Chapter 10 A Plan Comes Together

Beta-Reader: Maestro of Madness

"Man, that was a good way to start our new semester at Beacon!" Yang voiced her thoughts while stretching her arms in the air.

"What are you talking about!? We got detention for the next three days!" The Dust heiress hissed as she glared at the rest of her snickering teammates. "And why are you both smiling? We got in trouble on the first day of the second semester!"

"It was pretty nice to start things off that way." Ruby tried to defend her reason as to why she did the most damage to the cafeteria.

"Besides," Blake decided to join the conversation. "We didn't say anything to you when you decided to join with a sword fish."

"T-that was for self-defense, and to stop our enemies from getting the upper hand." She looked away to hide her blushing embarrassment from that senseless brawl from yesterday.

"You mean when we decided to fight Pyrrha's team, who also joined the food fight." Blake replied back before looking to her Scroll whenever it signaled her a text.

After the stern talking from Deputy Goodwitch, the gang decided to explore the kingdom since they didn't want to encounter the strict teacher's ire again. Yang had the idea that they should get some Dust since they've been running low whenever they spar in combat class.

Though, on their journey they got sidetracked when they entered the shopping district and were assaulted by shops trying to give them a reason to check their wares. All of which were about the wall crawler.

The heiress seemed the most miserable being surrounded by a constant stream of screaming children telling their parents they want a Spider-Man action figure, or wanting an all Spider-Man birthday party. It made her mood even more sour when Ruby decided to join in on the absurd fad and use her Lien to buy a Spider-Man T-shirt and an X-Ray and Vav comic book featuring the spider hero and his misadventures.

That was just a few hours ago, yet even after they left that offending street the young Schnee continued to see the Spider wherever she goes, as if the web head was following her, making her even angrier.

Spider-Man this! Spider-Man that! He's now just a cash cow for people to milk!

"Why exactly did we even take this street?" Weiss asked. "My family owns most of the Dust shops, I can practically get them for free. As a matter of fact, I could even order some and it'd be sent to our dorm room free of charge. So, why do we have to go to this one in particular?"

"Because, Ice Queen." Yang placed her arm around the peeved heiress. "Ruby wants to see her Jaune~"

"Yang!" Ruby wined while swatting a hand on her older sister's arm.

"What? I think it's cute that you want to see him. I'm so proud that you're getting out of your comfort zone, sis." Yang's tone was that of a mother when she saw her daughter talk to a boy she liked.

"It's not like that! I just wanted to check on the new shop his boss owns, that's all." Ruby walked ahead of her group to no longer hear her sister's talk about Jaune and her.

"Uh-huh. And who told you that little tidbit?" Yang gave the embarrassed girl a smirk.

"Jau- UGH!" The red cheeked Huntress shouted in frustration and continued to walk further away from her team.

"She seems much better now." Blake reminded her teammates.

The incident involving the docks was still fresh in their minds even when it took place a month ago. All of them knew that they'd expect casualties when they graduate, they just didn't know that it'd happen in their freshmen year. It seemed to affect Ruby the most. Not because of her age, since she was taught by her father and uncle that Remnant wasn't a nice place, but rather she blames herself that she wasn't fast enough to save Penny in time which caused someone else to sacrifice their life, so her friend would live.

Yang was worried that her little sister wouldn't get out of her funk, but she was glad that with time spent back at Patch she seems good as new. Though, there were brief moments she caught her sister have a far-off look here and there, but other than that she was perfectly fine. The blonde bomb shell was even more pleased that her sister seems more outgoing and doesn't hide under her hood as much.

Ruby seems to be in high spirits today. Either because we're going to see Jaune or because she got some Spider-Man stuff. So long as she's happy I don't care either way.

Yang was about to voice her opinion on the matter when she saw her sister talk to someone all too familiar a few feet away from them, motioning the two other girls to follow her. Catching up to their leader, they saw her in an even happier mood talking to another blonde who also equals Ruby's enthusiasm.

