The Amazing Jaune Arc

by Brotherhoof12

Jaune always wanted to be a hero, that's why he enrolled into Beacon hoping it will give him the chance to do so. What he got was a rejection letter for his troubles. Now living in Vale with no direction Jaune asks himself if he will ever have the chance to be what he dreamed to be. Turns out his question was answered with a spider bite.

25. Chapter 25

Disclaimer: CrazyCriticer46 here! Brotherhoof12 does not own RWBY and Spider-Man, these two belong to their respective late creators. ENJOY!

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(Chapter 25: Thunderstruck)

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A hero usually fights evil alone.

That's how modern-day tales portray it nowadays. In which people make tales of one hero, fighting evil by themselves and usually coming out on top with a heavy price.

This formula was so ingrained in tales, many artists used the same concept in their literature and in other forms of entertainment. Though, drop the white knights for heroes in tights, damsels in distress with dames in duress, and you have yourself a modern-day comic book.

But sometimes, comic book creators get together, brainstorm, and even agree on making a comic line in which a hero would meet another standalone protagonist from another story.

Now, in the comics both heroes would meet under a misunderstanding of sorts. Be it false rumors, being framed, or a simple all out fight with no questions asked, but one thing is for certain, when a hero would meet another hero.

They fight.

People tend to think who is better due to the heroes having so many enemies and besting them all, everyone would speculate that who's better to fight a hero than another hero?

'Man, my costume looks like crap compared to his.' Spider-Man said reluctantly in his mind as he moved his eyes to see the full scope of Iron Man's suit.

A chance of having them fight however, is instead replaced with a simple case of envy with seeing someone in a better outfit.

'So this is Iron Man...' Spider-Man thought to himself as he saw the armored hero move his head around like he was sightseeing. 'Wondering why he's looking around for, all the other guys are knocked out leaving only this… what did he call them again? A.I.M, yeah, this A.I.M Agent is the only one still awake.'

Finally stopping his exploration around the area, Iron Man walked back to Spider-Man, with the black suitcase still in the web head's possession.

"Thanks for taking care of some of these goons, Spider-Man." He said in a robotic tone, making Jaune's eyes beneath his mask to widen, thinking that maybe Iron Man really was a robot. "I've been having some trouble dealing with these guys back home. So seeing them here, in your kingdom, makes me worry if they have plans that go beyond from just collecting technology."

"No-" Spider-Man lifted his fist to his mask and started to cough. "I mean," The wall crawler started to speak in a gravellier tone. "No problem, Iron Man. I'm happy to take care of bad guys who want to harm my kingdom. I'm just glad you came in the nick of time; how did you get here so quickly anyway?"

'I never knew I would see other people doing the same thing like me. First impressions are everything and Iron Man certainly made an impression.'

"Well, I'm sure you already seen the news on how I was in Mistral. After I was done, I caught wind that some of the weapons that was being trafficked was going here." He explained.

'Weapons from Atlas… The Paladin!' Realization dawned on the webhead at how the White Fang was able to get so much heavy weaponry.

"So, you're saying that these guys," He pointed at the yellow jumpsuit agent. "Is the reason my kingdom had a massive robot trying to destroy her city? Are these the guys responsible for supplying the White Fang, then?"

'That explains why I saw so many weapons at the rally. These guys must have stolen them from Atlas and sold it to the White Fang. I saw them not ten minutes ago steal stuff with tools that should be impossible to have. But why show themselves now in Vale of all places?'

"Hold up, Iron Man." Web shooting at the pile of thrown suits and masks made by A.I.M, Spider-Man pulled out a mask and showed it to him. "Do you know who these people are? I caught these guys speaking about some group called the Maggia. Do you know them?"

Taking the mask from Spider-Man, the armored hero stared at the featureless mask and then to the opened crate belonging to said group.

"Yeah, I know them alright. They are an international crime syndicate that is the world's most powerful organization dedicated to conventional crime."

"What do you mean by conventional crime?" Spider-Man asked. "Are they like Roman and his schemes of stealing Dust?"

"Not quite, Spider-Man. Though Roman is a very serious issue, the Maggia takes their business in a different way. They control most of the illegal gambling, loan-sharking, and narcotics trade in almost every city in Mistral and Atlas as well as many legal gambling casinos in almost every kingdom. It also has great influence within various labor unions and controls politicians on every level of government."

"Woah..." The wallcrawler held his head in his hands. "That's insane! I know Roman has his share in crime, but these guys seem to be on a different level!"

"Trust me it gets worse," Iron Man said grimly. "The Maggia has invested many of its illegal gains into legitimate businesses, making them seem like they're saints in the open, but they hide their true intentions with no one knowing any better."

"Scary." He shuddered, thinking maybe this secret group is already in Vale right this moment. "Is that why they wear these creepy masks?"

"The reason why they wear things like these is to signify their pride in secrecy. They enforce a strict code of secrecy among its members and they won't hesitate to punish betrayals and failures with death."

"Man, these guys seem more frightening than Roman. Kind of makes me think that the Maggia is like one of those mafia families you see in shows and movies." Spider-Man joked.

"Well, you're right on that part. But the Maggia is not a monolithic organization, but a coalition of many virtually independent groups known as "families". The leading members of each family are usually connected through familial or marital ties." The iron hero explained.

'Wow, I'm both well informed and scared at the same time.'

"So, kind of like the mafia." Spider-Man said to Iron Man. "Either way, it's still scary to know that these guys are already in Vale. Did you know about this too, Iron Man?"

"Sorry, I wish I knew they were here too. Otherwise, I would be patrolling the shipping yards right now."

"So, you don't know where they might be, huh?" The black-suited hero let out a heavy sigh. "One problem at a time, then. So how do you want to deal with this guy? Paper rock scissors?"

"I don't think that will be necessary."Thankfully enough, no such thing came to pass between the two heroes as they stood next to each other looking down at the tied-up A.I.M agent who was remaining silent. "The guy will talk much sooner if we interrogate him together."

Standing in front of their only lead, the one to start was Iron Man picking the A.I.M agent by his arms and lifting him off the ground.

"Ok, buddy." The robotic hero placed the man back on his feet. "You're going to start talking, starting with where your base is."

"…" Silence was the only answer given. Apparently, having a fully armed walking war machine wasn't enough to scare the man into spilling the beans.

"Yeah," The black-suited spider rubbed the back of his head. "Don't really see him talking any time soon, but hey!"

Taking a swing at this, Spider-Man hoisted the man over his shoulder and turned around to face his fellow crusader against crime.

"You can fly, I can swing around very high places," Spider-Man shook his shoulder where the man was placed causing him to shake from the motion. "Pretty sure this guy's suit can't do any of those things besides being impervious to bee strings. So how about we take this party of three upstairs?"

To make more sense of what Spider-Man was talking about, he pointed his index finger upward to the sky.

"…Wait, what?" This time, the A.I.M agent finally spoke. Too bad it was too late as both heroes took off to the sky.

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Out of the four kingdoms, Vale was the second most well modernized kingdom besides Atlas who was the most urban developed as well as technologically.

Vale had more of a modern approach, sticking with brick buildings and tall sky scrapers. Due to Vale being both close to water and nature compared to Vacuo or Mistral, it had a more well-balanced source of resources to depend on.

"So, are you going to tell us what we must know, or are you going to keep on crying?" Spider-Man asked in a bored tone as he stared at the flailing beekeeper falling rapidly to the ground.

The A.I.M agent only cried in response, not being used to such heavy treatment such as this.

While Spider-Man was well-versed in urban battles involving the city's layout, it could not be said for the yellow jump suited man literally plummeting to his doom.

"Waaaah! Ahhh!"

"Ugh!" Spider-Man let out a groan of frustration.

(TWIP!)

Shooting out a webline to the same tall tower he used to drop the man, Spider-Man grabbed him, pulled his line, and sent both him and the spineless thief back to the top.

"Ok, let's go over this one more time. Are you going to tell us where your base is?" To show he wasn't kidding, Spider-Man lifted an open palm and used his fingers to count. "5… 4… 3…"

"We… we are not a-afr-"

"Come on, man," The spider hero complained as the same thing was spouting from the A.I.M soldier. "We did this like, what? Four times?"

"Uhh…" He shrugged his shoulder, not really counting since he's more concerned with not becoming a pancake on the side walk.

"Here we go." Spider-Man blankly said, then casually pushed the man off the roof. "You got anything on what's in the suit case, Iron Man?"

Looking over his shoulder, Spider-Man saw that his newly acquainted friend was using this time to investigate the importance of the briefcase.

"Apologies, Spider-Man." He said while flipping the black case over to its other side. "Just seeing what's really inside the contents of this thing."

"You got X-ray vision built into that helmet?" The arachnid said in surprise. 'So cool.'

"In a sense, yes." He answered. "What I'm seeing through my optics is that this isn't your average case. Underneath the leather, the Maggia has made sure to keep whatever their hiding pretty tight."

"A case like that? Wow, I'm sure the people from wall street would fight for something like that."

