It was nighttime in the city of Station Square. Mostly everyone turned in for the night, as they needed a good night sleep, except for our heroes whom after the baseball game, have gotten hungry and decided to eat dinner. Knuckles however, didn't stay with them and went off on his lonely journey in search of the Chaos Emeralds.
In the dining room of the Thorndyke Mansion, everyone was eating dinner, except for Peter, who had already finished up his food and had gotten bored as he lay in the bed of his room. He was currently watching the news on New York.
"A few hours ago, another robbery had been foiled by the Prowler, who has filled in for both Spider-Man and the New Goblin." the reporter stated as the police loaded the crooks into the van. "Many of New York's citizens are disappointed by the super duo's departure, but we're sure glad someone's filling in for them. In other news, there have strangely been no attacks from the supervillains since Spider-Man and the New Goblin's departure from the city. No Doctor Octopus stealing any important OsCorp tech, no Rhino trampling any cars, no Electro raiding any power stations, nothing."
Peter raised an eyebrow. Whenever he was gone, the baddies would commit a crime when they had the chance, but this was strange.
"Should we be glad, disappointed, or both?" the reporter finished before Peter grabbed the remote and turned the TV off.
"I'd have to go with both." Peter quipped to himself. "And maybe J.J. should be glad."
With a sigh, he walked up to his closet, opened it, grabbed his suit and put it on before heading downstairs to the front door. The others noticed this as they stopped eating.
"Where are you going?" Sonic asked.
"I'm going out for a night patrol." Spider-Man answered. "It's what Harry and I do daily." he turned to Harry. "You coming?"
"Nah, you go on ahead." he answered. "I'm stuffed already."
"Suit yourself." Peter said. "Oh, I almost forgot. I just watched the news, and there hasn't been any word on our baddies yet."
"Huh, that's weird." Mary Jane spoke up.
"Do you think they gave up crime, or are they just hiding now that you're gone?" Chris asked.
"We don't know for sure." Spider-Man said. "They could be planning something."
The others looked at each other with worry.
"Well, I'm leaving." Spider-Man said as he walked out the door. "I'll call you when I need you."
"See you later." Harry said as his friend walked out. Then his smile shifted to a look of worry. Where could the baddies be?
In Station Square…
Spider-Man swung through the buildings as he looked down to see if there was any criminal activity. To his relief and disappointment, there was none. Where's the thrill?
"Look, it's Spider-Man!" a citizen shouted as he pointed up at the web-slinger before he and the other citizens began cheering.
"Good game, Spidey!" another citizen shouted.
Spider-Man smiled under his mask. He absorbed more cheers since that time at the festival in his honor, and then remembered when he kissed Gwen Stacy during that event. Not to mention Mary Jane being there at the time. Boy, was that unfortunate.
Spider-Man landed on the ledge of the building and overlooked the streets.
"Well, no crooks in sight." he said to himself. "If I were Daredevil, how would I know if a crime's active?"
Suddenly, his spider sense went off.
"Oh, wait. Spider sense. I almost forgot." he quipped. "But still, what would Daredevil do?"
He looked towards the streets to see the citizens minding their own business.
"Sight? Nope." he quipped. "Touch? Oh, wait, I'm touching a ledge."
He looked down to see his hands on the ledge, and chuckled to himself.
"Smell?" he sniffed the air, but then he stopped. "Oh, who am I kidding? I'm not Wolverine." he quickly got back to the subject.
"Okay, last but not least: sound."
BOOM
CRASH
He suddenly jumped when he heard a loud boom from behind him, along with cars screeching and people screaming.
"Bingo!" he said with a smirk before shooting a web line and swung towards the source of the explosion.
As he swung towards the source, he saw many people running in the streets, while the police loaded their guns and headed for the source.
As he perched at a ledge of a building, his eyes widened under his mask as he saw the source.
"You're kidding me!"