"It seems going to Jaune's works is no longer relevant now that she found him herself." Ruby's partner said.

"It looks less like talking and more like fumbling to get their words out." Blake's body started to shake due to her partner grabbing her shoulders.

"Aww~ It's so cute that my sister found an even more awkward person to semi-talk too." Yang continued shaking her now dizzy teammate.

As if sensing someone watching them, Jaune turned to Ruby's team and gave them a wide smile.

"Hey! It's good to see you guys again." The blonde boy waved his arm to greet them.

"Hey, Jaune. How you been?" Yang gave him a friendly smack on the back. The amount she put made him stumble a bit, but he seemed perfectly fine, showing no sign of discomfort.

"Not much, I was planning to go to Mr. Macarren's shop to get some Dust. Ruby was heading there too, so why don't we all head there together?"

"I have no complaints." Blake agreed and walked over to stand next to Ruby and Jaune.

"Eh, might as well, come on Weiss! You can complain about someone else's Dust shop while we walk there." The female blonde pulled the Schnee's arm for her to follow. "Besides, at least there you don't have to worry about Spider-Man following you around."

Seeing the discomfort the white pony tail girl was in, Jaune chuckled nervously and pointed his finger upwards. "Yeah, I'm not sure about that last thing. Look for yourself."

Following the boy's direction, Weiss let out a frustrated yell as she saw the web head in a larger poster covering the side of the Bugle. Finally being fed up with Spider-Man, the young heiress snapped her head back down and walked passed the group in a straight line, not even knowing if she was going the right way or not.

Seeing that Weiss was walking ahead of them, Ruby increased her pace to catch up with her partner.

"How is this possible?" Weiss said while keeping her eyes focused on crossing the road to another side walk. "I remember several months ago only a small percent knew about this guy and now the whole kingdom can't seem to shut up about him!"

"Weiss!" Ruby groaned at her partners usual complaint about the hero. "Come on, Weiss! Can't you let it go! He stopped the White Fang at the docks from stealing lots of Dust, you got to give him a break."

"You did too!" The Schnee stopped her walking and turned to Ruby. "So did Blake and that stowaway! Don't even get me started on that little friend of yours either. Yet everyone thinks it was Spider-Man that did all the work and we got a warning for our troubles."

"We stopped them from doing whatever they were planning." Ruby's face soon turned solemn. "The only thing I wished that could change was that it didn't have to end with someone dying."

Seeing her partner's depressed state, Weiss' aggressive behavior soon died out and was replaced with regret for making her leader remember that horrible incident.

"Ruby, I didn't mean to-"

"Hey, guys! Wait up!" Yang yelled from behind them and stopped once she caught up to her two teammates. "Geez, what's the hurry, Sis? Jaune's with us already so there's no need to hurry."

"Yang!" Ruby's sad complexion changed back to its usual embarrassed state at the comment. Weiss was just glad that Yang was able to catch up to them in time and prevent the situation from getting worse. "Stop saying that! I don't think of him that way!"

"Think who that way?"

"EEP!" The red huntress zoomed behind her older sister when Jaune and Blake joined the conversation. "Jaune!?"

"Wait, what about me?" Jaune seemed confused by the younger girl's jittery condition.

"I-I mean..." Ruby's face became a deeper shade of red as the blonde boy stared at her, while Yang decided to stop her sister's suffering and spoke on Ruby's behalf.

"She was talking about her feelings about Spider-Man. You know, with so many people talking about him my sister was about to tell Weiss her thoughts on the spider hero." Yang explained as she moved away so her baby sister can stop hiding behind her.

"I just think it's really nice to have Spider-Man in Vale." Ruby's voice started to get more and more confident as she kept talking to Jaune. "I mean, a lot of us who go to Beacon seem to not like Spider-Man, but I think it's really cool he's doing it. You know, being an actual superhero in real life!"