"Reinforced steel, fingerprint scanner, and if by chance the contents do get stolen…"

"Which it did."

"Pretty sure that guy you pushed off has been falling for a bit."

"You're right." Spider-Man looked down to see that man becoming a yellow speck. "Be right back."

Jumping off without a second thought, Spider-Man nosedived to grab the man, shot another web line to the roof, pulled, and made it back to the start within minutes.

"Ok, continue." Making sure he was also paying attention dealing with the interrogation, Spider-Man showed the beekeeper an open palm and started to count down to five again. "Something about the part where we stole the case?"

"We stole the case first," The A.I.M agent spoke out of reflex. "Then you guys took it from us."

"Oh, hey!" Spider-Man sounded ecstatic for the man to speak coherently. "You can talk in full sentences! Does that mean you'll tell us what we need to know?"

"W-well…" Spider-Man inched closer in a threatening manner. "OK, OK, just no more falling! We're just outside the border leading close to the Emerald forest! We have a base hidden, around 8 dozen men, and my head gear has the coordinates too!"

"Sweet!" Now, having what they needed, Spider-Man grabbed the man, pulled him away from the ledge, took off his beekeeper helmet, then proceeded to web him in a cocoon on the floor. Leaving his now exposed head out in the open for everyone to see. "Got what we need. Now, about the whole 'if the case is stolen' part?"

"It's a dead man's switch." Iron Man revealed to Spider-Man. "If we decided to open this thing by force, then it'll instantly destroy the important contents within it. Too bad for them, I'm the one who's cracking it open and not some wannabe hacker."

Flipping the case to have the front side face Iron Man's faceplate, Spider-Man saw his fellow hero's eyeslits light up for a brief moment before it soon died down not a second later. What soon followed was Iron Man pointing his right open palm to the brief case with the circle in the center of his palm starting to light up.

"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! What the heck happened to not being some wannabe hacker!? You're not hacking! You're blasting!" Spider-Man interjected, taking a few steps back out of fear from what the explosion might cause.

Spider-Man's fear was soon lessened when the bean started to dim, the bright circle getting smaller and smaller to a fin point of a laser pointer.

The thin laser beamed out of his palm and hitting the case right between the center of the case. Within five seconds, Iron Man stopped his laser and began doing the process again on a different side.

Shooting the beam at each side, Iron Man then promptly pinched the thumb activated locks, like he was popping a zit and pulled them of the suitcase with no signs of the dead man switch going off.

'I see now.' Jaune's mind soon explained why Iron Man did such a thing. 'By lessening the output of his laser, he used it like a scalpel to cut the wires inside the case without triggering it's mechanism. He must have some steady hands to pull that off or he's just that smart. Whoever this person is, he truly is incredible.'

"Alright." Iron Man said. "Let's see what's in this baby."

Seeing as there was no explosion, Spider-Man walked to Iron Man's side to see what was inside the briefcase worth fighting over. What was inside maybe important, but since Spider-Man didn't really know how important, he just said what he was seeing.

"It's paper, more specifically paper in side manila folders." Spider-Man was about to reach for the folders only for Iron Man to close the case. "Hey! I thought we wanted to see what's inside."

"Don't worry." Iron Man said in... relief? Spider-Man didn't really know why, but it seemed like Iron Man was relieved for some reason. "They're just blueprints of some research the Maggia was working on. It might seem important since A.I.M was willing to reach their neck out in a foreign kingdom, but these blueprints aren't really that important."

"And how do you know that?" Spider-Man asked.

"The reason I know this, is because A.I.M is also doing the same thing, only both groups have zero chance of ever creating it."

"...Hey, what are you doing?" Spider-Man's thoughts were stopped when he saw another crazy act Iron Man was committing.

"Destroying what The Maggia had." The iron clad hero stated while using an open palm to fire a beam of energy right in the center of the case. "Even though I said they have no chance of creating it, doesn't mean I'll let them have these papers."

Increasing the power of the beam, Iron Man made quick work of the briefcase as the papers burned to a crisp followed by the case, leaving nothing but ash.

"I see your point." The webhead spoke, still trying to understand Iron Man's motives in all of this. "Still, I would have liked to see what was in those folders. If whatever they're making is being worked in my kingdom, I would've liked to know so I can deal with it in the future."

"Apologies, Spider-Man." He said. "I'll tell you later, but for now..." Standing in a T position, Iron Man's armored gloves and boots started to fire up, making him airborne. "We need to see A.I.M's base of operations. If we strike now, we might catch them off guard."

"You sound like you did this before." Spider-Man said, shooting a webline to a nearby high building. "Hold on, I still have his helmet, let me just... uh..."

Worried about breaking something important inside the helmet, Spider-Man chose the next best thing and placed it over his head.

"Huh, thought the inside would smell bad, but I guess this guy takes care of what he eats, cause I smell mint." His joking was put aside when his hand pressed the side of the helmet, causing the inside of the lens to display a map at the corner of Spider-Man's left eye. "This is so cool! It's like I'm in some VR headset!"

"That must be their navigation systems."Iron Man explained. "We can use that to find where exactly they're hiding in the Emerald forest."

"How come you did decide to do your awesome hacking skills?"

"Because it'll take too long. Probably around five minutes. Three, if I'm being generous." Iron Man said like it was a normal thing to say.

'That's still fast!'

"Alright then," Jumping off the high structure with no hesitation, Spider-Man swung up in the air and start to webswing. "Follow me!"

Tailing behind him, Iron Man remained silent as Spider-Man spoke now and then about which way he's going. All the while, Spider-Man also did his usual antics by asking questions he had in his head.

"So," Spider-Man let go of his lifeline, crossed his arms behind his head and casually glided in the air. "How long have you been doing this?"

"You mean, what you're doing dressed up in a costume, right?"

Spider sense kicking in, his body soon registered the danger of falling making Spider-Man shot a webline to keep his momentum above street level.

"Yeah, that!" Spider-Man eyed the H.U.D to make sure he's going the right way. "I was just curious, you know? I never heard about anyone else doing things like this so I'm just wondering about how long you've been, Iron Man. I can tell you right now, I'm still a bit green when it comes to this sort of stuff."

Iron Man was quite processing on what Spider-Man had told him. It was understandable, no one would think about telling someone they just met how much of an amateur they are. It was like saying to a patient that this will be his/her first time with a patient, yet, Spider-Man said it with so much ease it made Iron Man tell him the truth.

"Not long, probably shorter than when you decided to don the mask. I had the idea, but I never really thought of doing this, but that changed when I finally heard that someone was crazy enough to do it in real life."

"Yeah," Spider-Man chuckled. "Guess I am pretty crazy for doing this."

"Maybe, but you're not alone in that department."

That caused both heroes to laugh at Iron Man's joke, the atmosphere filled with light humor as they continued down the route leading them to A.I.M's hideout.

"If you're doing it at Atlas, how does the citizens over there feel about you?"

Iron Man looked down to the streets of Vale with people minding their own business and some wearing Spider-Man related merchandise.

"A bit like your city, really. Only they seem hellbent on trying to get an interview with me." Iron Man replied.

"Heh, they tried to do that to me, too. Only they seem to forget that I know my way around Vale to hide from the reporters."

Spider-Man was about to say more, but when he saw that he was running out of buildings to swing with, Spider-Man immediately landed on the last building leaving Iron Man to stop in mid-air.

"Why did you stop?" Iron Man asked. "Did the H.U.D go off or is A.I.M finally catching wind of us?"

"I, uh.." Spider-Man scratched the back of his head, though it looked a bit awkward since his head was blocked off by an A.I.M Helmet. "It's working, it's saying that it's just around twenty miles from here, but it's going to be hard for me to swing there."

"You afraid of the Grimm?" Iron Man asked. "I've seen a few when I fly, I can understand your fear. I always thought that they weren't really that scary, but seeing them up close made me rethink that."

"That too." The blonde hero felt a shiver when he was reminded about what Huntsmen have to deal with on a daily basis. "I just think it'll be hard to swing in the trees. I never really had to worry about how much gravity I generate since I'm using cement and steel to help me swing."

"Either way," The flying hero changed the subject. "If you're worried about the trees unable to hold your weight, then stick a web to my leg and you can give me directions while I fly us there."

"Uh..." He hesitated for a moment. "I'm not sure, I'm okay with just swinging there."

"You may be great at maneuvering the city, but in the forest, you won't have tall buildings to help you." Iron Man said. "Come on, we need to go before they think somethings wrong with the group they sent out."

"Yeah, I see your point." Looking down at the streets below, Spider-Man looked above to see Iron Man floating in the air. "I just hope you don't mind the extra weight."

"Trust me, Webhead. It's gonna take a lot of force to bring me down, trust me."Flying higher into the air, Spider-Man reluctantly shot a webline on Iron Man's right leg and felt his feet no longer on solid ground.

'Deep breaths, Jaune.' The double masked hero made sure to look straight than look down below. 'imagine you're web swinging. That's it! You got this!'

"Ok, Spider-Man." Iron Man moved his head to see the full view of the forest. "Where do we go?"

