Chapter 5

Webbed Rose

The lift came to the first stop. The two were quickly shocked to find some of Kraven's men surrounding them. "I thought Kraven said everybody left?!" Ruby exclaimed. "Did he lie?"

"As much I think that would be true, I really doubt it," Amazing admitted. "It's either one: Kraven's men are mad we humiliated their leader and want revenge or they're still faithful to Kraven and want us gone."

Ruby looked to Amazing. "Neither of those are good."

Amazing shrugged. Before he could comment, the gunfire started. Ruby and Amazing moved out of the way. Ruby quickly spun her scythe in a circle in different directions, deflecting the bullets away from them. "Do we have a plan?" Ruby asked still spinning her scythe. "Cause… I don't."

"We press buttons."

"Not fun—" Ruby then stopped mid-sentence. "Okay, it's kinda funny."

"Can you handle these guys?" Ruby nodded. "Good, I'll get the button and you get these guys since you can't press buttons."

"Okay, that's not funny." Ruby quickly stopped spinning and ran toward the edge. She then fired blast behind her launching her in the air toward the edge. As she got close to them, she swung her scythe. The men fell back as soon as she landed and started to fight them off.

Amazing took this moment of no gunfire to launch himself to the other edge. He then saw two men. "Hey," he said. The men quickly charged at him. Amazing quickly jumped and slammed their heads together causing them to fall to the ground. "I have my library card. Thank you very much."

He then looked to see he was in front of the face carving with the button. He quickly shot a few weblines He pulled himself back with them and launched him to the button, kicking it on.

"All aboard the Kraven lift!" Amazing yelled as he jumped on the lift. Ruby sweeping her scythe underneath the men, quickly turned, sped towards the edge, jumped off and landed on the lift as it rose up. "Uhh, that was easy."

"Uhh, I don't think should have said that."

"Yeah, I regretted it as soon as I said it."

Soon the lift stopped, and they were surrounded once again by some of Kraven's men but fewer this time. Amazing looked and saw the craved face with the button just a… Oh, there was an idea. "We need to hurry. The longer he has the fragment the worse it will get." She looked at Amazing and nodded. He then gestured his head forward a little bit. She looked confused at first but then noticed. She smiled. She cocked Crescent Rose and fired a shot past the men, who quickly moved out of the way. The shot hit the button and lift started to move again. Amazing quickly jumped off. "Meet you up there."

"What?! Wait! Why?!" Ruby ran to edge look over as the lift continued to move up.

Amazing shot a webline on and pull himself toward him, kicking the man a great distance. "I'll make sure they don't follow us," Amazing yelled up. "You can hit the next button. Shouldn't be too many up there."

"Please, I'm not allowed to press buttons."

"I give you permission."

Ruby groaned as she stepped back from the edge. She honestly did not want to be alone. Not that she couldn't handle it. She knew she could but not now. These hallucinations were getting worse and to be honest, she wasn't feeling that great. She didn't know what could happen. To her, everything around her changed. She didn't know how long the hallucination would stay. "You can do this. You can do this," she muttered. "You can— ow! my head!" Ruby said as she grabbed her head. As soon as she, blinked and the lift stopped. She was in a dark forest and she was surrounded by Beowolves. "Oh no," she said as whipped out Crescent Rose. "Remember they're people."

Ruby as they surrounded her in a circle. She stabbed her scythe in the ground, still holding her staff spun around, jumped and started kicking them around in a circle. Before the could attack, she quickly pulled her scythe from the ground and spun it till it was behind her. She shot off a blast behind her and used her semblance. She sped past the 'Beowolves' fell to the ground. Some faded away as the Grimm did and some got up.

"Remember they're real people."

Ruby quickly fired shots in front on the blasting them back. She then sped in between swung her between the swung hitting them to the ground without being lethal. They faded. She thought it was over till she something slash her across the face. She fell to the ground but still held on to her scythe. She quickly got up and glaring at the Beowolves

Instincts took over.

Ruby quickly used her semblance. The Grimm was about to strike but she sped past it. She whacked it hard with the blunt part of her weapon and it fell to the ground. Before it could get up. She pressed the rifle part of Crescent Rose on its chest ready fire a blast. Then she blinked.

