Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Living in his Shadow. Enjoy the 2500-word chapter. I don't own Spiderman. Marvel and a few others do.
(New York, Fisk Construction Site.)
Shadow didn't sleep as much as Spidey did, he usually only slowed down enough to grab a little bit of food and then went on patrol… Another perk of Spider Powers.
After he and Pete had brought down Fisk, they had spun off to patrol the city and handle their lives.
The events of what his brother had told him had surprised him and yet annoyed him.
"Ok, so Pete did…. Run into his girlfriend… Ex, again, there's a new gang in town…. Pete busted up a Warehouse between said new gang and Fisk's men with the help of a cop, And Dealt with shocker… And all I've done is take down Fisk squads and fought Who was that guy calling himself… I can't remember… Anyway..."
Shadow muttered as he landed on a crane and tapped on his helmet, he missed those events but he wouldn't miss this.
"Taking Shocker down… One of my rouges… I can't believe it…"
Shadow said as he leapt onto a beam and tapped his brother on the shoulder.
"A few hours… A day or so, and you can't even let me in on all this stuff?"
Shadow said as Spidey turned from accessing the situation to turn to his brother.
"Sorry been busy… Downtown all good?"
Spidey asked as Shadow nodded, he and his brother patrolled and dealt with different parts of the city, Spider-Man handled Queens, Manhattan and most of the Northern Parts of New York.
Shadow handled everything south, Shadow looked and saw thugs in Chinese Theater masks.
"Who are the meatheads in masks?"
Shadow asked as Spider-Man wanted to tell him and weighed the option of telling him.
Then he decided it would be better to tell his brother everything after the problem was dealt with.
"Tell you at lunch after we take them down?"
He asked, Shadow nodded and tensed himself to launch himself into the air.
"Ok, I'll take out as many as I can without alerting the others… You move in and find in what you can… And we're compare intel…"
Shadow said before launching himself into the air before launching a web-line to one of the beams and sticking to it.
He saw a man with a mask below and fired a web-line and pulled the man to him before catching him and sticking him to the beam.
He crawled down a bit and saw another 3 standing over 2 of Fisk's men, he spotted a beam on a crane and fired both of his web-shooters at the beam before tugging, it turned and smacked all three thugs and knocked them down and launched himself off the beam he was on before firing his web-shooters and nailing both thugs and tying them down before slamming feet first into the final thug, slamming him to the ground and knocking him out.
"Hi there… Mind telling your friendly downtown Shadow Spider why the men with masks are doing here… Besides the obvious gang fight I've missed out on?"
Shadow asked as he dusted his arms off, he was a bit tired from having only 6 hours of sleep. He didn't want them to know that, however.
"They've been executing people on site left and right…. They want supplies."
The thug said as Shadow's eyes widened under his mask, he had run into a few of these thugs while dealing with Fisk's men.
"Ok…. Get yourself to safety… I know you work for Fisk, but if you get shot by these guys, you can't try and kill me later, right?"
Shadow joked as the thug nodded and ran, Shadow grappled to another beam and began to go higher into the site, if the thugs were assaulting Kingpin's men and sites for supplies, that meant they were preparing for something.
"Hey, Spider-Man, these mask thugs raided one of Kingpin's warehouses to get weapons, right?"
Shadow asked as he climbed, he stopped on the next floor before flipping unto the ground.
"Yeah, me and Officer Davis dealt with a raiding group last night…. Why?"
Spidey asked over the phone as Shadow grabbed a thug with a mask off the ground before wrapping him up and attaching him to the beam before dropping down and kicking another thug off his feet before webbing him to the ground.
"Ok, I just took out 5 on my end… I'm going to ask any of Fisk's men… Their taking hostages… Anything on your end yet?"
Shadow asked before he heard a shout in Mandurian before half a dozen or so of the Masked thugs rushed at him, 3 had glowing axe like weapons and the others had rifles.
Shadow decided to deal with the armed thugs first, he rushed them and fired his web-shooters at the thugs before using them to slam feet first into one of the thugs, he slammed into a pillar and was out of the fight.
