Vol 1 Issue 12: Corruption in Blue

MGH Warehouse, New Vale City

At the Lower East Side of the city lies a suspicious warehouse occupied with dangerous activity. Members of A.I.M. seem to be using this warehouse to distribute some dangerous experimental drug called the Mutant Growth Hormone, or MGH for short. This drug has the ability to turn citizens and gangmembers into super-powered, purple-mutant monsters that's a danger to the city. That's not the only thing to be worried about. A.I.M. also seems to be housing barrels of the elemental ISO-Dust, fusion of ISO-8 and Dust that was brought thanks to the Convergence, twice as dangerous as a normal ISO-8 crystal. Besides the ISO-Dust barrels and MGH are also containers that trap the diminutive, yet powerful alien species known as Wisps that were also brought in from the Convergence. The little critters float in their pods scared as this is the second time in a span of a few months they were captured by a dangerous group of scientists for who knows what. But just like before, a group of remarkable heroes are already on the move to save them and stop A.I.M. as one of the White Wisps spots a particular little Spider-Bot surveying the area from the top of a warehouse container.

Several blocks on a rooftop outside the warehouse crouches Spider-Man who's watching what his little spybot is seeing from his projected screen off his wrist device. Standing behind him is a portion of the D-Avengers: Sonic, Weiss, Blake, Knuckles, and Axl, making up Team Amazing while the rest of the team, Team Spectacular led by Ruby, are surveying another MGH facility elsewhere in the district.

'Sorry, Webs. Until you send me solid evidence, that Tablet's "staying" in Fisk's clutches.' Yuri Watanabe was in the middle of talking with Spider-Man through the phone.

"We're working on that. We're following a lead right now." Spidey replied to the chief of police.

'A lead? You sound like a cop…' Yuri said.

"Don't you mean…Spider-Cop?" Pete replied, deepening his voice for his "Spider-Cop" persona, a joke Axl chuckles from but both Yuri and Weiss hate it with a passion, with the heiress giving herself an irritated face-palm to the face. It didn't take long for Yuri to get sick of it and hang up the call almost immediately, "Uh, Yuri?"

"Did she hang up?" Sonic asked Peter.

"For good reason." Weiss crossed her arms and glares.

"That's fair…" Peter replied.

"So are we at the right place or not?" Knuckles asked their webbed leader.

"One of them, yeah. Urich was on the money on this one. Three facilities are where A.I.M.'s gonna distribute the MGH across the city while collecting ISO-Dust and Wisps." Spidey answered, recalling the information Ben Urich gave them that might give them the evidence they need to stop the Kingpin and retrieve the Tablet of Life and Time from him legally.

"What are Wisps?" Axl asked since he wasn't part of that amusement park adventure in space.

"Little powerful aliens we saved a while ago. Apparently a good chunk of them decided to stay on Mobius as thanks for saving them. Looks like they also were caught in the Convergence and were captured by A.I.M." Sonic explained.

"I see." Axl remarked.

Blake snarled, angry to hear innocent alien creatures caught and abused by mad scientists just for their experiments, comparing them to Faunus being discriminated by humans, "Those monsters…"

"We'll get them out. Calm down," Peter told the faunus, "Ruby's team is already at the second facility to stop their shipment. Once we're done here, we'll meet up at the factory to shut this whole op down. There's a good chance Fisk's top-lieutenant, Tombstone, is there working with A.I.M. to supply this stuff. According to Urich, there's a corrupt cop that helped Kingpin gain legal ownership of the Tablet. Tombstone might be the only person who knows who it could be."

"To think Fisk's influence over the city has skyrocketed in the short amount of time since our worlds fused. He's already got police, lawyers, doctors, maybe even some Huntsmen in his payroll." Weiss said.

"That's what makes Fisk invincible. Why he's the only villain I could never truly beat." Spider-Man responded, practically regarding Kingpin as his biggest nemesis because it's so hard to defeat the guy because of his control over the city.

"That's all about to end today! The sooner we find this cop, the better chance we can lock him up for good!" Knuckles remarked, clenching his fist.

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"Let's not waste anymore time then. Let's move out, guys!" Spidey said.

