answers to reviewers questions or statements:

rmarcano321: I'm not doing that many, only two.

RexBlazer1: He'll meet her just before.

Slash17: Their meeting will be very... tame, compared to how I've had Peter meet other women in my other stories.

Black Arachnid: It's a good image, but I have something already a suit for this story's Spider-man to wear, the noir suit. Still, I might use the suit design you've offered for another story I have in mind, if that's okay.

CRUDEN: No, this story will be exclusively for Spider-man characters, mainly villains and one or two heroes that are part of his mythos, even if there is a bit of distance between some of them... for now.

Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or Legend of Korra characters seen, mentioned or used.

Today was the day.

Today, after years of preparation, Korra would finally begin her Spiritual training. When she was done, she'd be able to enter the Spirit World, commune with spirits and be one step closer to becoming a fully realized Avatar!

"UGH! WHY WON'T THIS WORK!" Korra yelled in frustration.

One step closer... on a very, very, very long journey.

"Avatar Korra if you would-" her spiritual tutor said before Korra let out another yell of frustration as she shot a small stream of fire from her mouth.

"I don't get it!" Korra snapped as she sat in a lotus position before her tutor in a small hut located within the compound "I've done everything you've said! Why can't I enter the Spirit World already?"

The tutor sighed at this "Korra, you must-"

"What I need a passport or something? Pay some fee?" Korra said with a scowl of annoyance as she folded her arms over her bust and glared at the ground "We've been here for hours and I feel I'm closer to mastering Airbending then getting this thing down!"

Her tutor waited as Korra vented more and more before he finally cleared his throat loud enough to get Korra's attention. The young Avatar glanced at the man as he stared at her with a calm expression. Korra chuckled sheepishly as she straightened herself.

"Sorry..."

"It is no worry, in fact I would have been surprised if you did happen to enter the Spirit world on your first ten tries" the man said with a small chuckle.

"UGH, I thought it was supposed to be easy. Me being the Avatar and all, you know? The bridge between the two worlds" Korra said with a sigh.

"If it were easy, everyone could do it" the tutor said with a grin "And just because you are the Avatar does not mean it'll come naturally to you as it has for some in the past. To enter the Spirit world, one must be in complete harmony within themselves"

"I'm plenty harmonious with myself" Korra said with a scowl.

"Your inability to do so, says otherwise" the man countered.

"Hey, you said you would've been surprised if-"

"Yes, in your first ten tries I would have" the man nodded in agreement "But after the twenty ninth time, I expected for you to at least make some headway"

Korra's shoulders slumped a little before she looked away with a pout "Well, what am I doing wrong?!"

"It could be a number of things child" the tutor said with a slight shrug "though I reckon it is your struggles with the more spiritual side of being the Avatar. Your physical prowess is impressive. But being the Avatar is not just about raw strength. It is about being balanced both in mind as well as body"

"Soooo your saying I have to be more spiritually? Like my uncle or something?" Korra said with confusion.

"Well, I wouldn't say that, there are many ways to strengthen your spirituality. Sometimes it comes naturally, other times, you must go through a great change to achieve it" the tutor said before he snapped his fingers "Perhaps you could meditate on it"

Korra gave the elder man a deadpan stare for several seconds before she sighed in defeat and resumed her meditative pose "Fine... lot a good that'll do"

Korra took several deep breaths as she focused on her breathing again. She mentally viewed her body as a box with many lids and she was surrounded by a ocean of spiritual stuff and then slowly began to open the lids, opening her body and mind up to the world and letting it's energy flow through her. At least thought she was, at this point she was willing to think of herself as a Mongoose lizard if it meant getting into the Spirit World and... well she'll figure out what to do next when she got there.

And then suddenly, everything was silent.

Korra frowned at this, the sounds of the wind outside and the crackling of the fire had stopped. She opened her eyes to see why that was before she gaped at what she saw. All she saw was a blank white space.

"What the hell?" Korra whispered as she slowly stood up and examined her surroundings for signs of someone else aside from her "This is not what I thought the Spirit World looked like..."

Her blue eyes looked up and down and back and forth, trying to find something recognizable before she took a deep breath and shouted.

"Hello?!"

Her voice didnt even echo, it just seemed to stop only a few feet from her. Korra frowned at this as panic began to set in. She began walking, hoping that moving would present a solution to her current dilemma. Her footfalls were silent, even the moving of her fabric made no noise.

'I can't even hear myself breath, or my heart beat... nothing. It's like I don't exists' Korra thought with worry before she noticed something up ahead.

She saw what looked like four figures, all standing in a small circle. Korra let out a sigh of relief as she rushed towards the four unknown individuals.

"Hello?" she called out as she neared them but saw that they were unresponsive "Uh excuse me?"

