Hello Guys and Gals. I am back with chapter four. We finally get to see some action this chapter, and introduce the stories villain. As always please read and review. Enjoy the chapter!

Peter Parker was nervous as he sat strapped into a seat on one of the Avengers Quinn Jets. He glanced up towards the cockpit where Carol Danvers sat piloting the aircraft and replayed the last thirty minutes in his mind. Despite his best efforts after he left his debrief he had managed to get lost in the numerous hallways of the Avengers compound even with the help of the map Happy had so thoughtfully included in his welcome packet. After nearly fifteen minutes he finally managed to find his room and just as he walked in he was startled by Friday, Mr. Starks personal AI alerting him that he needed to suit up and meet Captain Marvel in hanger beta ASAP. After he got over his surprise he activated the Iron Spider suit Mr. Stark had given him, and as the nano tech started to swarm over his body he took off running in what he hoped was the direction of the hangers. He managed to make it in five minutes thanks to a few helpful directions from Karen who had awoken as the suit came online, and when he arrived he found Carol waiting for him battle ready and looking grimm. As she explained the situation to him the teen felt as if a hot ball of lead had settled in his stomach. Apparently some wackjob in a suit had been terrorizing queens looking for him, and had even taken a hostage as bait to draw him out. Fast forward ten minutes and here he was five minutes out from their destination with his thoughts racing a mile a minute. If this guy was attacking queens did that mean they knew who Spider-Man was under the mask? Then came the crushing guilt of knowing that some woman was terrified out of her mind being held hostage by a madman all because of him. If she didn't make it.. He couldn't even finish the thought. "Hey, are you alright Peter" Carol asked from the pilots seat breaking him out of his unpleasant thoughts. Peter allowed the mask of his suit to retract and attempted to flash her a smile that came across as more of a grimace "Me? Never better. There is just some nut job with a tail who wants me dead, and an innocent woman's life is at stake because of it. So basically just my average Tuesday you know." he tried to joke. The woman saw straight through his attempt at humor and asked " First hostage situation?" The teen sighed and nodded looking down at the floor. "I'm not going to lie to you and say that we are definitely going to save this woman" Carol said causing Peter to freeze and she noticed his hands clenched into fists where they rested on his knees. "What I am going to tell you is that no matter what we are gonna get this son of a bitch." Peter was silent and the older woman had just decided to leave him be and turn her attention back to the skies when he spoke, quietly but with an underlying steel. "I won't let her die." Carol looked at him she could see the resolve in his eyes. In that moment she truly believed him, Spider-Man would save that woman no matter what. She turned back towards the dash, and Peter never saw the warm smile she had on her face. Just then she received an alert that they'd reached their LZ on a rooftop a few blocks away from the conflict. When they landed Peter followed Carol down the ramp and onto the roof below. "We go in quiet from here." She said as she turned to look at him seriously. "You'll take point and swing in alone this guy wants you and has openly said if you don't come alone he'll kill the girl. I will hang back and watch from a distance to wait for an opening. Try to get him talking and distracted, then I'll come in fast and hard and hopefully get this thing resolved quickly." Peter nodded trying to give off a confidence he did not feel inside. After looking the teen over for a moment Carol let her Power flare to life. Her golden energy flowed over her and bathed the surrounding area and the teen before her in its light. In that moment Peter couldn't help but be a bit in awe of the woman who now resembled a goddess more than a mortal. She turned to him one last time before flying off and said. "You've got this Peter Parker, don't let me down." The teen watched her shoot off and for a moment before shaking himself from his stupor to focus on the much more important task at hand. "Alright Spider-Man, you heard the pretty glowey lady, you've got this." With that thought and a hardened resolve he took a running leap off of the edge of the building and started swinging in the direction he knew the villain to be. It was show time.