After hearing her speak about Spider-Man, the blonde boy seemed to preen. Meanwhile, the heiress looked between Ruby and Jaune talking about Spider-Man that made her face palm at the realization.

Oh no, don't tell me he's also a Spider-Man fan too!

"Wow, Ruby. I'm glad you think that way about him." Jaune sounded relieved to hear her say that.

"Y-Yeah, I just think that it's really cool that people are seeing him as an actual hero. I mean, he's even in X-Ray and Vav comic books!" To prove her point, Ruby pulled out said book from her shopping bag to show she was telling the truth.

"Wow! I was trying to get one of those." Jaune looked over the book and began to frown. "Instead, I bought the wrong comic book."

"Really? How'd you mess that up?" Laughing at her friend's mistake, the two awkward teens began to walk again leaving the rest of Ruby's team to stare at how they were forgotten again.

"Well, looks like we don't existent again." Blake had a small smile for seeing her leader have a normal conversation with someone besides her small group of friends. "I'm sure one of us is more thankful that she got out of her mess."

Weiss knew that Blake was able to hear her small ranting from earlier and gave her other two teammates a look of worry.

"I'm sorry I went off like that. I thought that Ruby was just having her usual obsession of Spider-Man like every other person we came across. I didn't know she actually looked up to him that much."

"Yeah, Ruby's a real die-hard superhero fan. Always has been when she was a kid." Yang told the SDC heiress.

"I just don't like how he became so popular in such a short time." Weiss informed Yang and Blake while the three followed behind their leader talking to the only boy in the group. "Take Pyrrha for example, she had to win many tournaments to get where she is, while it only took Spider-Man stopping random thefts and fixing regular problems."

"Don't forget about him helping us at the docks. I think that was when Vale started to take him seriously." Blake said in a defensive tone. "And maybe that's why people like him. He helps people with their daily problems without asking for anything."

"Yeah, but that's why we enrolled to Beacon, right? To help people who're in trouble. We can do what Spider-Man does, helping people I mean." Yang said while her mind was showing her what might happen if all Huntsmen would be like Spider-Man.

"I don't think being a Huntsmen would imply us helping someone get their pet down from some place high or help the elderly cross the road." Blake's face soon grimaced at a few people she had in mind. "People like Cardin and his team come to mind as the type of people to not help civilians with mundane things."

After hearing that name, Yang and Weiss can only give Blake a firm nod at who she was talking about. Team CRDL was another team in their class that passed initiation along with Ruby and Pyrrha's team. They were also the most well-known for causing the most trouble by bullying other students with the teachers not even intervening to stop them.

Blake could only shake her head in disgust at remembering the times she saw Cardin and his lackeys picking on other students with no one else, not even her, to step in to stop them.

I really am a hypocrite. I keep talking about defending others who can't defend themselves and yet never stopped them.

"You can't really compare students from Beacon to Spider-Man." Weiss stopped talking for just a moment and moved her sights to check Ruby and Jaune who were still in view. "Cardin may be a bully, but we're all students training to be Huntsmen. If they wanted to stop Cardin they could have easily stopped him and his team themselves. Spider-Man is just swinging around Vale and stopping normal crimes we can do too if we had the chance. Maybe even better."

Blake didn't want to tell Weiss that while she also took part in fighting the White Fang she was also taking glimpses at Spider-Man's fighting style. The secret Faunus was only left with more questions than answers at how the masked hero was able to fight countless foes with no formal hand to hand training. It was just normal punches and kicks fused with agility and flexibility that even Weiss would be jealous of.

Aside from his superior agility and reflexes that doesn't explain how he was able to dodge so many enemies attacking him all at once.

She herself would be overwhelmed at so many enemies attacking her, that's why she used her Semblance whenever she needed to take a step back and find another route to attack. Same could apply to Ruby, she could just use her speed to handle her enemies no problem. But instead of using a Semblance, Spider-Man simply used his fists and dodged when needed, causing Blake to wonder if he even has a Semblance.

