Ch. 16 Infiltration

Cinders Dorm

Afternoon

1 hour after Sandmans containment

3rd Po

Emerald and Mercury, are bickering on whether or not Torchwick getting arrested ahead of schedule was either a major roadblock or a minor inconvenience. While Cinder was in an unknown private location talking to her 'clever' friend, about a new problem.

Mercury: Are you kidding he was supposed to load a train full of explosives and bring it into the city and he was not even able to do that.

Emerald: I know, but Cinder planned ahead for this we will adapt as we have done before.

Mercury: Yeah I get that, but you have to admit Cinder and, "you know who" seriously underestimated this Spider guy, and now we have Oscorp to worry about. Let's face it Em this whole plan has gone down the drain.

Before Emerald could respond to Mercury's statement Cinder walks in as if she owns the place, and sits on her bed she wears her trademark nefarious grin on her face.

Emerald immediately sits up straight as she walks in.

Emerald: Welcome back ma'am! Have you did Watts or Adam have any useful information.

Cinder: Well, according to Watts, he worked for Osborn many years ago, and while he never knew him personally knew him, he insists that Osborn is dangerous, and he that if there is any chance that he may be a threat to the mission then we need to take him out quick.

Emerald: What about Adam?

Cinder: Adam, was less than helpful. He has never seen the Spider-Man in action, so alas the only information he obtained where from his men, and from what they said it appears that this Spider-Man is fast, agile, unpredictable, and stronger than any normal hunter should be even with an advanced ora.

Emerald: I...I see.

Mercury: This is what I am talking about! Salem told us "Not to worry about the Spider-Man" but this guy has caused more problems for us than Ozpin has, and Oscorp completely flew under her radar, and this woman is supposedly a powerful Grimm Queen or something, who knows about everyone everywhere. So if you ask me...

Emerald: Which no one did.

Mercury: ...Osborn is extremely lucky, or he knows exactly how too keep off Salem's radar.

Emerald reluctantly nods her head.

Emerald: He has a point ma'am if he is a big a threat as Watts says he is Salem would have caught it.

Cinder: You may be right, Emerald *Gestures to the desk*Emerals grab my scroll and access the CCT network so we can see what exactly we are dealing with here.

Emerald: Of course, but I don't think Oscorp uses the network.

Cinder: Would not hurt to try.

Emerald Gets up and grabs the scroll and tries to access the network with no luck,

Emerald: Umm, Cinder?

Cinder: What.

Emerald: I can't access the network.

Cinder: What do you mean you can't access the network! Are you sure you're doing it right?

Emerald: I am but all that is coming up is are the words Access denied and a video play button.

Cinder gets up in anger

Cinder: That is not possible we should have full access of all I uploaded the virus with no issues.

Emerald: I am sure you did but it looks like someone else hacked the virus and gained access to the CCT system while locking us out.

Cinder: What makes you say that!

Emerald: Because of this video.

Cinder: Play it!

Emerald presses the play button and this plays

Cinder: OH MOTHER...

Meanwhile

Spider-Man is on the Beacon dorm rooftop getting sand out of his suit.

Spider-Man: Oh what a day.

y/n is shacking the Sand out of his mask, and then his phone scroll starts vibrating he takes it out to see that Jaune is calling him, so he answers resting his scroll between his shoulder and ear so he can still get the sand out while he talks.

y/n: Hey Jaune how is it going.

Jaune: Hey y/n. You alright you sound kinda tired.

y/n: Yeah I kinda am just got done with a big battle, you will probably see it on the news tonight.

Jaune: Oh! I get it wink.

y/n: ...

y/n: Did you seriously just say wink out loud?

Jaune: It sounded a lot less lame in my head.

y/n: *Smirks* Its fine buddy, anyway what's up?

Jaune: Oh right, I am going on my first 'real' date with Pyrrah in a few days, and I am extremely nervous, and I was wondering if you can give me any advice.

y/n sits on the edge of the roof and holds the phone properly.

y/n: Why are you asking advice Jaune, Pyrrah is already crazy about you.

Jaune: Maybe but I know Pyrrah deserves a better man than me.

y/n: Jaune your a better man than most people I know and she can see that.

Jaune: But I don't want her to date me only to realize that she had made a mistake, I mean Yang knew she was getting a great man when she started to date you, your Spider-Man.

y/n: Well let me tell you something Jaune Spider-Man did not the girl, y/n l/n did.