She was no longer in the forest. She was back in the temple. Underneath her rifle, was one of Kraven's men, trying very hard to look tough and not terrified. Ruby felt her heart hurt. NOW, she knew keeping this was a bad idea. She could have done something she would have regretted. "I'm sorry," she said. She lifted her scythe off his body, but quickly hit him on the head, knocking him out and he faded away. Ruby stood there. She felt everything was pressing down on her. She didn't know if the drugs or just her feelings.

"Ruby!"

The voice snapped her out of her thoughts.

"Ruby! Push the button! I gave permission!"

Ruby quickly around to see… it was on the other side. She quickly spun her scythe around to aim at the button and fired a shot. It activated and the lift started to move. Ruby quickly jumped on. "Spidey!"

Amazing, down below, had just thrown the last of Kraven's men a good distance away. He looked up to see the lift moving. "Oh, rides here." Amazing quickly shot a web on the lift. Amazing quickly shot a webline on one side and then another one on another side. Holding tight, he started stepping back as far as he could. As soon as he was far enough, he let go. He was sent flying up to the lift. He then shot another webline and pulled him on and landed in front of Ruby. "Not bad but I'm going to have to charge you for the late fee." Before Ruby could say anything, Ruby groaned and grabbed her head. "Ruby? Ruby!"

"This was a bad idea," Ruby groaned. "This was a bad idea."

"Ruby, what are talking about?" Ruby stopped groaning and let go of her head and looked at him… scared. Honestly, that made his heart sink. He then thought back to the… "Ruby, when you saved me, did something hit you?"

Before Ruby could nod or say anything, the lift came to a stop. The two looked around. They were outside above the jungle, almost similar to where they started except the was a tall broken tower in front and above them. Suddenly Amazing felt a tingle in the back of his head. "Be—" Suddenly, something sped past him and hit Ruby. She flew a good distance back. "Ruby!"

Ruby quickly held out she scythe and slammed it down. She skids and fell off the edge, but quickly hooked her scythe on the edge, hanging on to her staff. "I'm okay!" She then looked down and quickly looked back up. "Okay, looking up," she muttered now thinking of a plan.

Amazing was about to help but Kraven appeared in front of him with his swords ready. "No witnesses," he said darkly. "No distractions. Here. Now! It ends!"

Suddenly from on top the temple structure, there was an explosion like a volcano causing the new arena to shake and soon a ring of fire surrounded the edge of the arena and pillars started to rise from the ground. To be honest, Amazing was worried about Ruby but Ruby could handle herself and he could handle Kraven.

"For once, you and I are in total agreement." Amazing quickly shot a webline on Kraven and as fast as he could. Kraven swung his sword quickly cutting it. Amazing quickly let got and flipped behind him. Amazing about to throw a punch Kraven moved like a flash of light. Before he could say anything, his spider-sense went off. He quickly dodged Kraven's swing. He tried to dodge Kraven's attacks as best as he could. Till he slipped up and Kraven whacked him straight in the stomach. Amazing went flying and crashed through a few pillars. He then now leaning against a pillar groaning. "I knew I shouldn't have gotten up today."

Ruby finally thought of a plan but… what if she saw illusions again. What if the one who looked dangerous was Spiderman. Ruby then shook her head of the thoughts. He needed her and illusions or not, her job is to help people. Well, it was her training and her job.

She swung back and forward until her foot hit the stone. As soon as that happened, Ruby pushed off her scythe slid off the edge. As she fell, she quickly placed scythe behind her and shot off several shots. She then used her semblance and sped in the air over the arena. She then sped to the platform on the temple. She looked down to see Amazing moving and dodging through the pillars and Kraven, who was moving as fast as her. But no one knew she was up there…

Amazing panted leaning or more hiding against a pillar. This was… not going as planned at all. He may have gotten a few hits but Kraven was faster and stronger and getting crazier by the minute. He also hadn't seen Ruby resurface. He needed to get that Fragment back, but how? Suddenly his spider-sense went off. He looked around and then up to see Kraven, jumping in the air ready to stab him. Amazing quickly moved out of the way and stabbed the pillar. Kraven tried to move the sword out but it was difficult.

"Hey!"

