A/N: Hello, everyone! Before I start, I'd like to give a shout out to Vumanchu, who took up my challenge and is writing an incredible story where Neo is transported to New York and fights alongside Spider-Man, titled New York's Neopolitan. It's an awesome story that deserves more attention, so check it out!
Also, while Neo has now begun her journey with the Wall Crawler, many other RWBY characters are up for grabs! You could also choose to write a story where Blake, Yang or even Qrow, really anyone you can think of, winds up in New York and fights crime with our favorite web head! I'd love to see what anyone could come up with! Oh, but apparently, Spider-Man PS4 is its own category now, so that's something to consider when putting this story in categories. Minor thing, but still worth mentioning.
But without further ado, back to Pyrrha's adventures as Arkos alongside the arachnid hero!
Our heroes flew towards the building where the CFO of Oscorp lived, which was currently, being invaded by the demons. However, they didn't get too far from MJ's apartment when the redheaded reporter called them. "Hey, MJ." Peter said.
"This curry is legit." She told them.
"I'm kind of disappointed I missed out on it, then." Pyrrha stated.
"Don't worry, there will be leftovers." MJ assured her.
"So, what have we got on Charles Standish?" Peter asked.
"Let's see... He's the Chief Financial Officer at Oscorp. Single. Known for his art collection." MJ listed.
"Then we'll have to be careful not to damage it. Right, Peter?" Pyrrha questioned.
"Y-yeah. Of course." Peter agreed. "But if Li's after him, it's gotta be related to Devil's Breath." He pointed out.
"I'll run a search on everything in that file." MJ said.
"Thank you." Pyrrha said gratefully.
"Yeah. Let us know the second you find something. I have a feeling Li has something planned even worse than City Hall." Peter said.
"Could he really do something worse than that?" Pyrrha asked, horrified.
"I don't know. But I'd rather not find out." Peter said.
"So, are we partners now? Cause it kind of feels like we are." MJ said.
"I've considered you a partner from the beginning. Just try not to do anything too reckless." Pyrrha told her.
"Sounds good to me." Peter agreed.
"Alright. See ya, partners!" MJ said before hanging up.
It was no sooner that the call ended that our heroes arrived on the scene, watching the cops struggle to hold off a small group of demons as more were seen entering the building through a garage door. "It looks like the cops could use some help." Peter said.
"Then let's move!" Pyrrha declared, jumping into action, flinging her shield at one demon to knock him out, before retrieving it and dropping down on another one.
Spider-Man, meanwhile, used a web strike takedown to knock out one, before jumping to the next and landing a solid four hits on him, before uppercutting him into the air and hitting him four more times, finishing with a devastating double-foot smash to his masked face, sending the demon flying. Spider-Man then moved to the next thug and did his finisher where he dashes past and hits the target with two haymakers, before securing the knockout with a spinning jump kick. Pyrrha then smashed her shield into the face of the demon closest to her, throwing another one close to her to the ground and taking out two more further down the alley with her dust rounds, before uppercutting the last one, the one she'd merely thrown to the ground, into the air, jumping after him and finishing him off in a manner similar to what she did to Cardin.
"Jeez, these freakin terrorists don't know when to give up! Thanks for the assist, Spider-Man. You, too, Arkos. We're gonna have to call in a wagon." One of the officers said.
"Happy to help. But you may need two wagons. There's bound to be more inside." Pyrrha told them as Spider-Man opened the garage, the two of them quickly entering.
The two vigilantes hurried into the garage, where they soon found a security guard on the ground next to his van, injured. The two quickly hurried over to him. "You're hurt..." Peter said.
"I'm fine. But you've gotta find Mr. Standish. Fast! Those guys in the masks kidnapped him and forced him up to his place! He lives in the Penthouse! Top Floor!" The guard explained.
"We'll do all we can for him. Just stay here and rest." Pyrrha instructed him, before noticing a quartet of demons running at them, two with kamas and two unarmed.
She flung her shield at one of the unarmed ones in between the two with kamas, hitting him and knocking him back into a wall to quickly knock him out. She then used her gauntlets to pull the kamas away from the two who held them, catching them off-guard and pulling them forward a bit as they attempted to keep a hold on their weapon, at which point she rushed in with her spear, crouching and spinning it above her head to hit both demons in the head, knocking them out as well, before turning her spear into a rifle and shooting the last demon in his knees, dropping him to his knees, turning the rifle back into a spear and knocking the thug out with it.
"Whoa. Nice work, partner." Peter said.
"Thank you. But there's still more." Pyrrha said as a demon with a shield came towards them.
"No problem." Spider-Man said, deploying one of his drones, which flew after some demons in the distance, before Spider-Man himself slid under the shield-wielding demon's legs and delivering a couple of kicks to his back. He then web zipped over to where the next demon was, having been stunned by the Spider-Drone, allowing him to web throw a palette laying around at the thug, before zip line kicking him for a quick knock out. One last demon was at the far end of the garage, near the ramp to the lower level, where he fired at the web slinger, who zipped over to him, delivering a few hits and connecting a trip mine to his chest to stick him to a support pillar.
