Prologue: Into the Spider-Verse

Empire State University

BGM-Marvel's Spider-Man PS4 OST-Webbed from the Shadows

One night in the never-sleeping city of New Vale, frightening forces are once again at work in the world, ready to wreak havoc with existence itself. Someone, or something, prowls the halls of the Empire State University after dark. It's none other than the Master of Illusion himself…the menacing Mysterio.

The villainous illusionist walks on his ominous purple fog to make himself more imposing as he lurks through ESU's museum, looking for something. It's not ancient vases or dinosaur bones. No. It's something much more unique. A stone tablet. A relic that holds many mysteries. Mysteries that could potentially change the world.

"Ah, the Tablet of Order and Chaos…" Mysterio approaches the glass case protecting the tablet, unaware that a certain red and blue costumed hero is watching him from above as the villains continues talking to himself while carefully opening the case, "Selling you on the black market is gonna make me a mint!"

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BGM-Marvel's Spider-Man PS4 OST-Chasing Down the Devil

"Good. You could use a mint. Ugh, I can smell your breath from here."

That sudden quip accidently caused Mysterio to break the case as he turns around to face his annoying arch-nemesis hanging upside down from his trademark webbing, the Amazing Spider-Man. "Huh? Spider-Man?!" He shouted in shock.

"Wait, how WOULD you eat a mint through that fishbowl?" Spidey jokingly asked.

Wasting no time with his quips, Mysterio silently uses his trademark ability, summoning an illusion of a frightening snake with his special effects to mimic the effects of real magic. Unremarkably, Spider-Man is unfazed of his illusions at all considering they've fought numerous times over the years to the point he's got Beck all figured out, "Nice! Don't get me wrong, your illusions are nifty and all, but if you ask me, they could use a little more…kick!" The amazing web-slinger kicks through the illusion and hits Mysterio, knocking him and the Tablet to the floor. The villain tries to go for it, but Spidey ain't letting him have it by yanking it away with a webline, "Nuh uh uh! Souvenirs are available in the gift shop."

"Stop it! Cease your incessant prattling!" Mysterio annoyingly retorts, firing a sort of mini-rocket at Peter.

"But the incessant is the best kind of prattling." Spidey quips while dodging all of the illusionist's attacks and leaving his webs behind for a follow-up attack.

Then, something starts to happen during their fight. The Tablet of Order and Chaos in Mysterio's hands begins to glow a mystical green, slowly empowering the curious villain with a mysterious power he's never felt before, "What? What's this?"

"Hey bubble-head…" Spider-Man interrupts his curious feeling from his makeshift slingshot, "Think fast!" The hero flung himself at an incredible speed too fast for Mysterio to do anything but block his punch with the Tablet. But because of Spider-Man's amazing strength, the Tablet was shattered, unleashing a mysterious mystical energy outside the museum and throughout the city for certain people to notice right away.

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Meanwhile in Midtown Manhattan…

BGM-RWBY OST-This Will Be the Day

"Last one to Beacon is a rotten Eggman!" The competitive fun-loving, young Huntress Avenger, Ruby Rose, shouted at her teammates in Team RWBY as they race above the streets of Midtown on their lightning-fast Extreme Gears. Ruby twirls a few times while in the lead, followed by Weiss Schnee with a few stylish tricks of her own, as well as Blake Belladonna riding along the side of a building, all while Yang Xiao Long is hot on their toes driving her hoverbike-style Extreme Gear called the Bumblebee II.

Yang smirks confidently, "You're on, Ruby!" before revving up her ride for a quick boost towards the lead.

"I keep forgetting how beautiful the city looks at night, when it's not constantly attacked by supervillains." Blake smiles, admiring the gorgeous night lights during this peaceful time.

"Wish it could stay that way, but unfortunately, we live in a city that never sleeps. It's only a matter of time until some other costumed nutjob tries to ruin our mood." Weiss remarked.

"Hey guys, check me out!" Ruby grinds her Gear on a nearby rail before jumping up to the air for some marvelous tricks only she could perform using her Semblance.

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While Ruby was performing stylish tricks in the air, the mysterious energy that emanated from ESU hits the young huntress like a powerful shockwave, almost knocking her and her teammates off their Extreme Gears. "Huh? What in the world was that?" Ruby wonders confusingly while hovering in the air.

"Weiss' jinx." Yang joked.

"Hey!" Weiss angrily retorted.

Ruby puts on her hi-tech headset called the Rose Scope, given to her by Spider-Man as a gift. She uses the holographic monocle over her left eye to scan for the origins of that mysterious energy, quickly learning it came from ESU, "Whatever that was, my Rose Scope is saying it came from Empire State University." Ruby informs her friends.

