Before We Begin: Hello! And welcome to the special! It's me, your all time best pal AND reliable-ish narrator: Deadpool! I've come to tell you some key components about this Halloween (maybe) Special. Firstly, it's non-canon. Can't have this swimming around with the actual story, otherwise it'd make no sense. Secondly, this story, or rather, this version of the story will have you experience this wacky and crazy Halloween night mostly through the perspective of Peter. If you want to see the other half of the story, as well as some additional wacky content, I suggest checking out the version that will be under Fast Times 2, where you can see the events unfold before the eyes of Ben Reilly. Now that all of that is cleared up, let us begin the tale.
Ookie Spooky Skeletons 2: Spooky Ookie Skeletons: The Reckoning (Yes, This Whole Thing Is The Title)
Deep in the depths of the fiery pits of Hell, thousands upon thousands of lost souls slaved over menial tasks as they are forced to slave themselves to the dark lord himself, Mephisto, for the rest of eternity. Of these lost souls was one Daniel Berkhart, the second Mysterio but most recently Jack O'Lantern. Three years. he thought as he and the many lost souls mined the endless hell mines, Three years since my embarrassing defeat to that...that freak! Him and that Rider! "I will have my revenge Spider-Man!" he shouted, "Believe me, I will find a way out of here!"
"Oh, does somebody have a little blood lust over a costumed vigilante?" a mysterious voice called out.
Berkhart fell over in surprise and began looking all around him. "Who said that?" he asked. He looked to the man that was mining next to him and shook his shoulder, "Was that you?" he asked as he shook the lost soul only to get no response. "Hey! I'm talking to you!" he shouted. He turned the body around to see the man's face was just a jumble of magots, "AGH!" Berkhart again jumped backward in surprise, only this time falling into a wooden chair.
"Daniel Berkhart." the same voice called out out, this time he was mere feet away from Daniel. Daniel turned his body to see a tall man with grayed skin, and blackened out eyes with red pupils. He had medium length black hair that hung just past his ears. He wore an all green outfit with a belt that had a swirl design on the buckle as well as brown leather boots. He also wore shoulder armor that had pads extended outwards like saiyan armor and had a cape attached to it. On the center of his shoulder pads, by his chest a skull pendant. In his hands the man held a small, thin staff. He also had what looked to be a burn scar around his neck. The "man" was a demon, Nightmare. "Pleasure to officially meet you. I must say, I've enjoyed seeing your nightmares during your stay here in Hell." he chuckled.
"Who the here are you!?" Daniel asked as he looked around, wondering how he left his chain imprisonment of the Hell mines to what looked to be a small office.
Nightmare smiled, "I am Nightmare, Master of Dreams, Ruler of the Subconscious. And I," he said as he placed his hand to his chest, "am going to give you a massive second chance." he laughed before standing up and snapping his fingers, causing the desk and chairs to disappear and Daniel to fall on his ass. Daniel quickly stood up and began rubbing his butt in pain. "Now, you and I have something in common, I absolutely LOATH that Spider-Freak!" Nightmare growled he rubbed his neck and took a deep breath before continuing, "Anyways, I believe there is a way we can both get what we want."
Daniel straightened his body to attention, intrigued at what Nightmare was going to say. "You see, I have recently come into a fit of power, as well as the ability to jump between this universe and the one you encountered that wall crawler before. So I was thinking about killing two birds with one stone." Nightmare chuckled as he showed the images of Peter Parker and his clone, Ben Reilly. "Or rather, two spiders with one plan." Nightmare snapped his fingers to bring out Daniel's Jack O'Lantern outfit, complete with the pumpkin head and flaming sword. "So, what do you say?"
Daniel looked at the demon and then his old costume before letting out a sinister smile, "Are you kidding? I've been waiting for my chance to get back at that freak!" Daniel held his hand out and Nightmare shook it, a black aura wrapped around the two's hands as they shook, signifying their deal was in place. Nightmare then transfered some of his power to Daniel, allowing him to gain a physical form once more as well as have his suit magically suit up on him. "Haha." Daniel laughed as the pumpkin formed around his head before lighting on fire showing it's sinister smile, "Hahahahahahahaha! Mad Jack is back, baby!"
Argus, Mistral...
Not long after reaching Argus, RWBYS, Oscar, Qrow and Maria were able to seek asylum from an unlikely source: with Jaune's older sister. Yes, it seems DNJR was able to hide out at the elder Ark's home while they waited for the group to show up. As of right now, nothing was going particularly well for them, they needed to get to Atlas, but unfortunately the Argus military base wouldn't allow them. And so, the teens all sat in the main living room of the Ark home while the adults were out, including Deadpool.
"Talk about putting a dent in our plans." Yang complained as she lied on the couch and tossed a ball in the air, catching it with her prosthetic arm with ease, "I mean, what are we supposed to do now. We have no way of getting to Atlas and...Halloween is coming up." she sighed, "Which means parties we can't go to and candy we can't collect."
