AN: So I got a big update for you all at the end of the chapter.

Chapter 11

Hobgoblin sailed through the air on his glider, dropping bombs, noxious gas, and caltrops. All with a glint in his eyes and while humming Ride of the Valkyries. "What a pleasant surprise this is. Everyone in one place trying to hurt each other." Hobgoblin said with glee.

Below him the Alchemax Emergency Response Service formed up into three lines. The first line held ballistic shields, designed to absorb shocks waves from explosives and rounds from a .44 magnum. The second line held bean bag shotgun, their bright orange pumps and stocks giving away their less than lethal nature. These shotguns were fired over the heads of the first line. The last line tossed tear gas, flash bangs, and sting ball grenades over the first two lines. This strategy worked well almost universally for suppressing out of control situations.

Slowly sneaking away from the turmoil through the maze of aisles, computers, and crates, Shocker plodded along. "While everyone looks left, I'll move right." He said, reveling in his own unique kind of genius.

As he moved along, he made sure to release his two men that were strung up in Spider-Man's webbing. He then had the two of them carry the third man who was still unconscious.

"So I take we're going with Plan B?" asked one of the armed robbers, knowing the answer.

"Oh yeah." Shocker said calmly.

Back near the commotion, Spider-Man and Black Cat quickly planned out how they were going to subdue the bad guys. "All right. We need to let Alchemax do the heavy lifting while we go and find the terminal with the program. We defend that." Spider-Man explained with urgency.

"I've got a better idea. I'll take Hobgoblin." Black Cat responded.

"No. Stick toge…"

"I'll take Hobgoblin."

"The progr…"

"I'll. Take. Hobgoblin." Black Cat stated firmly. Each word punctuated with determination and confidence.

Spider-Man stared at her for a little bit. "Fine." He groaned in defeat.

Black Cat smiled and jumped into the air. Spider-Man followed, knowing that his partner and girlfriend would need backup. Not for the Hobgoblin. She could handle him. Alchemax was determined to put everyone under control. To keep Black Cat safe, Spider-Man needed to put them under control.

He jumped over the crate that he was hiding behind and sprinted through the painful combination of tear gas, blinding flashes, and high velocity rubber balls. The mask and plating of the MK. III Spider Armor protected him from the dangers posed by the Alchemax ERS. As he moved his way through the smoke, he identified where the team was through the noise that they were making. Spider-Man then jumped as hard as needed to vault over all three lines of the riot team, landing behind them.

The last line of the riot squad turned around to face the hero in grey and black armor. They didn't quite know how to deal with this. People didn't jump over their ranks with regularity. Sure they sometimes had bricks and other objects fall on top of them, but that's what the helmets and gas masks were for. Someone appearing behind them left them in a position they were not prepared for.

Spider-Man did have an idea what to do. He shot out web lines and began to pull of flash bangs and sting ball grenades of the belts and vests of the ERS men. The riot gas would have no effect because of their gas masks. The blasts of the flashbangs began to blind then, and the sting ball grenades cause them to freeze in pain. With this, his opponents dazed, confused and immobilized, Spider-Man had the opportunity to incapacitate the riot team.

Spider-Man then began to shoot more web lines towards the security force. This time he targeted their gas masks, pulling them off. This in turn left the team exposed to all of the chemical fumes that permeated the atmosphere inside the warehouse. The chlorobenzalmalononitrile caused the men to rapidly collapse their disciplined formation. The gas caused tears to begin streaming from their face as their eyes stung. Their noses ran freely. All of them began to cough and hack, some so violently that they vomited. The men began to run toward the entrance that they came in.

"Everyone out. Police will be on route to cordon the campus." One of the men shouted.

Spider-Man watched as the team ran out with the slightest feeling of guilt. Many were probably honest men trying to earn an honest living, and protecting Alchemax interests was a simple enough way to do that. But this situation was too dangerous for the average security guard to handle, and the needed to leave, for their own safety.

Once the security team had evacuated, Spider-Man turned to see how Black Cat was faring against Hobgoblin. What he saw pleased him and filled him with immense pride in his partner and girlfriend.

Black Cat jumped from her relative safety of the crate and into the air. She grabbed the ledge of a catwalk that was above her and grace fully swung herself up and over the railing and onto the walkway. She then scanned the interior of the warehouse to see Hobgoblin still traversing about with his glider, lobbing explosives all about.

The white haired vigilante looked around to figure out to remove the flying felon from his method of transportation. She settled on clotheslining him similar to a wrestling match on T.V., but with a super powered twist. She then fired a grapple across the expanse to the other side of the warehouse, lodging it into the opposite wall. Hobgoblin, not seeing the thin wire in his path, ran into the trap. This caused him to get knocked form his mobile perch, which then conveniently flew out a window as he plummeted to the ground.

Cat grinned mischievously. She was going to take a play out of her Spider-s book. While Hobgoblin was shaking his head on the ground, Black Cat dislodged the grapple from the wall, then whipped it like a lasso around Hobgoblin's legs. When she was sure that the grapple was secured, Black Cat jumped down beneath the railing, creating a pulley that hung the orange criminal like a deer ready to be gutted.

Black Cat smiled with self-satisfaction. "Well hello again." Black Cat taunted pleasantly.

"Good evening sidekick." Hobgoblin said in an equally pleasant manner.

This immediately Black Cat worried. "What are you doing?"

"Oh. Just an armed robbery." Hobgoblin said plainly. "I figured that that was obvious."

