Hero buddies in action


At a New York City Pub, Bobby Drake is talking with his friends Peter and Johnny in a secluded area.

"I still can't believe you even got Venom and Black Cat to join you, I mean Cloak and Dagger I understand, they've always respected you, but Black Cat is one of New York's notorious crooks, and Venom is well...Venom", Bobby said.

"They both have good qualities to them, Felicia just needs to use that skill she has for good and Venom needs to be properly guided on that it means to be a hero, he seems to have a sense of justice, it's just a little crooked and corrupt", Peter said.

"Well you two made great allies, and it sounds like you did a hell of a job against Doom"

"Probably doesn't mean much, given Doom's Power and his whole Diplomatic Immunity crap, he's gonna be back doing this again in no time", Johnny said.

"Well if he does, we'll be ready", Peter said.

"Reassemble the Crew?" Johnny asked.

"You two should do that, maybe help the X-Men find out what Magneto and The Brotherhood are up to", Bobby suggested.

"Well reuniting the gang will be easier said than done", Peter said.

"But if the time comes, maybe we can convince them, get the band back together", Johnny said.

"Sounds awesome, anyway where's our drinks?" Bobby asked.

"Should be here soon hopefully", Johnny said.

Back with The Brotherhood, Magneto had been briefed on the whole Spider-man & Human Torch incident.

"So it would seem that the insect boy and living lantern have caused a bit of a ruckus amongst this Brotherhood"

"Yeah, this was before the X-Men arrived, we actually had them cornered, if that damn Iceman hadn't shown up", Avalanche said.

"So what say you boss? We kill these punks?" Pyro asked.

"Not yet, I'd like to speak with them first, I have a small offer for them", Magneto said.

Quicksilver looked confused, "What are you getting at Pops?"

"Bring me Spider-man and The Human Torch, they may be key to a new plan I have for this world" Magneto then left the area.

Avalanche turned to Quicksilver, "What's your old man up to?"

Quicksilver shrugged, "Not sure"

Scarlet Witch approached them, "Our father has always been someone mysterious on certain things, hopefully whatever he has planned now will be worth the time"

"Whatever then, lets just find these chumps" Avalanche said.

"Wait we can't just go and find them, suppose we run into trouble out there, the X-Men are still looking for us", Pyro warned.

"Good point, I say we can a good friend of ours to help", Avalanche suggested.

The next day Spider-man was facing off against one of his enemies, The Sandman.

"I'm gonna crush you spider!" Sandman turned his hand into a hammer and tried to attack Spider-man but he managed to dodge the attack and run in with a punch.

Sandman was barely affected and tried attacking again but Spider-man kept jumping around, dodging all the smashes, then Spider-man noticed a Fire Hydrant.

"Bingo, just gotta set the trap" he spat webs into Sandman's face, "Hey Sandy, over here!"

"Don't call me that! That's a girl's name!" Sandman attacked Spider-man but he jumped, "Missed me!"

Sandman growled and kept shooting sand in the shape of canon balls at Spider-man until Spider-man stepped in front of the Hydrant.

"Attack me if you can...Sandy!"

Sandman was gonna attack but he noticed the fire hydrant and understood what Spider-man was up to.

He then shot sand above him and destroyed part of the building behind Spider-man, causing some glass and rubble to fall on his head, Spider-man moved out the way.

"So much for that plan, gotta try something else"

"Give up webhead, you can't defeat me!"

"I've done it before!"

"Well not this time, I got you all figured out!" he rushed at Spider-man with his arms shaped like spikes and slashed at Spider-man who dodged theses attacks no problem.

"Come on web-head, show me what you-" Sandman was then blasted from behind by a fireball, he looked behind and noticed Human Torch.

"Hey this looks fun, mind if I join in?"

"I'm gonna snuff you out Torch!"

He shot some sand balls at Johnny but he managed to avoid the, this distraction allowed Spider-man to rush to the hydrant and kick it off and web over a manhole cover and use it to aim the water at Sandman, making his powers useless.

"Aw crap!" Sandman said as he melted.

Soon the police arrived and nabbed Sandman as he was struggling to reshape back together, due to the water still in him, he couldn't really fight them off.

"This ain't over chumps! I'm get my revenge!"

"Say hello to Octavious for me!" Spider-man taunted.

Sandman was loaded into the police van as they drove off.

Spider-man and Johnny did a fist bump, "Boom!"

During their Celebration a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent approached them, "Good work men, Captain Fury wishes to speak with you two, says he has a proposition"

"Huh? What proposition?" Spider-man asked.

"He didn't really say, he just wants to speak with you both"

"I hope he didn't lose that stupid gun of his", Johnny said.

"Go to these coordinates, just you two", he handed them each a paper with directions.

