walks away.
"We get everything we need?" Neptune follows with his hands in his pockets.
"Well, we got everything we can. Not sure how a 'Goblin' is related to all of this. Hopefully the rest of the team is having better luck." Yang replied.
Meanwhile with Blake…
The White Fang is still cheering loudly as the recruits are marched to the stage, with Blake and Sun having no choice but to follow along. "What are we going to do?!" Sun whispers to her.
"I'm thinking…" Blake lowly responds.
Sun watches Torchwick lean on the robot smoking his cigar and laughing with Neo beside him before he zeroes in on the two, frowning. "He sees us…" He remarks, trying to smile and wave at the approaching crime boss.
Blake notices a junction box on the wall, which gives her an idea, "He can't see in the dark." With that, Blake unsheathes Gambol Shroud, transforms it into a pistol, and shoots at the box, making the lights go out for the whole building.
"Don't let them get away! Urgh!" Roman shouted.
"Sun! The window!" Blake replies, as the heroic Faunus use their innate night vision to make their escape through the dark.
"Stop 'em!" Roman ordered.
Before the two student Huntsmen crash through the window and start running as fast as they can, the mechanized sound of running power signals the Altesian Paladin and the Spider-Slayer's activation, and they crash through the wall of the building in pursuit of the runaways, who leap off of a car and manage to get on the roofs. The Paladin and the Slayer follow beside them on the street as Blake and Sun run, jump, and flip from rooftop to rooftop.
"So you wouldn't happen to have... oh, I don't know... some form of backup?!" Sun asks, amidst twirls in the air.
"On it!" Blake hurries to grab her Scroll and puts it to her ear as she continues to jump.
With Weiss…
Weiss is leaving the CCT tower's elevator when she grabs her own Scroll and listens to Blake's message, 'Everyone! If you can hear me, we need back-!'
'HEEEELLLLLP!' Sun yelled, causing Weiss to roll her eyes and start running out the door with a little smile on her face as she does so.
With Ruby…
She is still beside the dumpster, which is boarded up to keep the rat imprisoned, staring at her Scroll while Sun continues yelling, 'Big robot! And it's big! Really big! And a smaller, but deadlier spider-robot!'
"Oh, I am not missing this!" Ruby remarks excitedly, as she runs off to join the fight.
With Yang…
She is back on the motorcycle in her helmet and sunglasses with Neptune looking at the Scroll in her hand over her shoulder while Sun continues shouting, 'That Torchwick guy is in the big robot! But not like, it didn't eat him, he's like controlling them or something!'
"Where are you guys?" Yang asked.
Right on cue, behind them, Blake and Sun can be seen running through the street with the Paladin and Spider-Slayer hot on their heels before they all disappear from view, all while Sun yells, "HURRYYYY!"
"I think that was them." Neptune remarked.
"Yeah, I got it." Yang puts away the Scroll as she quickly circles her ride around, much to Neptune's alarm, and drives off to follow them.
With Blake…
Blake and Sun somehow make it to the highways, jumping down into the busy street and continuing their escape by hopping on cars while the Slayer is firing energy beams and the Paladin follows them by pushing vehicles out of the way. Sun pauses to look at their pursuer's path of destruction and offer a quick "Whoa!" before leaping onto more cars, much to the anger of Roman inside the robot, his face surrounded by blue holographic screens.
Yang and Neptune are able to follow the mech suit on their ride, coming up next to it as it runs. "We've gotta slow them down!" Yang said.
"Got it!" Neptune reaches for his gun, but Roman notices the pair on his sensors and crashes into a multitude of cars with the Paladin's strong bulk, sending them flying towards his chasers.
"Hold on!" Yang warns him.
"Wuh-oh…" Neptune remarks worriedly, as Yang swerves, leaning her bike to the side in avoidance of flying debris while Neptune flails in a panic. Back on two wheels again, Neptune unslings his weapon, aims as sparks start flying, and fires several bolts of blue electricity at the Slayer and the Paladin, causing Roman to grimace from the force of the attacks.
Switching strategies, Neptune flips the gun and it grows a shaft and an energy blade at the end, then jumps from Yang's bike as the spear's head splits in three and drives it into the top of the Paladin, while the Slayer tries blasting the blond brawler off the road as she keeps swerving.
Sun and Blake pause in their car-hopping to look back, as the monkey faunus shouts at his teammate, "Neptune, hang on!" Neptune is trying his best, but the mech keeps bucking and threatens to make him fall. Closing his eyes, Sun smashes his palms together, and from the golden Aura around him, his Semblance creates two glowing outlines that copy their creator, leaping off and going back over the tops of vehicles to collide into the Paladin's front. They explode into blinding light upon contact to let Sun leap forward with Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang held high, but Roman commands the Slayer to blast Neptune flying off and knocking into his leader, sending both of them off the highway.