"BUUUUUUUT," Nora began as she popped up from behind the couch with a devilish grin, "We can still dress up, and totally have fun! I mean, sure, we're 'too old' to go trick or treating, but who says we can't hit up a massive party and crash it." she emphasized her point by raising her hands to the roof and bobbing her body to a beat she began to make.
"I think what Yang was trying to say is that we should 'lay low,' Nora." Ren explained causing Nora to almost to collapse from disappointment.
"We could...always have a party here." Ruby suggested, "I mean, if nothing else Halloween IS my birthday." she reminded.
Suddenly the front door burst open with a very excited Jaune holding a letter above his head, "Guys, I have a solution!"
"Where did you even go?" Peter asked, "You were sitting right next to me, then it was like you disappeared into the void."
Jaune waved his hand back and forth with the letter, causing it to flap to-and-fro. "That isn't important. What is important is THIS!" he said excitedly, "I hold in my hand, a letter that is inviting us out to a costume party outside of town!" he said as he jumped up and down, "The party is gonna be at this old manor, so you know that a bunch of people will be there."
Weiss rolled her eyes and groaned, "Who cares about a costume party? What good would it do us? We kinda have more pressing manners. Like, trying to get to Atlas." she said with exaggerated hand motions, "Don't tell me we came all this way just for you guys to call it quits!" Peter snagged the letter from Jaune's hands and smiled to himself. "Hello? Remnant to Peter, what about the mission?"
"Jaune's right!" Peter exclaimed as he stood up from the couch excitedly, "We've been super stressed lately, especially the last couple of weeks. The best thing to do right now is to lay low and relax, then we can get super serious again by morning." he nodded before putting Ruby in a small headlock, "Besides, how else are we gonna celebrate the big girl's birthday, huh?" he laughed as he gave Ruby a noogie and she desperately tried to break free from his clutches.
"Yeah! Costume birthday!" Yang cheered.
"That's fine and dandy and all," Blake started as she began scratching the back of her head, "But where are we gonna get costumes on such a short notice?"
Several Hours Later...
"This is the stupidest idea ever," Weiss complained as the group walked to the mansion where the party was taking place, "I mean, it's just so lazy!" She of course was referring to what the teens had decided to be the optimal solution when it came to costumes. Ruby, dressed up in Nora's old outfit, albeit tightened a little bit. Weiss, dressed up like Ren, even showing a rarer side of her and letting her hair down. Blake, not really wanting to dress up like anyone wore a dark black jumpsuit that barely zipped halfway up her chest. She also wore a black cap of sorts with holes to show her cat ears, and she had red goggles resting on her forehead (she's dressed up as Catwoman). Yang, taking advantage of her more busty figure, wore Peter's Spider-Man costume. And Peter dressed up like Jaune, even going the extra mile to dye his hair blond.
On the other side was JNR. Jaune, somehow drew the short straw and dressed up in Ruby's clothes, but her skirt was way to short for him so he had to wear really dark leggings, as well as get a different pair of boots for his feet. Nora, obviously, dressed up like Yang in her old outfit. And finally Ren pulled off Weiss' old outfit quite spectacularly. Why did Ren not dress as Blake one may ask? There was a mutual agreement amongst the teens that nobody had the ass to pull off the look.
"Relax Weiss," Ruby assured as she rubbed her teammate's shoulder, "what could go wrong at a time like this!? It's Halloween and my birthday! It's literally double the perfect!"
Weiss groaned as the teens walked up the pathway before reaching the front gates of the mansion. It looked rundown and the greenery was overgrown on the building. Worse than that, it was like the moment they approached the manor the sky became overcast with thunder and lightning. "Please don't say that. You're making it worse." the gates to the manor seemed to magically open and tons of cobwebs ripped off as it opened, "Ugh, I really hope that was decoration." the former heiress cringed.
The group slowly approached the large doors of the manor with baited breath, "Seems kinda dead for a Halloween Party." Yang quipped, "Get it? Dead? 'Cause it's Halloween."
"That was the pun equivalent of candy corn." Peter replied, "Meaning it was pretty basic."
"Shut up."
The group walked up to the double wide front doors and stared at how big they were, "You're sure we were invited, Jaune?" Ren asked, "This place seems a little...high class."
Jaune nodded, "Yeah, it had our names on it."
Ren nodded before shaking his head and giving Jaune a confused expression, "All of our names?" he asked, leading Jaune to nod in response, "Jaune, we haven't been here that long. Ruby and the others even less. Don't you think that's suspicious?"
"How so?" Jaune asked as he opened the front door.
"I'm saying that we could be walking into a trap!" Ren argued as the group stepped through the doors. They all looked around and awed in surprise at how large the front room was. There was a giant crystal chandelier hanging above their heads as well as two sets of stairs on either side of the front room that lead to the second floor. In front of them was a sign that pointed down the hall and said 'To The Ballroom For The Party.'
"I think you worry too much Ren!" Nora laughed, "Look see, ballroom is that way. It's just a party."