The attacker was a muscular man in a large grey suit. His face was mostly uncovered, but his head was that of a rhino, as it had a large black horn and red eyes on each side of his head.
The man looked at the cops, who were aiming their guns at him.
"You half-pints think your toys can stop the Rhino?!" he boasted.
"Shoot him!" the lead cop shouted as he and the other cops fired their guns at the Rhino. However, the bullets just bounced off his body, and he just laughed it off.
"Tickles." he sneered before he began charging at the cops with his head lowered down, so his horn pointed at the van the cops were hiding behind.
The cops eventually saw this and dove out of the way in time for the Rhino's horn to send the van flying into the air, the force also sent another vehicle crashing into a fire hydrant, causing the water to spurt out of it like a fountain.
The van headed straight for a small crowd, who covered their eyes and waited for the inevitable.
Nothing happened.
The Rhino's smirk turned into a shocked frown.
The crowd slowly looked up to see the van… which was in midair and being held up by a large web.
Suddenly, Spider-Man swung from out of nowhere, and the crowd cheered for the wall crawler.
"You." the Rhino growled as Spider-Man perched on top of a car.
"Ah, Rhino!" he greeted. "I knew no prison was wide enough to hold ya!"
"'Wide enough'. Funny." the Rhino said sarcastically.
"Wow. I knew they taught trades in the slammer, but a sense of humor?" Spider-Man quipped before his spider-sense went off. "Huh. I usually don't get the tingles when the bad guy's in plain sight."
Suddenly, the water from the destroyed fire hydrant aimed straight at the wall crawler and formed into a fist before it hit him in the chest, sending him flying into a wall.
The watery fist planted itself on the ground before it formed into a human body, and once it was completed, it revealed a man with brown hair who wore a black t-shirt, brown pants and black shoes, who put his fists on his hips with a smug grin.
"Sorry, Spidey." the man mocked. "Was I supposed to wait my turn?"
"Seriously, Morrie?" Spider-Man said in an annoyed tone as he got up. "Are you still mad at me for your relationship problems?"
"You can have M.J., 'cause I'm over her!" Hydro-Man sneered as a man wearing a red and yellow suit with yellow boots and a yellow mask with green see-through googles that showed his eyes and two devices on his wrists leaned against the overturned vehicle.
"Well, you ain't getting off that easy, bug." the man, Shocker, sneered in a Southern accent.
Spider-Man looked up to see a man in his 50's wearing a red and black suit that resembled a giant bird, with black and red wings under his arms and red talons on his boots.
His name was Adrian Toomes, aka Vulture.
The Vulture flew around in a circle before swooping down and flying around some more.
Suddenly, a man wearing a green suit and dark green boots, and with a yellow sparkling face made of electricity and glowing blue eyes, along with his hands, surfed on what appeared to be electric waves before jumping off.
His name was Max Dillon, aka Electro.
Suddenly, a long metal arm with three claws at the end emerged from behind a building and stomped the ground, and another, along with two others, until a man with brown hair wearing dark shades over his eyes and a brown coat with a light brown shirt underneath, some grey pants and black shoes emerged from behind the building, with the metallic arms coming out from the back of his coat supporting him and lowering him with the rest of the villains as Electro and the Vulture landed next to them.
This was Doctor Otto Octavius, aka Doctor Octopus.
"Now, then, arachnid, any last words?" Ock asked as he pressed his fingers together sinisterly.
"Homina homina homina comes to mind…" Spider-Man said in a slightly worried tone as the Sinister Six slowly advanced on him.
Back at the Thorndyke Mansion…
Once everyone has finished their dinner, they threw away any leftovers before washing their plates. Chris, on the other hand, sat on the couch in the living room while resting his cheek on his hand. Chuck came in and noticed the bored look on his grandson's face before walking over to him.
"Hey, I know you're upset about losing the Chaos Emerald, but we did do a great job at the game." Chuck assured him.