To say that Betty Brant was having a bad day would be the understatement of the century. The terrible day started off with her sleeping straight through her alarm, which made her late for work. After an extremely rushed morning when she finally did make it in she was yelled at for ten minutes straight (a new record) by her boss in front of everyone else at the newspaper. It was her first job out of college, four years for a degree in journalism and all she had to show for it were student loans and a job as a glorified secretary for the biggest jerk in news. So after being talked about and pitied for the next five hours she jumped at the chance to get out of the building for her lunch break. After a nice turkey on rye from her favorite sub shop from her highschool days over in queens she thought her day was finally looking up, that was until some maniac with a tail snatched her up and started dragging her through the streets as bait for Spider-Man. All of which led her to where she was now being held up by the throat by a giant green tail, while the man it was attached to talked to himself "The bug ain't here yet, He swore the bug would show if I took a hostage" she heard the man mumble to himself in a rough voice. "Maybe this one isn't good enough" He glanced at her with vile yellow eyes."Yeah that must be it, I'll kill this one to let the bug know I'm serious, then I'll take someone better a kid maybe."

When Betty heard this she felt as if her blood had frozen in her veins. She tried to beg for her life, but found she couldn't speak as the tail drew tighter around her neck. The monster then addressed the crowd "Alright Spider-Man I guess you don't think I'm serious, so now just to prove how serious I am Im gonna snap this girls pretty little neck while everyone watches. Her blood is on your hands bug!" Betty was then lifted up high in view of the surrounding crowd as the man continued to tighten his grip. She struggled to breath and desperately clawed at the thick armor covering the tail but it was no use. She was going to die, and she knew it. As darkness began encroaching on her vision she gave up resigning herself to her fate, that is until she heard the voice of her savior " WHOAH! That is not how you're supposed to treat a lady" Her last thought before she passed out was "Hey that voice kinda sounds familiar."

"You know if you wanted to talk all you had to do was message me, I'm on Facebook." Peter quipped as he landed lightly on the roof of a sedan across the street from where the villain had settled with his hostage. He had been watching from a rooftop a block away trying to think of a strategy when he heard the man's speech. The teen immediately swung in after hearing the threat, plan or no plan that girl was not dying on his watch. "Spider-Man, about time you showed up, I was starting to think He was wrong about you" The man said, well peter didn't really know if he'd call him a man now that he got a good look at him. He was easily six and a half feet tall and was covered head to toe in some sort of acid green armor with a five foot tail tipped with a blade behind him currently holding up.. BETTY BRANT! Out of all the people this guy could've grabbed he had to get one of Peters old highschool friends. Maybe this guy did know who he was behind the mask. Peter shook himself out of his thoughts and continued observing the villain. He looked to the mans face and saw sickly yellow eyes with slitted pupils and a mouth with two pronounced canines almost like fangs jutting out from under the upper lip. This guy definitely wasn't winning any beauty contests. "Well now I'm here so you can put the lady down and you and I can have a nice long chat." Peter tried to persuade him. The monster man laughed, it was a harsh almost gritty sound. "Oh no bug this girl is gonna stay right here so you don't try anything funny." Peter frowned beneath the mask. "Crap I can't do anything until Betty is clear, Alright Spider-Man time to do what you do best." The hero thought to himself as he began speaking again. "Well since we are gonna be hanging out now I should probably know your name." As the villain opened his mouth to respond Peter cut him off. "No no wait don't tell me. Your name is The Terrible Tail Man." The man in question snarled and started to retort before he was cut off again by the web slinger "Not that ok.. Hmm" he adopted a thinking pose before saying "OH I got it! TailBlazer!" His spider sense was suddenly screaming at him and he lept to the side just as the SUV he had been crouched was struck by some sort of green sludge and began to melt before his eyes. "My name is SCORPION!" The now dubbed scorpion yelled in rage. Peter stared at him for a moment before in an even voice saying "Dude did that come out of your butt?" His question was answered in the form of another blast of acid that seemed to come from the end of the villains tail. Spider-Man jumped over the blast and noticed that to attack the man had dropped Betty to the ground. "Now's my shot." Peter thought as he shot a webline to the building above and swung in landing a double booted kick to the scorpions chest knocking him back into the wall of the bank across the street. Peter immediately grabbed the fallen woman and ran her over to