He turned as one of the thugs nicked him with their club, it didn't damage his costume, but it did hurt a little
Shadow grunted and flipped onto the man's shoulders before tossing him into the other thug with a club, he turned and kicked the rifle out of a forth thug's arms before turning the hooked beam.
He ducked as the beam slammed into the thugs, knocking them out as Shadow turned and webbed down the two thugs he had knocked down when he threw one into the other.
"I took down 11 of these guys… I think the lower levels are out of thugs…. What about your end, Spidey?"
Shadow asked as he crossed his arms, these thugs were looking for more trouble… And if they were arming themselves, then he was worried about what would happen when they had what they wanted.
"Cleared out 2 floors… Big guy up here… Hang on, talking to Fisk."
Shadow heard before he zipped towards the upper level and flipped into the air before launching himself with another web-line to the crane.
"Fisk? What's buffet breath have to do with this? I thought he was in jail… And do these guys with Masks have a name? because calling them 'Thugs in masks' doesn't have the same ring to it."
Shadow said as he spotted a dozen or so thugs with Masks, one looked bigger then the others, Shadow would deal with him first.
"Demons, that's what MJ and Martin called them… Ill handle the hostages."
Spidey muttered as Shadow put in one last line before cutting the call.
"Ok, I'll handle the thugs…. Clear out the guys with guns first, ill handle the guys with axe and the guy who looks like he can bench press 2 tons worth of concrete."
Shadow said as he leapt to a beam above the thugs, he would alert the rest of the group by webbing the thug up… But he didn't care, he could overpower the rest of the thugs.
"Ready for taking out the last… Or at least most of these guys…. Take out the ones with guns, Ill handle the big guy…."
Shadow said as he looked around, he didn't have access to the same gear as his brother yet but he did have one other ability that his brother didn't.
Which was the ability to 'see' through other spiders and control them to a degree.
"Now."
Spider-Man said as he lunged and slammed into one of the thugs holding Fisk's men hostage, Shadow fired both of his webs at the large Demon before pulling him up and using his webs to slam the man into the beam before tossing him up and then webbing him to the same beam.
After this, he tugged the crane and knocked out 3 of the thugs before slamming into a forth.
That took out 5 of the 12 thugs and Shadow Spider and Spider-Man wasted no time in attacking them.
Shadow turned and roundhouse kicked a man coming to flank him before webbing the wrist of one of the Demons with the glowing axe and tugged.
It sliced through the rifle of 2 other Demon thugs and sent the man crashing into another of his group.
A few web shots were all it took to glue the 2 of them to the floor as Spidey slammed feet first into one of 2 thugs trying to shoot Shadow.
The man turned only to get a jab on the chin and he fell to the ground as Shadow spin kicked the other gunman, taking him out of the fight.
9 down, 3 to go.
"You guys really shouldn't have tried this…"
Shadow said as he dodged the last of the Demons with an axe before kicking him in the chin into the air.
Shadow followed him and slam dunked him to the ground with his webs, defeating him as he aimed another web-line at the last of the thugs while Spidey tossed a crate into the other one before kicking him in the chest.
"Sorry!"
Shadow said before he slammed feet first into the last of the thugs as Shadow dusted his hands off.
"Wouldn't mind if Yuri sent the Calvary…"
Shadow said as Spidey checked the phone he had, Shadow wasn't concerned with Fisk and more concerned with the chopper.
He fired a web-line at the upper floor and pulled himself to it, he was just in time to see a Demon with a glowing sword execute a Fisk Thug.
"NO!"
Shadow yelled as he launched himself at the man and tackled him as his brother arrived.
Another dozen thugs…. we're coming from one of the Spiders Shadow was watching.
Spidey tried to web the chopper down by webbing it to a transformer before a rocket from the chopper knocked him away.
This slammed into a crane as Shadow turned to help before the Demons reached the floor and charged Shadow and Spidey.
"Stop that chopper, I'll deal with the rest of the Demons."
