Issue 21: The Web, the Sword or the Knee

Inside Valm Castle

BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST-"Now, that's a declaration of war if I've ever heard one!"

"Th-they... There must be several hundred thousand soldiers out there," said a worried Excellus after learning of "his" dynasts now working together with the Ylisseans and slowly approaching the capital for the final battle. "Would they dare…?! Is it…Is it possible…Is it possible it was Yen'fay they feared all along, and not me?!" He wondered, sounding really nervous now.

"Without him to back it up, your threat was only the grand shadow of a tiny spider." Walhart said, sitting on his red throne.

"Tiny spider, is it? Well this spider has woven other webs in secret you could not even—."

"You mean how you blackmailed Yen'fay to keep his loyalty? Your "secret" alliance with the two doctors?" Walhart interrupted the frightened general. "Or perhaps your correspondence with the Plegian woman…Aversa, was it? Yes, I know you have designs on the Fire Emblem... You have no secrets from me, worm." Walhart confirmed he knows SOME of what Excellus has planned, just not the whole story.

Now the Valmese tactician is scared down to the bone. "B-b-b-but... I... I don't... If you...knew all of that...w-why..."

"Why haven't I killed you? ...I've asked myself the same thing, several times... But you're no threat to me, none of you are. And I admit, you have your uses. Besides, I'm not one for court jesters, but you do...amuse me." The emperor admitted.

The comment definitely offended his tactician. "Amuse you? I AMUSE you, like I'm a jester?! Are you AMUSED now? With a million swords at your door, come for your head?! You've lost! Lost, and you are going to DIE! All of you, ALL OF YOU! But not me! I want no part of this suicide!"

Walhart stays silent after that little, but expected outburst from his general before speaking again in a calm tone of voice. "...Why, Excellus, did you just volunteer to lead my personal guard against the rebels?"

Excellus looks surprised. "…What?! No, that's-."

"Unless you'd rather fight me. Right here! RIGHT NOW." Walhart raises his voice along with his Exo power.

"Mercy! Mercy!" Excellus falls down to his knees to beg for his rude insolence. "F-Forgive me, my master! A moment's madness only, it will not return!"

"Then it's settled: we have our new captain of the guard. Congratulations, Captain. You'll be right at my side until the fray is upon us." Walhart leaves the room to a panting Excellus and Cervantes.

"Do give our guests a warm welcome, snake. Perhaps offer them some of your tea? Hah hah…My equal…Pah!" Cervantes scoffed at his pathetic co-hort before he too leaves the worthless tactician alone.

"...They forget who I am. I could have fried them both where they stood with my magic! We will crush these rebels... We MUST crush these rebels..." Excellus thinks of a malicious idea that causes him to smile. "Or maybe...if Walhart is sufficiently injured...I might "amuse" him with a spell... Nya ha, either way, this spider crawls out alive! Eee hee hee hee!" He cackled.

BGM End


Later on, to prepare for the final battle against Chrom and his forces, Walhart returns to his main throne room that contains the heroes' captured friends. "So, are you gonna let us go?" Yang casually asked the emperor from her little capsule prison.

"Hmph."

"Is that a no?" She responded.

"You're surprising confident for someone who's castle is slowly falling apart." Shadow mocked after Sonic destroyed part of Valm Castle during his battle against the Egg Dragon.

"Where are the doctors?" Walmart asked as he sits on his throne, ignoring Shadow's snarky comment.

"Who knows, who cares. They probably ditched you knowing you've lost." Amy said with a snarky smirk.

"Is that so? We'll see about that, once I've eradicated the pesky resistance off the face of the earth thanks to the War Stone." Walhart said all calm and collected.

"Not happening," said Scarlet Spider. "I may not like him a whole lot, but I'm confident Spider-Man WILL take you down."

"And what makes you so sure, little bug?" Walhart asked the clone of Spider-Man. Then, without warning, a massive rumbling shakes the entire castle, causing most of Walhart's men to tremble to their feet from all that sudden ruckus.

Kaine smirked behind the mask. "You're about to find out."

BGM-Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn (English) OST-Gogeta's Theme

Hundreds of the Valmese soldiers quickly run to guard the massive front doors for any intruders, but before they knew it the doors blew apart from two very large web tendrils the size of a buick producing from the ground. Through the thick smoke, the scared Valmesians barely spot the sinister spider-like eyes glowing from a mysterious figure that's approaching them. "Knock knock." The person with the voice of a man and a beast casually said through the smoke.

"Fire!" One soldier shouted, commanding everyone to shot down this mysterious entity with everything they got, but nothing seems to be working, if at all.