He doesn't have the same abilities as me or Ruby, but what makes me wonder about him is his uncanny sense to know when the enemy was going to strike. Could that be his Semblance? Knowing what the enemy is thinking?

"If you guys are gonna keep talking about the guy, then you two can stay outside. We're already here." Yang announced their arrival, causing the two to stop talking and look at Jaune's second job. "And what do you know, even this place is Spider-Man friendly!"

Weiss could only shake her head in denial as she slowly walked to the display window showing a large pile of dust stacked together to form Spider-Man's face. Making the young Schnee grow even more paranoid at the hero being practically everywhere.

"No..." Weiss groaned while staring directly into compound eyes she has been seeing all over the Kingdom.

"Come on, Weiss." Yang pulled Ruby's partner inside the store. "I'm sure Jaune would appreciate it if you wouldn't stick your face so close to the window. Wouldn't want his boss to think he hangs around with a bunch of weirdos."

"Welcome back, Miss Rose! Good to see you back." Mr. Macarren welcomed the young Huntress before quickly wrapping his arms around her for a big hug.

"Good to see you're back in business." She tried to get some air in her suffocated lungs.

Letting the young girl go from his hug the owner of the store gave Jaune a sly smirk seeing that his young Dust clerk brought a girl here. "Here to show off, Jaune? I'm sure Mrs. Parker will be ecstatic to see when you show Ruby to her."

Hearing that from his boss, Jaune soon remembered Aunt May's reaction when Blake visited her home and how she wanted to 'help' him get Blake's attention. Thinking about what might happen if he brought Ruby to Aunt May made him shiver at the implication if Aunt May saw another girl visiting her home just to see him.

This must never happen. I don't think my heart withstand the embarrassment.

"But enough about that. What can a I help you two with?" Mr. Macarren asked before walking behind the cashier desk and pulled out a large binder. "We got some fresh supplies and some new weapon catalogs if your little friend wants to take a peak."

"Really!?" Ruby walked closer to the register to get a better look at what the owner was showing them. "Wow! There's so many cool stuff in here! How fast will these parts arrive?"

"For you my dear, I'd make sure it'll be here no later than one day!" Mr. Macarren's proclamation caused the red hooded huntress to shake from anticipation.

"Do you think I can also have the same treatment?" Jaune questioned making both Ruby and his boss look at him with surprise.

"Really, Jaune? You want to order something from the weapon's catalog?" His boss asked, curious as to why Jaune would want to buy things only Huntsmen use daily.

"Just some parts, not really an entire weapon. I'm not sure I can afford most of those things on paper. Just some small parts so I can tinker around with." Jaune explained his reason. "Most of my family are Huntsmen so I kind of got hooked on figuring out how they work."

Of course that's a flat out lie. I thought my sister's weapons were pretty cool, but I never really had the aptitude to wonder how they work. That's why I brought Crocea Mors due to how simple it was.

"Really!? Your family are Huntsmen!?" Ruby said in an even more exited tone from hearing her friend have a similar family like hers. "My family are Huntsmen too! Do they go to Beacon?"

"No, half of my sisters and my dad are Huntsmen. The other half go to regular school in Ansel while my mom is a retired Huntress."

"Oh. Did she get injured while on a mission?" Ruby asked in worry about how Jaune's mother retired from being a Huntress.

When you give birth to your eighth child you might as well throw in the towel after that.

"She didn't want to keep going between having to take care of us and also be a Huntress. Besides, she still keeps herself busy working a normal job and with dad and my sisters being Huntsmen we're not hurting for lien." Jaune told Ruby.

Though the only one who's hurting on the Lien is me of course.

"I just want to order some parts is all. A science experiment I need to make for my school."

Just as Jaune was putting an order on some parts, Ruby can only think about how similar her interest was with Jaune.