"Mpgh!" Was the only thing Spider-Man said.

"What was that?"

"Ugh..." Choking back his bile, Spider-Man looked at the map to see their destination. "Southeast, just 23 miles before we reach it."

'Guh! Does my motion sickness count Iron Man as a Bullhead!? How is that possible?! I swing from buildings, fall, but when I'm not swinging and letting something or someonedo it for me, my stomach doesn't agree?!'

"Ok, then." Iron Man's boots and gloves started to emit a loud noise. "Hold on tight! I'm cutting this joy ride short!"

'Count to 10 and calm down! 10...'

Not even able to count to 9, Spider-Man's view of the world soon shifted into fast forward like being in a speeding car only instead of being in a metal death trap, he was holding on to said death trap by a slim strand of webbing.

'Oh man~! 8!….. 7!...… 6!' Closing his eyes and focusing on counting, Spider-Man clutched the webline tighter as he was assaulted by high speed winds.

No sooner did he crack open an eye, he felt the velocity to decrease, making his stomach start to become less agitated. '5, 4, 3, 2, 1!'

(GASP!) Opening his mouth to get a large intake of oxygen, Spider-Man relaxed his body and allowed himself a moment to collect whatever nerves he had from such a fast flight. "I'm now starting to think that maybe you are fast enough to fly from Atlas to Vale! Seriously, I felt like my costume was going to peel off any second!"

"Sorry about that, Spider-Man." The flying machine man said, his eyes scanning over the terrain of endless acres of trees."But this is the Emerald forest. Well, part of it, anyways. A place invested with Grimm, so I thought that if we kept to a slow pace we would have to deal with some Nevermore or Griffons."

Spider-Man was about to say more, only for his mind to pick a certain part of what Iron Man said about the forest they're currently in.

"What do you mean 'part of the forest'? I see a whole forest all around us."

Looking to his left, the sound of optics zooming could be heard as Iron Man saw off into the distance. "You're right that it might not make sense, but the reason I'm saying this is because some of the forest is closed off."

"Closed off?" Spider-Man used a hand, make an 'O' shape and used it as a crude telescope. "Don't see no fences, Iron Man. All I see is trees, mountains, and hopefully no flying Grimm with an empty stomach."

Changing his position in the air, Iron Man went in a 'T' position and used his left hand to point at where he was referring to. "What you might not know, is that Beacon Academy actually has a form of a security fence closing off a portion of the forest. Not a literal fence or a wall, they maybe back up with some go revenue, but there are some things the council rejects in Beacon's requests."

'I think I remember Ruby telling me about how she got into Beacon, something to do with spring assisted floor tiles? If The Council thinks that's necessary for Beacon to have, then I don't want to know Beacon's other crazy request.'

"They make sure to monitor with surveillance equipment built into some trees and rocks, it's a way to regulate and also make sure stronger Grimm won't wander in and cause a any life threating injuries to their students. They maybe able to have Aura and weapons far outclassing military slandered guns to back them up, but even they can't handle hordes of Grimm."

"Holy smokes, Iron Man! They actually do that to their students!" Spider-Man said hysterically.'Oh my God! I didn't have Aura when I came here, so if I did have a slight chance of getting in, then I would either die by being thrown hundreds of feet in the air, or if by some divine deity, I would survive only to die by some monster!'

"Eh, I can understand why they want to throw actual Grimm to young Huntsmen-in-training."

"I can't!"

"You know the saying, 'you gotta run, before you learn how to walk.'? Now, back to business, are we at the base of A.I.M?" He asked his passenger.

"What do you mean?" A confused Spider-Man asked. "We're here, aren't we? It says it's right below us?"

Looking down to the forest, Spider-Man expected to see an evil lair, but just found trees beneath them.

"Well, now..." He clicked his tongue, not sure what he was supposed to see. "Does your suit shrink? Cause the only thing I'm drawing in my head is that their base is an actual beehive."

"Sorry to disappoint you, Spider-Man."Iron Man said. "I may have said that I dealt with A.I.M back in my kingdom, but this is my first time experiencing this."

"Cloaking device?" Spider-Man threw his idea out. "I heard that people have a Semblance, each unique to every person, so maybe they have a member that made it invisible?"

"They can't have someone always cloak a base 24/7, Spider-Man." Lowering them down to the ground, Iron Man walked a few paces forward, kneeled, and placed a hand on the ground. "A.I.M's main purpose is throwing the government for their own gain, they specializes in scientific machines either built by their own hands or stealing other people's own ideas... even the person who had the idea, too. Needless to say, relying on a person with a Semblance can be much more of a hassle, I'm sure they might have made a device to cloak themselves from the outside."

'No.' Spider-Man felt zero 'danger' from this place, his spider sense would have already told him something by now. 'A Grimm or two should be roaming around, yet I don't feel anything from my Spidey sense. Plus, if they did have a way to turn their hideout invisible, then they should have spotted us in the sky and shot us down, even then, I'm sure my spider sense would have alerted me.'

"You think they just packed up and ran? I mean, if they spotted you, then they must have known that they have no chance at beating you, right?"

Iron Man chuckled at what Spider-Man was implying. "No, I wish all of my daily bad guys would do that, but they're too stupid or just too confident in trying to beat me. Plus, they also try to capture me and steal my suit"

"Your suit?" Spider-Man at Iron Man from top to bottom. "Yeah, I can see why, your suit looks like it can do some amazing stuff."

"Heh," The flying hero shook his head."No, believe me when I say this, but it's more than just the power this suit can do. Ever since I shown Atlas what I can do, people, well, shady people, have tried to take the suit to make their own. And with A.I.M being a group that has legions of scientist in their staff..."

"They'll try to make more of your armor." Spider-Man finished Iron Man's explanation. "Aren't you afraid that they might be setting up a trap? Maybe they wanted us here? To catch us off-guard?"

Spider-Man's paranoia was answered by himself as the back of his skull did not blare any immediate signs of danger. 'Still nothing, not even a slight tingle. Just where the heck are they?'

"No, I'm not worried about them finding us. If they wanted to surprise us, then they could have shot us down before we could even reach them, or right now if they wanted to."

'Ok, let's leave my 'detect danger' ability to the side for a moment. Iron Man's reasoning holds weight, so how are we able to get this close without us sounding the alarms?'

Spider-Man placed a fist under his chin, eyes closed to make him have a better image forming in his mind. He replayed how it happened tonight, A.I.M, the fighting, being captured, then the music being played through-

"Music." Spider-Man said the once thing that was out of place. "I remember that music was being played from almost everywhere, even that one A.I.M guy's COMM set had the same thing playing."

After hearing Spider-Man's deduction, Iron Man's head looked up to the webslinger in surprise. "Not bad, you figured it out in such a short time. I'm impressed."

"So you used some form of frequency to conceal yourself from A.I.M?"

"Kind of, yes and no. Well, part of it." To show that Iron Man was thinking of a way to further explain, he tapped the side of his helmet. "I built in a certain frequency in my helmet to scramble enemy signals, it's a way to stop them from calling for extra back up or warnings to their pals."

"By using classic rock songs?" The arachnid hero crossed his arms and tilted his head. "I felt like that part could have been taken out of your suit."

"Eh." The man made of Iron shrugged his metallic shoulders. "A friend of mine just recommended the idea to me, said it gives me a dramatic entrance or something."

'Your friend isn't wrong, though it does make a kick ass entrance. I still feel like I'm missing some things here.'

Going back to look at the ground again, Iron Man continued to speak while looking at the dirt beneath his feet. "However, my suit wasn't built with anything stealth based. I'm small enough to not be detected like Bullheads and flying Grimm, yet they should have seen us since we weren't that high in the air."

"I'm feeling like there should be more to that." The hero of Vale tilted his head to the side. "Though, I'm sure the long winded version isn't needed at the moment. Right now, we need to find out where their base is hiding."

Still having the beekeeper helmet on, Spider-Man still saw their location was right next to A.I.M's base, yet as far as they could see, nothing out of the ordinary was taking place.

"Ok, this thing isn't helping." Taking the stuffing helmet off, Spider-Man tossed it to Iron Man and did his own searching. "We have that they didn't spot us in the air, we didn't see them in the open, nor anything involving them to turn invisible, so..."

"Judging from the helmet," The armored man inspected what was given to him. "I don't see anything wrong with it, but I'm not planning on just hacking this thing any time soon."

Dropping the yellow helmet on the floor, Spider-Man was surprised by Iron Man's disregard to their only lead and shot a webline to retrieve it back.

"Hey, don't just drop that! We need it to-"

(Rumble—Rumble...)

"Hm? Did you feel that?"

"Excuse me?" This time, it was Iron Man who looked at Spider-Man in confusion. "What do you mean? I don't know what you're talking about."

(Rumble! Rumble!)

"There it is again!" Spider-Man looked around to see nothing changed. "You can not be Joshing right now! You have to tell me your Joshing, that is the rules!"

(Rumble! Rumble!)