As Blake looks on from her spot, she hears Weiss' voice from her Scroll stating, 'Blake! I'm in position!'
She is seen twirling over a highway and landing in the middle of the road, holding Myrtenaster at the approaching Roman. He smiles as his robot charges the girl, but Weiss spins and plunges her blade into the ground, summoning a circle of ice across the pavement that causes the Paladin to slip and crash, actually flying over the young Huntress and falling off the ramp, landing further down before Ruby, already having her Crescent Rose out in scythe form.
The Paladin stands back up, and the rest of Team RWBY falls beside their leader to take up positions. Roman chuckles as the Slayer falls beside him, moving both robots slowly towards the girls.
"Freezer Burn!" Ruby calls out a team move.
Ruby and Blake jump back out of the way as Weiss performs her same ice-circle trick, but backs out of Yang's way when she jumps into the air and hits the epicenter with her Ember Celica, creating a wave of mist that surrounds Roman and the Slayer. Immediately, both robots activate their laser sensors to make up for the lost sight, but it barely sees the afterimage of Blake and narrowly misses the dashing Yang. A gun manages to fire at the area between Blake and Yang, but out from the blast comes Ruby, who slashes the Paladin with her blade, causing it to falter.
"Checkmate!" Ruby shouts another combo move.
As Ruby and Yang deal with the relentless Spider-Slayer, Blake and Weiss go in against the Paladin. Each girl goes for the feet until Weiss jumps up and stabs a sensor before leaping off of a white glyph. Roman lifts the Paladin's foot to crush Blake, but Weiss summons another glyph under her teammate to launch her backwards before the crushing blow can land. Roman growls and fires off the missiles, but Weiss and Blake flip backwards as the explosions merely hit where they were.
Finally, Weiss jumps up too high, and Roman fires a double energy blast at her. Myrtenaster absorbs the damage, but Weiss is thrown back, so she casts a beam of light from her weapon to the ground under Blake, forming a yellow clockwork circle that's absorbed into the Faunus girl and lets her slice through each launched missile with ease in a flurry of super-fast slashes.
Yang uppercuts the Slayer to the air as it hovers and retaliate with numerous energy beams that the brawler does her best avoiding. "Ladybug!" Ruby runs into the fray, shooting herself forward and cuts at the Paladin's legs, then turns as Blake aims herself at the giant's feet as well. They both dash forward and attack at the same time, circling each other around the Paladin with each strike until they both launch themselves into the air and come down together on the shoulder, cutting off the left arm entirely.
After pulverizing the Slayer to a weaken state, Yang doesn't waste a second jumping onto the Paladin's back and punching the top with fiery shotgun blasts. Roman is knocked around in the cabin, but seeing as he can't reach her with his remaining mechanical arm, he runs backwards through two columns and leaves her embedded in a third before backing away and turning towards her. Just as she is falling down, the remaining arm extends a closed fist, and when it punches her, she flies through the column and doesn't get up.
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"YANG!" Blake shouts, greatly concerned for her partner.
"Don't worry! With each hit she gets stronger, and she uses that energy to fight back! That's what makes her special." Ruby explains her sister's Semblance.
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Yang slowly gets back on her feet, hair burning a brilliant white as she clenches her fists. Sensing victory, Roman throws a punch, but Yang catches it in her own hand, despite the ground cracking beneath her. Her eyes turn red with rage, smashing her knuckles into the second arm, obliterating it under her force.
Getting desperate with his armless robot, Roman calls back the Slayer to his side as he immediately kicks Yang to the side, but as she passes her sister and teammates, "Bumblebee!" Ruby shouts, prompting Blake to throw her Gambol Shroud out for Yang to catch while flying, and the Faunus uses the momentum to swing the glowing girl around for a final hit to the robot, Roman, however, steps out of the way just in time to avoid complete destruction and orders the Slayer to go all-out with the lasers against Ruby and Weiss, forcing them to dodge relentlessly.
"We have to slow them down!" Ruby says while continuously avoiding the lasers.
"And how do you propose we do that?" Weiss responded.
"Ice Flower!" Ruby shouted.