Kraven turned and there was Ruby. She quickly held her scythe and whacked Kraven across the arena like he was a baseball. He crashed through several pillars. Amazing quickly stood beside Ruby, who looked proud. "That was payback wasn't it?"

Ruby gave small smile blushing a little. "Just a little."

"Ready for a little more."

Ruby couldn't help but smirk. "Just a little."

Kraven quickly got up and looked around for both Ruby and Spiderman. He then turned to the side to see Spiderman ready to punch him. Kraven dodged the punches easily. "Ha! You call this an attack," he taunted. Kraven then went swung his sword at Amazing.

Amazing quickly dodged and clung to the pillar. "Hey Kraven, remember when you had that vest that shot lasers from its eyes. Ha, ha, ha," he teased.

Kraven swung his knife at Amazing and Amazing quickly dodged with Kraven hitting the pillar. Amazing landed to the side. Kraven threw a quick punch. Amazing quickly dodged by bending backward as soon as he did a red blur came from above and rammed into Kraven and launching him across the arena.

Ruby deactivated her semblance landed on her feet and Kraven got up as fast as he could. Ruby fired a shot behind her again and sped towards him. Kraven grabbed the part of the blade with one hand. He then threw her scythe with Ruby still holding on. Before Ruby could even crash, Kraven grabbed her hood and slammed her to the ground. "You learn nothing. Still, have no instincts."

Ruby gave smirk as she adjusted scythe under Kraven's feet. "I did." She then fired a shot under him. Kraven was launched in the air and Amazing quickly shot a webline on Kraven and pulled himself into him and kicked Kraven in the stomach causing Kraven to crash against the wall.

Amazing then landed next to Ruby. "Hey, Kraven! Why don't you make like one of your trophies and get stuffed?"

Kraven roared and the fire got increased. He then sped towards them to the two quickly dodged. Ruby sped on tip of a pillar and Amazing jumped onto another one. Kraven quickly followed the two. "I fight! For honor and glory!"

"And people!" Ruby yelled. "and it's illegal… I think. Yeah."

Kraven sped over to her and Ruby quickly moved to another. Just as she landed she fired a shot at the pillar. Kraven quickly jumped and ready to stab Ruby. Ruby quickly sped onto another one just as he stabbed his sword into the pillar and was stuck again. Ruby quickly shot the pillar Kraven was on and he fell. Amazing then shot a webline Kraven and then landed another powerful kick causing Kraven to crash to the ground

Amazing quickly jumped away. "even if they have stick 'em powers… and crazy speed."

Kraven got up but not as fast as he did even with the tablet. He quickly threw his swords both at Ruby and Amazing. Amazing quickly dodged bending back. Ruby quickly jumped in the air and used her semblance and sped towards Kraven. Kraven tried to strike but when he did the red blur split using rose petals. Ruby, ending up behind him quickly slipped the scythe under his feet tripping him. Before Kraven could fall or react, she then fired a shot launching him across.

Kraven, finally battered and worn, quickly jumped on to the temple platform. "This…is… impossible."

Both Ruby and Amazing saw this. They needed one good hit. "When I saw 'jump' jump!" Ruby ordered as she quickly sped a pillar that was a straight good distance away from where Kraven stood.

"Alright but what—"

"Jump!"

Amazing quickly jumped up and Ruby used her semblance. In her semblance, she grabbed Amazing and he was in her semblance. As they were close to Kraven, Amazing was launched from Ruby's semblance and kicked Kraven into the temple. Kraven crashed into the wall and fell to the ground. He tried to get up, but it was no use. He was down for the count.

Ruby and Amazing then both landed inside the temple, seeing Kraven still unconscious. The two both sighed with relief. Ruby gave a tried and releveled smile. She could just feel Amazing giving the same smile as he ruffled her hair and she giggled.

The two looked to the see the fragment, that Kraven had absorbed, float from his body and levitate above him.

"Excellent, Spider-Man and Ms. Ruby Rose," Madame Web congratulated the two. "You've done it!"

Amazing quickly walked over and grabbed the fragment over Kraven's unconscious body. "And just in time," Amazing said. "If I never hear the word "hunt" again, it'll be too soon." Though Ruby didn't say anything, she couldn't agree more.