"If it's only a party, why is nobody else here?" Ren questioned.
"Hey, nobody said it was a good party." Yang shot back with a laugh, "Damn Pete, I see why you wear this thing. It's so slimming. It's almost like I'm wearing nothing at all."
"Better make sure there isn't a hole in the butt, then." Nora chuckled.
When the teens walked into the grand ballroom they were surprised to see...nothing. No seriously, the room was completely blank. No balloons, no music, no people. Well, there was ONE person. "Maaaaaybe this party was even worse than we anticipated." Blake noted, "Hey, what's the deal with the party?" she called out to the other person. When the person turned around the teens noticed he wore an outfit similar to Peter's Spider-Man suit, except it was black from the shoulders up and had dark red eyes, as well as being a blood or scarlet red from the lower shoulder down with a large black spider on his chest. Not only that, but he had something on his back, like a sword.
"Ben?" the man asked with a gruff tone. The teens looked around at each other as the man approached them, "What are you doing here? Where's your monster squad, who the hell are these people?"
Yang scoffed, "Uh, sorry buddy, no one named Ben here. Also, Spider-Man has never worn an outfit like that."
"Shut up, blondie." the man growled as he gripped Peter by his chin and checked his face, "Oh my god." the man stood back and clapped his hands together, letting out an almost sinister laugh, "I can't believe it's you, Parker."
Peter's eyes widened slightly, "How do you know me?" he asked.
The man slumped his shoulders and pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration, "You've got to be kidding, I AM YOU!" he quickly removed his mask to reveal a face that looked similar to Peter's but with a scar across his left eye and a five o'clock shadow present on his face.
Peter recoiled in shock and disbelief, "Wait, KAINE!?"
"WHAT!?!" the other teens shouted in unison, "Kaine as in, your clone? THAT Kaine?" Weiss asked.
Kaine nodded as he looked at Peter and then his eyes panned over to Yang who was wearing Peter's current black suit. "Huh." Kaine said as he then looked to her right hand where he noticed her golden hand and the sleeve rolled up about halfway up the forearm, "I didn't think you'd go back to blondes. Anyway," Kaine rolled his shoulders and cracked his neck, "What the hell are you doing? Why are you dressed weird, and why are you letting blondie here leave boob stretch marks in your suit?"
"Excuse me?" Yang asked with an offended tone.
"Calm down, sweety, it's a compliment." Kaine groaned as he waved his hand down to tell Yang to take it down a notch.
Peter held back Yang as she growled in annoyance, "He's a real charmer, ain't he?" he said with a nervous laugh.
"Hold on," Jaune started, "How did you get here? And why aren't you dressed up for the costume party? Um...unless that is your costume."
Kaine cocked his brow from behind his lenses, "Costume Party? What the hell are you--"
"OH KAINE!" the group turned back behind them to see another group of teens come through the doors. At the head of the group was a boy, with blond hair and blue eyes wearing a green blazer over a white button up and red necktie. Over his blazer, on his sleeves, he wore golden gauntlets or wrist guards of some kind. He also wore brown pants and black shoes. But his most notable feature was that he looked just like Peter.
Next to him was girl with pink hair tied in twin tails with plaid ribbons holding them in place. She also wore a red sailor suit, a plaid skirt, long black socks and brown shoes. She had fair skin and green eyes, and around her neck was a choker with a cross attached that had a red jewel in the middle.
Next to her was a shorter girl with red hair worn down. She wore a green blazer (that looked a little too big for her), which was over a white button up shirt. She also wore a plaid skirt and black socks that went up to her shin as well as brown shoes. Like the woman next to her she too had fair skin and green eyes, she also wore a necklace with a cross on it.
On the other side of the blonde man was another man. He was roughly the same height as the blonde, he had medium length dark brown, almost black, hair. He wore a red body suit with a sleeveless blue hoodie with a large black spider on his chest and back. He also had a belt with many pouches. On his right hand, his sleeve was rolled up and the glove removed to show a chain with a lock wrapped around his upper forearm by his wrist.
Behind them were two girls, one with blue hair and one with a more violet hair color. The first girl, with blue hair, was closer to the front and nearly clinging to the dark haired boy, had longer hair that was tied up to look short. She also had fair skin like the others and purplish eyes. She wore a loose white shirt with navy blue long sleeves. The shirt also had pockets like a hoodie, so perhaps it was like a summer sweater. Under the long sleeve shirt, the group could see straps of a black tank top. She also wore a plaid skirt and wore long thigh high purple and violot striped socks as well as white sneakers. On her left thigh there was a pouch strapped around it. Her most noticeable feature, especially to the men in the room, was her large breast size. "Wow...she even beats you, Yang." Jaune mumbled gaining a red eyed glare from the blonde huntress.