He likes to tinker with weapons, has a family that are Huntsmen, and he's also a fan of Spider-Man! I never had a friend with so many interests like me before and now I do! Score!

"Hey, Jaune." Ruby spoke up when Jaune was finished signing his receipt to confirm his purchase.

"Yes, Ruby?" Ruby happy exterior soon turned in to nervousness as Jaune's gaze went to her.

"Well, if you want, when you get the parts your ordered maybe you and I co-"

Just as Ruby was about to finish her sentence the front door opened showing the rest of Ruby's team entering Mr. Macarren's Dust store.

"Hey, sis! Did we miss anything?" Yang sudden entrance completely ruined Ruby's moment to ask Jaune something important.

With a new customer entering the shop, the boss pushed away the large binder and focused his attention on the new arrival.

"Welcome to my... Dust shop..." His friendly disposition soon went rigid when he saw the second arrival behind Ruby's sister making him turn his head to his off-duty employee. "Jaune, a word with you. In the back of the store."

"Sir?"

"Now, Jaune." Mr. Macarren's rudeness surprised the boy at the sudden change of his boss's attitude, but agreed nonetheless. Giving Ruby an apologetic stare, Jaune followed behind his boss to the back room where Amy, who was the second one working here today, was stacking small jars of Dust out of their containers.

"Amy, you run register and don't freak out." His boss said to her. Not wanting to make her boss any madder, the young Mid Town student left the back room and greeted whoever the customer is.

"Welcome to- OH MY GOSH!" Amy screamed at who she was seeing causing the blonde hero to wonder just what was going on with his boss and fellow co-worker.

"Mr. Macarren, what's going on?" Jaune asked in worry for why his boss is acting so strangely.

"What's going on, Jaune, is that girl with the white hair is a Schnee!"

"Bless you." The blonde Dust clerk's ignorance caused his boss to pinch the bridge of his nose.

"I didn't sneeze, that's her last name. Schnee. Her family's the one of the richest people in Remnant. Their main revenue is Dust and they make sure they own lots of it too. Even buy out other people who run Dust stores or make them bankrupt!" Jaune's boss explained to his clueless employee.

Whoa! She's that well known! The only person who can be on the same level as her will be Harry, but even then, it's mostly his father that calls all the shots.

"Why is a Schnee here anyway? Is she here to make me a deal to buy my store?" Mr. Macarren said, more to himself then to his employee, while pacing back and forth.

Not wanting his boss to be stressed over something as this, Jaune stopped him from pacing and explained why a Schnee is here.

"The girl in all white, Weiss, she's from Beacon and her partner is Ruby. Weiss is just here as a huntress-in-training and that's it. You wouldn't help them because she's a Schnee, would you?" Jaune asked his boss. "If you don't then Ruby, the girl who helped us stave off the thugs, will be really sad that you would do that to her friend."

"You're... right, I don't want to do that to the girl." His boss finally seeing reason in Jaune's logic. "Sorry for making you see that, Jaune. I'm just worried about trying to keep my business running after the whole robbery."

You're wrong. It's perfectly normal to worry about something you worked so hard at making and then be crushed when it's taken away from you. That feeling is all too familiar to me.

"Come on, Mr. Macarren. I think we should get back out there before they wonder why we let Amy help them." Getting a nod of agreement from Mr. Macarren the two left the back room and saw that Amy was talking to all four girls in a casual manner, no longer panicked at the fact that one of them is the heiress to the largest Dust company in Remnant.

"And then Spider-Man came to my rescue and saved my cat!" Amy told the group of young Huntresses as she showed her a picture of Spider-Man grabbing her cat from the power line on her Scroll to prove her point. "I wanted to thank him, but he left soon after. Probably saving someone else in trouble."

"Wow! That's so cool, Amy." Ruby told the freshmen student for meeting Spider-Man.

"A kind gesture goes a long way. I'm glad Spider-Man can put in the time to help someone with a problem like that." Blake complemented the hero as a small smile crept to her lips.