"Is that anyway to treat your guests? Such hostile hospitality." Using his will and eyes alone, the joking spider warrior exerts a powerful shockwave that knocks out a good majority of Walhart's indoor army while also vanquishing the smoke to reveal Spider-Man in his Shin Black Ace Armor mode standing beside his Ylissean Army. "I think I overdid it a bit. I knocked out half of his army. Though I'm sure more will arrive soon for me to take care of. You kiddies just stay back and enjoy the show." The fused Spider-Man said so confidently that he could demolish Walhart and his men by himself.

"What, and let you have all the fun?" Chrom smirked back at the cocky spider.

"Nah. Just looking out in case you stub your toe." Spidey chuckled.

BGM End

"Look, I see Walhart. He's seating on his throne room." Sun points to the great emperor seating on his throne across the large hall. "It doesn't seem like he's thinking about escape."

"And his soldiers," continued Robin. "They look ready to die before they'd surrender. One must admire their loyalty, at least."

"He does inspire that in people. It's part of what makes him so dangerous." Chrom said.

"He inspires that in SOME people." Tails responded.

"Yes, in some. But not me." Chrom replied.

"Not in any of us. So let's end his reign once and for all!" Ruby said, pulling down her hood to make herself look more serious with her Crescent Rose.

BGM-Dragon Ball Super OST-The Wall Before One's Eyes 1

"I call first dibs. Try not to get in my way if you don't want to get hurt." Spidey cockily said before disappearing without a trace.

Weiss scoffed at Spidey's new attitude. "Cocky bastard."

Sonic chuckled. "I'm liking this cocky Spidey. Let's go, everyone!" Sonic and the rest of the army charge head-first against Walhart's men, removing all the stops so they could make this a clear-cut victory for the Ylisseans.

As the hyper-speedy Black Ace, Spidey tears through dozens of Valmese soldiers with his nova strike charge alone, leaving a path of destruction behind. "You Valmese have been cybernetically enhanced, right? That means I can afford to be a little reckless." Spidey smirked, striking many Valmese soldiers with extended spider-legs, pounding them to the ground with giant aura fists. Some Valmese robots tries to fight back against this fused Spider-Totem, but Spidey's too quick for any of their shots to hit. "Not a good idea to fight a spider that can produce black holes." With one hand, Spidey fires a small black hole that sucks up all the surrounding robots so they could disperse into tiny bolts after a small explosion. "I'm not even close to being done yet." He then forms a large glyph made of webbing beneath a huge horde of Valmese, causing large web tendrils to encase them in a massive cocoon. "Play ball!" He kicks the large web ball straight smacking into another horde of Valmese, finishing off both squadrons with ease. "Is this the best Walhart's got? I'm disappointed." Black Ace said so sassily.

Not even a combined sneak attack from the hidden Baron Mordo and Mandarin were able to catch Spider-Man off guard, as his enhanced spider-sense warned him of their presence long before they tried to strike him. "If it isn't Mordo and Mandarin. I thought you learned by now nothing surprises me."

Mordo scoffs. "Don't act overconfident because you dodged our attacks, spider. Your new armor won't save you from us!" Both villains attack Spidey again with their strongest attacks, only for him to switch to Red Joker and effortlessly tank their blasts. "What the?! Impossible!" Mordo gasped.

Spidey smirked, using his dinosaur-like tail to slam them to a wall. As they catch their breath, they are assaulted by Black Ace Spidey's blurry invisible strikes, immensely faster than the eye can see. "Is this really the same Spider-Man?! He's acting like a completely different person!" Mandarin remarked in pain.

"Because I am." Spidey roundhouse kicks Mandarin away, dragging him back to a spider-leg combo finisher. "It's hard to control myself in this form. My animal instincts tend to go wild." Black Ace teleports in front of Mordo and outright demolish him with a plethora of speedy kicks. "I'm also a little more brutal and aggressive, but I'm just sane enough not to kill you. There's no fun in killing funny prey, but I doubt there's anyone funnier than me."

"Shut up!" Mordo blasts Spidey with an enormous magic blast that he avoids.

"What kind of jokester shuts up? It's against their code." Spidey thrusts both palms to the side, powering up two large web shurikens powered by a black hole core. "Have fun in the void." He throws both shurikens at Mordo, sucking him into the Black Hole Web-rikens before he's released after a huge explosion caused by their great power. "You just gotta love the fusion between magic and science. Oh, and the ISO-8. Can't forget about that." He said before moving to another area to test his combined might. Not far from him, Lucina, Tiki, and Say'ri are totally in shock of Spidey's incredible spider-power.

BGM End

"Such formidable power. Nothing that I've ever experienced in my life…Is this really the power between Spider-Man and the Other?" Lucina questioned in awe.