"Nope." To prove his point, Iron Man kneeled to the ground and place his hand on the dirt. "I don't feel anything, so I'm not sure what you're talking about."

Raising his head, Iron Man caught sight of Spider-Man's webline not only hitting the helmet he has dropped to the ground, but also the Spider's webline connecting to some of the dirt.

"Maybe..." Iron Man mumbled to himself."Hey, Spider-Man. Shoot another webline, but instead of the trees to do your usual swing, aim straight towards the ground beneath you."

"I don't see why that would help."

"Indulge me, please." Raising a palm to fire a small energy blast to cut the line from the A.I.M helmet, Iron Man picked it up and nodded his head to signal Spider-Man to start.

Not seeing any harm from doing so, Spider-Man used both of his organic web lines at the floor. He felt like an idiot to do so and was about to let the web ropes go.

(RUMBLE! RUMBLE!)

That was until he felt a much stringer tremor vibrating through his webs.

"This is new," Spider-Man could feel the small vibrations coursing through his weblines. "My webs, I can... feel what's underneath for some reason."

"You mean you never knew you can do this?" Iron Man asked out of interest.

"Never." Spider-Man answered truthfully. "I mostly use my webs to swing, trap, grab, and other stuff that makes it easy for me. But I never knew they could be used for something like this."

Letting the two lines go, Spider-Man shot another pair of webbing to the ground and feel the same movement coming from below.

"It's like..." He was trying his best to explain his newly discovered ability. "I don't know how to say this with words, but I can feel movement in the ground through my webs. I can even tell where some of the vibrations are coming from!"

'This is freaky,' Spider-Man started to shoot webs to the ground to track what was making such heavy movement underground. 'I thought I knew what powers I had from that spider, but now I'm even more confused on what other powers I haven't discovered yet.'

With each webline Spider-Man made, he could feel that whatever was underneath them getting stronger and stronger. "Are you starting to feel the tremors, Iron Man? They're getting so strong that I don't think using my webs are necessary anymore."

"You're right, Spider-Man." Iron Man walked a head of his fellow hero and started to look around the forest. "I'm starting to pick up some foreign objects up ahead, it could be the entrance."

"Guess I don't need to hold on to these then." Spider-Man dropped his webbing and followed Iron Man deeper into the foliage. "Kind of freaky that I can do that, makes me wonder what else I might be hiding."

Looking over his shoulder, Iron Man looked at the webhead for a moment, faced back forward, and started to talk.

"You know, I heard that spiders are the second most vibrate sensitive creature in Remnant, second to the cockroach. How they are so good at detecting small vibrations are due to their webs, making them so sensitive that spiders can detect their next food or even knowing when a predator is coming for them."

'Spiders... he didn't mentions anything about Faunus with spider-like traits, but just actual spiders. Does he know? Is he already thinking that I'm more then just a half Faunus?' Spider-Man was in deep thought, contemplating on how to register this. 'He's smart, frightening even. Makes me wonder if he's smart enough to make a guess on who I am under my mask. No, I doubt it. I'm probably giving him too much credit. Though I should make an effort to learn more about any other secrets my body is hiding from me. Maybe books involving arachnids and not Faunus biolo-'

Spider sense finally reacting, the black suited hero went into a defensive crouch, causing the other hero to look behind him to see Spider-Man not walking.

"What's wrong?" Spider-Man could see the lights in Iron Man's gauntlets beginning to light up. "Grimm?"

"No." Spider-Man dropped his usual cheerful tone for a more serious persona. Producing a small amount of organic webbing, Spider-Man layered it on the ground and placed his hand flat on top of his small web. "I felt some more movement, it's getting closer, I think some of them are arriving."

Getting in a defensive stance, Iron Man raised both hands to get ready for a fight with the remainder of A.I.M soldiers. "You sensed them from below, but how did you know if they're coming above ground?"

"I felt movement coming from beneath us." Spider-Man felt the back of his skull starting to flare. His spider sense was the one who tells him but he didn't want Iron Man to know that ability, not yet, at least. He had enough revelations about his new spider ability and he didn't want Iron Man to poke holes into why he has an ability not related to spiders. "Footsteps moving around with a faster pace, I think we're close enough to their base."

"Patrols." Iron Man lowered his arms. "No wonder we haven't spotted Grimm for some time. They must have killed any threats near their base and since Grimm dissolve in a matter of minutes, it would be like nothing ever happened at all."

"But this is the Emerald forest, full of Grimm that it isn't even funny, how can they do that without someone noticing a few explosions and screaming?" Spider-Man asked, feeling the presence of danger getting closer.

"They come from Atlas, a kingdom more advanced and well armed then the other three, but most importantly, they house scientists that build dangerous weapons that could be deemed too dangerous to use. Grimm may be challenging back in the day, but technology is developing far faster then any Huntsmen school can produce."

Thanks to his night vision, Spider-Man could see a pair of A.I.M agents closing in on their position. "Two people are coming, I don't see them firing, so I think we can snea-"

"I mean, let's be real. Some people would hire a person to swing around a giant weapon to kill a few monsters."Iron Man stopped his lecture, raised a hand, and fired two shots of energy hitting both targets aimed at their chests. "When others can just buy weapons that can eliminate their problems with less effort then pressing a button."

"Wha-what did you do?" Spider-Man asked him, not sure why he would blow their cover.

"It's simple, all I did was press a button." The armored man casually walked to the unconscious men and started to remove their helmets. "If you thought about sneaking around them, that's all and fine and good, but unlike you, I'm wearing a suit of power armor with the center of my chest being a literal lightbulb for everyone to see."

Examining their gear, Iron Man checked to hear if others might have heard a scuffle through their commlinks but was lucky enough the only thing Iron Man heard was basic chatter. Putting the helmets down, Iron Man looked at Spider-Man who had his arms crossed in front of him.

"What? I'm serious about my armor, I had to swat moths away from me so they won't obscure my vision." Letting out a sigh as Spider-Man's silence, Iron Man just lifted his finger and pointed as where those two came from. "Come on, if those guys came this way, then we can re-trace their steps to go inside their base of operations."

Dropping the serious act, the hero in black just sighed, shook his head, and followed alongside Iron Man. "I still felt like you could have at least put an effort."

Iron Man snorted as Spider-Man's statement. "If you think I would smear dirt, leaves, hold branches, and act like a tree, then you must not get enough oxygen through that mask of yours."

"Hey, this thing does more then hide my identity, you know?" Spider-Man puffed out his chest and turned his head away from Iron Man. "It can also help me not get anything stuck in my eye."

"Amazing." The metal man said flatly. "Truly, your simple gimp suit far outpasses my ow-" Iron Man stopped his compliment at the sight of what's in front of him.

Both heroes reached the entrance to A.I.M, the entrance was a giant door in the ground, completed with a design to make it look like the earth in order to hide what was underneath.

"At first glance, whatever they used to make the metal gate look like everything around us the same is impressive." Spider-Man said, disregarding their banter and back to the reason on why they're in Grimm territory. "Even up above, we probably would've not seen it."

"Just goes to show you how well A.I.M makes things," The armor clad hero said. "It breaks my heart to know they would waste their time making things like this and not use their genius on more useful things. Like better modes of transportation, medical facilities, plumbing, agriculture... artificial intelligence."

"Arti-what now?"

"Anyway, since we're here with no alarms sounding off. That means we can catch them off guard, destroy whatever they're making, capture them for the police, and then go home before late night television ends." Iron Man said with such confidence in what his simple plan was that it almost made Spider-Man wonder if the person behind the armor was this cocky even before he made the suit.

"I feel like you're making this seem way easier then it should be." Spider-Man walked in front of Iron Man before he could start his one man assault. "We are going in an underground, an actual evil lair, mind you, full of people armed with weapons straight from some science flick. I don't know how you do things in Atlas, but this is Vale, and I feel the best plan right now is for me to sneak in, take down their security, deactivate other things that could hurt us, and then you can come in with whatever you have in that shiny tin can of yours."

"Believe me when I say this, Spider-Man." He raised his hands to show he means no disrespect. "I fought A.I.M, won, and did it without breaking a sweat. We're in the middle of a Grimm invested forest, the only ones who will notice are the monsters trying to kill us. Besides, don't you want to try something that doesn't involve you crawling on walls most of the time?"

'He did make short work of them.' The hero of Vale thought to himself. 'But I just don't think going in like this is smart. He may be invincible from firearms and blades, but I'm not. Unless by some other divine miracle I can produce an exoskeleton, I'm not taking any chances.'

"Before you blow anything, let me take a crack at this first." Spider-Man said as he walked past Iron Man. "Instead of you going to them, how about they come to you?"

"You mean, you want me to cause a distraction?" He asked his fellow hero.

"Well, you said it yourself." Spider-Man used Iron Man's reasoning of how he takes into action. "I'm not wearing a full set of armor and I'm pretty sure you can't even bend down without taking a knee. So try to cause big enough noise to get them out so I can sneak in."

"I see your point." Iron Man agreed to the plan. "Ok, sounds fair. I was getting tired of all this tip toeing anyway."