Next to the blue haired girl was a girl with the more violet hair, she too had fair skin, definitely the palest of the group, and had icy eyes. She was wearing a long sleeve white button up that was buttoned up all the way, including her sleeves, and had a large red bow around her neck. Over the shirt she wore a yellow sweater vest. Like the other girls she too wore a plaid skirt and had long socks that were pulled down to look more like 80's leg warmers. She also wore black shoes. Her most noticeable feature, if it could be called that, was the lolipop she had kept in her mouth.
Finally, bringing up the rear of the group, were two girls who looked like witches. The tall one had long hair that was tied to be short. She wore a pink corset that showed off her cleavage and had a mid-thigh length skirt attached. Over her corset she wore a pink collar that was tied together with a large yellow bow, that collar also turned into a brown cape that dropped down to about the middle of her back and matched the hat she wore. Going down, she wore thigh high yellow stockings that were connected to a garterbelt, and she wore brown shoes which matched her cape and hat.
Finally, there was the short one, who was likely the youngest of the group. She had short brown hair, but it looked like someone put extensions in them, as well as weird extensions that were tied into large chunks of hair that poked out the left and right sides of her head. She wore a pink sleeveless shirt with a burgundy corset over the top. She had a long black skirt as well as black nylon stockings and dark purple ballet slippers. One interesting article of clothing were the sleeves she had: they were just pink arm sleeves that had a band so it could stay on the arm, as well as a ring for the middle finger to fit into.
The blonde one, after calling out to Kaine, rushed over at high speeds and jumped in the air with his arm cocked back. He swung his arm forward going for what looked to be some sort of power high five, but Kaine just side stepped him and allowed the man to fall flat on his face. "You know him?" Weiss asked.
"Unfortunately..." Kaine slumped his shoulders and let out a long sigh, "He's our brother."
Peter's eyes widened in surprise as he looked down at the man who got off the ground and dusted off his blazer, "Ben?" he asked. The blonde turned around and their eyes met, Ben's eyes widening just as much as Peter's had. "Ben, what's up m--AGH!" Peter cried out in pain as he felt the, surprisingly stronger than he remembered, arms of Ben wrap around his body. "It's...good to see you too." Peter groaned as he was being crushed.
"[Shouting Happily In Japanese]" Ben shouted back to his friends. Peter had no idea what Ben was saying, but he guessed it had something to do with the fact they just met for the first time in...what, a year?
RWBY and JNR all tilted their heads in confusion. "Is...Is he stupid?" Weiss asked as she leaned towards Kaine, "Why is his speech so jumbled."
"Apparently somebody has never heard of culture." Ben replied with a cocky grin, "It's called Japanese, it's a different language. Do you not know of different languages?"
"You mean like how animals communicate?" Ruby asked with a cocked eyebrow, "Because believe me, I've tried...a lot. And Zwei doesn't seem like he understands. Actually, he probably thinks I'm crazy, haha."
Ben shook his head, "No I meant like different--" he shook his head wildly and flailed his arms around, "HOLD UP! Put a pin in that, HOW THE HELL ARE YOU HERE!? HOW ARE YOU ALIVE!?" Ben asked as he repeatedly shook Peter back and forth from the collar.
"[Seemingly Irritated Japanese Speech]" The girl with the red hair was saying something to Ben. Ben replied something that caused the girl to stare at Peter with wide eyes. Her eyes only seemed to get wider and she started darting her eyes between Ben and Peter. Finally, the girl gripped her head in pain, "Oh my god, three of them...there's three of them." she said in English.
"Oh wow, English!" Peter exclaimed, "Man, what a good dub, the lip synch is seriously on point! Who's your voice actress because she's amazing." Peter chuckled before looking to Ben who seemed to just stare at him with a look of disbelief. "Oh my god! Was that racist?" Peter gulped and stretched out his collar to try and get some air.
"Pffft." Ben couldn't hold back his laughter any longer as he let go of Peter, having him fall to the ground, while he stood and let out a loud belly laugh, "God dammit. 'Lip synching' HOW DID I NOT THINK OF THAT!"
The red haired girl gagged, "Oh god...they even laugh at the same jokes. This is literally my worst nightmare."
Kaine groaned as he walked over to Peter and lifted him off the ground before smacking him in the back of the head, causing Ben to laugh even harder. "Oh you think that's funny, huh?" Kaine asked, Ben laughed and nodded in response. Kaine chuckled sinisterly before bopping Ben on top his head.
"OW! I bit my tongue bith." Ben complained.
"Keep it up, I'll cut it off next time." Kaine replied. Ben responded by going for a punch, but Kaine ducked so Peter got hit instead.
"OW!" Peter yelled as he jerked his hand forward and smacked Kaine in the back of the head.
Kaine let out a sinister growl as he seemed to tower over Peter, "Why I outta--" Kaine smacked Peter twice across the face before stomping on Ben's toes and gut checking him.
"OooooooOooo!!" Ben began twirling his hand in the air before trying to poke Kaine in the eyes, only to hear a clink sound. "...Oh yeah, you have your mask on."