"Indeed. Great power that rivals the gods." Tiki answered.

"How terrifying, yet so assuring he's on our side." Say'ri said before they resumed tearing through Walhart's domain as a team.

BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST-Aggression (Galvanized)

Slowly, the heroes stomp out the resistance that's guarding Emperor Walhart, but General Cervantes and Excellus aren't allowing that to happen. "Rally every last man! We make our stand with Emperor Walhart!" One soldier said, slicing down a few Ylisseans soldiers before he was cut down by the skillful Silver Samurai, making his stance against Cervantes.

"Out of my way, Cervantes. Your Emperor and I have an appointment." Silver Samurai said.

"Let's have it then, rebellious scum! Like a flimsy belt around the waist of defeat, you shall buckle here!" Cervantes clashes with Harada's katana, repeatedly striking the former General to the Valmese. Having being incredibly more skilled than this fool of a warrior, Silver Samurai, with ease, blocks all of his foe's attacks, slicing off the head of Cervantes' Tomahawk. "Wha-?!" He shockingly looks at his axe-less Tomahawk.

"You are a disgrace to all warriors! Fall!" With a shining silver strike, Silver Samurai defeats Cervantes in one impressive blow to his armor.

"I…am finished…Nngh…But I have no regrets…I die in the shadow of…greatness…" Cervantes said upon his defeat.

"You are not worthy of being killed, vermin." Harada stomps his foot on the oaf's face, knocking him out. "Sulk in despair." He insulted before turning back to more worthless soldiers in need of being destroyed.

Nearby, Robin, Tails and Weiss give Say'ri cover, dispatching many obstacles obstructing her path of revenge against Excellus. Then, when there's no one left to protect him, Excellus finds himself confronting the anger of Yen'fay's younger sister. "…You…YOU! You and Yen'fay cost me EVERYTHING!" He shouted at Say'ri.

"I only pray my brother is watching…" Say'ri says, putting to her side Yen'fay's old sword, Amatsu that she picked up after her brother's sacrifice. "Yen'fay, guide my hand!" She says as she gets ready to take down Excellus once and for all.

"You got this, Say'ri!" Weiss encouraged the Chon'sin princess.

"We'll cover you if you need it!" Robin shouted.

"Do your best!" Tails said.

"Burn!" Excellus sets off an explosion of fire magic right below Say'ri's feet. Luckily, she leaped away just before the fires engulfed her. She runs around Excellus as the frustrated mage keeps trying to burn her to bone.

"My turn!" Say'ri darts for a quick slash on Excellus, backflip kicking him away for distance.

"I will not die by your hands, YOU HEAR ME!" Excellus, angrier than ever, launches a large fire blast that Say'ri successfully blocked with Amatsu. She swiftly cuts through the flames and jumps into the air for one final attack.

"Submit, Excellus!" Say'ri shouted. With a loud war-cry, she comes down with an amazing sword finish too fast for anyone to track down, finally defeating the tricky tactician.

"Say'ri, you did it!" Tails said.

Say'ri smiled. "Aye, but we still have Walhart to deal with. Let us go and take back this land!" She said as they head towards the throne room.

BGM End

BGM-Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 OST-Caution

Even though he could sense his mortal enemies vastly approaching his throne, Walhart stays as calm as the quiet wind, not nervous at all since he wields ultimate power stuck in his chest. Nevertheless, he gets on his horse and prepares for his final battle against Chrom and Spider-Man. "Worthless flies, thinking they can take on a dragon? They are going to regret messing with the conqueror for this futile assault."

"Might we have a taste of that action," said Scarlet Spider, punching through his capsule with extreme force and anger, then freeing his other captured friends who were imprisoned.

"What?! How did you escape?" Walhart asked in slight surprise.

"You had a little bug problem." Yang deviously points to the many spiders that cut the wiring of their prisons, thanks to Scarlet Spider's ability to talk to spiders. "Awesome plan, Scarlet."

"Your men are totaled and outnumbered. Now it's our time to strike you down, conqueror!" Shadow declared.

"You would challenge the Conqueror himself once again?!" Walhart angrily smooshed a tiny spider crawling he spot on the ground.

Kaine unsheathes his spider-stingers. "We dare, punk. You are going to pay for everything you've done! WE SWEAR YOU'RE GOING TO PAY!" Kaine roars his way through Walhart's brutal assaults from his axe, leaping right from it for a rage-filled punch to the face. "That was for Basilio!" He said, wanting to avenge Basilio's death. Irritated, Walhart infuses his Wolf Berg with the War Stone's power to blow away Kaine with a ruthless shockwave if he didn't use one of his powers to teleport away from the blast that carved through his castle. "I love these ISO-Spider powers. Ilia!" He turned to the faunus for assistance, which she silently nods in acknowledgement to his plan.