'Glad that's settled, but now we need to know how to cause A.I.M to-' Spider-Man stopped when he heard the familiar sound of Iron Man getting ready to take to the air. "Wait, no. I think I know what's going to happen next."

(FWWRRRBOOOM!)

Like a sound of a high powered jet engines firing in all cylinders, Iron Man flew up in the air, raised both of his hands, fired two beams, and fused into one large stream of firepower at the blast doors.

The force behind the attack caused the large metal doors to bend inward, leaving a large hole big enough to fit several bullheads. Not a minute later, a swarm of A.I.M soldiers riding vehicles that can hover in the air soon poured out of their base like an actual angry bees coming out of their homes to attack whoever the one who caused this much damage.

"Got their attention." Activating his rockets to go even higher, Iron Man soared in the air, blasted a couple of nameless drones that were caught off guard, and flew away followed by the group of guards casing after him. "Let's see how well you guys are good at shooting compared to making stuff!"

Now, with all of A.I.M focused on one man, Spider-Man used the time he had to run to the broken entrance of their evil lair and looked down to see how far the drop it is.

"I can barely see the bottom." He said as he used his night vision to see in the dark tunnel. "Oh well," Taking five steps back, Spider-Man let out a short breath, sprinted, and jumped of the edge of the hole without any hesitation to what's below him. "It's not like I don't jump off of high places anyway."

---

Small lights and wires was what Spider-Man saw as he plummeted to the bottom floor of A.I.M. Each light he passed, his spider sense would started to tingle, getting worse and worse as time let on, until finally it became too much to handle.

(TWIP! TWIP!)

Shooting two web lines that connected to the walls, Spider-Man slowed his descent in the right moment as his head was only just five feet away from hitting solid metal floor. Manipulating his webs to rotate him into a full circle, the hero could see that no other agent was anywhere near him. Prompting the wallcrawler to let go of his web and land right side up in a crouch.

"So this is what an A.I.M hideout looks like." He said as he saw the entirety of the layout to be an actual theme of yellow shaped hexagons. "Probably shouldn't have thought any less of them. If they have beekeeper-like suits, then why not making a bee themed evil lair? I would even say it would be weirder if they didn't do a large honeycomb-like base."

Eyeing whatever these yellow jumpsuited stole, Spider-Man could see many expensive looking lab equipment scattered around the area, even spotting some with logos he's all too familiar.

"Hammer industries..." He said as he walked to a power loader belonging to a rich tycoon living in Atlas. Moving his eyes to the next thing, Spider-Man saw more stolen property from other different companies and kingdoms. "They even have Osborn's tech down here too? Just how long have they been here? They shouldn't be fast enough to make such a large structure like this."

Thinking of a faster way to cover more ground, Spider-Man stuck to the walls and began his exploration, all the while hiding behind whatever was nearby to not get spotted from other A.I.M agents still in the compound.

'So much is down here...' Exploring more of the base and making sure to stick to the shadows for any guards who stayed behind, Spider-Man easily bypassed every watchful eye until he spotted one room that had more locks on it then the other ones he passed. 'it's says top priority'. Wonder why they got this one so heavily locked.'

Spider-Man took a closer look but just as quickly hid behind an open the corner leading to another direction when he caught sight of two guards standing in front of the secured room.

'Don't want to start a fight this soon, Iron Man is already dealing with most of them outside.' Looking above his head, he spotted a grate blowing cold air. 'This must be their airduct system, that's perfect.'

Crawling up to the grate, Spider-Man lifted it up, squeezed through and was now completely out of sight. 'This should lead to whatever they're trying to protect. Though, I wonder what I'll see when I get in there.'

With the help of his night vision, Spider-Man went to the correct vent that led to the top secret door. Since it was dark in the room, Spider-Man had no trouble exiting out of the vent and saw what was laid before him. What he saw, were cages of different sizes in a room that is far larger then he first thought. These weren't your run of the mil bad guy cages you see in TV shows either, the bars were thicker, sturdier, some even had odd devices sticking from the top making Spider-Man assume that it was used to hurt whatever creature that get trapped in it.

'Can't believe they have a large room like this holding these things,' Looking past each empty cage, the more he looked past them, the more Spider-Man saw some cages being covered in thick layers of material. 'Large and small cages, each one having a different type to hold whatever was designed for... do I even dare to see what's underneath?'

Curiosity taking the better of him, he picked one that was next to him, grabbed the obstruction, and pulled. 'God, please let this not be what I think it is.'

Hearing the only sound of the large cover blanket being thrown to the ground, what Spider-Man saw a cage, it's bars having large scratch marks, some even looking to be bent forward gave the hero a clear picture that whatever was in here was string. Looking inside the cage, he could spot a big ball of black in the back corner, it's size and shape being almost bigger than your average male adult.

'No, it's not just all black,' Spider-Man inched his head closer, his night vision able to get a better definition to what he was seeing in the cage. 'I can see it moving, only in subtle breath, and I think I see bone too. What is this...? Wait, I think it's starting to move.'

Knowing to move away even with his spider sense telling him the danger, Spider-Man got in his usual defensive posture to react in case things turn hairy.

The black mass started to show it's true size to the hero outside of it's prison. Four massive limbs, each strong enough to cleave any foolish mortal in front of it slowly extended it's paws as if it was stretching. It's head, resembling that of a bear and nothing else raised it's head and opened it's massive jaws wide enough to show rows of sharp teeth that was ready to rip and tear anything deemed to be food. What was in front of Spider-Man made his eye widen, his breath shallow, and his fists clenching to see for the first time in his life the sole enemy of humanity he wished to fight off as a Huntsmen.

"Grimm." Spider-Man blurted out the word. "I'm seeing one for the first time."

'Dad and some of the family would always tell stories about all sorts of Grimm they fought against, but seeing in with my own eye doesn't give it enough justice.'

Appearance wise, it was like looking at a black bear trapped in a cage. Only, there was no such thing as a bear being the size of a truck and having white plated bones sprouting throughout the body. How it acts and what it looks like may seem like any other creature with a very unique appearance, but years of knowledge dated back before Huntsmen were formed saved many lives at knowing what Grimm do when spotting it's prey.

(GRRRR...) It's deep crimson eye soon spotted the lone figure outside it's prison, making the Ursa's instincts to kick in.(GRRRAAAHHH!)

Spider sense yelling at Jaune to move away at the threat of danger almost made him do just that. Luckily, he stood his ground as the Grimm's plan of killing the hero was stopped thanks to the solid steel bars keeping the monster inside.

"They attack anyone on sight." Spider-Man said outloud. "My dad told me these guys kill indiscriminately, even saying that they can even track us though negative emotions we emit. No wonder we labeled these guys as our greatest enemies, but that just makes things even more dangerous, because…"

Doing the exact same thing as the first cage, Spider-Man pulled several other covers to show other cages holding different types of Grimm. They usually take forms of present day animals.

Some of the common ones are wolfs.

"Beowolf." Spider-Man passed a cage with a snarling wolf Grimm clawing at his cage.

Boars.

"Boarbatusk." He passed a medium sized cage housing a roided out pig ramming it's large tusk at the durable bars holding it captive.

And snakes.

"And a King Tajitsu." Spider-Man was going to say more, only to stop when he saw a second head, a pure white headed King Taijitu coiling around it's counterpart. "Or King Tajitsus...?"

Pausing at the large conjoined snake's cage, Spider-Man looked at the cage housing the large creature, only to move his head to catch a glimpse of what's behind it.

"This can't be happening."

Now, with some Grimm, their average size tends to go from the size to a car, to the size of a small airplane. So it was to Spider-Man's horror when he even more cages behind the first set. Far larger then the one Spider-Man was seeing, even going far to think that the one in front could just be the small fry of the Grimm that were being held in cages still impressively large.

"How dense am I to not see these?" Spider-Man jumped on top of the King Taijiru's cage. "I finally understand why we didn't see Grimm in the forest. A.I.M wasn't killing Grimm that were invading their territory, they were capturing Grimm. Even going so far as to catch some that shouldn't even be here in such small spaces."

'This goes far beyond what I suspected. I thought they were just hustling their way in to Vale just like Roman or the Maggia. Now I'm starting to get even more confused with these guys! I mean, who's insane enough to try and capture live Grimm? I mean, who!? I don't think me or Iron Man will be enough to stop all this. Maybe it's best if we can try another-'

(GRAAAHH!)

(HISSSS!)

(AWROOOO!)

The hero's inner ranting had to be stopped, when the Grimm who's cages were no longer covered started to make noise erupting some of the other Grimm from other cages to follow too.

"Oh..." Spider-Man pounded his head his fists. "Grimm react to negative emotions! I've been here thinking about all this stuff that the Grimm are making too much noise."

With the increase of so many dark creatures shouting, the guard outside the room stepped in to investigate. Their rifles in the ready, helmets emitting a steady flow of light was all Spider-Man saw before disappearing into the shadows to hide.

"These things are causing more trouble then they're worth." One guard said to his friend as both walked deeper and deeper into the Grimm room. "How much longer until do you think it's ready for use?"