"Yeah, it really saved me the time to call the fire department. I'm not even sure they would've arrived in time if my cat decided to jump." Just as Amy was about to continue she spotted Jaune and her boss coming back from their conversation. "Hey, you two, what took you guys so long?"

"We just wanted to talk about some of the new products I've been wanting to get the store." Mr. Macarren said to her. "Jaune was telling me it'd be great if we had a vending machine."

"That'd be cool to have. I was just telling them about Spider-Man saving my cat that got stuck on top of a power line." Amy told the only two males in the store with the blonde hero's eyes going wide at hearing this story before.

I didn't know that cat was Amy's. Then again, I was more focused on getting the cat down safely, so I guess I didn't even notice who I helped.

"Talking about Spider-Man is good and all, but I'm sure you girls would probably want to talk about getting Dust then about Spider-Man. Am I right?"

"Sir, you're the only one who's speaking the most sense." Weiss said to the owner like he was the only one with his head on straight. "My partner was trying to get some Dust for her weapon."

"Ok, what type of Dust do you need?" Mr. Macarren asked Ruby. "Any in particular you need. I'll even make it half off as a thank you."

"Thank you so much. I don't need much, just need some fire and ice Dust."

"Coming right up." Jaune's boss went to work on getting the small reaper her Dust.

With the boss mixing two different colors of Dust in to one, Jaune walked closer to Ruby and asked her a question.

"Hey Ruby, how does Dust work with your weapon? I know Dust applies to almost everything in Remnant, but how does it work with Huntsmen?"

"Ummm, I can't really explain it in my words, but Weiss told me that when you mix it with different Dust it makes different colors and when in use it can turn into different elements."

"What about when you add it with different chemicals? Will they cause a bad reaction?"

The question Jaune gave her made Ruby think for a while but gave up on answering.

"I don't know about that. The only one who knows more about it is Weiss. Hold on, I'll go get her. Weiss!" The young Schnee turned to look at her partner for yelling her name when she was just at the end of the cashier table.

"What, Ruby?" The pale skinned huntress groaned at Ruby's silly antics.

"Jaune asked me a question that you might know the answer too."

Turning her cold gaze to the blonde civilian, Weiss waited for him to stop squirming from her stare to ask her what he needed to say.

"I just asked Ruby if Dust can be fused with different chemicals or inorganic things." Jaune asked Weiss while trying not to feel like an idiot for saying it out loud.

"Of course you can fuse it with inorganic things like clothing or contain it in a weapon like mine and Ruby's. You work in a Dust shop, I thought you knew these things."

Not really, I just work here because I need a job.

"Well, I just wanted to ask since I'm not a Huntsmen like you guys. But what if someone decides to fuse Dust in their body?" Jaune's question caused Weiss to wonder why he'd ask when he just said it's pointless for someone who isn't a Huntsmen. Deciding to humor him, Weiss explained to Jaune how Dust works on the human body.

"You can, but it would be wise not to. If you were a Huntsmen you can have the strength and Aura to withstand the pain if directly injected, but if you tried to use different types at once it could prove to be fatal."

"I see." The young hero then placed a hand under his chin in thought before giving her a wide smile. "Thank you, Weiss."

"Your welcome." The heiress told him in a prideful voice. "Dust is my specialty." Just as she finished she heard the cash register open signaling her reason for being here was over.

"Finally got what I need." Ruby showed her friends the bag of Dust she bought. "We can go back to Beacon now."

"When you have the time, be sure to come back. I'll have the parts you need real soon." Jaune's boss reminded Ruby before he waved his hand in good bye. "Have a nice day, girls."

"It was nice to see you all here." Amy waved goodbye to the four leaving the store. "Hope you guys visit again."

"Thank you for the help!" Ruby waved her arms as she was the last to exit the store, but stopped when she saw Jaune not moving from his spot. "Jaune?"