Scarlet Spider throws Ilia straight darting at Walhart with his webbing, blinding the emperor with his webbing so he won't notice her going invisible at the last second. Just as Walhart rips through the webbing blinding his vision, he's suddenly met with the merciless Yang and Amy. "It's time for payback!" Amy declared. Walhart would've had an easy time blasting them if an invisible Ilia didn't pull down his horse and Kaine didn't web it up to the ground, causing the emperor to fall to the ground so the two womanly powerhouses could pound him with a brutal slam.

"Miserable children! Your dirty tricks have no meaning against me!" Walhart said, having barely felt any damage since his War Stone grants him nigh-invulnerability. The vicious emperor strikes Amy down with his axe before blasting Yang into Ilia's direction, knocking both players out. Shadow and Scarlet Spider quickly worked together to perform a couple of devastating teleporting attacks to confuse Walhart, ending with Kaine barraging his chest with flaming fists of pain before Walhart buries his head to the ground. Shadow had the idea of striking at the War Stone itself, thinking it may weaken him. He did that, and while it did deliver decent damage, all it did was irritate Walhart to unleash a giant blast of energy that would've vaporized everyone in the throne room if Shadow didn't cancel it out with his own Chaos Blast.

BGM End

"You vermin aren't as weak as I imagined." Walhart complimented their strength, noticing they're a little stronger since their last humiliating defeat.

"That's because you underestimated us." Kaine said.

"A mistake I will surely not repeat." Just as Walhart raises his enhanced axe for the finishing blow, he's attacked by heroic reinforcements from behind.

"Thoron!" Robin engulfs Sonic in a powerful horizontal lightning bolt to spin attack Walhart to the ground, allowing the soldiers to distract Walhart for a while as they attend to their other friends.

"Hey, guys. You alright?" Sonic asked after reuniting with his captured friends.

"We're fine, hedgehog." Shadow replied with his usual stoic tone.

"Oh, Sonic!" Amy immediately hugs the nervous hedgehog. "I knew you'd come and save me!"

"Yang!" Ruby tearfully runs to hug her big sister.

"Ruby! I'm so glad you're okay! I was worried sick." Yang said, embracing her sister's hug.

"YOU were worried sick? I should be the one saying that." Ruby said, getting a chuckle from the blond sister.

"Kaine!" Aracely flies up to reunite with her champion. "I sensed you were still alive. I just KNEW you were alive. You are pretty hard to kill, considering you fought werewolves, assassins, world-ending bad guys, etc. How many times did you come back to life anyways? Like 3? 4?" She babbled on and on, something that Kaine strangely missed from her.

"Heh. Nice to see you're okay, Aracely." Scarlet smiled.

"Ilia!" Blake runs up to her best friend. "You're okay." She smiled as she's relived to see her friends safe and sound.

"How did you all escape?" Chrom asked as he approaches.

"Kaine used the spiders to break us out of our capsules." Ilia answered.

"Kaine thought of a plan? Guess my mentorship is finally working on you, aren't they?" Blake slyly smirked at her grumpy apprentice.

"Hmph. Maybe. So does this mean I'll finally get a vacation from your lousy teachings?" Kaine rudely asked.

"To Mexico? I'll buy you a first-class ticket." Blake smirked.

"Heh. I'm starting to like this cat girl." Kaine said, not in the romantic sense, maybe.

"It's strangely always the cats us spiders are attracted to. Never understood that." A sudden Black Ace Spider-Man appeared out of nowhere next to Scarlet.

"What the-Peter? Is that you?" Kaine asked, never seeing Peter in his finalized Totem forms.

"Is it that Black Ace form from before? It looks a bit different." Ilia noted, remembering witnessing Regular Black Ace but not the Shin Variant.

"Black Ace? What the hell is this?" Kaine asked, still confused and a little surprised. "And your voice? What are you? Are you Peter or that Ero spider guy?"

"Tsk. What a troublesome question." Spidey stoically closed his eyes and crosses his arms, definitely pulling his inner Ero with his gruff personality. "Call me whatever you want, we have other business to attend to."

"Nice to see you acting a little more serious." Scarlet remarked.

"That tends to vary." Blake responded.

"Walhart!" Chrom shouts to the ruthless emperor after he knocked out the troublesome Ylissean soldiers.

"Prince…" Walhart replied with a staredown between Chrom and the transformed Spider-Man, taking interest in the latter. "And it would seem the little insect has fully transformed into the horrible monster I will soon slaughter."