"ESU? What could've happened over there to cause that shockwave?" Blake pondered.

"Only way to find out!" Ruby steps on her Extreme Gear to give it a quick boost, flying towards ESU alongside her teammates to investigate that mysterious energy.

Somewhere else in Midtown…

BGM-Sonic Heroes OST-We Can

At the same time, an adventurous blue blur is hopping off rooftops before running down buildings and into the streets in Time Square at high speed. That blur happens to belong to the fastest thing alive, Sonic the Hedgehog, soon joined by his flying buddy, Tails, and his powerful gliding friend, Knuckles the Echidna.

"Ha! What was Electro and Tinkerer thinking luring us to a trap! Their ro-BUT army didn't stand a chance! Not against the three of us!" Sonic smiles, running alongside his best friends.

"Think we should call it a night? Doesn't look like we'll be running into anything else exciting." Knuckles asked, wanting to end tonight's recent adventure.

While flying through the air, Tails does spot something on a nearby rooftop that seems more interesting than exciting, "Look up on that rooftop!" He points his friends to a familiar red and black hedgehog brooding on the rooftop, "It's Shadow!"

Team Sonic quickly jumps onto the rooftop greeting Shadow the Hedgehog at this late hour, "Hey Shadow. Long time no see. Whatcha doing in the city? Don't you have secret agent stuff to be working on?" Sonic asks his arch-rival.

"Not tonight. Thought I spend the night patrolling the city." Shadow replied.

"Taking up Spidey's shift?" Sonic joked.

"He's not the only hero who can protect the city." Shadow responded.

"True, but everything looks peaceful tonight. How 'bout we go home and get some sleep?" Sonic recommended.

"I suppose you're right." Shadow agreed as the city does seem pretty peaceful as of late.

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That peace is suddenly interrupted when both Shadow and Knuckles sensed something odd in the air, which got Sonic and Tails' worried attention. "What's up?" Sonic asks his friends, wondering why they got tensed up all of a sudden.

"Not sure. I'm sensing some 'strange' energy'." Knuckles glances around for the source of the mysterious energy.

Out of nowhere, that same mystic shockwave from the museum slightly pushed them back as several tablet fragments were seen scattered across the sky, some seemingly piercing through the dimensional fabric. "Were those flying rocks? Where did they come from? What the heck happened?" Sonic asked, lost about this mysterious situation.

Tails brings out his Miles Electric to scan the energy reading for some answers, "Whoa. Never got a reading like this before. I'm detecting a new type of 'mystical energy' that was released from Empire State University." He informed his friends.

"At ESU? That's Spidey's school. What happened over there?" Sonic wondered, curiously.

"I got a bad feeling about this. Whatever that energy was, it's nothing I ever felt before. We should go investigate right away." Shadow recommends the four of them should investigate ESU for answers about that mysterious energy.

Sonic chuckles with that adventurous grin on his face, "Hehe. Finally something interesting. Let's go check it out." He said, leading his mobian friends at sonic-speed towards ESU.

Back at Empire State University

"Whoa! What the heck was that?!" Spider-Man asks himself, shaking off the pain in his head after accidentally shattering the Tablet of Order of Chaos. He looks at Mysterio, holding a piece of the Tablet before disappearing in his smoke while laughing manically, "Oookay…"

Spider-Man then hears a new voice in the building saying, "The energy originated in here!" quickly noticing the voice belonged to Tails while leading the rest of Team Sonic and Shadow into the museum where they surprisingly reunite with the web-slinger, "Spider-Man!" Tails remarks.

"Hiya, Webs. Had a feeling you'd be here." Sonic smiled.

"Sonic?" Spidey said, wasn't expecting to reunite with his speedy hedgehog friend tonight.

"Whoa! You guys are here too?!" Ruby's voice suddenly entered the conversation, as Team RWBY also arrived to the scene greeting their old friends.

"Ruby?" Peter remarks, a little surprise to see his huntress friends here as well.

Ruby happily waves, "Hi Spidey! Guess we all saw that strange energy!"

"You guys too?" Knuckles asked.

"What happened here, Spider-Man? What was the cause of that weird energy that spread throughout the city?" Shadow asked the webhead for some answers about tonight's events.

Spidey explains himself, "I got word that Mysterio found some old rock, or tablet, that was dug up in a construction site and was put up here in display at ESU. Not sure what it was, but I wasn't gonna let him have it. So I did my usual thing: Fought him, made fun of him. But during our little scuffle, I might've accidentally broke the rock and he left with a piece of it while laughing maniacally."