the waiting ambulance while the scorpion recovered. As he set her on the gurney they had rolled out his senses blared again and he had to turn and catch the car door that had been flung at him by a now furious Scorpion. "Hey buddy I think you dropped this." The teen said as he threw the door back at him as hard as he could. Scorpions tail suddenly shot forward and using the wicked blade at the end sliced straight thru the door splitting it harmlessly on either side of the villain. "Time to die bug!" The man screamed as he charged straight at Spider-Man. "You know" Peter started as he jumped over scorpions wild charge. "You should really talk to someone about these anger issues man" What he didn't account for was the villains speed as he grabbed the teens ankle in mid air and slammed him harshly into the pavement. Peter's breath was knocked out of him but he still managed to activate the four mechanical spider legs out of the back of his suit to block a strike the Scorpion's tail that would have been a killing blow. Using the legs he pushed the villain away and scrambled to his feet before shooting a web at the mans face obscuring his vision. As Scorpion struggled to rip it off Peter caught his breath. " That was close that guy is strong, maybe stronger than me. I've gotta end this quick before someone gets hurt." The teen thought to himself before leaping towards the villain and landing a devastating right cross to his web covered face. After the blow connected the scorpion lashed out blindly with his tail catching Peter's shoulder with the tip of the blade. It sliced right through the suit and left a deep gash across Peter's left shoulder. Peter grunted with pain but still pushed the attack. He attempted to land a kick to the villains chest but had to dodge at the last second to avoid another blast of acid from the now seething Scorpion who had finally managed to free his face. "You're dead bug!" He screamed while lashing out with a combination of punches and tail swipes. Thanks to his superior reflexes and spider sense he was able to dodge most of the swings only wincing slightly as he took a glancing blow to his already injured shoulder. "I think I figured out why you hate me." Peter said as he backflipped away to get some distance. "You're obviously a Scorpio, and I'm a Libra so we were doomed from the start." The villain growled. "Do you ever stop talking?!" As he gave chase to the Spider themed hero. "No not really, if I wasn't talking you might notice where I was leading you." Scorpion then looked around and saw he was standing between two garbage trucks just as he was slammed between them via a mighty tug on web lines attached to both vehicles. Peter then began covering both trucks and the villain tapped between them with copious amounts of webbing. "Finally, geez that guy had no chill." Peter thought as he walked over to check in with the first responders. He didn't notice as the side of one of the trucks began to dissolve. As he reached the police barricade he felt his senses blare just as the civilians watching started screaming. Everything seemed to be in slow motion as he turned and saw the truck flying towards him. He couldn't dodge if he did everyone behind him would be crushed, but he had no suitable anchors or space for a web net either. "Option three it is then. This is gonna hurt." Peter thought as he braced himself and caught the speeding vehicle in mid air. He grunted in exertion and his feet slid backwards on the pavement before he activated his sticking abilities, and with his injured shoulder screaming in protest he slowly lowered the truck to the ground in front of him. Just as the tires touched down an alarm blared in the back of the teens skull and he barely had time to yelp before he was snatched up by his neck by Scorpion's tail and thrown into an industrial dumpster in front of the alley. He cried out in pain as his injured shoulder impacted the steel of the dumpster, and he slid to the ground with his head swimming. He tried to stand up but was quickly slammed back to the ground by a kick that would kill a normal man from Scorpion. He looked up and saw that the villain had an evil smile adorning his lips. "Finally you shut up!" He laughed "And the boss thought you might actually give me trouble but now you're just where you belong" he put his foot on Peter's chest and pressed down. "Under my feet, and now I'm gonna squash you bug" Peter looked up and smiled "Two things. FIrst of all Spiders are arachnids, and so are scorpions by the way. Second of all, it's gonna be hard to do that when you're flat on your back unconscious." The teen said matter of factly. Scorpion pressed down harder "Oh yeah, and how the hell are you gonna do that?" Spider-Man smirked beneath his mask and said "Not me, her." while looking at something over the villains shoulder. Scorpion turned just as Captain Marvel connected a glowing fist with the side of his head. He was blasted through a wall and into the building across the street. You alright Spider-Man? Carol asked looking down at him with concern staining her features. "I'm good just a couple cuts and bruises." Peter responded then asked "What happened to coming in fast and hard to wrap this up quickly?" Carol smirked "Oh well I was just