"Thanks for the nice compliment, Walter." Spidey quipped.

"Will you surrender?" Chrom asked the emperor.

"Don't waste my time with questions you know the answers to, boy." Walhart responded to Chrom's foolish question of surrendering.

"It did not have to be this way... You believe in mankind's strength... So did my sister. You believe that we are masters of our destinies... So do I. You could have joined us." Chrom said.

"ME, JOIN YOU?!" Walhart retorted. "Does a pegasus join with the flea on its back? A dragon, with a cow it eats?! You forget your place, BOY. I am the Conqueror! I will unite the world!"

"With what? That stone in your chest that literally has the name "WAR" in it? The same stone that's been the cause of death of so many people that'll CONTINUE reject your rule. How can you unite the world when everyone's DEAD?" Spidey asked with a stern tone hidden in his voice.

"This stone will help me end ALL wars, that is its purpose! I will create a new world, one full of everlasting peace!" Walhart declared.

"No! ...We will." Chrom gently responded. "And not by forcing all the people to choose the sword or the knee. Peace will only come by stoking people's hearts...not their fear."

"You think that's what you've done? What your sister did before you? No, she shouted some nonsense and leapt off a rock! Such weakness!" Walhart loudly replied.

"Wrong. Not weakness, strength. That one act lives on, and WILL live on, longer than all your conquests…" Chrom said.

BGM-Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 OST-Edge of Spirit

"And longer than you will…Come then, flea, and die for your peace!" Walhart starts charging up Exo Armor to its fullest limit, intending to finish off his worthless opponents as quickly as possible.

"Emm, I tried…" Chrom said, feeling bad that he couldn't get Walhart to join their side of true justice and unity.

"This isn't the time to be moody, Chrom. No matter what we say, he's not going to listen. Let's finish him off and sever his web." Spidey said, preparing himself for battle.

"Right. Let's finish this, everybody!" Chrom shouted, standing alongside his friends to defeat the Valm Emperor for good this time.

"Submit!" Walhart launches a fiery diagonal axe beam that forces the heroes to dodge quickly.

"Have we thought of a plan to beat this guy?!" Sun asked, jumping around the throne to avoid being blasted into atoms.

"Physical attacks won't do much good against him unless it's on his reactor. Even with that weak point, it won't be enough to win." Shadow said while running from Walhart's cosmic flames.

"Leave it to me," said Spidey, distracting Walhart with energy web bullets. "I've fully scanned his armor during our last brief dance-off and there seems to be a limit to how much power can he absorb from the Exo Stone. If I can redirect his energy mixed with my own, I should be able to overheat the armor."

"Spider-Man, are you sure? That's WAY too much power we're talking about!" Robin conversed.

Spider-Man sticks himself to the wall with his spider-legs. "Have a little faith. My own reactor was created thanks to an Exo Stone. In this finalized form, I can handle anything."

"Take the lead, Spider-Man. Just…how will you force him to attack you with the Exo Stone?" Chrom asked, blocking a strike from Walhart.

"Hmph. Seems you've forgotten who I am." Spidey smirked. As Walhart was busy fighting Lucina and Knuckles, Spidey strikes him directly to the face with a blazing spider-kick that did no damage except annoy the ruthless emperor, all part of Spidey's plan. "I'm your opponent now, Walter, that is, unless you're afraid to fight this "monster."" Spidey said, pulling on Walhart's insane ego to get him to fall for his taunting. "You, the one who's gonna "unite the world?" Stop acting like a child, little one."

"You dare mock me?!" Walhart shouted, aiming to slam his energy axe right on top of Spidey's head, but to his annoyance, the fused arachnid vanished with incredible speed, appearing right behind the emperor, sweep-kicking him to the floor.

"Try to keep up, slowpoke. Or is all that power causing you to get fat? Yeah, that must be the case." Spidey taunted, angering Walhart to new degrees he never achieved in his lifetime.

"You are going to die, bug!" Walhart fires a powerful energy blast to destroy Spider-Man for taunting him.

'Now.' Spidey quickly morphs to his Shin Red Joker form and starts absorbing all the energy thrown at him.

"So that was Spider-Man's plan: Taunting Walhart to expel his energy so he could absorb it and redirect it. Ingenious, but extremely risky." Robin deduced.

"Only Spider-Man's annoying enough to irritate just about everybody. That's one of his special abilities." Sonic grinned.

"Is "special" really the right word?" Weiss asked.