Team Amazing crash through a window of the warehouse that immediately gets A.I.M. and the MGH mutants' eyes and weapons drawn at them. "Destroy those barrels and secure the ISO-Dust and Wisps!" Spidey ordered his team while avoiding heavy gunfire.

"Clean up on Aisle 7!" Sonic joked as he barrels through the hordes of MSH barrels to keep them off A.I.M.'s dangerous hands.

"Don't let them destroy anything else!" An A.I.M. solider ordered his associates. A grotesque MGH Brute roars and begins rampaging through the warehouse. He almost collides with Weiss and Knuckles while the two were fighting A.I.M. soldiers. They leaped away from the rampaging mutant and Weiss retaliates shooting ice pellets to freeze him, but it only succeeds in ticking it off. Before it could rampage again, Knuckles punches his face, sending him flying to fiery ISO-Dust crystals that explode and defeat the mutant and destroy some more MGH barrels. Axl fires on other A.I.M. soldiers, all while Blake jumps off his back and dive strikes on the yellow-dressed minions, protecting the contained Wisps.

"You're safe now. We'll get you out." Blake assured the Wisps, who look happy and grateful the Avengers came to their rescue.

"Thanks for grouping up for me!" Spidey quips towards the group of A.I.M. agents, spreading his speedy web shots that knocks them down and destroys the last remaining MGH barrels in the vicinity, leaving it open for Spidey to zip over to collect the Shipping Manifest inside the warehouse. With them done and A.I.M. and the mutants almost taken care of, Spidey contacts Team Spectacular on an update from them. "Almost done cleaning up and about to head to the factory. How are things at your end?" Peter asked Ruby.

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MGH Garage

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Ruby leaps back after dodging a MGH Rampage mutant's giant fist. "Smoothly. Done in less than three minutes." She replied in time to dodge another mutant's attack.

'Three minutes? You sound confident.' Spidey joked as Ruby strikes the mutant to the floor with a single swipe from her scythe.

"That's because I'm that good." Ruby cockily smirked.

A.I.M.'s shooting at Pit from the ground but have a hard time locking on. The heroic angel flies over their heads, using his Orbitars to blast them. Tails throws Dummy Ring Bombs at MGH Leechers and Blasters which didn't do much but stagger them, which was all Yang needed to brutally put them in their place. Lucina destroys the MGH transports and swiftly dodges a blast from a female MGH Blaster. The mutant fires another one, only for Lucina to reflect it back and put her to her place. Palutena stabs her staff to the ground and uses her power to telekinetically lift up a few helpless A.I.M. goons to the air.

"What's going on?!" One of them asked. Palutena throws the helpless crooks at other MGH mutants before finishing them off with an energy wave, freeing more Wisps and protecting the ISO-Dust.

"Everything's clear!" Palutena informed Ruby of their success here in the garage.

"Awesome! The factory's not far from here! Let's move out!" Ruby commanded and everyone follows her to the MGH Factory where Tombstone's supposedly held up.

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MGH Factory

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It wasn't long until both squads of the D-Avengers busted into the main factory and started making a mess from all the A.I.M. robots, MGH Brutes, and scientists they easily dispatched. "This is where the mutant growth hormone is created. Let's trash the place and shut down A.I.M.'s operations!" Spidey commanded the whole team.

"Go!" Ruby shouted and they all go buck wild throughout the factory.

All the commotion caught the main man's attention, Tombstone. Once an ordinary albino gangster known as Lonnie Lincoln, mutated by a chemical called Diox-3 that granted him extra strength and durability as well as pale skin. "What's all the racket about?! Huh?!" He's surprised when he sees Spider-Man and his friends trashing the place and destroying all the MGH barrels they have, freeing the Wisps and securing the ISO-Dust. "You!" He shouted at Spidey, getting the jokester's attention.

"Lonnie, my man! How ya been?" Spidey asked in a joking manner.

"Hehehe! Just fine, now that you're here!" Tombstone smiles, running up to punch Spider-Man but was too slow and misses. "You don't GOT what it takes to beat Tombstone!"

Knuckles leaps in and punches the drug lord in the face, "Once we're done with you, you're gonna NEED a tombstone!"

Tombstone grabs Knuckles's face and slams him to the ground, "Yeah, so I can use it to smash you to your grave!"