"Alright you stooges," Kaine said as he grabbed Peter and Ben and slammed their heads together, "Now, can we focus at what's at hand? Did nobody notice that we were all here together, in the same room, AT THE SAME TIME!?" Peter and Ben looked at each other for a few moments before realization dawned on them. "Good, so tell me, how did you all get to upstate New York?"
Peter scrunched his brow in confusion, "Upstate New York? No dude, we're outside of Argus. That's on Remnant."
Ben shook his head, "We were going to a haunted house in the monster world for a Halloween party." the three brothers all looked at each other. Ben and Peter curled their lips in and frowned, and it could be assumed that Kaine was making a similar expression, "We fell into a trap didn't we?" the all asked in unison.
"This is so jarring." Blake commented, "It's like the two clones are just more radical versions of Peter's emotions."
Suddenly, the lights in the mansion went out before a spotlight turned on at the back end of the room. "Ladies and gentlemen," a mysterious voice began, "Thank you for joining us this lovely Halloween night. We promise, this party's gonna be a reall bash! You'll laugh, you'll cry, you may even...DIE. AHAHAHAHAHA! So strap in, let the night begin, and and don't think of leaving escape is impossible...but you can try! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Finally, from a puff of smoke a figure appeared in the light in all his green armor and pumpkin head glory, it was Jack O'Lantern!
"Who the fuck is this clown?" the red head asked.
"KOKOA!" Ben gasped before letting out a chuckle, "Language."
"Are you ready for your death, Spider-Man?" Jack asked. A light shone overhead that hovered back and forth before landing on Peter, surprising him that this guy knew his identity. "Awe, don't look so surprised. After all, it was you who ruined me! You who put me in that literal hell hole!"
Peter backed up towards his friends with a confused expression, "Hey, do you guys know this dude?" he whispered, his friends shook their heads quickly in response, "I didn't think so. Hey! Sorry but...who are you?"
"WHAT!?" Jack's voice boomed seemingly causing the mansion to shake, "Don't toy with me, brat! I am Jack O'Lantern. The Pumpkin King of the night!"
"Do you know this guy?" Peter asked as he leaned towards Ben.
"Nah, this guy looks like a Hellstrom villain or something." Ben replied, the two brothers both nodded in understanding.
Jack looked out at the confused faces of the teens and growled in response. Not just over Spider-Man forgetting who he even is, but also to the extra teens who showed up with the clone. Dammit Nightmare! You didn't tell me there'd be backup for the other one! And even a third spider arrived! What's that all about!? "Fine," Jack huffed as he snapped his fingers, "Since you want to play coy I suppose I'll have to remind you. WITH MY NEW ARMY!" The ground in the mansion began to shake and a set of doors towards the back burst open allowing a massive horde of Grimm to come flooding in.
"Oh finally," Kaine chuckled, "I was wondering when we would get to some action." A Beowolf that ran ahead of the pack seemed to focus on Kaine, likely due to the negative energy he spews out for merely existing. The creature was quick to find out the strength of Kaine as he grabbed the creature by its throat in mid air. The creature thrashed and growled before howling in paine as Kaine's 'Mark of Kaine (MoK)' began to burn its throat. Finally, to finish off the creature, Kaine released his stinger which went through the creature's throat and out the other side, having it dissipate into ash almost instantly. "Well...looks like we have to thin the wolf population. Damn shame."
"Maybe leave the one-liners to professionals, huh big guy?" Yang said with a grin as she stretched and got into a fighting stance. Soon the rest of RWBYS and JNR followed suit. "You know like, 'Guess now we'll see who's Top Dog'."
Kaine shuddered, "I pray for Parker's sake you're at least good in bed. You're bad jokes make me want stop breathing." Kaine's diss made Yang gasp in bewilderment while making Blake and Weiss snort a little louder than intended. "Jesus...Ben, you have any better one-liners?"
"Hahahaha!" Ben laughed as he jumped up and down a few times before rolling his right shoulder and bringing his wrist towards his face, "Oh, would you look at the time...it's Ass-Kick o'clock." Ben looked over to his friends and began yelling about something in Japanese. He laughed after he said it and the teens groaned, which told Peter that he probably told a lame joke...or he just said the same one-liner again.
Ben got in his southpaw fighting stance and Peter started to crouch to get into his stance. Kaine, to Peter's surprise, reached behind his back and unsheathed the sword he had, holding over his head at a downward angle as he crouched slightly. RWBY and JNR nodded to each other as the horde began to advance, while Ben simply gave his friends a thumbs up.
The Grimm quickly approached and Peter was fast into action, webbing up many Grimm at once and spinning them around before slamming them into a group. That group was then hit with a large amount of Ice Dust from Weiss before getting blasted from a grenade thanks to Nora's grenade launcher. As Weiss regained her footing after helping Peter, she quickly went on the defensive and had to block an attack from a Grimm that approached her. While focused on her front she didn't pay attention to her back, which would have been sliced down if Kaine hadn't literally pushed her aside to cut off the Grimm's claw off before forcibly grabbing its snout and throwing it into the other Grimm Weiss was dealing with. As the creature's lie on the ground, Kaine walked up to them and sent a devastating curb stomp that went through both their heads. "Mind your surroundings." Kaine said as he helped Weiss to her feet.