"Now to the other fragments. The hunt resumes!"

The two heroes groaned as they heard that word once more.

"So… how… do we get… out of here?" Ruby said. Her words were slow as her head started aching much stronger than before and she felt weaker than ever.

Amazing didn't seem to notice though as he webbed Kraven down to the ground for good measure. "Not sure, but I bet one of Kraven's interns can help us."

"Oh no."

Ruby shook her head but it was no use. Amazing's figure changed, a lot of times. One second, he was young Yang and next he was her dad, turning to her. "Ruby? Ruby, are you okay?" Next, Uncle Qrow and then…

"Mom…" Ruby muttered as tried to walk not really thinking straight. "I… think… I made…a mistake…" she took one more step and that was it.

Her eyes rolled in the back of her head. Amazing quickly dove in and caught her in his arms. "Ruby?! Ruby, wake up!" He gently as possible shook the unconscious girl. He felt her head. She was burning up and she called him 'mom'. "She did get hit," he said in a slight panic as he quickly ran out of the temple and jumped down to the arena. "I hope I'm right about Kraven's men." He then looked to still knocked out Ruby. "Ruby. Ruby stay with me, okay? I'll get you out of here. Ruby! Ruby…"

"Ruby! Ruby!"

"She promised!" She was crying and running

"Ruby, come back!"

"She promised! Mommy promised! MOMMY! COME BACK!"

Ruby blinked open her eyes. Her head was still hurting and … she was laying on something soft. Ruby slowly sat up not to bother her head. She was in a small room which looked like a small apartment from what she could see.

"Why am I not in a jungle?" Ruby asked weakly out loud. "I mean that's good, but… I'm alone and I'm talking to myself." She then looked around the room. "Wait, where's Spidey?" She slowly sat up, though her head still ached.

Suddenly something started to ring. Ruby jumped but quickly regretted it as her head still hurt. She looked around the room. She then saw a strange black thing and the noise was coming from that. "What is that?" "It kinda rings like my scroll." The thing kept ringing. Ruby poked it, but it kept ringing. She finally picked it up and held it to her ear. "H-hello?"

"Hello? I could have sworn I called the right number," said the voice. It sounded like an elderly woman over the phone.

"Uhh hey?" Ruby repeated slightly confused.

"I'm sorry," the woman apologized. "Is Peter there?"

Ruby looked slightly confused. "Peter? Who's—" Ruby stopped. Peter that must have been his real name. His secret identity. No one could be named Spider-Man… though that would be cool... and weird.

"Hello?"

"Oh yeah, this is Peter's… place," Ruby responded. "I'm his friend Ruby."

"You sound a bit young to one Peter's friend."

"Cause he's my tutor and my friend…. A tutor friend."

On the phone, the woman laughed. Ruby could tell she was 'she's silly laugh' or 'she's strange laugh', it was more of an 'a memory laugh'. "Oh, I understand. Is he a good tutor?"

"Yes, he is. I'm sorry, who—"

"Oh, yeah he's … amazing. I'm sorry. I'm Peter's aunt. Aunt May."

"Oh, hello aunt May."

"Do you know happen to know where Peter went?" Ruby started to feel nervous. She had no idea where he was granted, she didn't know what he looked like under the mask.

"He… went for snacks… study snacks… cause I got a headache… for snacks."

Suddenly Ruby heard the door open, Ruby looked to the door. There was a boy a little older than Yang would be. He had brown hair and hazel eyes. He was wearing a gray t-shirt and jeans and holding a bag in his hand. "Ruby?"

Ruby couldn't have been more relieved. Though being at Beacon for a while and talking with Weiss, Blake, Yang, Nora, Ren, Jaune, Pyrrha and everyone else did help her with being socially awkward, sometimes she would still rather fight than talk to people. "Oh, he's back. He's here. You can talk to him." She then held out the phone to him. "You can take this now, please."

Peter looked worried and confused as he closed the door and walked over and took the phone from Ruby. "Hello?" He paused. "Oh, Hey Aunt May."

"Oh, Peter, I sorry to bother you."

"You know you never bother me. Is something wrong?"

"Nothing serious, you missed coming over for dinner last night."