Jaune: Wait really!?

y/n: Yes. Your a good guy Jaune, any girl would be lucky to have you, Pyrrah is just the one who really gets that.

Jaune: Yeah! Thank you so much y/n, you know after all this is over we should hang out just us guys.

y/n: That actually sounds fun let me know when and where *beep* *beep* hold on I am getting another call. bye

Jaune: Bye.

*Beep*

y/n: Hi Yang!

Yang: Hey y/n, are you alright I saw what happened, I wanted to help but Oscorp set up a barrier around the area and would not let anyone in, but from what I could see it looked like...well, you were fighting a being made entirely out of living sand?

y/n: Yep that is the gist of it, he could turn an avalanche of sand and then turn back into solid matter like nothing ever happened.

Yang: OH MY GODS!! How is that even possible!?

y/n: Well...why don't you meet me on the dorm's roof and I will share some details with you.

Yang: Really!?

y/n: Well I been thinking, since we are already dating we could be superhero partners maybe it could strengthing our relationship. *Puts the mask on but not over his mouth.*

Yang: ...

y/n: Yang?

As soon as he said that the roof dorm burst open and yang jumped out like an overly excited anime character. who just got told the greatest news in the world.

Yang: You had me at Superhero.

She then speeds walks at him and kisses him with incredible passion, y/n was shocked at first but he soon snapped out of it and delivered the same amount of passion in the kiss.

The kiss only lasted a few minutes but it felt so much longer to the both of them, and the broke away for breath and regained their composure. Yang leaned next to the wall and y/n put his mask over his mouth.

Yang: Great kiss. Anyway, Sandman guy, what's your take.

y/n: I actually know the guy, before he became living sand I mean.

Yang: Really?

y/n: Yeah his name is Flint Marco, I have put him away over a dozen times in the two years I have been Spider-Man, he was just a common criminal who was just persistent on getting the best score in his life, even though he was always stopped by me the police or another hunter or huntress he just happened to cross his path.

Yang: So he did not have sand powers, to begin with?

y/n: Nope, in fact, I never saw him use his semblance, not one in these past two years.

Yang: But now he has got sand powers so that begs the question...

y/n/Yang: How and where did he get those abilities?

Yang: Jinx! You oh me a soda, but seriously do you have any ideas on where those powers came from?

y/n: I got one. *Looks at Oscorp Mothership*

Yang: Oscorp?

y/n: It is the most probable answer, they just arrive in town and just before Torchwicks was but away after suspicion was drawn toward him after the Shocker robbery, and they are the only ones I can think of that have the technology to possibly pull this sort of thing off.

Yang: That...acctually makes sense, and you said that someone might be trying to take Torchwick and the White Fang off the board.

y/n: Norman has always been power hunger hungry according to my Dad, but I can't say for sure that he is the one behind this or what his endgame is, if he wants to prove that his militia is superior to the Atlas Military why didn't he just arrest Torchwick and do something that Ironwood has failed too for years now.

Yang: So what's the plan?

y/n: I thought that I might go and pay that ridiculously humungous Oscorp Mother Research Ship.

Yang: How about we just call it the mothership it rolls of the tongue a little, better.

y/n: *giggles* Yeah.

Yang: Anyway how do you plan to find your way around that place is huge.

y/n: Well I was thinking that I could sneak aboard download the ship's schematics and send them to you and you can guide me through the ship.

Yang: Oh really! I can do that, to be honest, I probably find that Job boring if I had to do it for any other mission, but working with the Spider-Man makes it sound just as fun as punching a giant lizard monster even though it probably won't affect it in the slightest.

y/n: ...that example was...oddly specific.

Yang: Maybe, but still this feels like a great superhero team up kinda like a dynamic...

y/n: Shhhhh! I don't think you can legally say that, and can we go back to the giant monster thing.

Yang: I saw it in a move, it's not like that Really Happened.

Meanwhile, in downtown Vale in a rundown apartment, there is a familiar Fanus hiding his scorpion tale under the skin on his back and wearing a trench coat and making a phone call.

*Ring* *Ring*

Raven: Gargan.

Mac: Boss.

Raven: Any updates on your target.