"I had that handled!" Weiss yelled as she stomped her foot in frustration.
"Fine, humor me." Weiss looked at Kaine with a frown before nodding. The two stood by each other ready for the next round, each drawing upon their respective swords.
With Ruby, she and Blake were busy slicing back and forth between a group of Grimm. It seemed as if they were going to become quickly overwhelmed by the onslaught until they gained assistance by the blue haired girl with the...valuable assets. The girl seemed to have sprouted wings and a tail, and her fingernails had grown out to be long claws. The girl had flown through and slid across the ground, slicing through dozens of Grimm almost simultaneously. Blake and Ruby looked at each other before nodding, "Uh, thanks for the help. Um...what's your name?"
The blue haired girl stood up and blinked a few times before giving a nervous smile, "[Nervous Japanese Speech]"
Again, Blake and Ruby stared at each other, "Um...what? Blake asked.
"She said that it was no problem." Ben replied as he swung by and drop kicked a Grimm in the face, "But don't think she understands you well, she just knows bits and pieces." Ben dodged an attack by bending backward at a 45 degree angle before using a webline to pop himself up and send a massive jab across the Grimm's face that sent it flying to Jaune. "Oh, and her name is Kurumu."
Blake turned to Kurumu who used her wings to back away and gain some distance from the Grimm and landed by the two girls. "Hey, uh...Kurumu?" The girl looked up and turned to Blake with a curious expression, "Uh...let's...do this?" Kurumu only tilted her head in confusion.
"OH!" Ruby yelled. She pointed to Kurumu, then to herself and Blake before flexing, "YEAH!"
Kurumu gave a smirk before throwing her fist in the air, "Ya-hoo-hoo!"
With JNR, they were easily taking care of the Grimm. Jaune, now more well trained and with his new weapon attachment (he sheaths his sword to make a greatsword) he began to slice through the Grimm with ease. Some of the creatures were faster than others, but those that were too fast were easily taken care of by Ren. Nora, being the powerhouse, took out the large creatures that came by. "Hey, Nora," Jaune called out, "Don't mean to be a stickler, but is there any way you can try and get the big ones before they get here? I'm getting a little stressed out."
"I'm trying!" Nora yelled back, "But there is literally so much happening right now that I can't exactly do that!" Thankfully, JNR was able to get much needed help from a set of Tarot Cards. The cards flew through the air and sliced through the Grimm, almost like blades. When Jaune turned he could see that the one controlling the cards, he saw the little girl waving around a wand in the air while chanting something. "Ahh! There is just TOO MUCH!" Nora complained.
Peter looked around at all the Grimm. Even he knew that soon they'd get overwhelmed, "Hey uh...if anyone has any suggestions, I'm willing to listen."
Ben looked back to his friends and whistled, "Mizore!!" he shouted before shouting out something else that Peter didn't understand. Before they knew it, the purple haired girl stepped forward and rolled up her sleeves slightly before lunging forward and sending out a massive ice wave. The resulting ice that formed froze all the Grimm in place and even covered the back half of the room, even breaking through the wall into the next.
"So like...you couldn't have done that earlier?" Kaine asked as he crushed the last Grimm that wasn't frozen beneath his feet.
"NO!" Jack shouted in anger, the fire on his head burning brighter. "You...you damn brats. I won't let you ruin this for me! I will kill you, even if it means I have to kill every single one of you!" The room began to shake and Peter's Spider Sense began to blast, "If the Grimm can't kill you then I'll just have to try something else!" Black tentacles began shoot up from the ground leading to the girls screaming in surprise. Peter turned to his right and saw the little girl that came with Ben. His senses going off Peter dove forward and grabbed her out of the way before she got impaled by one of the tentacles.
When Peter got up he saw that he was on one side of the room with Ben's friends while Ben was on the other side with Peter's friends and Kaine. "Yang!" Peter shouted out as he saw Ben help her to her feet, "Are you okay!?" Peter tried rushing over but found himself running into some sort of invisible wall, "What the hell?" Peter slammed on the wall but it wouldn't budge.
"It's a magic barrier." Peter turned around to see the red head who frowned, "Like it or not, you're stuck with us. And personally I'm leaning towards not liking it."
"[Concerned Japanese Speech]" said the boy who was dressed in Ben's Scarlet Spider attire.
Peter gripped his hair and groaned, "God, it would be my luck to get stuck with people who I can't understand!"
"And done!" Peter's eyes widened as he looked to the taller girl wearing a witch hat, "It took a little while, but I was able to put an All Tongue spell on us. So you should be able to understand us just fine now." She said with a smile, "AND I EXPECT PRAISE FOR THIS! This type of magic is very complex." she groaned.
"Quit your complaining!" Ben shouted back.