"Not long." The second guard answered his partner. "It should be ready for use in a couple of weeks, but with Iron Man interrupting it's testing, it might be delayed."

"Seriously?" Spider-Man heard the first A.I.M guard letting out a groan. "I'm getting tired of being here and it's not just about the Grimm here. Vale is so lowtech, I'm sweating every time I go outside to change duties, and if we stay here just a little more then we were supposed to I'm going to lose my mind."

Continuing straight ahead, one of them saw that some of the cages were no longer shrouded by cloth. "Why are these things on the floor? Shouldn't they be over their cages?"

"It was probably pulled down by the Grimm. You know how some of them have spikes and claws? It could've gotten snagged."

"Seriously hope these things are worth keeping here. I still don't understand why these have to be part of whatever hair brained plan command thinks up."

"Quit complaining, we have a job to do and we're going to finish it. Besides, the benefits of doing this outweighs our own. If this succeeds, then we might have the opportunity to reap everything Vale has to offer."

"You mean, what's left of Vale when it happens."

As the two continued to investigate, the wallcrawler remained in hiding ontop of an empty cage, following them at least a feet away to make sure he had enough to hide if they decided to turn around.

'That doesn't sound ominous to me.' Spider-Man looked at the exit to see that they left it wide open for him to leave. 'Looks like these guys aren't good at keeping their post.'

Not wanting to stay any longer then he has to, Spider-Man escaped through the open door and proceeded to explore other areas of the base.

'Security room, security room.' Spider-Man thought on the side of the wall as he tried to find the room that houses all the functions that work the facility. 'It has to be close, I can't expect Iron Man to take all of the guys by himself. If I can try and shut off what A.I.M is doing, then we might have a chance to take down whatever these goons are planning.'

Passing over a dozen rooms so far, he almost thought that he might go off of Iron Man's playbook and just find the most important looking object in the base and destroy it.

'No, too risky for me to just blow stuff up. If I do that, then it might cause a collapse, or even set some of the Grimm lose and I'm not sure I'm ready to fight Grimm anytime soon. Yet, at least.'

Suddenly, as if by random chance, the rumbling he felt above ground started to come up again, only this time it's much more powerful now that he's in A.I.M's lair. He was so rattled by the quaking that he thought that it would make him loose his grip on the wall he was crawling on. Fortunately for him, whatever was making the earthquakes soon stopped, but it made Spider-Man make thoughts on what A.I.M is making to cause such tremors.

"Well, this place is already making me feel like I'm totally out of my field here, so why not make it even more prominent that I have no idea what's going to happen next." He joked at his dark humor of the unknown, not knowing what else could be worse then seeing a large storage area filled with all sorts of monsters. "With whatever is making those quakes, I can only hope that it isn't leading to Vale."

Entering into the vents again, Spider-Man followed where the shaking was coming from. 'Is it some form of drill? Are they trying to dig under the biggest bank Vale has? No, it seems likely, but then I should've felt this seismic movement back in Vale. Also, the Grimm that are licked up, why are they capturing them when they have their own in Atlas?'

Reaching to the end of the vent close to the source, Spider-Man slowly let himself out of the cooling duct, pressed his body onto the hallway wall, and continued his investigation on foot. 'I'm close to where it started...'

"Whoaooo!" If Spider-Man was sure of himself this was the way to the source of all this, he was even positive when the shaking started to happen. "Getting this close to it, the rapid movements are getting stronger as I'm getting closer, guess I can pat myself on the back to know where I need to go."

Walking in the lone hallway, Spider-Man was starting to see that the walls he was walking on started to have windows to peer through.

"Wow." He snorted under his mask. "Honeycomb shaped windows. Man, I would make some jokes about bees and other bee related puns, but what I'm seeing out the window isn't really funny."

Out the window the hero was seeing through was not just a drill, but a giant contraception that looked like it was made to destroy kingdoms rather then some digging tool. It had large wheels for maneuverability, small gun turrets on top of it pointing to each side, thick armor that could withstand any Grimm attacks, but the most dangerous thing about it was what it was holding in the front. It may look weird that what was attached to the front of this moving fortress was a honeycomb shaped mirror, but what it carried had smaller mirrors sticking out of each six sides and at the center of the main one was a long metal rod.

"Welp." The wallcrawler look away from the window and laid his back on the wall. "That settles it, then. I have now stepped into full sci-fi. I swear if I start seeing them using an actual android, I'm going to lose it."

(WWIIRRRR~)

Hearing a loud sound of something powering up, Spider-Man look out the window again to see their machine starting to form a bright light.

(FFWOOOOOOSSSHHH!)

Lighting that was collected into the center soon released all the collected light into one focused beam, hitting the soil and causing it to disintegrate with each passing second.

"OOHHH!" Spider-Man said wide eyed in fascination as such a powerful display of science and ingenuity. "Now that is just plain cool."

'Also very dangerous if they ever decided it use it in Vale. I was impressed with their firearms not needed dust to shoot, amazed when they had their own transformable robot, but now I'm scared to see what other toys A.I.M has been making. I rather take care of Roman and the White Fang than deal with these guys on a daily basis.'

Wanting to take a closer look, Spider-Man continued down the hallway to find any direction leading him to find a stairwell. Deciding that jumping over the stairrails were much faster than walking down, Spider-Man hopped, fell several floors below, and then grabbed the handrail just a floor above the bottom level.

Letting go of the rails, he softly landed on the last floor and quickly went behind a mound of rocks that was collected and put to the side. Seeing what the lower floor was, everything around was the opposite of the other floors above it. Instead of seeing hightech equipment, beecombs, and anything considered modern, the last floor was just a large excavation site.

The place was neatly carved into a dome shape field, either due to the beam making it this way or some of them using different tools, Spider-Man wasn't sure. In this large space, A.I.M had scattered flood lights, wires, and in the center of it all was a single hexagonal platform.

'That must be where they control that weapon.' Sticking his head a little more, Spider-Man could see some A.I.M agents behind different monitors, one in particular had a uniform a bit different then the rest of the beekeepers. 'That must be the queen bee of this nest. Or is it considered a king? A drag Queen?'

"..."

'...I'll think about that later.'

Wanting to get closer, Spider-Man used his agility and the shadows to creep behind equipment that was placed around the large field. Finding a good spot behind a stack of empty cases, the spider hero stayed motionless as he listened to what they were talking about.

"What's the status outside?" The leader spoke to one of the A.I.M agents manning a monitor showing the outside of Emerald Forest.

"We're taking some loses, sir." The nameless agent started to type on his keyboard. "Iron Man has found us and has been taking down our men. If he keeps this up, then he'll come down here and stop our advancement."

"It matters not if he can stop us," The leader of the beekeepers spoke as if everything was all part of his plan. "We have one piece of the plan already complete, even if we do fail in trying to connect this to the main tunnels, we can still send out the captured Grimm to our benefactor."

This news made the hero shudder at what he had heard from them, not just about the captured Grimm being sent to whoever wanted them, but the fact that there are more tunnels underneath Vale.

'What other tunnels are they trying to connect? Don't they mean make? Or are there already existing tunnels already made?' Spider-Man wanted to listen to more of what they were saying but unfortunately the computers that A.I.M were using started to blare loud noises to them.

"We just got final confirmation that Iron Man has taken down nearly all of our air assault troopers, sir." The agent sounded afraid as he looked at the other security cameras. "He seems to be going back to our base, he's going to enter and soon!"

By the man's dread of facing the hero that bested them back in Atlas, many of the agents started to be afraid of what might happen next. It was already weird to see a bee theme in this base, but to look at them starting to panic made Spider-Man think about a colony of bees getting agitated by a foreign threat for some reason.

"Calm yourselves." Was all the boss said as his calm and collected voice stopped the rest of the agents from cowering. Turning his gaze to the agent that sparked all this fear, the leader walked to the man sitting behind the computer and looked at the screen housing the video of Iron Man. "Though he has made several problems for us in Atlas, we are no longer in his playing field which means we can assume he would think that we would play the same song and dance as before."

"What are your orders, sir?" One of the other agents asked.

"Simple, really." Walking back to the center of the platform, their leader straightened his back and spoke his order of what's next.

"We run away."

(SNRK!)

The hero was so wrapped with what their conversation was that he did not expect an answer like that from their leader, prompting him to let out a rush of air escaping his lips. 'Oh crap.'

Alarmed at the noise, many of the agents got off their chairs, brandished their weapons, and pointed at where the noise came from. One of them that was closest to whatever made the sound walked to where they believed to have originated while the rest readied their firearms in case they have to take out anything that could hinder their mission.

'Seriously?! I stared at Grimm dead in the eye and the one thing that blew my cover is due to the fact I thought their boss's response was funny!? Man, my luck sucks!'

Having the thought that now was the time to strike, Spider-Man waited for the man to get a little bit closer and at least take one down when their boss spoke once more.

