- Miles Morales

The year was coming to an end. Midterms had zipped by and finals were cominig up. Just like last year, people started coming to Peter for help with final projects and studying for final tests. Gwen was kind enough to help as well since she was pretty brilliant when it came to physics and biology and such and that way, Peter wouldn't get overwhelmed. It paid off too. After the final grades were posted, whole groups of people would surround them, waving the final grades in the air and hugging them, thanking them for the help. Well Peter got hugs - kisses too. Most of the guys just shook Gwen's hand and gave her half hugs.

Peter was really busy. If he wasn't working on his projects or studying, he was helping someone with theirs. We actually spent most of our time at Harry's, studying together. What was frustrating was that Peter slept maybe twenty hours in three weeks. His annoying super stamina would have me falling asleep on the couch while he was in a lazy-boy working on his laptop and then have me waking up a few hours later or the next morning and he would either be gone or have gotten back from a Spider-man patrol.

Cindy and I also knew about the SHIELD operations that Peter and Felecia were working on and we kept our eyes and ears open. We also discussed adding Felecia to our little team but Peter was hesitant. Apparently he hadn't told her that we knew who she was - or at least I knew who she was. Cindy's argument was valid, though, "We have two normal people working on this side while you run around like mad. Getting the Black Cat involved would help by having an extra hero in the field, too."

Peter was still hesitant but said that he would talk to her about it. After finals, we got a call from him to meet him and Black Cat in one of the parks. When we got there, we saw him in his red, black and blue Spider-man suit and the Black Cat in her black, white fur-lined, skin tight jumpsuit. Cindy's eye widened slightly at the sight of her attire. Not only was it skin tight, the zipper was beneath her sternum and there was quite a bit of cleavage showing. "These are you friends, Spider?" asked Cat with a smile. "That's right, Cat;" and he pulled his mask off. "They know who I am and I trust them with my life and my identity."

Then, because we were in a public place, he slipped it back on. She nodded and studied us for a moment before shrugging. "If Peter trusts you then I am going to as well. Don't make me regret this."

She pulled her black mask off and said, "Recognize me, Miles?"

I chuckled and looked away a little embarrassed, "Yeah I do - though your outfit threw me for a loop."

"Well that is the point, isn't it?" she said with a slight breathiness to her tone as she put her mask back on. Then, cocking her hip, putting her hand on it and looking at Peter, she asked, "So what is our new team going to be working on?"

Peter said, "Well we have you and I running around fighting crime, kicking ass and taking names while we have these two keep an eye on the background stuff like social media, regular media, police scanners, stuff like that. Cindy was actually my silent partner even before Oscorp. She assisted me in making my spider silk spinner on the more chemical side. I made the machine to spin and she helped me properly mix the chemicals."

Cindy was blushing slightly and brushed her black hair behind her ear as Cat's eyes widened. "I'm impressed, Sister; you must be even smarter than the Spider here. Does he pay you to produce his webbing for him?"

Cindy laughed and said, "He gives me money for the chemicals - which I give to my roommate because she's twenty-one and I make the fluid. I'm actually working on making a tangling web grenade of some kind but I'd have to find a way to make the stuff turn into fiber when exposed to the air and stuff like that but it isn't easy. I also haven't had much time - studying for finals and all."

Felecia looked at me and asked, "What do you do?"

I smirked and said, "Oh I cover for his ass when he needs someone to. You know, tell his aunt that he's hanging with me or out with me. I also help him work on his fighting technique. He may have strength, agility, spider sense and speed but I'm still helping him work on his technique. Some day, he may meet a super powered baddy who is as strong as he is and I want to be sure that Peter is the better fighter."

Felecia smiled, "That's good. Do I get any perks from joining the Spider-Force?"

I chuckled and said, "Well you can use my dad's basement. There's some good work out equipment there and several boxing bags - though the bag hanging from the steel cross beam weighs five hundred pounds - just f.y.i."

"Good to know;" she said with a wry grin. Peter suddenly frowned and put a hand to his ear, listening intently, presumably to his police scanner. "Bad news, guys; we have four people robbing a bank in Manhattan. Wait;" and he paused and sighed in exasperation, "and five robbing jewelry and..." and he paused again before speaking with a down right confused voice, "...and another three robbing an electronics store in Brooklyn! What the hell is going on?"

I sighed and said, "We'll keep our ears open for you and contact you if we get any more information. Hey Felecia, take these and be careful with them, please. We'll call you too."

I handed her a cell phone and Bluetooth earpiece. Her plump red lips twisted upward and said, "Is there anywhere on this suit that it looks like I can put a phone, Miles?"

I blushed and stuttered. Chuckling, she slipped it into a hidden pocket on the side of her thigh and put the earpiece in her ear. "Thanks for toys."

They both leaped off and Cindy muttered rather petulantly, "Is she going to flirt with you every time we get together?"

"I don't think she was flirting;" I protested and she just chuckled, patting my shoulder. "Trust me, Baby; she was flirting with you; now come on. Let's go back to the command center and keep our eyes and ears open."

"Command center? We have a command center?" I asked, slighty confused. "Of course;" she said with a smile, "it's your dad's house - especially since he's visiting his brother in Jersey for the week."