"That's not very nice!" Weiss says as she delivers a downward slash on Tombstone's chest. She looks up to be surprised it didn't have an effect on him at all because of his highly resistant skin. He chuckles and kicks Ice Queen away before getting kicked off by Spidey who hangs on the ceiling.

"Come down here and fight like a man!" Tombstone threatened Peter.

"I don't suppose I can convince you to come here and fight like a spider!" Spidey joked.

Annoyed, Tombstone swipes a laser gun from the nearest A.I.M. agent and rapidly fires on the ceiling bug as he swings away from the lasers. As he's distracted, Ruby uses her Semblance to circle around Tombstone, forming a small petal tornado that sends him flying to Pit's Upperdash Arm up to the air for Spidey to web-zip down and stomp the drug lord with a dive kick, pinning him with thick webbing as he lies down defeated now that the MGH factory has been cleared out of all its MGH barrels, Wisps, and ISO-Dust.

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"Ugh…you punks beat me? How's that possible?" Tombstone asked the heroes.

"With the real super power of teamwork." Ruby happily said.

"That is very cheesy." Weiss criticized while Sonic laughs, since he said something similar before.

"Okay, Tombstone. Spill. We know Fisk has a cop from the NVPD on his payroll. Who is it?" Spidey interrogated the drug lord criminal.

"You wanna know who we have on Fisk's payroll?" Tombstone chuckles, "Sure…I'll tell ya. It's your girl, Lieutenant Jean DeWolff." He revealed.

"What?!" Peter remarked in shock from the revelation that an old friend of his from the police force is working with Kingpin.

"That's right. She's in deep, but you'll never be able to prove it, punk!" Tombstone laughs until Weiss freezes his mouth.

"DeWolff's working with the Kingpin…" Spidey lowly said, still in shock from what he heard.

"Who's Jean DeWolff?" Palutena asked the webhead.

"A good detective in the police force. She's helped me out for years solving multiple gang-related cases." Spidey answered.

"Why would she working with the Kingpin then?" Tails asked.

"I don't have an answer for that. It's been a while since I last saw her." Peter replied.

"Then we need to find her and get some answers. She's our only shot taking down the Kingpin." Axl said.

"Calling Yuri now. She might not be happy to hear one of her friends in the force is working with Kingpin." Spidey calls up his contact in the NVPD and manages to get in touch with the police captain.

'Any good news?' Yuri asked.

"Tombstone's down and the MGH shipment is destroyed. You're clear to clean this place up." Spidey answered.

'And the bad news?' Yuri asked, having a good feeling there was gonna be some bad news.

"Seems that Jean DeWolff is to blame for Fisk keeping the Tablet. Tombstone said as much." Spidey somberly told her.

'What?! I've known DeWolff for years. She's a good cop.' Yuri retorted in surprise when hearing this revelation.

"I know."

'Tombstone's word alone is not enough to tie DeWolff to Kingpin…but there has been rumors and subtle evidence that Jean's up to something. If DeWolff is guilty it would explain how Fisk "legally" obtained the Tablet. If that's what she did…and we can expose this…it would allow us to reclaim the tablet and put Fisk behind bars for police bribery.'

"Where's Jean now?"

'Last I heard she's at the rooftop of the Upper East Side Police Station rooftop. Alone. I have a bad feeling about this.'

"We'll go right now. Thanks, Yuri. We'll get through this. I swear." Peter assured her before ending the call.

"You alright?" Ruby asked his big brother figure if he's feeling okay that a good friend of his has possibly betrayed him and working with the bad guys.

"I'm okay. C'mon. We have to hurry and get to DeWolff." Spidey said and everyone follows him out of the factory to get to DeWolff.

Upper East Side Police Station Rooftop

On the rooftop of the police station is Lt. Jean DeWolff, a tough, brown ponytail-haired officer wearing an open black jacket with a pink shirt underneath and blue jeans. She's standing outside alone, looking a bit worried for some reason, as if someone's about to jump her.

"DeWolff!" A voice startled her. She turns around to see Spider-Man and the D-Avengers have arrived to talk to her.

"Spider-Man?!" DeWolff said in a surprised tone, as it's been a while since she seen her superhero partner.

"I just want to talk. What's going on?" Spidey calmly asked her. Then, for some reason, his Spider-Sense starts tingling as everyone starts avoiding gunfire that came out of nowhere.