"What time?" Spider-man asked.

"In an hour"

"We'll be there"

The agent left, Johnny turned to Spider-man, "Seriously? Some shady S.H.I.E.L.D. agent shows up, gives us a paper of where we have to be and you're simply just gonna go?"

"Yeah, maybe it's important"

"Seems fishy to me"

"Well you don't have to go, I'll go by myself"

"No way, you probably get yourself into a deep mess if you do, I'm coming with you to make sure you stay safe"

"Aw thanks, you're a real friend", Spider-man went to hug Johnny but Johnny flamed on, "Back off bro"

Spider-man backed away, "Well I'm gonna go make one last sweep of the city, see you in an hour", he then swung away.

Johnny looked at the paper a bit, "Still seems fishy", he then flew off.

An hour later Spider-man and Johnny arrived at the place, it was an old building near the outskirts of the city.

"This place looks like a dump, why would Fury meet here?" Johnny asked.

"So no one suspects it?" Spider-man suggested.

"Whatever, lets just go in, get this over with"

They entered the building and walked though the halls, it was disturbingly empty.

"This is a weird place to have a meeting", Johnny said.

"Would you stop complaining? It gets annoying", Spider-man said.

As they walked the metal in the area started to shake.

"That can't be good", Spider-man said.

As the metal continued to shake, they noticed a familiar person heading their way, "Hello boys"

Both their jaws dropped.

"It's Magneto!" Johnny said.

"What did you do to Nick Fury!?" Spider-man asked.

"Nick Fury?" Magneto pondered.

"Yeah, an agent said he's be here, he wanted to speak with us", Spider-man said.

"You mean...that agent over there?" Magneto said and pointed to the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in question.

"Dude, what gives? You said Fury would be here"

The agent in question began laughing as he turned into Mystique.

"Hello boys"

Both heroes were shocked.

"Mystique!? But...wait this is a trap then!" Spider-man said.

"Gee ya think?" Johnny said annoyed at Spider-man, who simply shrugged, "Dammit I knew this was fishy! You tricked us!"

"Not entirely, I do have a proposition for you" Magneto said.

"What would that be?" Johnny asked.

"I offer you to join my Brotherhood"

Both were confused.

"Um Magneto, we're not technically mutants", Spider-man said.

"I am aware of that", Magneto said.

"You only let mutants into your Brotherhood", Spider-man said.

"I am aware of that as well"

"...Ok are you having a senior moment?"

"Watch your tongue child!" Mystique warned.

"Child?"

"Allow me to explain, while I always believed that mutants are born and not created, perhaps that might be a missing piece to my little issue, people don't understand us mutants, but they may if they fear that it could happen to them on any given occasion, even if they're not born with it, they may not be able to avoid it, you two can be my ambassadors for that, thus finally ending the prejudice"

"So you want us, two well known heroes, to risk our reputation just to scare people into liking mutants?" Spider-man asked.

"That newspaper company already tarnishes your reputation, what do you have to lose?"

"My self respect, besides I work hard to prove them wrong, so if I join you it would take that hard work at wash it down the drain"

"Besides, I don't see how us joining you will make people think it could happen to them" Johnny said.

"They will, once I show a few examples"

Spider-man grew suspicious, "How so?"

"All I have to do is find a way to mutate some higher powers of the world, once that happens, my message will be clear, mutants will be recognised as the Superior Race, with me as its great leader"

"I don't think so, we're taking you down Magneto!" Spider-man said.

"I was hoping you'd be smarter than this, such a shame" Magneto snapped his fingers and out came The Brotherhood, "You know what to do"

The group attacked but Spider-man & Johnny fought them back, however Mystique ran in and attacked them both with jump kicks.

Quicksilver did some speed punches to both as Scarlet Witch blasted them.

Spider-man & Johnny did their best to fight back with Spider-man punched away Quicksilver and webbing Pyro to the wall, and Johnny blasting Scarlet Witch, Toad & Avalanche, but the numbers game started catching up Avalanche managed to recover and cause a quake, knocking them off balance and Mystique once again attacking them from behind.

Spider-man & Johnny got up but suddenly they were suspended in midair by Magneto and he slammed them both several times to the walls and once more to a pipe, knocking them both out.

"Take them to the holding cells, I still have some use for them" Magneto said.

Mystique & The Brotherhood hauled the heroes to their cells.

"Soon this world shall be mine"

A bit later outside the building, Iceman was standing, "This is the address Johnny told me about, he said come here if he and/or Peter have been gone a while, so you two know the plan?"

With Iceman were two of Spider-man's allies, Black Cat & Venom.

"Yeah, go in and bail out my favorite boys", Black Cat said.

"And put a stop to The Brotherhood", Venom said.

"Let's move", Iceman said and led the troops.


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