In a quick moment, they twirl their weapons so they both point at Roman, Weiss creates a series of glyphs in front of the scythe's sniper barrel, and a single shot through the circles creates a dazzling spiral of energy that creates large icicles upon impact with the Paladin. Ruby continues to shoot as Weiss freezes the fire, and as the ice completely envelops the robot's body and freezes the Slayer. Blake swings her partner around in a circle one more time, but with Roman unable to move, the Paladin and the Slayer are hit at the same time by the speed and power of Yang's fists, flying into the air before crashing down in a hundred pieces and a defeated criminal.
Roman gets up, slightly dazed but unharmed, as he inspects the damage while brushing himself off, "Just got this thing cleaned…" He looks up just in time to see Yang, still burning with her absorbed power, fire a single shot at the defenseless thief, but he's saved at the last instant when Neo drops in front of him and merely opens her umbrella, deflecting the blast entirely. The new arrival hangs the weapon over her shoulder as Roman addresses the victors.
"Ladies, Ice Queen…" Roman insults the heiress.
"Hey!"
"Always a pleasure! Neo, if you would…" Roman says to the pink-and-brown girl, as she curtsies her enemies with a blow, but Yang will have none of it, charging forth with fists raised to strike the outlaws, only to break their image as if made out of a mirror and turn just in time to see them escape in a Bullhead. The rest of team RWBY runs up to Yang's side, now cooled down with the end of the fight.
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"So I guess he got a new henchman…" Yang says, staring at the retreating criminals.
"Yeah, I guess she really made our plans…fall apart?" Weiss punned with a smile, causing Ruby to giggle, but causes Blake to walking away from the bad joke.
"No. Just, no." Yang told her, clearly not impressed by her pun.
"What? But, you and Peter do it!" Weiss retorts, getting mad.
"There's a time and a place for jokes." Yang replied.
"Was this not it?" Weiss asked.
"No, it just wasn't very good." Yang said as she follows Blake.
"Well, at least I'm trying!" Weiss retorts, walking away with her teammates.
"Wait…Where are Sun and Neptune?" Ruby questions, wondering what happened to the boys after they were blasted off the highway.
Meanwhile at A Simple Wok Noodle House…
Sun and Neptune are sitting in the middle stools of a noodle restaurant eating their plates of noodles with the Shopkeep behind the counter and their weapons leaning on the other two stools.
"They're probably fine, right?" Neptune asked Sun.
"Probably." He answered, as Neptune turns back to his noodles and they eat in silence.
Back with Team RWBY…
"And after ALL of that, Peter didn't even have the decency to contact us?!" Weiss remarks to her friends, as they stroll underneath the highways questioning Peter's absence, "Are you telling me that taking pictures and tinkering with gadgets is more important than stopping a corrupt organization?! He's hiding something, and I'm going to find out what it is the next time I see him!"
"I am getting worried about him. Like, really worried. What if something happened to him?" Ruby frowns, rubbing her arm as she's increasingly becoming worried for Peter.
"I'm sure he's fine." Blake assures her leader, hiding her own worried frown as she wonders what Peter has been up to lately.
"I hope so. You said he's sick, which means he needs help." Yang frowns, worried for her boyfriend.
"If he wants our help, but he keeps avoiding us. And we still haven't learned anything about Norman Osborn." Weiss retorted.
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While they are walking, Ruby was the first among her team to notice something strange flying through the sky. "Uh, guys, what is THAT?!" She nervously points at the large fiery projectile crashing down in front of them like a flaming meteor, unleashing a massive explosion that blasts the girls away by several feet.
The girls slowly stand staring at the smoke and fire, as a large menacing figure is ominously walking out of the massive crater he formed during the crash. This frightening monster is cloaked with a purple hoodie to hide his hideous green skin, while his entire body is enveloped in a flaming aura. The demonic-looking creature glares his red eyes at the girls, who are too frighten to remark anything as they have no idea what or who is confronting them now.
"I hear you girls have been looking for me. BIG mistake. Now I ask you this one time: Where. Is. PETER PARKER?! He and I have a SCORE TO SETTLE!" Green Goblin looms demonically over the girls, angrily asking for Parker's whereabouts so he may finally kill him once and for all.
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KFX Here: Green Goblin has finally make his presence known to Team RWBY, as they are soon going to fight him in the ultimate life-and-death battle the likes they have never participated before. Remember, both this and the next chapter happen simultaneously, so next we'll find out what Spider-Man did that pissed off Goblin so much.
Note: The Spider-Slayers in this story are based off the "Spider-Slayer Mark 20" from the comics during the Goblin Nation storyline.
Jufesocar: The burglar is dead. I don't care about him.
Next time: Simultaneous adventure part 2! Preventing an interdimensional invasion!
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