Mac: Yes actually, you won't believe this but he fought a Sandman.

Raven: The 'mythical dream spirit.'

Mac: No I mean a literal Sandman someone who can turn into living sand and use it as a weapon.

Raven: That's a new one.

Mac: Yeah he caught the web head flat footed but, be soon adapted and was able to defeat him, I wanted to get a video for you but Oscorp contained the surrounding area pretty quickly.

Raven: So he is able to adapt to an unknown opponent quickly and overcome it, that is interesting. Anything else.

Mac: Well I was at the perimeter Oscorp set up and as expected many hunters and huntresses tried to get in, but there was one girl with long blonde hair, who tried to get in too.

Raven: ...

Mac: However she seemed more eager to get in more than anyone else for a reason I just could not put my finger on, It might not be important, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Raven: T..thank you Gargan keep observing the target, I have other business to attend to.

Mac: Sure thing boss.

Mac: *Sigh* I hate this job.

Later that night Oscorp Mothership exterior

Spider-Man: OK Yang I am at the aft exterior ventilation shaft.

Yang: OK be careful,

Spider-Man: Of course the last thing I want is to get you angry.

Yang: Yes, yes it is.

Spider-Man then lifts the vent up and entered, and starts to proceed

Spider-Man: Heh it's like my own private ventrence.

Yang: Good one Babe.

Spider-Man: Thanks, okay if I remember correctly the server room should be to the right.

Yang: How do you that exactly?

Spider-Man: My Dad worked on this ship all the time, and he would sometimes take me, but I was only allowed at the main research station where he worked, and I know for a fact that the main server room is right across the hall.

Yang: Wow your Dad worked here!?

Spider-Man: Yep he loved the work here, he never spent more time anywhere else other than that lab.

Yang: More than anywhere else?

Spider-Man: Yeah, *ahem* Speaking of which I am right above it, and it looks like no ones home.

Spidey drops down from the ventilation shaft onto the floor of the main research lab, and a lot of old memories popped up.

Spider-Man: Man the place has literally not changed at all.

Yang: Can you make it to the server room?

Spider-Man: Yeah, hold on.

Spidey opens the door to the research room and sure enough directly across the way was the server room which never had a door. Also down the hallway, there were two guards walking and talking, so in order to make as little noise as possible Spidey web-zipped access to the server room, making a faint woosh noise.

Guard 1: Hey did you hear that?

Guard 2: Eh probably just another drill.

The Guards turn the corner.

Spider-Man then goes to the main computer to see if he can access the files he needed.

Spider-Man: Okay Yang I am accessing the main server, damn their security is top notch.

Yang: Can you access the ship schematics?

Spider-Man: Yeah I can also loop the security camera footage, but that's it, any more, can trigger the alarms, annnnnd got it! sending it to you now.

Y/n then hears footsteps around in the hallway turns off the main computer and then web-zippes up to the vent.

Spider-Man: You got it?

Yang: Yes it is coming to my scroll now.

Spider-Man:*relieved* I could not do this without you.

Yang: I don't know about that, but I do know that you would be less cool doing it.

He lets out a small hearty laugh

Spider-Man: That is true, that is very true.

Yang: OK I got the schematics on my scroll. OH Wow!

Spider-Man: What?

Yang: Nothing its just that this ship is so much bigger on the inside, *regains composure* OK what do you need babe.

Spider-Man: Look for any part of the ship that might be used to contain a very powerful supervillain.

Yang: OK I don't think they will call him that but I will look,

Yang browses the schematics using 'Containment' as the keyword

Yang: OK I got three results.

Yang: There is Maximum Security Eastwing, Maximum Security Westwing, but both of those are just your typical jail cells with high power containment doors, good for your typical prisoners.

Spider-Man: But not the place where you would put a sandman.

Yang: Exactly so that only leaves us with Meta Lockdown, one floor below you and it, but it says here that that level of the ship has its private blocks any signals trying to get out so you will be on your own there.

Spider-Man: That has to be where there keeping Marco! Thanks, Yang I owe you a night of web-swinging and a romantic dinner.

Yang: You know I will hold you up to that right.

Spider-Man: And I plan to deliver on that, just you wait, but first I am going to have a talk with Marco.

Yang: OK be careful Meta Lockdown takes up the entire lower floor so their will likely be a lot of guards, and your suit is not exactly the most stealthy.