Peter groaned as he placed his bag down on the desk as Ruby watched in curiosity. "I forgot! Sorry, I forgot to call you. I was busy with … broken property."

"Oh, my are you—"

"I'm fine. I'll promise I'll be over Friday," Peter answered as he dug through the bag he had.

"Hmm, Alright. Oh, by the way, how is the tutoring?"

"Tutoring?" Peter pulled out a bottle of water from the bag and tossed it to Ruby. Ruby juggled the bottle for a minute before she finally grabbed it, opened it and drank out of it.

"Yes, with Ruby?" Aunt May chuckled. "Don't tell me you forgot why she was there?"

Peter glanced at Ruby slightly confused. Ruby gave a nervous smile. Peter soon made a face of understanding. "Oh. Yeah, Ruby. She's doing great. Really great. You could say she out of this world." Ruby chuckled a little trying to hide it. " Listen I got get back to tutoring. I'll call you back. I promise."

"Alright. I love you, Peter."

"Love you to Aunt May. Bye." He quickly went over and hung up the phone. He sighed.

Ruby chuckled. "So. I'm out of this world." Peter finally looked at her. "And I'm your partner, not a student."

Peter the gave a slight glare to her. Ruby could feel it shiver up her spine. "Okay, I'm in trouble, aren't I?" Peter nodded with the same glare. She then looked down slightly. "You can look a lot scarier with the mask off."

"Thanks," he still said in a firm tone. "Now, how about you tell me: why you didn't tell me that you got hit by one of Kraven's darts?"

Ruby still didn't look up. "What… what was in it?"

Peter sighed. "It was of a drug that causes hallucinations,' he explained. "I think your body for some reason was protecting you. Cause normally I see things only for a minute before it affects my spider-sense and then I pass out,"

Ruby looked up mostly in thought. "I guess it was my Aura."

Peter raised an eyebrow with glare mostly gone. "Your Aura did that? How—" He then shook his head. "We're not talking about that."

"Okay, that didn't work."

"Ruby," Peter said firmly again.. "That stuff is dangerous. All the things he owns is dangerous."

Ruby finally looked at him a bit sad but firm. "I wanted to prove I could do it."

Peter leaned on his desk. "That doesn't mean you can't tell me that you got hit with a dart. I mean I said you were out of this world." Ruby chuckled a little. "We would just stop, and I'd help you. It would be okay." Peter then looked at her seeing her still ashamed. "Or am I getting the wrong idea?"

Ruby knew that. She knew that. She did want to prove she could do it… but it wasn't to Amazing. It wasn't like when she first met Weiss. Weiss first thought, she couldn't do anything, and she was being… Weiss. Amazing didn't think lesser of her. He was protective like Yang. It was different… It just reminded of her like… when she and Jaune were talking that night… about being a leader.

"I can't fail…" Ruby finally said a bit scared. Peter straightened up looking a bit startled by her response cause that sounded… very familiar. "Remember when I said I was the leader of team RWBY."

"The name that somehow doesn't confuse people."

"Yes… I mean not all the time. I mean." Ruby stopped collecting herself. "When Madame Web summoned us—took us. She asked us to help and I said yes."

"Let me guess," Peter said. "They said no."

"Actually, they said: 'we can't do this,' "this is really crazy," and 'far beyond any of us.'

"That was very specific."

"But I convinced them to help me do it and… we were separated to help you. The other 'yous'. I told my friend: 'You can't be a failure because you're a leader and if we fail we bring them down with us.' I can't fail… cause maybe I dragged them down with me."

Peter just looked at her no longer glaring. He had a feeling Madame Web did this on purpose because Ruby reminded him of himself. He never had a team… he worked with other heroes and they became a team but it was never official and never lasted too long, BUT he did feel. sometimes… that he did get other people in trouble with what he did. Sometimes valid. Sometimes his anxiety and he still can't tell the difference till later or too late.

Peter walked over to and sat on Ruby's bedside. "Okay, I'm going to honest," Peter started. "I am probably last person and worse person to help you with this."

"Uhh."

'But going to help you."

"I'm nervous."

"You should be. Remember when I told you that: fighting crime wasn't the first reason I built my web shooters?" Ruby nodded. "I built them for entertainment."

"I like a show?"