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"Watch out! Assassins!" DeWolff shouts as she takes cover.

"For us, or for you?!" Knuckles asked, not trusting DeWolff.

"Doesn't matter! Find those assassins and take them down! They seem to be cloaked!" Spidey commanded. He uses that nifty Spider-Sense of his to track down to two invisible mercenaries and kick them out of their camouflage.

Multiple gunshots almost hit DeWolff if Palutena didn't step up and summoned a barrier to protect her. "Thank you." DeWolff kindly thanked the goddess.

"Your welcome. But you're not in the clear just yet. We still have questions you better have answers for." Palutena told the officer.

Weiss summons a glyph to incant a magic spell that could disable the assassins' cloaking. "Winds of Watoomb!" She incanted, engulfing the rooftop with mystical winds. Once it dispersed, the mercenaries were visible to everyone.

"Damn it!" One of them said before getting taken down by Axl.

Sonic was doing some homing attacks on a couple assassins, knocking them unconscious. He cockily chuckles and then looks ahead when he suddenly spots a knife thrown at him. "Whoa!" He said, just narrowly side-stepping from the knife throw by the skin of his teeth.

"Aw man! You made me miss a bullseye!" A new voice enters their ears and he doesn't sound friendly. Jumping up to the rooftop is a criminal in a costume with a bullseye marking on his forehead holding deadly knives. "How can I live up to the name Bullseye if I don't get a direct hit?" The incredible psychopath marksman, Bullseye, employee of the Kingpin, introduces himself with a smile and his projectiles. His uncanny ability to use any common object as a lethal projectile makes him more dangerous than most criminals with superpowers.

"Bullseye?! Kingpin must be desperate to get rid of evidence!" Spidey said, using his reflexes and Spider-Sense to avoid get shish kabob by Bullseye's knives.

Weiss blocks the projectiles with her glyph with Axl in the air firing on the marksman. "You won't get a bullseye on Bullseye!" He grinned. The man found some cover and threw a knife with pinpoint accuracy at Axl, stabbing the reploid in the chest, which did leave a mark.

"Axl, you alright?!" Weiss asked.

"Err, no biggie. Nothing too serious. That guy has some incredible aim." Axl grunts as he takes out the knife from his chest and throws it away.

"We just need to confuse him who to hit. Sonic! Black Tiger!" Spidey calls out to Sonic and Blake, both who understand the plan. The three circle around Bullseye, confusing him with afterimages coming from Spidey and Sonic's natural speed and Blake's natural Semblance to clone herself.

"Haha! You think that will work? Think again!" Bullseye throws multiple bombs all around him, causing an explosion that scatter the three to different corners of the rooftop. He creepy smiles before throwing three knives at his three adversaries. They connected, however, he only so happened to hit their afterimages instead, shocking him, "What?!"

"Not so good now, are ya?"

Bullseye looks straight up to see Sonic taunting him from the air along with Spidey and Blake. The webhead fires a barrage of web bullets straight down right on Bullseye. "Not fair!" He grunted as he has no power to free himself. Sonic holds onto one of Blake's ribbons as she throws him to spin attack the crazy assassin. Bullseye growls and attacks the hedgehog with more thrown projectiles, from bombs to trading cards to sais, but none of them hit the hyper-fast hero. He was then on the receiving end of Sonic's three-kick combo and knocked into Palutena's line of fire who fires a charged shot that blasts him to the rooftop door.

Knowing he's outmatched and outnumbered, Bullseye calls for a retreat. "I'll be back. Just you wait!" He declared and jumps off the roof. By the time the heroes caught up with him, he is already long gone.

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"He's gone!" Sonic said.

"He's not important right now. Let's finish up things here." Spidey told him. He turns and walks up to Jean DeWolff who seems very uncomfortable with all these heroes from other dimensions around her. "Hey, DeWolff. It's been a while, huh? Care to explain to an old friend why you're suddenly working together with our arch-enemy?" Spidey asked DeWolff.

"What?" She replied.

"We've heard from Tombstone you're now working with Kingpin. Normally, I wouldn't believe him, but our other buddy, Yuri told me there have been rumors you've been up to something, and I think we know what." Spidey told his friend who seemed to have betrayed his trust and now working with the enemy.