"You guys are going back to Beacon, right?" Jaune asked as the blonde's face morphed in to a deep frown.

"Yeah, we can't really stay out for long since we got in trouble at Beacon." Ruby answered him.

"Oh. Well, you guys have a nice day." Jaune gave her a small smile, but for some reason it wasn't giving Ruby the same warm feeling he usual emits when he smiles. "I need to get some Dust before going home. See ya!"

"Ok. Bye, Jaune." As Ruby was closing the front door, Jaune let out a shaky breath he was holding and leaned against the counter to get his bearing back together.

I already feel miserable looking at Beacon academy from my normal school, I don't want to feel like a complete failure by setting one foot near that place.

"You ok, Jaune." Jaune's boss asked, knowing why Jaune was feeling so down after being reminded from Ruby that she's going somewhere he can never set foot in and why he was working a normal job in the first place.

"Yeah. I will be." Jaune gave Mr. Macarren his best smile before finally getting back on track to his main objective. "Now, about that whole half off on Dust you talked about."

"Really son, I know you have trouble with grades, but how you got a C in English class makes me wonder if you're even trying." Norman Osborn said to his son sitting next to him on a public bench.

Both father and son were sitting near the public park where many friends, families, and lovers alike were enjoying the afternoon day with only Harry and Norman Osborn being the exception.

"I studied real hard to make up for it." Harry tried to explain but was ignored by his father.

"This is the report card the school is about to give you soon, you can't expect to change it now with how unmotivated you are. If you want Jaune to carry you all the way to senior year I might as well hire him as your tutor." Folding the report card in half, Osborn senior handed the report card to his down casted son and got up from his chair.

"Now I want you to sit there and think about your weaknesses, what you need to do to fix it, and quickly squash it out of your head. I'll make some phone calls to assist your problems, don't want Jaune to think you're a lousy friend, do you?"

"No dad." Harry replied in a weak tone, not even arguing with his father on the matter.

Walking away from his son, Norman stopped under the shade of a tall oak tree facing a large sand box. The only one in the sand pit was a little girl building a large sand castle hoping that someone would be impressed with her structure and would want to play with her. Stepping out of the shadow of the oak tree for the sun to bath Norman in light the large sand castle soon collapsed, making the young girl to start crying for her destroyed creation.

"What?" Flint Marko said behind Osborn senior.

"Can't I visit one of my employees on their time off work?" Norman spoke in a sarcastic tone causing the sand from Flint's body to shift uncontrollably.

"What do you want?" Flint asked again trying to get his emotions in check, so he can maintain his human form. "I stole Dust, made a huge scene around the kingdom. Even got myself a nickname too from the Bugle. What else do you want from me?"

"Carful with that tone of yours, 'Sandman'." Norman turned his head to look at a frustrated Flint. "You should be thanking me for the powers you have. If you stayed in prison you wouldn't be able to have the powers to defeat anyone in your way, to defeat Spider-Man, to be with your daughter."

When Flint heard Norman mention his daughter he immediately stood at attention, no longer wanting to push his luck with Norman Osborn.

"Then again, it could have been any mindless nobody who could have stumbled into my testing sight. So really, it was your blind luck that made you into what you are." Looking back at Flint's daughter, Norman pulled out his phone and tossed it to Flint. "Don't act like a victim, I'm paying you after all. Enough so you can have your daughter live like a princess."

Looking at the screen, Marko saw a glimpse of a fat sum of Lien in his bank account under a false name before the Scroll was swiped out of his hands.

"But no this, Mr. Baker." Norman whispered Marko's real name. "Just as I created you, I can also destroy you and any vain attempt to help your daughter from living in the streets. If you can't help, then who will? Your ex-wife? The woman who can barely feed your little girl with her pathetic pay check. Or maybe your friend? The man you assaulted when you caught him sleeping with your wife."

Sandman tried to voice his retort when he realized that he has nothing to throw back at Norman, making Marko look away in defeat.