Shadow said as he leapt at the Demons, Spidey turned to watch him before remembering the crane and zipped to catch it.
Shadow turned and watched his brother go before he turned and tossed a barrel at the thugs.
(20 minutes later.)
Shadow slumped over a barrel as he pulled his mask off, the thugs were all defeated, some were webbed to the ground and some were webbed to walls.
"Pete, tell me you stopped that chopper…."
Shadow said as he fanned himself before pulling the mask back on, he brushed off his arms and dived off the construction site before he launched a web-line before starting to swing downtown.
"Yeah…. Going to a diner…. Chat?"
Shadow heard as he chuckled under his mask before answering.
"Yeah, be right there…. Just send a location."
Shadow said as he swung away, he looked back at the site, the Helicopters of the NYPD were surrounding the site.
(10 minutes later, Micks)
"So, you got evicted, fought one of my rouges… And bumped into your ex… And helped a cop stop a raid on a warehouse…"
Jayden said crossed his arms and looked at his sibling, he and his brother were eating and for once, Jayden was glad he didn't have to ask his brother to pay for anything.
"Yes…. All that and the science stuff."
Peter said as Jayden popped another fry into his mouth and continued on his hamburger.
"Why didn't you tell me? I know Shocker more then you, I would have handled him… And MJ? The same MJ that dumped you a little bit before?"
Jayden asked as he finished off his food and wiped his mouth off as Peter nodded.
"Big brother, you are so hooked on that reporter, I honestly question if you are able to work without thinking of her…"
Jayden muttered as Peter rolled his eyes and looked at his sibling, Jayden got an alert on his phone saying there would be a ceremony for the officer who had helped Spidey.
"Says the guy who doesn't have a girlfriend yet…"
Peter slung back as Jayden rolled his eyes this time and turned back to his sibling.
"A. I want to enter a relationship with someone who doesn't need to be saved from a thug with a pistol…. And b….? At least I don't have an ex…. Mock me for not having a relationship yet, I'm not dealing with the baggage of a relationship… Nor do I have to worry about making ends meet."
Jayden said as Peter smiled at this and looked at his sibling.
"Yet, you don't have to yet… Your coming to the city hall ceremony, right?"
Peter asked and Jayden nodded at this as he looked out the window.
"Yes… But I'm not wearing a tux or anything… Someone has to keep a watch on the ceremony as a 'Spider-Man'… If these Demons are attacking construction sites in plain daylight, then they're probably going to go after the Ceremony, I just don't know how…"
Jayden nodded as his brother chuckled in amusement as Jayden dusted off his coat and stood up.
"Ok, this has been fun, but I have to deal with stuff, Pete…. See you around, big brother… And please stop fawning over your ex if you can… It isn't helping everyone…."
Jayden said as Pete watched his brother walked outside before he walked behind the building and changed into his suit.
"'I need a girlfriend', Pete…. I'll get a girlfriend when I have someone who can keep up with me and all that… That should be the last thing on your mind…"
Shadow muttered as he fired a web-line and swung away, he chuckled as he remembered he hadn't visited Micks since he and his brother were kids.
"Ok…. Time to get in some patrol done and then prepare for the parade that is coming…"
Shadow muttered as he swung through the town as he bounced off a building and cracked his neck and he launched another Web-line at another building as he swung through the town.
He wouldn't go after Fisk's men yet, they were busy dealing with the Demons… And they were the bigger threat right now…
"If these guys are busy laying siege to Fisk and his empire all over the city, then I should focus my attention on their operations for the moment…. Shadow, what do you have to do to get a break?"
Shadow asked as he flipped off another building in amusement. He had a bit more to do, and he would handle it.
Author notes
Phew, another chapter done! Yes, I know I skipped a lot of events, I won't do that again, but I wanted to get to the main part of the story…. As for Silver Sable and them? They will be showing up soon. Next chapter will Wednesday or next Saturday and will show Shadow dealing with the rally… Until then, Lighting Wolf out!