Two more demons suddenly came from nowhere and charged towards the wall crawler, one with a shield and the other unarmed, while on the lower level, another shield-wielder came at our hero, along with an unarmed thug while two more, one with a rifle and one with a pistol, shot at him from a distance. As Spider-Man went towards the group on the lower level, the thugs on the level with him charged after him.
Unfortunately, they hadn't noticed Pyrrha, who ran up behind them, using her spear to sweep the legs out from under him, before raising her right leg and slamming him to the ground with it to knock him out. The shielded demon turned back to Pyrrha and came at her, while she swung her sword down on him. He blocked, but this allowed her to kick him in his left knee, bringing him down onto it and swinging down on him again, but he blocked the attack again, but the shield was now above him. Pyrrha then jumped and stood on top of the shield and the man, before jumping and stomping down on the shield hard, causing her opponent to falter under the weight, collapsing to the floor with Pyrrha, his shield and her armor all on top of him, knocking him out.
Back downstairs, Spider-Man threw another an orange traffic drum at his shielded demon opponent, knocking him out with no effort, before reaching the unarmed thug and bringing him down with the hurricanrana. He then fired an electric web at the demon with a pistol while the one with the rifle threw a grenade at him, which he quickly sent back, knocking them both down, where he quickly webbed them to the ground. Five more demons ran in, but he hit them with a web bomb, binding them and sticking one to the wall.
Pyrrha came down the ramp and flung her shield at one of them, sending him back into a wall, which he stuck to. She then rushed in and hit another demon with a few hits from the flat side of her sword, a shield strike to the head knocking them out as Spider-Man uppercut one and yanked him back to the ground, sticking him to it, before turning to the last one and kicking him in the chest, breaking him out of the web and sending him flying back, before attaching a pair of web lines to him and yanking him back down into the ground to knock him out.
Suddenly, a couple of elevators opened and two demons came out of each one, with a brute coming out of the second one as well. "Wait, you guys all work here, too? Man, they're serious about parking enforcement." Spider-Man said, firing a trip mine onto one of the small demons, getting him stuck to a wall.
"And there are surely more in the Penthouse. Whatever the demons are after here, they're serious about getting it." Pyrrha added. The brute went for Pyrrha first, putting her on the defensive as she blocked his attacks, allowing Spider-Man to go after the smaller ones, landing a few punches and an uppercut on one, jumping after him and finishing him with a double foot kick. He landed and delivered a simple beat down to the next demon, before webbing towards the one in the back and webbing him up, hitting him with another simple combo to finish the job.
Back with Pyrrha, she sidestepped the brute's next attack against her and stomped on the back of his left leg, bringing him to his knee and delivering a spinning backhand with her shield, knocking him back. He recovered though and did a backwards roll to get into a crouched position, charging the negative energy inside him, but before he could unleash it, Pyrrha fired several shots from her rifle into him, injuring him enough to make him stop charging his attack and pant heavily from exhaustion, before she flung her shield into his face to knock him out.
"A for effort. Good fight." Peter said.
"Right, but we can't waste much more time. Surely, they're close to getting whatever they need from Standish by now. And when they're done, I have a feeling he will be as well. And we probably can't take the elevators now. They must know we're here, so we'd be walking into an ambush taking one of them." Pyrrha said.
"Then we'll just go up the elevators shafts themselves." Spider-Man explained, opening one. The two of them made their way through the first two elevator shafts with ease, before the demons apparently became wise to their presence and began to drop the elevators down on them in the third shaft. Luckily, Pyrrha was able to use her semblance on the elevator in the lane they were on until they could move out of the way, circumventing the danger and allowing them to reach the top, finally entering Standish' penthouse. Upon entry, Spider-Man quickly spotted the CFO. "There's Standish." He pointed out.
"And they're forcing him onto the computer. They must be after codes or documents of some kind." Pyrrha noted.
"Well, let's not waste any time and take these guys out." Peter suggested, webbing up a guy walking below them and Pyrrha levitated the gun of the demon in front of the one Spider-Man had taken out, lifting him into the air a few feet before smacking it into his face and letting him drop to knock him out. They moved to the other side of the room, where two demons patrolled just in front of Standish's office zone. Spider-Man fired a web shot near the office to distract the one closest to it, before webbing up the one further away, while Pyrrha threw a vial of liquid metal at the one Spider-Man distracted, before pulling him up and connecting him to the beam they stood on.
The then moved to the center of the room, above the lower floor. Spider-Man and Pyrrha each did a perch takedown on one of the demons at the far end of the room, before Pyrrha quickly dropped down on top of the last one to knock him out. Suddenly, two more demons suddenly emerged from a side room, Pyrrha quickly throwing her spear at one of them to pin him to a wall as Spider-Man hit the other with a trip mine, sending him into the pillar in front of him. Pyrrha then threw her shield at the demon she pinned to the wall in order to knock him out as well.