Korra came to a stop just a few meters from the four, her brow furrowed in confusion as she took their forms in. One was tall and red with large white glowing eyes while their body was sort of lankly and skinny. The figure next to it was shorter by a few inches and also red, but where's the first one was red like blood, this being was red like the pictures of Fire lilies that one of Korra's waterbending masters, Kya, showed her. Their eyes, or what passed for eyes were pitch black, almost like as void.

Korra shivered as she stared into the seemingly empty sockets before she turned her attention to the last two beings. The third tallest of the group was more heavily muscled then the two red beings before it. It also had a network of odd white veins across it's body that seemed to pulse. The final being, the shortest of the four, was snow white and covered in veins similar to it's larger, darker colored companion but instead of white, they were black and didn't seem to be pulsing so much as moving through it's body, as if they possessed a will of their own. It's eyes, were black like the Fire lily red being but nowhere near as dark or as foreboding.

"H-Hello?" Korra said as she cleared her throat.

Finally, the four turned to her, causing her to suddenly freeze up as their eyes all bore into her own. Despite the great power that Korra believed she possessed as the Avatar... she suddenly felt very small before the four unknown individuals. She swallowed nervously as one of the beings, the black one, began to slowly approach her.

"Do you... d-do you know where I am?" Korra said nervously as the figure came to a stop a few feet from her, it's form dwarfing her's.

The figure didnt respond as it quirked it's head to the side before it's eyes seemed to narrow into slits.

"Avatar..."

Korra felt the hairs on her body stand on end at the low, wispy cold voice it spoke in. It rolled over her body like ice cold water, seemingly trying to seep it's way into her very being. Korra took a step back as the figure seemed to glare into her very being.

"Who are you!" Korra said a little more forcefully, hoping the fear she felt growing in her wouldn't show itself.

The four stared at Korra in silence before one by one they began to fade away. First the blood red one, then the other red one, then the white one, leaving Korra alone with the black one, it's white veins pulsing to the point that the young woman thought they'd burst and start to leak. Finally the figure spoke as it leaned towards Korra and she fought the urge to whimper as what appeared to be a large tooth filled maw formed and a large sickly barbed tongue snaked it's way out and just inches from Korra's face.

"You cannot stop what is to come... Korra!"

"Korra!"

"Korra!"

"Kor-!"

...

"-ra!"

"AHH!" Korra shouted in surprise as she suddenly found herself back in the small hut, her tutor's face right in her's and before anything further was said, she shot her leg out, her foot connecting to the elder man's more sensitive area's below the waist, causing him to gasp in pain as he fell back and Korra backed away from the man.

"Dude, what the hell are you doing so close?!" Korra snapped, her pulse beating a mile a minute as she tried to get her breathing under control.

"I... was... trying... to... get... your... attention!" the man whispered in a pained moan as he clutched his family jewels.

"Oh... hehehe, sorry" Korra said with a nervous chuckle as she got up to help the man "Here, I can-"

"No!" he said with a pained wince, his brow covered in sweat "That'll... be all..."

"Sorry..." Korra said with a wince.

"It is... fine" the man said as he felt the pain fade and he sat back up with a groan "Though I'm certain I'll need to visit a healer later..."

Korra blushed as she poked the tips of her fingers together as the man took several deep breaths before he looked to Korra "Now... would you mind explaining what happened?"

"What do you mean?" Korra said with some confusion.

"You were acting... odd" the man said with a frown "You seemed to be in some sort of trance. For a moment, I believed you had entered the Spirit World"

"I entered... something" Korra said with a frown as the memory fo the four beings in that white space came to mind "But it didn't seem like the Spirit World, least any part Ive heard of"

"What do you mean?" the tutor said with a frown.

"The place I found myself in..." Korra said with a sigh as she rubbed the sweat off her brow "It was... nothing was there. I mean like nothing. Just me..."

"...Just you, Avatar Korra?" the man said with a interested expression, noticing the hesitation at the end.

Korra shook her head "No, there was... there were others. Four of them"

"Did you recognize them?" the man probed with curiosity.

"No..." the teen said with a frown "But they were... I don't know. There was something, not right about them"

"What?" the man said with a raised brow as Korra shrugged.

"Just, when you look at them, there's this sense of... wrongness about them. Like... like they shouldn't be here- there, whatever that place was" Korra said with a slight shiver as the four's appearances flowed through her mind "And then... one of them spoke to me"

"They spoke?" the man said as he cupped his chin "What did it say?"

"It said..." Korra trailed off as the memory of that thing's tongue came to mind, causing her to shiver "It said, I can't stop what was to come"

The man frowned at this "What could that mean?"

Korra didn't answer as she stared at the floor, that thing's voice echoing through her mind before she glanced outside to see that the sun was setting and darkness was approaching.

"I don't know..."

...

