Hey everyone it's your pal Cerberus, before we start I just wanted to thank you guys for being patient with me, I really needed this time off since things have gotten really stressful in my personal life, but I'm back and ready to keep this story going. Also I have decided to start posting chapter by chapter since this way in case things get hectic on my end than I won't keep you waiting for too long hopefully. Now then, let's begin. Oh and a quick reminder, anything in ( ) will either be a thought or action.
The Tournament Begins.
You know, when I woke up this morning in the arms of my loving girlfriend I thought to myself "As long as I take it easy today and not do anything stupid I should be alright." Instead... THIS IS HAPPENING!!!
Police: HALT SPIDER-MAN!!!!! YOU'RE UNDER ARREST!!!!!!
How did I get myself into this crazy mess? Well it started with me waking up early with Blake so she could spend some time with the rest of team RWBY to make sure they were 100% ready for the tournament today and I decided to walk around town today in some casual clothes to get a little exercise and some fresh air since I couldn't see Ozpin cuz his office was being patrolled by several military robots. Now I know what you're probably thinking, why would I risk doing this if the military and the police are after Spider-Man? Well I figured that if I tried to hide out at Beacon it would only make me more suspicious, to be honest I'm really surprised that most of the other students haven't asked me about if I'm Spider-Man, I guess since there are other spider faunus on Remnant it doesn't exactly single me out as prime suspect number one. Not to mention that only a small percentage of people outside my group of friends even know I'm a faunus to begin with, that however leads me to my next important point. I still have no clue why Cinder and her entourage haven't used this opportunity to get me out of their way, it doesn't seem like something they would pass up and it only makes me more wary of them than usual. Anyway that's enough of me blabbing, let's get back to the action.
Police: Spider-Man stand down or we'll have no choice but to use lethal force!!!
Carlos: I wish I could officers, but I'm late for a very important date!
As I continued to swing through the city I couldn't help but recall how this started, it was so simple too. I walked in front of this little bakery and thought I should grab a quick snack before making my way to the tournament to watch the fights only I noticed a guy with a gun walk in so I decided to ditch my denim jacket and I made a mask out of a paper bag I found on the ground and stop the guy as the "Bombastic Bag-Man". Long story short, I stopped the guy and the owner quickly called the cops on me and now I'm swinging through the city with my jacket webbed to my back and a paper bag over my head.
Carlos: Why does today hate me?! I just want to go see my girlfriend fight today is that too much to ask?!
After somehow ditching the police I managed to get the stupid bag off my head and put on my jacket, unfortunately I wasn't paying attention to where I was going and I almost got flattened by a large truck if my spider sense hadn't warned me in time. Luckily for me I managed to stick to the front of the truck without frightening anyone on the street or the driver into thinking I was street pizza. As the truck drove into the busier part of the city I climbed underneath it without getting hurt to avoid the cop cars patrolling the streets, all of a sudden my scroll rang and I took a look to see Blake's picture on my caller ID.
Carlos: Hey Blake, how's my wonderful, beautiful and incredibly gorgeous faunus girlfriend doing today?
Blake: Carlos what's wrong, you're sounding a bit suspicious.
Carlos: Me suspicious? No, absolutely not, why would you think that?
Blake: Well you aren't here yet and my team is about to start our match soon, where are you?
Carlos: Right now I'm heading down Main Street and I just past 5th Ave. No wait now it's 4th Ave. ... 3rd Ave. ... 2nd Ave. ... 1st Ave. ...
Soon a police car rushed past the truck with it's sirens blaring, I hope she didn't hear that.
Blake: Carlos, are those police sirens?
Carlos: ( blink ) Nooooo?
Blake: ( sigh ) Just get here safely as soon as possible.
Carlos: I will. Love you.
Blake: I love you too.
After hanging up I took a quick look around and saw the landing pads for the bullheads heading up to the coliseum where the fights would be taking place, I carefully made my way off the truck and managed to get on the next ride easily without anyone getting suspicious of me. After a couple of minutes I got off and I was about to enter only to get a call from Jonathan.
Carlos: Hey little bro, are you already at the coliseum?
Jonathan: Yeah and I managed to get some good seats, but listen you need to be careful. The security here has been increased thanks to Ironwood so you're going to have to be a bit creative if you want to sneak in.
Carlos: What do you mean "sneak in"?
As I made my way closer I spotted several Atlas soldiers searching people to see if they were a spider faunus or not before they could enter inside.
Jonathan: Like I said security has been increased so you might wanna think quickly or else you're going to miss all the action. See ya.
Carlos: No wait! Jonathan you better not hang up or I swear... he hung up.
Great this is exactly what I needed. As much as I would like to smack him in the head for this I needed a plan if I wanted to get inside. I took a quick walk around the other entrances and unfortunately they were all covered. Not to mention the cameras were all surveying the area pretty thoroughly. At first I thought I might disappoint the others until I noticed the cameras jerking around for a second or two before pointing in the other direction.
Carlos: Bingo.
I waited a bit for the cameras to go a little crazy and when they did I made my way to one of the pillars in the open area. I looked around and noticed not a single bullhead around so I shot some webbing to the floor that was still attached to my wrist and I waited one last time until the cameras faced away from my general direction before stepping over the edge and falling while the web line kept me connected. Before long I quickly grabbed the other end of my line and I quickly swung underneath the stadium and shot another line near a ventilation shaft. Wasting no time as well as ignoring the fact I'm sticking to the underside of a floating stadium several hundred or thousand feet above the ground with the wind blowing like a storm at this altitude that one wrong move would result in my immediate death I opened the vent and quickly crawled inside while closing it behind me.
Carlos: That was too close. Jonathan you may have helped with the cameras but that doesn't mean I won't beat you senseless for ditching me like this.
After a couple of minutes I made it to the top of the ventilation system which led me to a supply closet.
Carlos: ( Well on the bright side, at least I didn't up somewhere that could get me in trouble, like the women's restroom cuz that would have been difficult to explain. )
As I opened the door I looked around and saw that it was out of the way of other people and the cameras were facing away from me so I quickly made my way out into the hall. On my way I passed several food and souvenir stands so I took the time to buy something before getting a good seat. Soon enough I made it to the stands and found Jonathan on one of the seats closest to the action.
Carlos: Hey, did I miss anything?
Jonathan: Hey it's about time you showed up, I thought you might have been caught or something.
Carlos: No thanks to you. Oh and by the way...
SMACK!!!!!!
Jonathan: What the heck was that for?!
Carlos: That was for making me go through all that without any help!
Jonathan: What are you talking about, I did help. Those cameras would have spotted you easily if I didn't hack them.
Carlos: True, but you still ditched me and that's where I draw the line!
As we were about to continue arguing the next match was about to start, from one side of the arena came out team ABRN, from the opposite side came team RWBY.
Carlos: LET'S GO TEAM RWBY!!!!
I began using the air horn I bought earlier along with the hundreds of spectators as I got pumped up for the fights about to start. As both teams looked towards the stands of screaming fans Blake soon made eye contact with me with a smile forming on her face from me keeping my promise to her.
Weiss: Oh great, now people will realize that we associate ourselves with that idiot.
They looked towards me as I continued to cheer team RWBY on, saying things like they're #1 and so on. Obviously I embarrassed the heck out of Weiss and Jonathan who now regretted being related to me.
Ruby: Come on Weiss, he won't be competing so let him have his fun.
Yang: Heh heh, that goofball doesn't know when to quit huh.
Blake: ( sigh ) True. But he's my goofball.
Now it really begins, the Vytal Tournament has officially begun.