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BGM-Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 OST-Burnin' Up

After a painful few seconds, Red Joker successfully absorbed Walhart's intense Exo blast but feels a little dizzy and falls on one knee, panting very severely. '…So this is the power of the War Stone…So destructive. If I messed that up, I would've been instantly obliterated.' He quickly stands up and charges up his own energy, ready to send it back to Walhart. "Have a taste of your own medicine!" Spidey fires Walhart with his own energy blast, plus a little extra, enough to cause some serious damage that causes the Exo Armor to overheat.

"Urgh! My power! What have you done to me?!" Walhart demanded, feeling his power out-of-control, weakened severely for a few moments.

"Now's the time! Give him everything you got!" Spidey shouted at his friends to attack Walhart while he's vulnerable.

"Finally!" Scarlet eagerly punched his fists.

"Team RWBY, let's go!" Ruby shouted.

As Hummingbird telepathically keeps Walhart from countering the income assault, Scarlet Spider web zips towards Walhart for a devastating swing to the jaw, grabbing hold of Sun and Ilia to elbow him in the chest, leaving him open to Ruby's charged energy shot. "Checkmate!" She shouted to the black-and-white duo of her team to simultaneously demolishing and overwhelm Walhart long enough for Yang to slam her aura fist to his face, breaking his nose in the process.

"Had enough yet?" Yang smirked.

"Not even close!" Walhart blasts them away with a powerful shockwave, now recovered back to full strength.

"Hey. Your nose is bleeding. Let me show you." Black Ace Spidey kicked Walhart in the nose, making it really start to bleed. "Maybe you should see a doctor what to do about that tiny nose."

"The more you make me angry…THE MORE YOU'RE GOING TO SUFFER AND DIE! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?" Walhart furiously strikes a number of hefty barrages with his axe onto Spidey, but the speedy spider just keeps dodging and dodging because of his superior speed.

"You're getting pretty desperate now, huh?" Spidey kicked Walhart in the jaw, taunting him to fire another energy blast for him to absorb and redirected twice stronger, weakening him a second time.

"It's our turn, right? Ah yeah! Try to entertain us, Walmart!" Sonic taunted, racing with the other Mobians to turn the tide of this battle to their favor. Tails stuns Walhart with his energy blaster, allowing Knuckles to introduce the heavy smackdown to his armor, weakening it just enough for Amy to brutalize him. And while he's trying to get up, Walhart is blazed through by the dual-light speed attacks from Sonic and Shadow, bouncing from all across the room, repeatedly striking at Walhart a thousand times until he regained his full power and, with a loud "ENOUGH," blows them all way.

"You know something, this isn't any fun at all. I wish you would take this more seriously. Or maybe, you were serious all along," taunted Spidey, really causing Walhart's eyes to twitch with rage each time he speaks his mouth. "In either case, I was out of line. Sorry."

"D-Darn it! What have you done?" Walhart asked, starting to really feel the pain he's been enduring from all their relentless attacks.

"Not what you were expecting, huh? I'm just as surprised as you are! To think I'd be able to make such a fool out of you!" Spidey furthered taunted Walhart to another level, receiving another Exo blast for him to absorb and strike back with extreme power.

"Our turn!" Chrom leads his leading Shepherds for the third phase of the fight.

"This is for Basilio!" Flavia strikes the weakened emperor across the throne room into Say'ri's sights.

"This is for my brother!" The Chon'sin princess strikes him to away with a furious thrust to Robin's area.

"This is for Valm!" Robin blasted him with blades of wind magic straight to Chrom and Lucina's point of view.

"And this is for our future!" Lucina shouted.

"You're through, Walhart!" Chrom said, launching a combined sword strike with his daughter to almost beat Walhart, but to their slight surprise, he's still standing, but barely.

"You don't seem to fully understand; so why don't I explain it to you." Spidey continues with the taunting. "Your efforts are useless! You can't POSSIBLY win against us, no matter how hard you try. You've tried all sorts of things, but they just aren't working. Now then, I'm growing tired of this, so how about I finish this now?"

BGM End

"Yes, finish this." Walhart said, hiding a hidden smirk as he prepares another energy blast towards Spidey, which he is now aware will only serve as his doom. He then glances at Blake standing not far from him and thinks of a malicious plan judging from his soft, but evil chuckle.

As the Spider smirks, getting ready to absorb his last attack, his spider-sense goes off the charts about something else Walhart has planned, and it has to do with the axe he's holding in his right hand. "Hey. What're you doing?" Spidey asked the emperor. Without answering, Walhart darts straight to Blake with his axe. "Wait! Hold on!" Spidey tries to catch up with Walhart, but the ruthless emperor blasts him to a wall while he's distracted.

"Spidey!" Blake shouted until she's met with the Exo-powered Walhart about to bring his axe down on her.