However, the demons must have known their men had been taken down, as their goggles revealed several more were now on the upper level. They went back up into the rafters and moved to the area above Standish's office, where a brute and another demon stood. Spider-Man webbed up the brute and Pyrrha used another vial of liquid metal for her perch takedown, sticking him to the beam just below herself. They then moved to the other end of the room, where one more demon stood just below them and another looking down at the room below from the railing. Spider-Man fired another trip mine, sticking the man to the pillar beside him as Pyrrha once again dropped onto the demon below them.
"Good job. That's the last of them." Peter said.
"Right. We should hurry and help Mr. Standish then." Pyrrha said, jogging over as Spider-Man web-zipped over. The two of them reached the glass office and the spider-themed hero prepared to pry the doors open, before his Spider sense alerted him to danger, turning to face it as a sword-wielding demon suddenly burst through the doors at the other end of the hall, charging forward and doing a flip as he swung the sword, sending a vertical wave of negative energy at the heroes, but Pyrrha stood in the way and blocked it with her shield.
She then rushed forward and blocked the demon's next strike with her shield, swinging her sword, which he blocked, but this allowed her to hit him in the side with her shield, doubling him over, before hitting him in the head with the shield, sending him reeling. Several demons rushed in to provide support, but Spider-Man jumped in to intercept them, kicking an unarmed demon back into a pillar and hitting him with a shock web, before using his web impact to blast a pair of demons, sticking one to a wall behind him and another to the railing in front of him. One more demon rushed in to pick up the gun of the one webbed to the wall, but Spider-Man jumped into the air, fired down a pair of web lines and yanked himself down, crashing into the demon to knock him out.
Pyrrha once again clashed swords with the demon, slamming her shield into his masked face, spinning backwards and turning her sword into a rifle and taking aim just as the demon recovered, firing a round into his face to knock him out. "Second time's the charm?" She suggested unsurely, to which Peter nodded and pried open the doors. "You're alright, sir. They've been dealt with. You're safe." Pyrrha told him.
The man crawled out from behind his desk and stood up. "Thank you, both of you." He said.
"What were they after?" Peter asked.
"Just financial records." Standish explained.
"About Devil's Breath?" Spider-Man questioned.
"How do you know about that?" Standish asked.
"We know it's dangerous, but that's it. We were hoping you'd know more. And maybe why they'd want it." Pyrrha explained.
"I don't even know what it is. Mr. Osborn's been pouring money into it for years, but he keeps the whole project a secret. I'm the only one with any record of it." Standish told them.
"Not anymore. Looks like they copied the records to a private server. Payroll information on a Doctor Isaac Delaney." Spider-Man said.
"And that is?" Pyrrha asked.
"I honestly don't know." Standish told them.
Suddenly, the three saw a helicopter rising up. "Move!" Pyrrha cried out, grabbing both men and throwing them towards the door and to the ground, holding her shield out in front of her, blocking the negatively charged bullets. She then flung her shield out the window and hit the demon manning the minigun, knocking him out of the chopper. Pyrrha quickly flew out the window and into the aircraft, flinging down a vial of liquid metal at the falling demon and hitting him, allowing her to pull him back in and stick him to a wall while avoiding pistol fire from the pilot. Once the demon was stuck, Pyrrha yanked away the gun and slammed her shield into the pilot's head to knock him out. The helicopter began to spin out of control without a pilot, so Pyrrha quickly took co-pilot seat and started to control the machine, managing to shakily bring it down to the ground.
About that time, she noticed Spider-Man and Standish emerging from the building. She got out of the chopper and started to approach them, before several Sable vehicles showed up and jumped out of their vehicles, most rushing towards Spider-Man, but a few moving in front of Pyrrha as well. "Back off, Arkos! This area is under Sable's control! Get lost!" One of them warned. Pyrrha glared at them, before looking over and seeing her partner having similar luck, Sable agents shoving him away from Standish and shooing him off with their guns. "And if Standish told you anything, you better forget it. Fast!" He snapped.
"I certainly hope the money you earn is worth trading your souls for." Pyrrha told them before flying off after Spider-Man. She soon reunited with him on the rooftop. "Those Sable agents are certainly pieces of work." She said.
"Yeah, right? We're all supposed to be on the same side here." Peter agreed.
Yuri suddenly called them. "Hey, you okay?" She asked.
"Yeah, but we weren't able to get much out of Standish before Sable swooped in and told us to back off." Peter explained. "So, what's their deal?" He asked.
"I get the sense all they care about is keeping him quiet." Yuri explained.
"They certainly don't seem like the type to share information." Pyrrha agreed.
"Because he knows about Devil's Breath." Peter told them both.
"Right. Whatever the hell THAT is." Yuri said.
"I'm afraid we can't help you with that yet." Pyrrha said.
"But we do have a lead." Peter said.
"'A lead?' You're starting to sound like a cop." Yuri said, a bit impressed.
"Don't you mean..." Peter started, smirking under his mask. "Spider-Cop?" He questioned, now putting on a deep, gruff voice. Pyrrha sighed at this as she heard Yuri hang up. "Yuri?" Spider-Man asked. No response. "That's fair." He asked, before Pyrrha smirked and pushed him off the building. "Hey, that isn't!" He cried out, firing a web line into the building to save himself.