"I know for a fact that it's extremely difficult to get away with violating that civil statute when you're hung upside down. Nice work Cat." Spider-Man said as he walked up. "Took care of the security team. What's up with Discount Hollowing Costume?"

"He's far too pleasant for a captured criminal." Black Cat said worried.

Spider-Man took a nano-second to analyze the situation. He figured out what was up immediately and smiled under his mask. "He's messing with the remote on his wrist subtly. He's trying to call back his glider."

Hobgoblin dropped his charade and began typing furiously on his wrist mounted remote.

"Don't get your hopes up." Spider-Man said in a chiding manner. "This is a warehouse full of prototype gadgets and gizmos. Alchemax probably hardened it against foreign frequencies."

Hobgoblin stared at the duo and then grew a menacing grin on his face. "Fine." He then pulled a spinning razor off of his belt, intending to cut himself free.

The duo acted in sync, as if sharing an unseen mental bond. This was, however, merely a practiced routine that they normally faced with a gun wielding thug strung up on a lamppost. Spider-Man shot out a web line that grabbed the wrist with the razor, and pulled disarming the Hobgoblin. Black Cat simultaneously fired a spin kick at the hanging man's head, knocking him unconscious with a resolute 'crack'. The result was the Hobgoblin was left swinging like a piñata, and finally silent.

"Ohhhh, that felt sooooo goooood." Black Cat said in an extremely satisfied tone.

Sirens could be heard in the distance. "Time to go." Spider-Man said.

"What about Shocker?" Black Cat asked confused.

"Haven't seen him since Hobgoblin started blowing stuff up. He either scadattled, or he's gonna get caught in a little bit." Spider-Man said as he began to sprint out of the warehouse.

Black Cat shrugged and ran after him, they defeated the Alchemax force, and Hobgoblin. Even if they didn't get the hat trick with Shocker, it was still a good night. No one made it into the warehouse deep enough to get the drive, so that was a success as well. As the two jumped up and began to swing away, the police started to arrive on scene to arrest anyone who wasn't supposed to be there.

Shocker was being led away by the cops, but not in handcuffs. They were hurried outside the police cordon and told to get to safety. The reason why this was is because of Shocker's plan involving a con and misdirection.

While everyone was focused on Hobgoblin, Spider-man, Black Cat, and Alchemax security, Shocker opted to go for the Kansas City Shuffle con. As everyone was focused on the danger and destruction at the front of the warehouse, Shocker and his crew moved to the back.

When they discovered the drives with the nano-tech program, they quickly took off their thief gear to reveal the most innocuous outfit on the planet. Contract custodial staff. The weapons were hid from sight, and the drives were hidden on their person. They then cowered in a corner while they waited for the police, claiming their friend was woozy from an explosion. As they were led way from the scene they refused medical help from the paramedics and walked a short distance to a previously parked getaway car.

Shocker drove. He smiled. He had made off with the drives just as he had promised to Kingpin. He was a professional, and a professional doesn't panic, they get results.

Peter and Felicia watched the news, extremely pleased with their work. The police claimed they rounded up all of the criminals at the Alchemax work campus. Alchemax hadn't taken an inventory of the warehouse yet because it was still a crime scene, but they were lamenting the loss of valuable technology, but were ultimately pleased that their security forces were able to hold off the assailants until the NYPD arrived, and did so without injuries. Everyone was happy, aside from Hobgoblin, who was caught on camera cursing Spider-Man and 'his sidekick'.

"Turn that off." Felicia said. It was a news highlight reel at this point, and she had no real interest in continuing to watch it.

"Oh come on." Peter said. He enjoyed watching the bad guys lose.

Felicia turned off the T.V. "I want pin you to the mattress, then have sex with you for at least two hours. Preferably more." She said pulled him off the couch and upstairs to the bedroom. She knew that the best way to get into Peter's pants at this point was to be up front with her desires. It never failed.

Felicia also knew that it sometimes made Peter far more enthusiastic as well. As was the case now. Felicia did indeed do as she said. She pinned Peter to the bed again, but Peter was a much more active participant this time. Using one hand he pulled Felicia's face to meet his, kissing her with passion and urgency. Using the other had he clawed off her underwear in the same manner.

Felicia pushed her tongue into Peter's mouth, hungry for more contact. She pushed off his boxers leaving them both nude, and wanting. Further connection lead to electric waves of euphoria coursing through their bodies. Limbs wrapped around each other, and their faces were never more than centimeters apart. The couple began to sweat as the temperature of the room began to rise. Their ragged breathing didn't slow them down until their climax caused their bodies to seize and their hearts to damn near halt.

For a few brief seconds afterward Peter looked up at Felicia with love and affection and a big goofy grin on his face. "Damn."

"Were not done yet." Felicia said smiling seductively. "I still want to do all the things that I wanted to do this morning after breakfast." She then leaned in to kiss him some more.

"Have I told you I love you recently?" Peter asked.

"Stop talking. More sex." Felicia demanded.

"I love you." Peter said right before Felicia tongue made its way into his mouth again.

AN: Fun fact chlorobenzalmalononitrile is the active chemical in riot gas, and that stuff is not fun. Second if you didn't notice, I renamed all of the chapter thus far under 'Arc 1' because I've decided that I want to make this a persistently evolving universe. I'll need to edit the chapter headers, but that is a pretty easy fix. The downside is I now need to make more story boards. Third, I want to thank everyone once again for taking the time to review this story, it does serve as my best motivator. Chief among those I wish to thank are NeoTyson, Celgress, and Highlander, you're all awesome. Thank you all for reading, and you can plan on my next update being sometime in mid February.

NoirValor, January 2016