"Say goodbye, child!" Walhart yelled. Weakened from the constant battle, Blake can't seem to find the strength to form a shadow clone, and even if she could, it most likely do much good against Walhart's enormous power. Leaving her with no choice, Blake closes her eyes waiting for her inevitable death. She hears the loud slashing of somebody getting attacked, with blood dropping on the floor. As she slowly opens her eyes, she quickly learns it wasn't she who got hurt, but is shockingly surprised it was Scarlet Spider that took the blow for her, using his summonable metallic exoskeleton over his skin to take the full force of Walhart's axe swing to the back, but it wasn't enough to prevent him from taking a critical hit.

Kaine grunts in severe pain and falls flat on his chest, extremely wounded. "KAINE!" Blake shouted and hurries to his side. "Why did you protect me?" She asked for his great concern.

Kaine struggles to speak because of the large flesh wound on his back. "…Oh, shut up. It's your fault…I'm even in this mess, because of your mentor crap…I swear, I'm going to KILL you…and Spider-Man…I'm going to find everyone…who pushed me into being a better person…Who urged me to do the right thing, to be a hero…Then I'm going to kill them…Because this…This is NOT what I signed up for…Ah…I'm going to sleep now…" He closes his eyes and falls unconscious.

"KAINE! Oh god! Oh god! Don't die!" Blake tearfully shakes his unconscious body to wake him up, but to no avail.

"Kaine, no!" Sun shouted.

"He's still okay, but we're losing him fast!" Tails said after checking his vitals with his Miles Electric.

"I got him!" Lissa shouted, running to Kaine's aid so he could be healed.

BGM-Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 OST-Shootout in Meteor

"Too late, because I'm finishing him!" Walhart raises his axe to the sky, powering it up to the flaming maximum to completely wipe Kaine off the map.

"NO," Out of nowhere, Red Joker Spider-Man appears in front of Walhart to deliver a devastating blow to his armor before he could attack. "I'll finish this!" He said, leaving a huge dent in Walhart's armor, causing him to gasp in sheer pain from the ferocious force from that one punch alone.

"GRAAAAGGGH! Where did all that extra power come from…?! You really are a monster…" Walhart asked in full-on shock mode, taking a few steps back from the vengeful arachnid so he could tend to his massive wound.

"You can call me a monster all you want. Keep babbling about wanting to "unite the world…" Spidey slowly charges up a ferocious energy to its absolute maximum as his rage grows higher and higher. "But the moment you DARE lay a finger on my family, I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!" He explodes in sheer rage, charging at Walhart with an elbow to the chin, and punches him in the stomach. He then hook kicks him, and kicks him up into the air only Spidey to already be there to punch him in the face, landing another punch to the gut, and a roundhouse kick to the jaw, knocking him further into the air. Spidey appears above the vulnerable emperor to backhand punch Walhart down to the ground, forcing him to land on their hands and knees to recover from the bone-crushing blows. "You're through!" Spidey appears, blasting Walhart to the wall with a powerful energy blast that he's able to withstand thanks to the War Stone's invulnerable capabilities.

"You cannot beat me, insect! I AM INEXORTABLE!" Walhart arrogantly proclaimed.

As his beam is still active, Spidey switches to Black Ace form so he could fly through his own energy blast. "No more! Your mine! Arachnid Fist! Explode!" As the faint image of a purple arachnid envelops Spidey's right fist, the fused spider-warrior makes his way through his own beam to strike his attack at the center of Walhart's armor: The War Stone. Walhart tries to deflect him with the full force of his cosmic gem, but the war-sounding roar of human Peter and beasty Ero starts to overpower him as Black Ace continues to shove his fist through his chest, forcing Walhart to scream in pain.

"He's got him!" Lucina commented.

"Nice one! Take him down!" Knuckles said.

"Way to go, Spider-Man!" Ilia remarked.

Still pushing through the intense energy of the War Stone with his will alone, Black Ace Spider-Man continues his brutal attack onto Walhart, slowly starting to crack the emperor's armor, slowly pushing him back to his throne. Spider-Man lets out another dual-animalistic roar as the purple spider grows larger and larger, enveloping Walhart as a whole, trapping him in a series of webbing as Spidey continues to scream his webs off before finally defeating Walhart with a mighty explosion that almost took out the castle, but it did completely obliterate Walhart's armor to pieces, and the War Stone rolls it way into Blake's possession.

The giant spider-avatar transforms back into Black Ace Spidey and walks to confront the now beaten Emperor of Valm. Spidey gives the defeated ruler a quick thumb up before he redirects the thumbs up under his chin as a way to taunt him one last time. "Oh, forgive me. I was going to play with you a little longer, but I got carried away."