Piandao had to hold in a shiver as he made his way towards the docks, his coat doing little to keep him warm. While winter was still a month away, the air was already growing colder and snow was beginning to gather on the tops of the mountains around the city.

"Hopefully the heater will be fixed by then... or this winter is gonna suck" Piandao said to himself as he shivered at the cold gust of win that hit his body.

A few weeks ago, the Parkah's heater went out and Piandao and his uncle Bato have been struggling to get the old rusted thing working again. They couldn't afford to buy a new heater, not a reliable one anyway and the fabric shop that Aunt Mai worked at was raising it's prices on it's more layered clothing and thick blankets. It was times like this that Piandao hated capitalism.

Piandao's body suddenly went ridged and drew his attention back to his surroundings just in time to see that he had wandered into the middle of the street... and a Satomobile was coming right towards him. Without a second thought, Piandao leaped back as the truck raced by with a loud honk of its horn.

"Give out of the street dumbass!" the driver shouted as he drove pass.

"Sorry..." Piandao said dryly as he looked both ways before making his way across the street, the docks just up ahead.

They should be fairly empty, the morning and afternoon shifts had just gotten off half an hour ago and ships normally don't dock at night given the low visibility and there being only a skeleton crew to make sure no trespassers got in and stole or damaged the items in the various storage containers. Large empty warehouses, dozens of empty storage containers and a few unmanned ships with very few people around, it was the perfect place for Piandao to test out his abilities.

'That, and it's close enough to my home that I can get back before my Aunt and uncle get home from work' Piandao thought as he walked pass the gate to the docks and saw several guards standing watch.

He paid them no mind as he kept walking along the large stone wall that bordered the dockyard until he came to a stop. He glanced around to make sure no one could see him before he looked up at the wall and crouched. He waited a second before he launched himself into the air. Piandao couldn't help the excited grin that split his face as he soared twenty feet into the air and landed on the edge of the wall. He briefly stumbled and almost lost his balance before he righted himself and looked back down to see if anyone would notice him. Seeing he was still in the clear, Piandao looked down towards the ground and after taking a deep breath, took a step forward... and fell.

Piandao felt his pulse increase as he fell towards the ground before he landed in a crouch, his landing barely making a nose. He stood up and nodded in satisfaction as he made his way towards one of the vacant warehouses.

"That wasn't too bad..." Piandao said to himself as he walked through the empty dockyard, the sun beginning to set and casting the sky in a myriad of purples and pinks.

Based on his own mental calculations, and the large clock that hung over one of the nearby warehouse's large sliding doors, he had a few hours to test his newfound powers out before he had to get home. Piandao walked around for a few more minutes, leaping up on to some of the storage containers before leaping to another with his seemingly inhuman strength. He paused for a moment to pull out a small worn out notebook from his pocket and a pen and quickly jotted down a few notes.

'Leg muscles increased to the point I can comfortable jump over twenty feet into the air. Gotta find a way to ensure my max height' Piandao thought as he wrote down his notes before placing the notebook away and looked for somewhere to test out the strength in his arms.

He thought of lifting a container but he had no idea which ones had anything in them and didn't want to risk breaking whatever was inside. That and Piandao wasn't sure he could place a forty foot metal container back on the ground quietly enough.

'Maybe I can find a forklift to use- hello, what do we have here?' Piandao thought as he saw a window to one of the warehouses was left open.

Piandao made his way over to the building and looked up at the window with a calculating look on his face. He concluded that the height was sixty feet, almost three times what he jumped earlier at the wall. Taking a deep breath, Piandao crouched and then shot up towards the window with as much strength he could kick off with. He struck his hand out to grab the ledge before he noticed that he just came up short two or three meters from the ledge.

"Dang it" Piandao grumbled as he let gravity pull him back down before he landed with a grunt and looked back up towards the window as he pulled his note book out again "Well, at least I know I can jump over fifty feet..."

He quickly wrote this little detail down before he looked around for something he could stand on to help him cover the last few meters. Seeing nothing, and the nearest stacks of storage containers high enough for him to leap off and to the window being a good hundred feet away, Piandao sighed in defeat and prepared to look for another building to sneak into when he suddenly remembered something.

"My shirt... it stuck to my hand..." Piandao said as he looked down at his hands with a thoughtful expression.

So far, he's concluded his abilities were based off that of a spider. Granted he doesn't know if that danger sense, had to think of a better name for it, was something any kind of spider had but he did have the strength and speed part... why not the ability to stick to things?

"Worth a shot I guess" Piandao said with a shrug as he placed his hand on the wall.

He felt a sort of suction and pulled slightly to see if his hand would come off easily or not... it didn't.