"Enough." Their leader said with more firmness. "We can't waste our time on noises we hear, that leads to paranoia, paranoia leads to panic, and panic will make the larger Grimm we had such a hard time capturing to start going crazy. We must start our preparations now or else Iron Man will arrive much sooner, understood?"

Not wanting to disobey his orders, the agents holstered their weapons and went back to their stations and leaving Spider-Man more breathing room.

"Now that we're back on track," The head honcho looked at their laser that was currently off. "What's the status of our breakthrough?"

"We're almost there, sir." An A.I.M agent viewed a screen of the underground pathways. "One or three more will connect us to the tunnels leading to Mt. Glenn. By my estimate, we just need to-"

(BOOM! BOOM!)

Bracing from the ground shaking that wasn't made by them, the man who was in the middle of talking shifted his screen to see what was happening. "Iron Man has now started to breach through our door, Sir!"

"Looks like we don't have the precious minutes," Not wanting to lose all their progress this late in the game, the boss of the base walked to one of the control panels and started his counter measure.

"Everyone, I need you to find a good firing position." He ordered as he began unlocking all security doors to allow Iron Man to come in. "By now, Iron Man will be arriving here soon so we must hold our ground until it's complete."

"Sir, are you suggesting we-"

"No time!" Their leader shouted. "He's already here!"

With all the doors unlocked, Iron Man made his entrance as he barged though the last security gate and reached the final floor of the facility. Now, with A.I.M in position, they wasted no time as they peppered their enemy with as many rounds as they can fire. Not fazed by their weapons as they bounced off his plating, Iron Man retaliated by shooting several blasts at the agents with some being unlucky enough to be hit.

"You know," Iron Man started to talk while he fired at A.I.M baddies. "I was about to play another song to make a cool entrance, but it's already way past midnight and I really want to get this over with. So can we please cut to the chase and get to the part where you guys give up?"

Feeling a bit insulted at how Iron Man was all blasé about dealing with A.I.M, the leader got up from his hiding spot and fired his sidearm at Iron Man who had his back turned. Thanks to Iron Man's armor, it was durable enough to take the rounds and was enough to alert Iron Man at who was shooting him in the back.

Now that his position was found, the A.I.M leader did his best to find a different spot, only for Iron Man to now focus on the man who runs the operations. Not wanting this to drag on, Iron Man added more fuel to his boots, making him close the distance and grabbing the leader by hooking his armed arms under the man's armpits.

"Looks like I caught the big fish." The flying metal man taunted. "Now, how about you tell your little colony to give up? Wouldn't want them to lose their queen, right?"

"No, Iron Man." Rather than screaming for dear life, the A.I.M Boss just laughed, pulled something from his person, and raised it over his head. "It is you who is caught!"

Not having time to react to what was about to happen, Iron Man's vision soon turned stark white, causing him to lose his vision and his ability to steer. His body soon reacted automatically to the discomfort, letting his prey go so he may try to get his eye back in order. As the boss fell back on the ground in a rough landing, one of the agent sprinted to their leader's side.

"Get to the controls!" The boss seethed in pain, possibly due to a fractured leg from the fall. "And get someone to shoot Iron Man down. NOW!"

"Yes, sir!" Raising two finger on the side of his helmet, the agent helping their boss soon talked to whoever was receiving the transmission. "We need someone on the machine guns, Iron Man is stunned, but not for long!"

Hearing the message, one of the nameless agents climbed to the machine guns attached to the giant laser cannon, aimed at Iron Man, and fired a hail storm of heavy artillery.

Still having his vision blurry, Iron Man was not able to defend himself as the machine gun's bullets pelted him with high rate of fire, that some of them were able to hit one of his propulsion boots. Not having a stable flight, he had no choice but brace for impact as he crash landed on the ground.

"Iron Man!" Spider-Man got out of his hiding spot and was tempted to help, but when he saw their leader starting to type something on the control board made his spider senses to go on high alert.

What came next came to a surprise to the rest of A.I.M as the leader typed a few button and soon, the entire base started to flash red followed by a loud voice telling everyone of what just happened.

[ALERT! ALERT! EJECT SEQUENCE HAS BEEN INITIATED! ALL MEMBERS MUST PROCEED TO THEIR DESIGNATED AREAS BEFORE LAUNCHING! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!]

"And now," Typing something else in the computer, the screen he was using started to show a timer set to count down. "Once this counter hits zero, It'll set off the rockets that will cause our escape, as well as bury Iron Man in the rubble! I must admit, our superiors still wish to take that armor, but seeing first had the capabilities it has, i'm sure they'll understand that it's better if no one has it. Good bye, Iron Ma-"

(TWIP! TWIP!)

"What!?" Screamed the A.I.M leader as a large sticky substance latched onto his helmet obscuring everything he sees. As he tried to remove it with his free hand, the man still tried his best to start the countdown only to realize that his other hand wasn't moving. "My hand's stuck! What the hell is happening now!?"

"What's happening is that I just stopped some dude who just did an evil monologue." Spider-Man spoke as he stooped the man from doing any more damage to his new friend. "Seriously, I mean, I heard Roman talk, but at least his talks were interesting to hear. Yours just sound bland and doesn't really have the same flamboyant charm... I know! Have you ever decided to wear eye liner?"

Having enough to deal with, he ripped off his helmet and faced whoever dared to do this to him. "Spider-Man!? You're here?! But we thought you stay within the city?!"

"Meh," Spider-Man shrugged his shoulders. "Decided I should try to open my webs a bit, make my home a little bit bigger. Or, maybe the fact that I have radical beekeepers trying to invade my home. Either way, I think this is the part where I just punch you until you don't even remember what day is today."

Having Iron Man was bad enough, but with Spider-Man in the mix and he thought that it would be the end for him. Too bad that in Spider-Man's attempt to stop him from starting the rockets, he failed to do something even more sinister.

"Oh no, Spider-Man." Using his free hand, the A.I.M operative pressed a button from the computer, causing the laser to activate. Not done yet, the man in charge punched the controls to make the giant weapon aim it's beam at Iron Man was finally getting back up on his feet,. The force behind it destroying the computer panel so no one will be able to stop it. "I won't forget the day we kill you and Iron Man!"

"Iron Man! NOOO!" Moving even before his mind can make a response, Spider-Man pushed his legs into overload as he sprinted to help Iron Man get out of the way. Having the superhuman speed as help, Spider-Man was fast enough to grab Iron Man before the laser could hit. "Got ya!"

'Spider sense still going crazy! I can't tell what type of danger it's telling me, there's so many people trying to shoot at us it's hard to actually sort out which is the bigger threat!'

Doing his best to maneuver under heavy fire, Spider-Man ignored the beam as it continued it's assault even though it's intended target was gone, hitting nothing but the walls. As it did not stop from firing, the machine soon started to overheat, causing it to increase the power it was emitting. Soon, the beam destroyed more earth, making everyone stop trying their luck to shoot the heroes and more on getting the heck out of dodge.

Seeing the agents heading to the upper floors, the leader decided to cut his loses by ripping his uniform in order to get his hand from Spider-Man's sticky webbing. Now, with both hands free, the man typed the final codes for the countdown, left, and soon the screen started to count down in five minutes.

"Iron Man," Spider-Man looked back to his friend who was under his arm. "Hand tight, I'm going to try and get us out of here!"

"Kind of hard to since I can't see anything right now!" The still blind Iron Man complained. "Dammit! Can't believe he decided to pull something like that! Next time, I'll make sure to remind myself to make my helmet optical lenses be able to endure a situation like that."

"That's great that your thinking about tomorrow, Iron Man! Because there's not going to be a next time if we don't get out!" Shooting a webline to attach itself to A.I.M's base, Spider-Man attempted to climb the string strand with one arm, but was stopped when he felt the base starting to move. "Hang on!"

What happened next, Spider-Man couldn't really explain really. The base that he tried his best to enter, now started to rise out of the was once an underground lair soon turned into a floating ship as it continued to rise higher and higher into the sky.

"Just a couple of more feet until we're in open air!" Spider-Man shouted to Iron Man. "We're going to make it!"

Feeling the sensation of a hot knife stabbing his skull, Spider-Man's head looked down at where his sense was telling him to see that the machine that was firing the laser started to glow a bright light. "That can't be good."

"What isn't good?" Iron Man asked before he was answered by the a large explosion that was caused by the laser overheating sending a large plume of fire and smoke upward. Just when the explosion was rising, Iron Man's helmet finally restarted, prompting him to see the upcoming fire reaching for them "Oh dear."

The force behind the shockwave made the two heroes become engulfed by the explosion, leaving them to see colors of orange and red until what was left of them to see was black followed by a loud crash.

(BOOM!)

And after all of that... was silence.

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Finally watch Enter the Spiderverce and I got to say that I am now and forever will be a diehard fan over Stan Lee and Steve Ditko for making a hero that can be anyone. I really recommend to watch the movie to those who are new to Spider-Man, the movie will show you more people who carry the title and maybe those types of Spider people will be your favorite Spider-Man.

