Chapter 12
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Peter dropped down in front of The Feast. So this is where Martin Li runs his operation from...kind of a dump Peter thought not knowing about what lied below. Walking through the door, he walked up to the front counter while the few people eating began whispering about him.

"I'm looking for a Martin Li." Peter said to the man behind the counter.

"No English" he responded.

Turning to a woman he said "Is Martin Li here?"

She just shook her head gesturing that she also didn't understand him.

Great, Peter thought, this is going to be a lot harder than I thought.

Looking at a monitor embedded in his desk, Mister Negative saw a red and blue clad hero standing in his soup kitchen demanding to see him. "It seems like I sent my little green servant away too soon. No matter, I'll just have to go get... aquatinted with Spiderman." Getting up from his chair, Mister Negative, now Martin Li, began his way up to the surface.

"Do you speak English?" Peter asked to a seated man.

The man shook his head no, the international sign of misunderstanding.

"Does anybody speak English around here?!" Spiderman yelled out.

With a silent click, Martin Li entered from the door behind the counter. "Spiderman! Welcome to my kitchen." He chuckled a bit. "Instead of bothering all of my guests, why don't you and I go to my office and settle whatever it is you came here for?" Martin said in a tone that didn't suggest he would have it any other way.

I could very well be walking right into a trap, Spiderman thought, but this could be my only chance. So he nodded and followed Martin behind the counter.

"Right this way Spiderman" Martin said as he opened the door and gestured for Peter to go through.

As soon as Peter crossed through the door, he knew something was wrong. First of all, it wasn't an office, it was just a hallway. Second of all, Martin's sunny, happy-go-lucky demeanor changed drastically. Whirling on Peter, he thrust his hand out pinning him against the wall by his throat with surprising strength. Spiderman began to squirm and gasp for air as Martin leaned in right next to Peter's ear.

"I'm going to make this clear and concise. So quit your squirming and listen."

Peter stopped realizing that he could not escape Li's iron grip. How is he so strong?

"You are a thorn in my side. And I'm going to be direct. I want you dead; however, I don't want blood on my own hands so you're going to walk out of here alive, for now. But, if you plan on living for a while longer, which I bet you do, you better stop sticking your nose in bigger men's business. No matter what you think or feel, you shut off your hero complex before I decide that just killing you isn't enough. Don't think for a second that I'm not capable of discovering who you are and who you care about and then, well, use your imagination, I'm sure it's vivid." He said menacingly. "I'm going to let go, and when I do, you're going to turn around and leave. If you understand me, tap your foot once."

Peter did tap his foot and then Martin Li clamped his hand down harder before releasing him. Peter felt Martin's eyes bore holes in his back as he opened the door and walked to the exit; there really was nothing more he could do.

That was humiliating, Peter thought, and who is this guy anyway! That strength, it definitely wasn't natural. Then remembering what Li said about his apparently not so hard to find out secret identity, he thought, can I really afford to test him? It shouldn't be up to me to decide whether or not all the people I care about are put in danger, but I can't allow that deranged maniac to succeed. If he succeeds once, who knows what he could try next. Peter was seriously conflicted. Landing on top of a building, he sat down to think it over. But, before he could start weighing consequences, he saw five police cars speed by below him. Sighing, Peter got up and swung into action following the frantic cars below.

When the cars finally stopped, it was in front of JP Morgan Chase & Co. That's one of the biggest banks in New York Spiderman thought to himself. This must be big. And then swooping down he landed silently next to captain Stacy.

"What's the situation?" He asked.

Without missing a beat the captain replied, "Four armed robbers and twelve hostages."

"Noted." And then Peter was off.

He webbed himself up to the top of the building and then broke a second story window. Carefully, he crawled through and made his way into the hallway. He could faintly hear the angry robbers below him, "Who called the cops!? If you don't answer me, everyone's brain is getting splattered."

Peter picked up his pace.

"I'm gonna count to three and if no one speaks up, this lady gets a nice little forty-five between the eyes. One."

Peter began to sprint.

"Two." The woman's eyes began to glaze over in fear. "Three. Ok, bye-bye."

But just then, Peter burst through the door causing the man to lose his focus.

"Sorry, whoever you are. Did I interrupt?"

The man didn't have any time to react. Spiderman shot a web out connecting with the man's gun and then pulled it out of his hand. He released the gun through the window making it impossible for the robber to retrieve it.

"Don't just stand there!" The man shouted at his three accomplices. "Kill him!"

"You know that's the second death threat I've gotten today!" Peter chided before webbing the other men's guns out of their hands and out the same window. "You guys just never learn." Peter said accenting the word learn with a punch to the first robber's face.

"Incoming!" Peter yelled out the window as he threw the first robber out to the police.

"OK," Peter began, "we can do this my way or... well, my way. I really don't know why I even thought of giving you a choice."

Handspringing across the room, Peter grabbed the second man between his legs and then followed through doing one more handspring, slamming the man flat on his face where he lay motionless. Spiderman dodged a slow punch from the third man and then kicked him in the gut. The man doubled over in pain but Peter didn't care. He knocked him out with a knee to the face. Turning to the fourth guy, Peter prepared to take him down to but before he could, the man just lay down on the ground.

"I surrender! I promise! Just leave me alone!"

"That's more like it!" Peter said webbing the man's hands together so he couldn't try any funny business. "Well people, the show's over. You can all go home now." Peter said trying to lighten the heavy mood inside the bank. And then webbing the three remaining robbers together, he walked out the front door dragging the fully grown men behind him.

"Here you go captain." Peter said handing the web line to Mr. Stacy.

Captain Stacy smiled stifling a laugh. "I knew we could count on you Spiderman. Thank you."

"Anytime," Peter replied, "have a good night sir."

And as Peter swung away he thought, I can't give up on stopping Martin Li. If I had given up on those people in that bank tonight, they could have been killed. Every problem ever created has a solution, now I just have to find it.

Ok so the writer's block dissipated quite quickly. Which is good! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. The point of it was to really show Mister Negative's power and to also give insight on how close Peter's two lives are to colliding. I would really really appreciate it if as well as reading, you also review and let me know what you think or favorite or follow. It makes me happy to know people are enjoying the story!

Until next time,

-theriot010