"What do you need, Mr. Osborn." Sandman asked, devoid of his emotions.

Pleased that he made Marko submit to his control, Norman gave Flint a piece of paper with a written number on it.

"Call this number tomorrow and you'll be given orders by one of my friends who need your assistance again. The first time with them was just a test to see how well you work with others, and you passed. Now, you need to do some more... heavy lifting."

The paper given to him soon sank in his hand as Flint looked up in time to see his boss walk away from the tree. Stopping just a few steps away from Sandman, Norman looked at Flint's daughter trying in vain to recreate her large sand castle.

"Have a nice day with your daughter, Mr. Baker. A parent should always spend some time with their children"

"I'm sorry Aunt May, I just wanted to check to see if I was working at Mr. Macarren's this weekend." Jaune apologized to his Aunt for the seventh time when he finally arrived back home.

"I know you wanted to make sure you still had work, Jaune. I just wish you'd have called me, so I didn't have to worry." Aunt May said to Jaune while following him up to his room.

"I'm sorry to make you worry." Jaune said again to a still concerned Aunt May. "But I'm sure you'd forgive me if I told you I met Blake again."

"Really?" She asked in surprise. No longer wondering why he didn't call her. "How is she? Did you two hang out? Got her number? Were you able to ask her out to the dance!?"

The dance is months away from now and you want me to ask Blake now?

Jaune was hesitant on telling her that he met Blake and her team, but seeing Aunt May smiling and happy like usual made his problems nonexistent.

"We just talked and that's it. Now, if you need me, I'll be in my room. I have a chemistry test I need to study for."

"Ok, Jaune. I'll call you when dinners ready." Kissing his cheek, Aunt May walked back down to the kitchen leaving the boy all to himself.

Now that he was finally alone the young spider went to his study desk and opened his backpack to unload his essential components. Placing his jar of prototype webbing and four small vials of different colored Dust in front of him. The blonde hero opened his drawer and pulled out a ruined notebook with several of its pages about to fall out.

Gently opening the notebook, Jaune flipped to one of its tattered pages and stopped when he finally reached the design he was looking for. On the piece of paper was a rough design of an invention with several steps and parts needed for it to work. Below the diagram was his web formula he used to make his inorganic webbing followed by little side notes on what it could do.

"Ok." Taking his jar of web fluid and one vial of Dust, Jaune looked back at his notes one more time before he poured the two together. "Let's see if listening to chemistry class was worth it."

BAM! Next chapter is a new arsenal Jaune will have to help him take care of Sandman and his shifting ability. We also get to see who made Flint become Sandman and also know that Osborn is the one who helped Cinder with her plans. Like I promised RWBY has finally started to get more interactions with Jaune and also Ozpin now sending his best to find Spider-Man for questions.

Even with Spider-Man having organic webbing it really wouldn't be a Spider-Man story without the signature web shooters Peter uses. I just added the flair of Jaune making web fluid with the added bonus of Dust from his work. We all saw how Cinder uses dust in her clothing and Hazel who injects them straight in his body. But since Jaune is still knew at using dust and that he doesn't have aura like other Huntsmen he doesn't want to have bad side effects if he chose to inject it in his own body. Jaune also asked Weiss these things because he wants to make sure dust can be fused with inorganic things so he won't be worried if it blew up in his face.

Some of you might also think that you need aura to use dust told to you by wiki or google, but with dust being shown to be used to power many things that don't possess aura it can be summed up as a moot point. I would also believe that aura can be written to any property that the writer needs it to be. Like how they needed dust to power the coliseum, cars, trains, bullheads, etc. Same applies to superheroes and how each writer depicts them to have different scales of power.

I know I might be missing some key items from the show and I would love it if you guys leave a comment so help me. I would appreciate it even more if you guys leave more comments followed by fav and liking my story. Thank you all for reading and the next chapter will be Jaune making his first ever web shooter and the fated return of the Sandman.

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