Weiss sighs, silently facepalming while shaking her head in disappointment of Spidey's actions, "What did you do THIS time?"

"I dunno. I was hoping you would have an answer. Can somebody tell me what's going on here?!" Spidey asked.

"Spider-Man!"

"Gahhhh!"

The jumpscared heroes wondered where that mysterious female voice came from, glancing around their surroundings for a bit until they decided to look behind Spider-Man to be greeted by the projection of an elderly woman wearing a blindfold, sitting on her seat with a web that shows images of different Spider-Men and Spider-Women from different worlds, "You are needed! All of you!" The elderly woman said to the united heroes.

Ruby blinks a few times as she seems to recognize the old lady from somewhere, "Hey, isn't that…?"

"Madame Web?" Spidey recognized, "As if this night wasn't strange enough already!"

"If YOU'RE here, this can't be good." Sonic said with a serious expression, knowing Madame Web usually shows up during extreme dire situations that requires Spider-Man's assistance.

Madame Web agrees, "All is not good, Sonic. The Tablet of Order and Chaos is the MOST powerful of ALL the mystic artifacts in the world…and Spider-Man's reckless actions shattered it."

All the heroes silently give the meanest glare to Spider-Man for accidently putting the world in danger, something he makes a joke about, "Yeaaaah…sorry about that. Guess they don't make tablets like they used to, huh?" He shamelessly shrugged.

Madame Web explains their dire situation to the heroes, "The pieces are now fragmented across other dimensions, dimensions that are strange reflections of our own…" She shows them the 1930s world of Spider-Man Noir, "A past unlike ours…" Then shows them the younger world of Ultimate Spider-Man, "A present day out of synch…" Lastly, she shows them the futuristic world of Spider-Man 2099, "And a distant future which may or may not come to pass."

"Is that a…cartoon pig?" Knuckles points to the spectacular Spider-Ham image on her web.

"Look who's talking." Yang quips to the cartoonish echidna.

"FOCUS!" Madame Web shuts them up as she continues her informative debriefing, "I require your help – yours AND the help of these other Spider-Men. The heroes into whose realities the tablet fragments fell."

"You want us to team up with the other me's in the other dimensions?" Spider-Man asked.

Madame Web answered, "Yes, I have explained our dire situation to them. They will be your allies in this quest, as I will send your friends into those other realities to assist them. Weiss Schnee and Tails will be sent into the year of 2099…" She assigns the surprised Weiss and Tails to assist Spidey 2099, "Blake Belladonna and Shadow the Hedgehog will travel to Earth-90214…" She then assigns stoic Blake and Shadow to help out Spidey Noir, "And Yang Xiao Long and Knuckles the Echidna will venture off into Earth-1610…" She then assigns the excited powerhouses Yang and Knuckles to work with the Ultimate Spider-Man, "Meanwhile, Ruby Rose and Sonic the Hedgehog will stay here in this unified world assisting the Spider-Man you're most familiar with." Lastly, she has the smiling Ruby and Sonic stay in this world with the Amazing Spider-Man.

"And the most charming, right?" Spider-Man joked.

"Why do you keep saying that?" Weiss remarks, noticing Peter likes repeating that whenever his counterparts are mentioned.

"You must gather all the pieces of the Tablet before they fall into the wrong hands, or our reality, as well as theirs, will be UTTERLY destroyed." Madame Web effectively warns them the entire multiverse could be at risk if they do not recover the Tablet fragments in time.

The heroes take a moment to process the conditions and consequences of this brand-new adventure they suddenly found themselves in with Peter only have this to quip, "Yeah. Right. No pressure or anything." He says, swinging away with Ruby and Sonic while Madame Web transports the others to their assigned universes to team up with their Spider-Man in one unparalleled adventure none of them will forget.

BGM-Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions OST-Web of Destiny

KFX Here: Here's the story a lot of you were excited for! It's time to begin Shattered Dimensions. Four parallel worlds. One unparalleled adventure. You got the Amazing Spider-Man front and center for this event. Returning spiders from previous stories are Spider-Man Noir and Spider-Man 2099, as well as new spider to the series, Ultimate Spider-Man (Peter Parker). Team Sonic, Team RWBY, and Shadow the Hedgehog are also guest starring in this event, as EVERYONE receives brand-new, enhanced powers. Nothing too extreme. Just simple upgrades to their arsenal to spice up the story.

Note: This story takes place 1 month after the events of Avengers Academy.

Issue 1 begins with: New adventure, new dimensions, new powers.

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