Nodding to himself, and taking a quick look around to make sure no was nearby, he placed his other hand on the wall, higher than his head and pulled himself up. Piandao felt his feet dangle for a moment before he placed them on the wall and looked at his lower hand and slowly pulled it off and placed it above his other hand, causing him to rise higher on the wall. Piandao paused and looked down to see that he was now several feet up the wall before he took a deep breath and looked up towards the window and began to climb.

'Slow and steady Piandao, slow and steady' Piandao thought as he slowly but surely began to climb the wall and reached the window just as the sun had fully set and darkness crept across the sky.

Piandao paused on the window still and looked out towards Republic City.

From his vantage point, he could see the distant statue of Avatar Aang, Air Temple Island, the towering skyscrapers that gave Republic City's it's famous skyline. For a moment, Piandao thought the city looked peaceful, a shining utopia for the world to model itself after. But then reality crept in nd Piandao remembered that as bright and as inviting as the city seemed, it held a dark almost suffocating underbelly.

"Guess nothing is perfect..." Piandao said to himself with a sigh as he slipped through the window and landed on the ground inside the warehouse.

Eventually Piandao made it to the main area where various companies would store the items taken off any ships or stored until they could be placed on a ship and noticed that aside from a few forklifts and some crates, it was remarkably empty. The lights were off and if Piandao didn't have what he concluded was night vision, or close to it, it'd be pitch black in the room.

"Least I wont need lights to try this out, don't want to risk catching someone's attention" Piandao said with a hum as he removed his jacket and placed it on a crate and took his notebook out and quickly dotted down he could climb walls with his hands.

Piandao paused for a second and looked down at his feet with a thoughtful look on his face before he placed the notebook down and removed his boots and placed them next to his jacket. Before pocketing the notebook and walking over to a nearby storage container and placed his foot on the cool metal. Piandao shivered slightly as he felt the odd suction on his foot before he very slowly leaned forward, using a combination of strength and balance, to lift his other foot and place it on the metal as well before straightening himself out until he was parallel to the floor and looking up at the ceiling.

"Well, looks like I can add walking on walls too!" Piandao said with a snort as he slowly walked towards the top of the storage container before turning on his heel and walking back down and repeating the process several times.

Soon, Piandao was walking the length of the storage container, slowly gaining speed until he was running. Trying to change sides was a little awkward and a bit disorienting but nothing that practice couldn't fix. Next he tried crawling before going to standing to crouching to running and back again, first on the container and then on the walls and ceilings of the warehouse once he thought he had enough practice and the thought of falling didn't bother him as much.

"Okay, so I can stick to walls, climb walls, run on walls and jump to other surfaces" Piandao said as he began to run on the ceiling before he jumped and adjusted his body so that he landed on the adjacent wall in a crouch and pulled out his notebook and began to write down a few notes.

'See if adhesiveness is a result of tiny hairs like that on spider snakes and spider cats or if it's something else. Maybe some sort of liquid that my body secretes to help it stick to things like a spider at' Piandao thought to himself as he wrote down a added note if his ability can work when he's wearing gloves or boots.

Piandao then detached himself from the wall and fell to the ground and looked around until his eyes centered on a old forklift. He quietly made his way over to the rusted machinery and examined it closely. After seeing it wasn't going to fall apart, Piandao took a deep breath and grabbed the forklift and began to slowly raise it.

"Huh, not as bad... as I thought" Piandao said as he slowly lifted the old machine over his head.

To him, it didn't feel too heavy, more like carrying a large bag of some of the books he likes to read. After a few seconds of holding it, Piandao began to adjust his holding until he was keeping it over his head with one hand. It was than that he started to feel the strain as he tried to keep the forklift balanced on his palm as sweat began to build on his forehead.

'Hmm, should probably work out more...' Piandao thought with a chuckle as he returned to holding the forklift with both hands and slowly lowered it back to the ground and retrieved his notebook and jotted down a few more notes 'Can lift a old forklift over my head and hold it for a few minutes before strain begins. Holding it with one hand, more difficult'

Piandao glanced back at the forklift as he ran through a few mental calculations 'These things usually weigh between eight and nine thousand pounds, that's roughly four to four and a half tons. Average Satomobile weighs around the same. Shouldn't be difficult to lift one too'

It was than the memory of Piandao's 'fight' with that bully came to mind and he quickly dotted down one final note 'Find a way to manage strength so I don't end up breaking someone when I touch them'

Piandao wrote down a few more notes, mainly ideas on how to better manage his strength before he looked back at the forklift and gave it what he thought was a light shove, sending it sliding several meters across the floor.

Piandao smirked a little at this as he turned to go and collect his things and leave before it got too late "Heh, looks like Puny Parkah is gone... now I just need to work on getting rid of Pasty Parkah and I'm set!"

To Piandao, it seems like his luck was finally starting to improve.

...

And done.

Next chapter, Asami's drive through the city takes an interesting turn...