Spider-Man: *sighs* Yeah you got a point, but I will stay up high nobody looks up, especially if you're wearing full body armor.

Yang: That's true, just be safe OK, talk to you later.

Spider-Man: Talk to you later. *beep*

Spider-Man: Alright let's find an elevator shaft.

He then makes sure that the coast is clear and jumps down to an elevator door, and opens it with his bare hands, and jumps down to the lower floor, and opens that elevator door to the Meta Containment floor, its a dark Giant Square corridor with cell doors on both sides of the dark hall and to y/n's luck no one was in his near the elevator doors, and he uses this opportunity to web-zip to the ceiling, and the elevator door closes behind him.

He looks around to see so many doors and which all lead to a room with an observation area and a containment cell separated by a strong piece of glass.

y/n's Pov

Oh wow, this place is big!

OK, the ceiling is high off the ground and the cell doors have names on them, alright where are you, Marco.

Time Skip

Y/n is crawling on the ceiling looking on the names on the cell door looking for Flint Marco

*sigh* Alistair Smythe, Miles Warren, Samuel Ortez, Isaac Gates, AH! Here we are Flint Marco cell #1519

But there's a keypad lock, that should not be a problem.

I jump down then I remove the front of the lock and rewire the lock granting me access,

Door Opens

y/n: Open Sesame.

Put the keypad lock back on and enter leaving the cell door open just a crack so I don't get locked in here, and I look through the glass and I see Marco with a shocked expression on his face.

Marco: Spider-Man!

y/n: Shhhh!!!

Marco: What the hell are you doing here?

y/n: I came to ask you some questions, about Shocker and whoever turned you into this Sandman.

Marco: No way I may not be the smartest guy around but I know when to keep my mouth shut.

y/n: Listen, Flint, I have never seen an enemy like this. Nobody can see him, but I know he is there, and if you don't tell me what I need to know many innocent people can get hurt.

Marco: So I what. They have done nothing for me except brand me as a criminal why should I care about them.

y/n: You may be a criminal Flint but you're, not a murderer, in the dozen-plus heists you did you never killed anybody. You say you don't care about anybody but I don't believe you everyone has someone in their lives and I think your no exception, I think you can be a good person Marco, and if you don't do it for me or yourself then do it for the person you love.

Marco: *Whispers* Keemia.

Marco: I don't know much, but I broke out of prison through the mourge, and that is when I heard the general guy talking about how the Shocker died in the Atlas van.

y/n: Shockers dead?

Marco: Yeah but the weird thing about it is that they said the cause of death was a chip in his brain send out an electric current and killed him instantly.

So Shocker was just a way to force Ironwood to act against Torchwick, and then they killed him when he was no longer needed.

y/n: OK what else?

Marco: The people who turned me into this said that if I became their test subject they would pay my bail and give me more money than I can possibly Imagine. I never saw their faces but I do remember one mentioning he was a scientist or robotics expert of some sort, I every step he took shook the ground.

y/n: His footsteps shook the ground?

Marco: I don't get it either but I swear that is what happens.

I jolt up when I hear someone coming, I guess that's my queue to leave,

y/n: Thank you, Marco, But I gotta run.

I wave and quickly exit the room shut the door, and get out of that ship as quickly as possible, and make my way to the dorm rooms roof, I take a minute to catch my breath and call Yang.

3rd pov

y/n: Hey Yang.

Yang: OH thank the Gods you made it out OK did you find anything good.

y/n: You can say that but it did leave me with more questions than answers.

Yang: Ugh I hate that, why can't things ever be easy.

y/n: *giggles* I don't...

Just at that moment, a blackbird lands on the roof about 8 ft. across from him.

y/n: know? Uh, listen, babe, I am going to have to call you back. *beep*

After the call ended there was a long moment of silence between y/n, and the blackbird who was watching him with great intensity.

A/N Hey Guys that will do it for Ch. 16 I will probably not post another chapter for a little while because I am going to write Chapters 17, 18, and 19 at the same time to have a more consistent release schedule, then I am going to work on a pair of chapters that bring one of Spider-Man's most electrifying villains to S.P.D.R. I hoped you like this chapter, your love for this Series means a lot to me, and also have a Happy New Year, (I know I am late but I just wanted to wish you guys one any way)