"That doesn't prove anything." DeWolff objected.

"It proves…you're a dirty cop, DeWolff." Axl glared her down, crossing his arms.

"Which is so incredibly disappointing." Spidey said in a light-hearted tone to ease up the tension a bit.

"You don't understand." DeWolff said.

"What does the Kingpin have on you?" Axl asked her, cop to cop.

"I was a good cop…" DeWolff says as she begins to explain how she ended up working with Kingpin in the first place.

Flashback…A few days earlier at Hell's Kitchen

'Before the Convergence, I was following the trail of Kingpin's enforcers after their rather successful crime spree through Hell's Kitchen,' DeWolff starts explaining. In the past, DeWolff investigates an abandoned building and heads inside quietly, 'But when I got there I discovered I wasn't the only one on that trail,' From behind her cover, DeWolff spots a young hero in a blue suit wearing goggles, is all tied up to a chair, beated up some of Kingpin's enforcers, 'Speedball, one of the New Warriors, had clearly found them. But got himself captured, tied up, and worked over,' The big brute starts punching Speedball left and right, showing no signs of stopping even with all the blood dropping from his face, 'They were about to go for round 2, and it didn't look like he had much left in him,' Tired of this senseless violence, DeWolff jumps out of her cover and shoot down the enforcers without thinking, killing them, 'I didn't even think. I put them down. I didn't report it because I knew what I had done was wrong.'

"Thank you…" The beat-up Speedball had enough strength to thank DeWolff for saving his life.

"Can you walk?" She asked.

"I-I'll try…" He weakly replied.

'If I'd been thinking I would have looked for the security camera that caught me murdering Kingpin's lackeys. Never mind that these were the worst kind of bad guys about to kill a real, actual hero.' DeWolff said as Kingpin watches the footage from his Lawyer's laptop, smiling deviously that he now has blackmail material for him to use on DeWolff.

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Present Day

"I killed in cold blood. Kingpin had me dead to rights. I either do what he says, or I go to jail." DeWolff explained the truth to the D-Avengers, why she's working with someone as scummy as Kingpin.

"You want to make up for your sins? Help us." Blake sincerely asked of her.

"You talk to the feds. You confess your sins. The Kingpin falls." Sonic told the officer.

"Coercion, bribery of government employees, racketeering…I'd say it's enough to bring him down." Axl said, thinking that's all the evidence they need to put Kingpin away once and for all. All they need is DeWolff to agree to testify and they're good.

"Here's your chance to do the right thing." Ruby sincerely told the officer.

"C'maaan." Spidey smirked behind his mask, hoping his good friend will do the right thing.

DeWolff closes her eyes to give herself a moment to think, thinking of what is best for her and for the city of New Vale. "I can't live like this any longer…" She finally opens back her eyes to give them her answer, "Get him. I'll testify."

"Well alright!" Knuckles smiled, smashing his fists in joy.

"We can do it, can't we? We can finally take down the Kingpin." Ruby happily asked.

"We do it tonight." Blake suggested that's the best time to gather all the evidence to apply for a warrant, and finally, finally bring the Kingpin to justice for good and reclaim the Tablet of Life and Time to bring peace back to New Vale City.

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Ruby Rose: Hey everyone! Ruby Rose here! This is it, guys! We finally found the evidence we need to put you away for good, Kingpin!

Kingpin: Child, do you truly think you and your friends could make a difference? I own everything in this city. What you are doing won't change a thing. I will put an end to your foolish here and now!

Ruby: You don't scare us, Kingpin! Starting today, New Vale City will finally be rid of your corruption forever!

Next time in D-Avengers: Exo War:

Topple the Kingpin

Spider-Man: I've been looking forward to this for three years! Time to reel you in!

KFX Here: Next time, the war against Kingpin will finally come to a close as the heroes raid Kingpin's home to arrest him and reclaim the Tablet of Life and Time. And if you think after that we're heading to Thanos territory? HA! Sorry, we still have a few mini arcs before we get to the second half of this whole story. And also, just because Volume 1 of this story takes a lot inspiration and story details from "Marvel Heroes MMO", doesn't make this a one-on-one adaptation. There ARE differences, which I'm sure you've already noticed. So don't think this will end the way you think. Anyways, see ya next time.