"Thanks, grandpa." Chris said.
"How about a little TV to cheer you up?" Chuck asked, holding the remote.
"I'd like that." Chris said with a smile.
Chuck smiled back and turned on the TV. The news was currently on.
"Residents are advised to stay indoors!" Scarlet Garcia announced. "The streets have been turned into a battleground as Spider-Man and six of his Rogues are duking it out!"
The camera zoomed in, and Spider-Man is seen fighting the Six
"Guys! You gotta come see this!" Chris called to the others.
The Sonic Heroes, Mary Jane, Harry, Ella, and Tanaka came in and observed the battle on the news.
"Who are those guys?" Tails asked, referring to the six supervillains.
"Just some old pals." Harry remarked before he ran up to his room to grab his suit.
"We gotta help him!" Tails said.
"Where's Sonic?" Chris asked.
The group looked around, and Sonic was nowhere in sight.
The citizens ran for safety as the battle continued.
Spider-Man jumped on top of Rhino as the latter struggled to get him off. Spider-Man shot a web into the Rhino's eyes, blinding him and causing him to crash directly into a few walls as Spider-Man jumped off.
"Okay, so you guys came all this way just to kick the crap out of me?" Spider-Man quipped as Doctor Octopus striked a metallic arm at him, only for the wall crawler to jump away just in time.
"We've heard about your departure, how else were we going to get back at you for our humiliation?" Doc Ock asked as he striked another metallic arm at him, only for Spider-Man to ensnare it with a web.
"Aw, so you do miss me!" he quipped before his spider-sense went off. He looked behind him and saw Vulture swooping down at him. he jumped over hm and shot a web line at his back, only to be shot directly in the chest by a bolt from Electro.
Spider-Man tried to get back up, only for all four of Octavius's mechanical arms to grab him by the arms and legs, leaving him unable to do anything.
"Pull!" Shocker shouted at Ock, who threw the wall crawler into the air. The gauntlets on Shocker's wrists began to charge up green energy before htey shot out green beams at Spider-Man, sending him crashing into a building and onto a car.
Electro smirked as he fired a blast of bolts from his hands at Spider-Man, who jumped off the car as the bolts blew it up.
The Rhino charged at Spider-Man with a yell before he lowered his head so his horn aimed at him, only for Spider-Man to jump out of the way, causing him to crash into the wall.
"Only six, huh?" the wall crawler quipped as he jumped onto a traffic light. "What happened? Venom and Goblin had Knicks tickets?"
Electro fired another bolt at Spider-Man who jumped out of the way.
"Gotta get some altitude." he said to himself. "Dealing with them- gah!"
He was suddenly cut off as Vulture's sharp wing cut across his back, tearing the back of his suit as well. He shot a web onto Vulture's back and held on as the villain flew around to shake him off. Spider-Man quickly got onto the Vulture's back and aimed his fist at the armored back.
"Let's start by grounding this bird!" he said before ramming his fist at the back, only for it to meet with pain as his fist bounced off of the back.
"Fool!" Vulture taunted. "This dog's not too old to learn your tricks! My tech is protected by reinforced steel!"
Suddenly, two of Otto's mechanical arms grabbed Spider-Man by the arms and held him in the air.
"In fact, none of your foolish methods will work on us this time!" Otto boasted as his mechanical arms threw him at Hydro-Man, whose left arm formed into a giant fist before he punched him into a screen, causing him to fall into the ground with a thud.
Spider-Man groaned as he got up to his feet to see the Six advancing on him.
"Face it, bug boy. You ain't no match for the Sinister Six alone." Shocker taunted as he aimed his gauntlet at the wall-crawler and charged it up.
"He's not alone!" a voice called out.
Shocker looked to his right to the source of the voice and was met with a blue ball hitting him directly in the chest, sending him flying into a car.
The blue ball unfurled, revealing it to be Sonic, who had a smirk on his face.