The girl sighed and slumped her shoulders, "Anyway..." she looked up and smiled, "Introductions are in order I think. I'm Ruby."
"No, that's Ruby." Peter said with a laugh as he pointed to Ruby on the other side of the room who looked to him, waved and smiled sweetly.
Ruby sighed, "Anyway...that's Kurumu, the succubus" she said pointing to Kurumu who nodded, "Mizore, the snow fairy or Yuki-Onna," she said pointing to the purple headed girl with ice powers, "Yukari, another witch like myself," she gestured to the little girl who gave a thumbs up, "Tsukune, our resident human with vampiric abilities," the boy nodded, "Kokoa, a vampire," the red head snarled and flipped Peter off, "And lastly, Moka, Kokoa's older sister. Also a vampire." the girl with pink hair smiled and bowed.
"It's nice to meet the other brother." Moka said sweetly.
Peter was going to say something in return but his Spider Sense went off. In the middle of the room, splitting itself between the barrier, was a large black creature, likely the source of the tentacles from earlier. "Now," Jack began, "Our real party can begin! If you live...well, I'll be waiting for you at the rear end of the mansion. Good luck 'heroes!'" and with that, Jack left their sights leaving the giant creature with them to deal with.
"Hey, call it a hunch, but I feel like we have to destroy this thing before we can continue anywhere." Tsukune mentioned, "Peter, you ever fight something like this?"
"No, I usually leave monster hunting to Blade and Ghost Rider." he replied, "Why would I want to get involved with a bunch of murderous mons..." he looked at the teens who all seemed to give him an irritated look, "OH but I'm sure you guys are cool! Honest!" the creature shrieked as multiple red cysts seemed to cover it's body. "OH!" Peter shouted, "I know this part, it's like...well...have you guys ever played the later Resident Evil games."
"Okay, first of all, it's Biohazard." Tsukune corrected.
"No it's not, everywhere else calls it Resident Evil, if you want it Biohazard you should have made that the title outside of Japan." Peter fired back.
Tsukune groaned in annoyance, "God dammit, I won't lose this argument twice! It's BIOHAZARD!!"
"...resident evil!" the group could hear Ben yelling from the other side of the room.
"Anyways," Peter said, trying to move the conversation along, "I think we need to destroy those giant cyst things." Peter shuddered along with the other teens by him, "Oh, it sounds SO much gosser when I say it out loud." he let out a long sigh before clapping his hands together, "Welp, better start." Peter held his arm out and formed his signature devil horns on his hand to fire a webline. He then pulled himself towards the creature with Kurumu following close behind.
Kokoa sighed, "Kou, come!" she shouted. Suddenly a bat came out of nowhere and landed in her hands, transforming into a giant mace. With weapon in hand, Kokoa dashed forward ready to fight.
Tsukune clicked his tongue, "Yeah, I think we should stay back and see if they can do anything before we charge in there."
Peter was the first to attack the creature, letting out a massive punch to one of the red cysts, only to bounce off it like it was a yoga ball or something. Kurumu was next to come in. She had a little bit better success, seemingly hurting the creature, but the victory was short lived as she was grabbed by one of the tentacles and slammed down to the ground over by the teens. Kokoa, being the last, was able to swing her mace and hit a cyst causing it to pop. The creature cried out in pain before flailing it's tentacles around. It looked as if Kokoa was going to get knocked back by the creature, but Peter shot a webline to her and brought her back.
"Well...we got one." Peter chuckled, "Uh, you guys got anymore power? Seriously, jump in whenever you want."
Moka gripped the cross around her neck and look over to Tsukune, "Tsukune...take it off." Tsukune nodded and gripped Moka's rosary before pulling it off.
Silence...
Peter looked to Tsukune and then to Moka, "So like, do you just take your jewelry off before a fight or..?" before he knew it a burst of light emanated from Moka lighting up their side of the mansion before disappearing to show Moka in her true form. She was slightly taller, now about eye level with Peter, she looked stronger, her hair was now a platinum silver similar to Weiss' hair, her eyes were blood red and her body was...fuller. "Huh...I think she has Yang beat." Peter whispered. Suddenly he was brought back to reality by a flick in his forehead, "OWW!!"
"Wake up, dumbass. Ben's not here, so that means I'm stuck with you." Moka huffed, "Think you can keep up?"
The group jumped in surprise as they heard the sound of gunshots from the other side of the barrier, "GUYS!" Ben shouted as he ran up to the barrier, "We figured it out, you need penetration to break through the cysts skin!" Ben clapped his hands and pointed at Peter, "And from what I heard you should be pretty good at penetration, aye Pete? HAHA! Heyyo! High five, guys!" Ben held his hand up to recieve high five, only for him to high five himself after he got tired of waiting.
"Oh sorry, we don't have guns like you." Moka said with a roll of her eyes.
"Hm, sucks. Looks like you'll have to just kick it real hard or something--YOU'RE A VAMPIRE!! Literally one of the strongest beings on Earth!" Ben's Spider Sense went off and he backflipped away from another one of the tentacles, "Uh yeah, kindly hurry on defeating your side...we're getting like skeletons and stuff over here."