enjoying the show." She responded teasingly. Peter looked at her in disbelief before responding snappishly "Well as someone who was in the show I would have really appreciated a little audience participation." Carol chuckled before waving him off. "You had it just like I knew you would. Now let's finish this up. You wanna do the honors?" Peter nodded mollified by the praise and started off towards the building Scorpion was knocked into with Captain Marvel following close behind. As he entered he could see where the villain had landed but there was no Scorpion in sight. It was then that he saw the giant hole melted in the back wall that led to an alley. He ran out to give chase but found no sign of the man except for a manhole with the cover melted off. "Shit!" Peter groaned as Carol walked up "He got away into the sewer he could be anywhere by now." Peter started for the manhole to continue his search before he was stopped by the blonde heroine. "Sorry Spider but with that gash in your shoulder you'd be begging for an infection if you went down there. Plus you look like you got hit by a dump truck, literally." Peter looked at her frustrated "But he's gonna get away." "Yeah he is, and when shows his face again we will be ready but until then we've got to debrief the police and get back to the compound so you can get checked out." Peter was going to protest again, but was stopped by a particularly painful throb in his injured shoulder, instead he said. "Alright fine, can you talk to the police while I check on Betty?" Carol frowned in confusion "Who's Betty?" Peter realizing his mistake quickly explained "The girl who got held hostage, we went to high school together. I knew she survived the original snap, but I hadn't seen her since I came back until today." Carol glanced over at the younger blonde woman who had woken up a few moments ago and now couldn't take her eyes off of the webslinging hero "Oh, so you wanna check on her huh? I can see why she's pretty cute." Carol said with a teasing smirk adorning her pink lips. Peter was thankful she couldn't see his blush beneath his mask as he stuttered a protest. "N-No it's not like that at all, she was just an old friend and I wanna make sure she is ok. It has nothing to do with the fact that she's pretty." The teen said before realizing what he said. He groaned internally as the Captain's smirk grew even larger. "Alright, whatever you say Spider-Man. Go ahead and I'll meet you at the jet when you're done. Don't take too long though, we've gotta get back to the compound to get you looked at." As she walked away Peter couldn't help but watch the sway of her hips for a moment before he turned and walked over to the ambulance where Betty sat franticly waving at him. When he made it to her he opened his mouth to speak, but all words were brought to a halt when the girl jumped off the gurney and threw her arms around him. "Thank you so much! I was so scared! I thought I was dead, but then you totally saved me." Peter just stood there holding her in total shock. He had been doing the hero thing for around three years now and he had never had anyone he helped treat him like this, like their hero. He had stopped quite a few muggings and assaults during his tenure as Spider-Man and the victims were always thankful, but never like this. This was different. Betty didn't just view him as some hero, but as her hero. It brought to mind how he had felt all those years ago at the Stark Expo Uncle Ben has taken him to as a kid. He was dressed up in an Iron Man mask and gloves, and he got separated from Uncle Ben when the drones created by the evil soviet scientist Ivan Vanko began to attack. He was cornered by one of the drones and being a child he had tried to scare it away with his fake glove. The drone trained it's mini gun on him and just when it was about to fire, BAM, The real Iron Man was there. He destroyed the drone and told Peter "Good work kid."before flying off to save the day. From that moment on Iron Man was Peter's hero. He wanted to be just like him which was why it was like a dream come true when that fateful day came that he finally met the man. Peter for the first time in six months didn't get swept up in a wave of sadness as his thoughts fell on his old mentor. Instead he was filled with a great pride that he could be someone's hero like Tony had been for him. He was drawn out of his thoughts by the feel of something soft on his cheek thru his mask. He looked and saw Betty slowly drawing back from where she had just kissed his cheek. At this point she had stopped profusely thanking him and instead just gave him a shy smile while her cheeks burned red. Peter felt he should say something so she didn't think he had been ignoring her. "It was really no trouble Miss I'm just glad to see that you're ok." He said in what he hoped was a reassuring voice. "Betty, Betty Brant is my name." she said suddenly. Peter smiled beneath the mask "Well Miss Brant, it was a pleasure saving you today, but let's try not to make a habit out of it alright?" He said jokingly. She giggled and nodded so Peter took that as his cue to leave. As he leapt into the air he called out behind him "See ya around Miss Brant" and swung off towards the jet where Carol was waiting for him.