"Oh, I thought you'd never come." Spider-Man sighed in relief.
"You must be the newcomer." Doctor Octopus said as his mechanical arms snapped their claws. "I must know more about your kind. Once I take you back to my lab."
The arms striked at the hedgehog, who ran out of the way in a blur along with Spider-Man, who leapt onto a building.
"Ooh, nice one!" Sonic quipped. "You should come meet Dr. Eggman!"
Suddenly, a yellow bolt of electricity shot past him, and he ran out of the way as Electro shot another one from his hand.
"Hold still, Speedy!" Electro shouted as he shot another bolt at the blue hedgehog, who ran past Hydro-Man.
"You must be getting tired from all that running, rat!" Hydro-Man taunted before his hands turned into water. "Have a drink!"
He shot a blast of water at Sonic, whose smirk turned into a look of horror as he ran from the blast.
"Ah! Get away!" he screamed as he dodged another blast of water.
"So, you do fear something!" Hydro-Man said with a psychotic grin as he shot another blast of water from his arms.
Sonic dodged the blast, only to be hit with a green beam from Shocker, who had recovered from the hedgehog's blow, sending him flying into another car.
Sonic tried to get back up, only for two of Doc Ock's mechanical arms to grab him by the arms and throw him into the air.
Sonic was about to reach the ground, only for Spider-Man to swing in just in time and grab him at the last second.
"Thanks for the hand, Spidey!" Sonic thanked him.
"Don't mention it." Spider-Man said. "I've taken more falls than that time I fought Venom."
Suddenly, both of them were hit from behind by the Vulture, causing them to fall once again, only for both of them to be grabbed by two of Doc Ock's mechanical arms; one went for Sonic and the other three went for Spider-Man, grabbing both his arms and his right leg.
"Now, Morrie." Doctor Octopus said to Hydro-Man. "Why don't you give our fast friend that drink you offered him earlier?"
"With pleasure." Hydro-Man said with an evil smirk before Doctor Octopus threw Sonic into the air. This gave Hydro-Man a chance to stretch out his watery arms before he clapped both his large watery hands together with Sonic in between them, encasing him.
"No!" Spider-Man shouted as he watched Sonic struggle for air in his watery prison.
"Let him go!" a female voice shouted.
The six supervillains turned to see Amy with an angry look on her face.
"Oh, good. Another freak." Electro sneered. "And this one's a girl."
"Bet it's your girlfriend!" Hydro-Man taunted the imprisoned Sonic, who just gurgled in frustration.
"Why don't you pick on someone your own size?!" Amy shouted as she whipped out her Piko-Piko Hammer.
This just caused the Sinister Six to laugh.
"This is just too gold!" Electro laughed.
"Uh, I wouldn't laugh at her if I were you." Spider-Man warned.
"Aw, come on!" Rhino sneered. "What's a toy hammer gonna-"
POW!
He was suddenly cut off when Amy swung her Piko-Piko Hammer into his gut, sending him flying into a building.
The other five villains stopped laughing as they saw their comrade taken down by the sudden force before they turned to Amy in shock.
"Okay, I've got a feeling pinky here ain't playing around." Shocker said before aiming the gauntlet on his left wrist at her, only for a sharp object to slash his arm, causing him to jerk it back. Luckily, the cut wasn't that bad.
Spider-Man saw that it was a razor bat, and grinned under his mask when the New Goblin flew on his Sky Stick from behind a building with his sword in his hands.
He flew towards Hydro-Man's outstretched arms and swung his sword through them, causing the hands holding Sonic to drop him, and causing the water to splash all over the place. Sonic landed on the ground, catching his breath.
Hydro-Man grunted as he watched his arms regenerate.
The New Goblin flew towards Doctor Octopus and spun his Sky Stick around, causing the glider to his the mad scientist in the chest and sending him flying into a building. This also caused the mechanical arms to release Spider-Man from their grip. The wall-crawler shot a web onto a building and stuck to it as the New Goblin flew towards him and gave him a high-five.