Wow, let me tell you that this chapter was a roller coaster of trying to mesh together two already great heroes into one epic team up. I thought of how they both act, what they use, and also their opinion on Huntsmen. The beginning was just them bantering and also trying to understand one another before they have to fight a common enemy.

Jaune, who never thought of seeing another person do the same thing as he does, tries his best to act more mature since he sees someone who has a much more better grasp at dealing with A.I.M who is a step above the usual scrap fight Spider-Man deals with. I had my hand in the Iron Man's science talk about why they weren't spotted so soon in the Emerald forest, but I'm not sure if it makes any sense since I'm not that up to date on Iron Man facts.

This chapter had a lot of things now adding to the mix, one of them I'm sure your glad to see are the Grimm now taking a role in whatever A.I.M has in store for them. It's also the first time Jaune has ever saw one in person, even more surprising for him when he sees that there are other cages way bigger making him see the grand scale these monsters can become. You guys will probably wonder why A.I.M captured the Grimm, but that will be known in the next chapter, probably at the end I think.

Speaking about questions, another one I'm sure you guys will ask me is Jaune's new ability to feel movement through his webbing. Well, I would like to let you guys know that his newly discovered ability has been with him the entire time, he just never thought of using it on the floor he stands on though. It's also another gift bestowed upon him form his spider bite, the same with his organic webbing and night vision. If you guys wish to know more about it, then your not alone since Jaune will have to start looking In to his biology for any other secrets his body might be hiding!

For A.I.M, I wanted to have a group that Spider-Man was never really prepared for, if it was the Maggia he can at least compare them to Roman and his gang, so I thought of a group that would be too much for Spider-Man to handle alone. Needless to say, it worked, but a bit too much now that A.I.M has escaped and Iron Man and Spider-Man was caught in the blast. I hope you guys will forgive me in this cliffhanger, but with something like this, I can only make so much for a chapter. So, to keep it at a minimum, I will make this a two part, the second piece of this will be made before this month is over, so please take care and be patient. Thank you.

Shout out to my Beta who helped this story out, please check out his work when your done with this chapter. Don't forget to Fav, comment, and follow if you want the latest update. Hope you guys liked it!

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(Omake: The PIZZA Finale)

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It was really hard to understand sometimes that people think of Spider-Man as crazy for wearing a costume and pronouncing that he's an actual superhero. However, seeing two grown men wrestle in front of him who are also wearing colorful suits in a burning down fire makes Spider-Man almost agree that he could possibly crazy.

"You're dead, Wade!" The guy with an actual bullseye carved in his forehead said to the red merc.

"Are you seriously going for that?" Deadpool didn't seem fazed by the threat, in fact, he almost sounded disappointed. "Jesus, I hear that all the time and if I had a Lien for someone saying that to me, I could literally buy all the bullets I could get my hands on and kill every person who said that to me. Unfortunately I don't have a good memory , so I'm just going to say you're the first person and I'll start from there."

Still in Deadpool's hold, the killer wriggled his right hand into the side of his leg to pull out his knife, stabbed Deadpool's side, and used the small window to viciously buck his head back to break Deadpool's nose.

Rolling away to make some distance, Bullseye got to a knee and threw it at his opponent.

(TWIP!)

Right as the knife was just mere seconds away from sticking deep into Deadpool's head, the wallcrawler shot an organic web line to stop the throwing knife and changed the course to have it embedded into the roof.

Not yet done with his actions, Spider-Man aimed both wrists at the archer to stop his killing spree but was a bit surprised to see the man able to dodge his lines. Not giving up the fight, Bullseye could see the fire already eating most of the house so in his resourcefulness he elbowed a wall nearby. Ripping out some wood from the hole he made, he stuck them into the fire and was now holding firelit sticks and a hand full of rusty nails.

"RAAAH!" Throwing them with scary accuracy, Bullseye aimed for vital spots in the human body that would kill a normal man.

Too bad for him, Spider-Man isn't normal.

Fusing his enhanced agility and spider sense, he weaved past each thrown weapon aimed at him as if they were in slow motion. From outside perspective, it was Spider-Man that moved faster than the eye could see as he was still standing with no damage whatsoever.

"I've thrown things too, ya know!" Spider-Man taunted. "But I kind of stopped doing that since I'm no longer in kindergarten."

"Ha! Ha! Ha~!" Laughing at Spider-Man's jokes, Deadpool walked to his fellow masked vigilante and hanged an arm over Spider-Man's shoulder. "Heh heh… yeah, he means like throwing stuff is for kids."

"Why did you put your arm ar-what the hell!?" Spider-Man shouted his question as he saw the nails that were thrown at him were now in Deadpool's body. "Why are you hit!?"

"Oh, these?" Deadpool looked at the new wounds that were afflicted on him. "Yeah, Bullseye throwing stuff sounds stupid, but damn does he not make the craziest shots. Don't worry, it'll heal pretty quick."

"That just raises more questions than answers." He gave Deadpool a flat look. "Seriously, who are you guys and why are you two here? Also, this place is on fire, so why don't we take this outside?"

"Hey, this ain't our house and the guy who lives here is divorced, so I'm not sure if he even cares about this place since his ex-wife has custody at the end of the week."

"How do you know that?"

"Oh, I was here this morning, got bored, and went through his stuff. Got to say, the guy is a total loser, his wife is a smart lady for leaving him."

"This just makes me feel like I shouldn't be helping you."

"Hey, I never said I was the good guy here, but Bullseye is way worse. Plus, he has my guns."

"Guns?" Spider sense reacting to danger, Spider-Man pushed Deadpool out of the way just a second faster before a round was fired. "Why does he have a gun?! I thought he used a bow and arrow!"

"Oh, that's easy, the guns are mine." Deadpool answered with complete honesty. "I had them on my pants, outside, I mean. If he tried to grab the hun inside my pants then I would have had to buy him dinner and also a doctor visit."

"I feel like I should've let you got shot and trust me when I say this, I never felt that way to anybody."

"That's so sweet of you~" The merc with the mouth used his hands to make a heart shape over his chest.

Scowling at Spider-Man's interference, Bullseye decided that he overstayed his welcome and ran deeper into the burning fire. Not looking at his burden, Spider-Man caught sight of Bullseye trying to make a break for it. 'I can't let this guy leave! Got to stop him before any more distractions can happen!'

"Don't worry, Spider-Man!" Said distraction was the first one to gave chase to the crazed killer. "I got him!"

"You have got to be kidding me!" Not wanting to have this idiot make the problem even worse, Spider-Man tried to follow too but stopped when his sense kicked in.

Body stopping out of reflex, Spider-Man halted his pursuit when a beam from the house collapsed and separating the two loudmouths. "Deadpool! I'll meet you around back!"

"You got it, buddy! I'll make sure I get Bullseye! One way or the other!" Deadpool shouted from the other side.

"You mean alive!?" Spider-Man asked, not sure if he was liking what Deadpool was insinuating.

"...Sure!"

'At this point, I'll take what I can get.'

Exiting out of the front door, Spider-Man made it around the back of the house and waited for Bullseye to make his appearance.

"Alright, it shouldn't take too long for them to show up. Hopefully I can wrap this up and go back to wo-"

Suddenly, spider sense warning him of danger, Spider-Man instinctively dove back as an explosion erupted from the inside of the house. Getting up from the ground, Spider-Man looked back at the house to see there was nothing left to even call it a house, let alone seeing anyone else.

"Crap." Was all Spider-Man could say as he looked at the destroyed house. Not really sure what he should be feeling at the moment since both people he met were psychopaths.

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Not soon after, the cops finally arrived to investigate the crime scene, giving Spider-Man the signal to leave and let the authorities to handle the rest. Changing back to his normal attire, Jaune walked back to where he left his bike while also going over what the heck he just went through.

'That was the most confusing fight I ever encountered. I never saw those guys before and I'm not sure if I ever want to see them again. Still, I hope that Deadpool guy made it out, even though I feel like he's in the same level of craziness like Bullseye.'

Reaching the street where he left it, Jaune walked to where he remembered it, but soon realized he walked all the way to the end of the street without seeing his bike.

'This can't be happening,' Re-tracing his steps, Jaune walked on the same side walk in hopes that maybe someone just moved his bike somewhere. 'Why is this happening?!'

"Huh?" Stopping mid step, Jaune spotted a red circle painted on the curb of the sidewalk. Feeling like he had nothing to loose at this point, Jaune walked closer to get a better look. "You have got to be f#%*!# kidding me."

The symbol painted was a red circle with black lines followed by two white dots, resembling a certain merc Jaune had met not too long ago. Written beneath the symbol was a simple message from Deadpool saying that he I.O.U's for the person who owned the bike.

"I hate you, Deadpool." Was Jaune's only answer to the merc with the mouth as he simply walked back to his boss, told her the situation, and called her nephew, Jeremy, about how he'll probably loose his job.

Remembering what Deadpool's purpose for even being there in the first place made Jaune use the same harsh words Jeremy used to hurt Deadpool's contract: Meghan. Needless to say, if Jaune ever meets Deadpool again, he'll tell him that he doesn't have to go after Jeremy, not anymore.