"Yep and… I wasn't myself and… it cost someone their life. Someone really close to me."

Ruby looked at him sadly. Though she didn't really like to admit it, she knew that feeling all to well even if she was really young. "I'm sorry."

"No, it was my fault. Ever since then I learned: With great power comes great responsibility." Ruby made a bit of an 'oh' face in understanding. "Let me guess: that's how you felt when you MW told you what happened?"

Ruby scratched the back of her head. "Not in those exact thought-words-word-thoughts… but I guess."

"Did you force your friends?"

"No, but I—"

"Ah-ah-ah, the student listens to the master."

"Intern!"

"Ha!"

"No! partner!"

"You said it, now did you force them? Yes or no?"

"No."

"Then deep down they felt the same way." Ruby still looked unsure. "Look. Despite what happened or has happened which is a lot. I chose to be Spider-Man. And You chose to a be huntress-in-training and you and friends chose to come and help me and the other me (s)—"

"And my other me(s)."

"And this dimension and you all said yes. So, we'll get the tablet fragments. As long as, you tell me if you get hit by a dart, partner."

Ruby smiled and then her smile faded. "Are there more darts?"

Peter scratched the back of his head and gave a nervous laugh. Ruby could just feel her nerves coming back. "He's more dangerous to hang around than Yang or us."

"Don't worry," Peter said. "You still have the Amazing Spider-Man."

Ruby had a deadpan look while she tried to hide a smile. "You should really meet my sister. She would love you."

Peter shrugged. "I'm taken."

Ruby smiled and pushed the covers off. "Let's go!"

Peter quickly threw the cover back on. "Nope."

Ruby looked shocked and disappointed. "Why? We gotta get the fragment piece."

"And you only slept 2-3 hours through a hallucination drug and you wanna swing and or speed through the city, you know nothing about and fight someone crazier than Kraven." Ruby opened her mouth, but Peter stopped her. "Yes, there are villains crazier than Kraven."

Ruby quickly pulled the over back on her. "All in favor to stay here say: aye."

Peter smiled. "Aye!"

Ruby pumped her fist. "Yes! Twice!"

Peter then smirked. "In the meantime," he said looking at her. "You have to tell me about Dust, Aura, Semblance, and how the scythe is also a gun."

Ruby gave a wide smile. "Well, in the past …."

...

As soon as Blake blinked, it was night and she was falling from the sky into an old fashion looking city. Why didn't Madame Web just teleport them to the ground? She had no idea, but that wasn't the problem. Landing was the problem at hand.

As she fell, Blake eyed a scaffold on a rooftop. It would have to have to do. She quickly pulled out Gambol Shroud, quickly threw its extended length and it wrapped around a metal pole. She quickly but faster than she wanted, sped and dove through the opening scaffold structure. She pulled on her weapon and it unwrapped itself. She, as gracefully, as she could, jumped from metal bar to metal bar, till she landed to the ground, more roughly than she wanted. Before she could even think of looking for Noir Spider-Man or the fragment piece, she heard something. She didn't need spider-sense to know someone was here.

Tap! Tap!

"There."

Blake quickly grabbed the metal bar structure. She quickly jumped up, spun herself around and kicked the person through scaffold metal bars back into the open… well as open as rooftop can be. Blake as quickly as she could got out of the scaffold structure. She saw the figure on his guard. He looked familiar, but she already got him riled up to stop and see who it was.

She quickly sped towards him and the figure threw a punch. She quickly left her shadow clone to take her place, taking the punch for her, and she slid to the side of the figure.

"What the—"

"That voice," Blake thought. "Is it?" Blake threw a punch at the figure. The figure quickly turned and grabbed it. She got a good look at her 'attacker'. She glared a bit but more because of her mistake.

"It is."

It was an all-black suit with a black jacket and black boots with more google like eyes, his widened eyes, and black gloves. She knew him as Noir Spider-Man… and she attacked him. Great first start.

"I didn't expect that," Noir said a bit confused and a bit drily.

A/N: FINALLY! I finished the first segment of Amazing & Ruby! Sorry about that. And by votes and people wanting it in game order: the next chapter will be Noir & Blake. Now hope you guys can be patient cause school is staring and that comes first. Also here WERE the votes:

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