Amy ran over to Sonic, whose fur was all soaking wet.
"Are you alright, Sonic?" Amy asked worriedly.
"Never better." Sonic said with a smile and a thumbs up, and Amy hugged him tightly, squeezing the air out of him.
Suddenly, a yellow bolt shot past them, catching their attention.
"Sorry to interrupt your little reunion, lovebirds." Electro taunted. "But less swooning, more fighting!"
Suddenly, he was kicked directly in the chest by Spider-Man, who swung from a web line from a traffic light.
With the New Goblin, he was busy trying to outmaneuver the Vulture, who was slowly gaining on him.
"Don't tell me you're gonna fly away from a fight that easily, junior!" Vulture taunted as he picked up speed.
"I'm not flying away." the New Goblin remarked. "I'm planning ahead!"
His glider suddenly flew up, and the New Goblin jumped off and onto the Vulture's back before delivering a series of punches to his head, causing the villain to fly out of control and crash into a few buildings in the process.
The Rhino charged at Amy with a yell. Amy just stood there with a bored look on her face, before she calmly took a step aside, causing the Rhino to charge past her, giving her another opportunity to hit him in the back with her Piko-Piko Hammer, causing him to fly into a car.
Hydro-Man charged at Sonic, who had a look of disbelief with having to face his fear again. From behind him, the New Goblin "steered" the Vulture towards him by grabbing his head.
"Sonic, move!" the New Goblin shouted at the blue hedgehog, who looked back to see the Vulture heading for him. He quickly ran out of the way, and the New Goblin took this as an opportunity to jump off of the Vulture's back, which sent the villain flying straight into Hydro-Man, who bursted into water at the impact and causing the Vulture to tumble into the ground.
The New Goblin did a front flip in midair before landing on his Sky Stick.
Shocker aimed his gauntlets at Spider-Man, who clung onto a building, when bullets suddenly shot past him. Shocker looked up to see the X Tornado in the sky.
"The cavalry has arrived!" Spider-Man cheered as he shot a thumbs up at Tails, who returned the gesture.
Nearby, Chris, Chuck and Mary Jane arrived in Chuck's van. Chris and Chuck watched the battle with awe, while Mary Jane took pictures of the event.
The X Tornado fired its machine guns at the villains, forcing them to duck for cover.
Rhino just stayed behind at picked up a nearby car before throwing it at the X Tornado, but it dodged at the last second.
"You throw like a girl, O'Hirn." Shocker taunted as he pointed his gauntlets at the X Tornado. "Let a pro handle it!"
"Don't!" Doctor Octopus stopped him. "If you shoot down that craft, you'll blow us all up!"
"You take the fun out of everything, Doc." Shocker muttered before he powered down his devices.
"Guys, we gotta get outta here!" Chris yelled.
"Right behind you!" Sonic yelled as he sped back to the Thorndyke Mansion, while Amy hopped in Chuck's car, who then stepped on the pedal and drove off.
Spider-Man took one last glance at the Sinister Six.
"I hate to admit it, but we can't beat these guys altogether." Spider-Man said in defeat as he shot a web at the New Goblin's Sky Stick and hung on as it lifted him off. "Gotta bail."
As the heroes made their escape, the villains, minus Doctor Octopus, scowled.
"They're getting away!" the Rhino shouted as he began to run after them, only for one of Doc Ock's mechanical arms to block his way. "What the hell are you doing, Doc?!"
"Yeah! You wanted to finish him, didn't you?" Electro asked, agreeing with Rhino.
"Let them be for now." Doctor Octopus. "But right now, we need to lay low. There's an empty warehouse a few miles away. It would make a perfect base for now."
"Great idea." Electro agreed. "I gotta recharge. All those kicks from that web-head wore me out."