"Dammit." Moka groaned, "I hate large monsters. Why can't we fight an elf for once or something? Mizore! Think you can throw ice spires at it?
"I could try." Mizore replied with a cool tone. Forming ice spikes and spires she threw them forward, but either not powerful enough to penetrate the cysts. To make matters worse, the monster began flailing its tentacles around to try and hit the teens. One of them would have slammed Peter into a wall if Moka hadn't back handed it, causing it to explode from her force.
"HOLY CRAP!" Peter yelled in surprise as he stared at the silver haired vampire. "A-Are you the girl Ben has the hots for?"
"Yes!" the other teens replied in unison.
Peter dodged another one of the tentacles before landing behind Moka, figuring that she was more than capable of doing things on her own, "Wow...he really knows how to pick 'em, huh? Though I guess he's my clone, so I guess that means I would do the same thing?" he asked as he created a web shield to block a tentacle before webbing it to the ground which allowed Kokoa to turn her familiar, Kou, into a sword and sliced down. "You know, now that I think about it, I guess I kinda did something similar with Yang...so it isn't that far off."
"Please, stop talking." Moka said as she ran up to the creature and kicked one of the cysts. She was able to destroy it, sure, but the pop launched her backward as well as covering her shoes and socks in the puss and blood. She let out a long irritated groan, "So, anybody got plans that doesn't involve getting soaked in this putrid smelling blood the whole time?"
"There aren't many earth elements to work with in here!" Ruby shouted.
"And my Tarot Cards won't leave a scratch." Yukari complained as her Tarot Cards came back practically ripped to shreds, "Correction: They are leaving scratches...on themselves."
"We just need something with high penetration that doesn't involve us getting super close." Mizore mentioned.
"Did somebody say: Guns!?" the group looked around, unsure where the new voice came from. Suddenly, in a black and gray streak, Deadpool of all people landed in front of the teens sporting his old X-Force garb. "Because...I've got LOTS of guns." Reaching behind his back he grabbed what looked to be a handle of a Desert Eagle that was tucked in his pants. He pulled out the weapon, but as he pulled it was almost like the barrel of the gun never ended! Finally, he pulled out the "Deagle" with a barrel almost as long as his body and he pointed it at the creature. "You want STARS!?"
Moka blinked a few times in confusion before pinching the bridge of her nose, "W-Where was he even..."
"With Deadpool, it's best if you just don't question it." Peter said as he pat Moka on her shoulder. She, again, could only pinch the bridge of her nose and groan.
Deadpool took aim to the creature and fired once, taking out all the cysts at once but also destroying his gun, "DAMMIT! I only had one of those." The creature shrieked and screamed before slumping over, seemingly paralyzed.
Moka nodded as she realized that this was probably her best chance at taking the creature down for good. "Hey, Mizore, do me a favor and freeze it. I'm gonna shatter this thing." Mizore nodded as she took a deep breath before pushing her hands forward, struggling as she trapped the monster in ice. Moka put one foot back before dashing forward, and once she was close enough she released a devastating roundhouse kick that decimated the monster. The creature shattered into thousands of ice chunks that would shatter even more as they fell and landed on the ground. Moka stood and smirked before moving her bangs out of her eyes, "The plant monster was more of a challenge, honestly."
Peter let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding, "Alright. Let's regroup and--" he stopped mid sentence as his Spider Sense went off and her heard a cracking sound, "Uhhh..." before he knew it, the floor underneath the teens on Peter's side gave way and they all fell to the depths below.
"Hey, get up." a voice called.
"Ugh..." Peter groaned as he slowly opened his eyes and saw red eyes staring back at him, "Am I dead?"
"Fortunately, no." Peter's vision returned and he could see Moka holding her hand out to help him up, "We fell to...god knows where. I think that if we want to stop this Jack O'Lantern clown we have to play his stupid games." she sighed, "So I guess we're stuck with you and this..." she gestured to Deadpool as he held a manga in his hands and tried to get Tsukune to sign it, "Whatever he is."
"He's a mutate...and my friend...somehow." Peter chuckled.
"HA!" Moka pulled at her hair slightly in frustration, "No, of course he's human somehow." she took a deep breath and cracked her knuckles, "Well, we won't get anything done just standing around. Let's move." she began walking ahead and the others soon followed. Wow I can kinda see what Ben sees in her. She's still scary though. Peter thought.
Deadpool jumped up in the air and clicked his heels, "WOO! HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, BAAAAABY!!!"
To Be Continued...
A/N: Hey, that's part 1 of the...probably two part special. But like, the other half of the story is with Ben so like...really it's four parts? Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy the absurdity, because it gets...much worse.
By the way, can I say how much of a stupid laughing fit I had when I wrote in the Three Stooges bit for the spiders? It was just this stupid joke I couldn't get out of my head for like weeks.
Okay, anyways, see you next time!