"The Legendary Hero-Spider…How terrifying…Nonetheless…My conquest…ends here…" Walhart weakly said, falling to the ground unconsciously, ending his rule over the country.

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BGM-Fire Emblem Awakening OST-Grima has returned to slumber

"We did it! We actually did it! We won!" Lissa cheered as she heals Kaine. All the remaining Ylisseans forces start cheering too, extremely happy to finally ending this Valmese War.

Spider-Man nods before he deforms back into regular Spider-Man and Ero. With his energy spent, Peter was about to fall to the ground if Chrom didn't catch him. "Rest up, Peter. It's over." He said.

"Good. Make sure to find Walhart and his pals a cozy cell…" Spidey said before falling unconscious in Chrom's shoulders.

"I will." Chrom replied before he's met with Frederick.

"Milord! Walhart's soldiers have agreed to cease hostilities." Frederick said.

"Finally... Then pull our men back immediately. ...It's strange, Frederick... Walhart and my sister were complete opposites. One gave her life to stop a war. The other took lives to create one. And yet they both inspired those around them; both walked a path to end all war. Both lived, and fell, trying to unite the people." Chrom said.

"Yes, Father, but as they say, the method is the message. Your father suffered from beliefs similar to Walhart, and his legacy is plain to see..." Lucina said.

"Mmm...these are matters too weighty for this moment. There will be plenty of time for reflection now that the war is done." Chrom said.

A little while later, everyone is preparing to leave the castle for Ylisse so they could all rest up for their next adventure, but first they need to tie up some loose ends. "They're gone?" Ruby asked Lucina about the current location of Mordo and the Mandarin.

"This is where Spider-Man fought them, but the second the fighting was over, they disappeared without a trace." Lucina replied.

"And according to Shadow, Eggman and Doc Ock are long gone. They must've left before the battle." Sonic remarked.

"That must mean this war wasn't their end goal." Lucina said.

"What could the Masters of Evil TRULY be planning?" Ruby wondered.

"Considering all the fuss involving Grima's return, AND the emergence of another Exo Stone that could manipulate time, I think the dots plot themselves." Sonic said.

"You don't think this "Doom" character is trying to revive Grima?" Lucina asked, worried.

"Only one way to find out. For now, let's head back to Ylisse so we can all heal up. Kaine and Peter are gonna need their full strength for what's to come." Sonic recommended.

As they were talking, Say'ri walks up to give Chrom something. "Sir Chrom, a thousand thanks from every Valmese couldn't repay what you and Sir Spider-Man did for us. But I recovered Vert, the Gemstone that was stolen from Chon'sin as a trophy."

"You're giving it to me?" Chrom asked.

"Of course, sir. It seems the fell dragon will soon threaten us all. I would feel safer knowing the Gemstone was in your hands." Say'ri smiled.

"I will stay here repairing Valm, keeping Walhart in line before I return home. I've grown quite attached to this world." Silver Samurai said, offering to rebuild Valm to its former glory.

"Just wished you guys had the last Chaos Emerald, because we're DEFINETELY gonna need all seven if we want to stop Grima." Amy said.

"We'll find it, Amy. Don't worry. Thank you, Say'ri." Chrom accepts Say'ri's gift, inserting the fourth Gemstone into his Fire Emblem, almost completing it with just one more Gemstone needed to find.

With everyone packed up and ready to go, the Ylisseans all stand outside Valm Castle ready to depart for the Sea Typhoon. "Are we packed and saddled?" Chrom asked his fellow friends. "Our business in Valm is finished, but we have another task ahead. One perhaps even more dire than we faced here..."

"Bring it on! The direr the situation is, the more exciting the adventure will be!" Sonic grinned.

"I'm liking your positive attitude." Chrom smiled. "Now, my friends, to Ylisstol!"

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Beast OST-Next Episode Preview

Ruby: Hey! It's me, Ruby Rose! After returning to Ylisse, we learn the final Gemstone is in Validar's possession and he's "kindly" offering to give it to us. Pfft. As if anyone's gonna believe that. What we can believe that Doom and his team have been working together with Validar to resurrect Grima, and he has the Exo Stone that can control time! Guess that explains why Little Planet is here. We have to stop them!

Next time on D-Avengers: The Fell Awakening:

Five Timeless Gemstones

Ruby: Robin! Get control over yourself!


KFX Here: We're approaching the climatic ending of this story. Expect some surprising twists and turns that might differ from the original Fire Emblem Awakening story. Then again, that kinda already happened. And after this story, I'm planning on starting a loose adaptation of Sonic Free Riders as a little breather story, but I might need a little ideas and suggestions on how to do that one. PM any ideas. I don't mind reading them.