Back at the Thorndyke Mansion…
Peter winced as Ella put the bandage on the cut across his bare back. He was only in his pants and boots, while the rest of his suit was on the couch next to him.
The gang gathered around the living room to catch their breath, and told Ella, Mr. Tanaka and Cream about the encounter.
"'I'll call you when I need you,' you said." Harry teased. "You're lucky the news was on."
"Okay, so who were those guys?" Sonic asked Peter, who turned to him and the gang.
"Those were Doctor Octopus, Vulture, Rhino, Shocker, Electro, and Hydro-Man." Peter answered. "They're the Sinister Six."
"Was that last guy the Sandman rip-off who tried to drown me?" Sonic asked.
"Yep. And also M.J.'s creepy ex." Harry added.
"What?!" the gang gawked.
"You dated that creep?" Amy asked Mary Jane, who had her arms crossed.
"I did." she answered. "But when I broke up with him, he didn't take it well."
"Well, can you tell us about the rest of those guys?" Chris asked.
"Alright." Peter said as he took a deep breath. "A few weeks after we stopped the Green Goblin, Harry was put in charge since his dad was still in the hospital."
"So I helped fund Dr. Otto Octavius's fusion reactor, which was meant to be an artificial sun." Harry spoke up. "But there was a huge power spike, and it killed his wife, and it attached the arms to his spine, and it drove him crazy."
Hearing the last part saddened the group.
"What's worse is that he knows our identities as Spider-Man and the New Goblin when he kidnapped Mary Jane." Peter said.
"What?" the group gawked.
"So, why didn't he tell the other bad guys?" Tails asked.
"He's a man of honor. It's what he sees himself as." Harry said.
"Anyway, Max Dillon worked as a technician at ESU when he slipped against a tank of electric eels." Peter continued. "It turned his whole body into a walking power station. He has to wear the suit to contain the electricity and prevent it from hurting anyone around it."
"Adrian Toomes used to work at OsCorp." Harry spoke up. "When he invented the suit, my dad, before he became the Goblin, said that it wouldn't pay off for our company. So Toomes tried to kill him as the Vulture, and he would've done it if Spider-Man wasn't there in time."
"Alex O'Hirn worked as a small time street thug when he signed up for an underground experiment." Peter spoke up. "It was a titanium body armor that can withstand any gunshot, so he became the Rhino."
"Montana was an enforcer for the mob when they created a suit and some gauntlets that can create pressurized air blasts." Harry said. "That's when he called himself Shocker."
"And lastly, Morris Bench was Mary Jane's ex in high school." Peter said. "When she broke up with him, his parents enlisted him in the navy. He worked in a special research unit, when he fell overboard and a chemical entered his system, and it allows him to control water at will."
"This world's got the strangest bad guys, let alone Eggman being the weirdest in mine." Sonic remarked. "But as long as Hydro-Man's around, count me out."
"What do we do now?" Tails asked.
"We heal up, think of a plan of attack, and fight another day." Peter said. "I doubt the Six can be planning something right now."
Meanwhile…
In a large warehouse at the end of the city, the Six were gathered at a table; Electro's face was concealed by a mask that went with his suit, along with some gloves.
"Did you see the look on the blue rat's face when I splashed him?" Hydro-Man asked the other four villains while Octavius listened with annoyance. "Priceless!"
"Yeah! Though I gotta admit, the pink one's got some guts with that hammer." Rhino admitted as he put his large hand on his gut.
"What do we do now, boss?" Shocker asked Doc Ock.
"I say we find this Dr. Eggman the blue hedgehog mentioned to me earlier." Doctor Octopus said.
"Do you even know where this guy is?" Electro asked.
"He's hiding out on an island from what I've heard." Ock said. "Once we find him, we'll put an end to both the spider and the hedgehog."
A/N: Look who's back from writer's block! More chapters are on the way, I'm sure of it! Have a happy summer!