I grinned. "Sounds good."

- Peter Parker

Well my night just got exciting. Cat used her grappling hook to keep up with me as we swung towards Manhattan. "I'll take the five at the jewelry store if you take the four at the bank. I'll also give the Avenger's a call and see if they can send a team to take care of the other one."

We split up and after I made the call to Captain Rogers, I wondered if trusting Black Cat with taking out bank robbers and the bank itself considering she was a recently reformed burglar and thief. That went to the back of my mind when I saw the store robbers. There were five of them and they were the same heavily armed and armored mercs that were involved in stealing the tech. I called Cap again and informed him and hung up just as the mercs came out of the store with their loot and that's when I leaped. As I swung towards them and webbed two of them up before even reaching them. The other three had weapons up in a hurry but avoiding their fire was easy. Guns really aren't that scary since you just need to make sure you aren't where the barrel is pointed. I was good at that. It was minutes before they were on the ground and webbed up. The police pulled in and one of the cops looked at me and said, "Well thanks for the help kid."

"No problem. Laters;" and before he could protest, I was gone, heading towards the bank to meet of up with Cat. When I got there, Cat was sitting on the edge of a roof nearby, looking down at something in her hands with a distant look on her face. "You alright, Cat?"

She looked up and smiled a little. "Yeah, I'm fine, Spider. I'm just thinking, that's all."

I sat down beside her and watched as the cops cleaned up the scene below. The four guys were being cuffed and put in the back of the cars and the money was being documented. Suddenly, Cat said, "It would have been so easy, you know? I could have grabbed a bag of cash and just ran after stopping these guys but I didn't. I wanted to - it would have paid the rent on my penthouse for months without me having to dip into my trust fun. Not only that, I could have helped a lot of people out. But I didn't - I didn't because of you."

She looked up at me and removed her mask. "Peter, do you realize how much you've changed me just in the past month? I was angry, spiteful and self-righteous and wanted to hurt powerful people who I thought were victimizing poor people. But you helped me see that it isn't so simple. A couple months ago, I would have robbed that bank, not realizing that I was hurting people in the longrun and thinking that I was still doing good."

I nodded and said, "You made the right choice, Cat. I didn't do anything. It was all you."

She smiled and turned to me. "That's not what I meant. I want to be like you. I want to be good because it's the right thing to do, yes, but also because I want to show you that I can be a good person."

I put a hand on her shoulder, "Hey, I know you're a good person, Felecia. If I didn't think you were, I would have had SHIELD throw you in the slammer in the first place."

She suddenly hugged me, her head against my chest and whispered, "Peter, Gwen better hold on to you real tight because she doesn't even know how lucky she is and the minute she let's go, you're mine."

I felt a little uncomfortable but I still wrapped my arms around her and said, "I'm flattered, Felecia. I really am but..." and I trailed off, not really knowing what to say. She let me go and put her mask back on and we stood. "Any word from the the other site?"

"Not yet;" I replied, "let's head that way. Hey, hop on. I think I could get us there faster."

She wrapped one arm over my shoulder and the other under the opposite arm, also wrapping her mile long legs around my waist. "Take me for a ride, Spider?" she whispered seductively in my ear. I just sighed and said, "You know, if you're gonna make things difficult for me, I'm not going to keep doing this."

She giggled as we swung there. A full SHIELD tactical team was there led by Agent Coulson who looked grim, which was pretty serious since he tended to be pretty expressionless. "The Avengers just sent Cap and a few others to Stark Tower to make sure the Tony and Rhodey don't need assistants with another attempted robbery. At the same time, Romanoff, Barton, Wilson and Morse were sent to reinforce the agents watching your house and it was a good thing too because a van of mercs tried to break into your aunt's house. They're onto us, Spider-man."

I began to feel frustration expanding inside me. "Did anyone manage to follow them back to their hideout?"

"No. Whoever is in charge of these guys managed to get them back to their contact and distract our teams with decoys or by endangering innocent citizens;" said Coulson. "Did they get away with Stark's reactor?"

"No, they scanned it instead - same with your spinner."

I straightened and looked at him, "Wait, how did they get it? It wasn't at Aunt May's house!"

"Apparently they have people following your friends around."

That scared me. That really, REALLY scared me. "They know who I am!" I whispered.

"At least one of them does, we think, yes; but don't worry, we'll have agents stationed all over - at your school, near your aunt's house, with all of you friends - everywhere. They'll be in disguise so you might recognize them but other people won't."

I sighed with relief though I still felt a little uneasy. Cat nudged me and said, "Hey, we'll be there too, you know. I'm still just as capable without my sexy outfit and you're still the amazing Spider-man without your tights."

I chuckled and felt a little better. It still didn't sit great with me to have Gwen possibly in danger if they decided to target Midtown High but I felt a little better. Coulson said, "You don't have to worry about it at all. Agents Romanoff, Barton, Morse, Johnson and Carter will each be leading an undercover team. If anything happens, you hit the dirt and stay under cover. Let them take care of it."

Felecia and I just looked at each other. Yeah, that was going to happen.

- Miles Morales

Well I have to say that not a lot of work was getting done in our 'command center'. We set up two laptops, each with two screams showing four different news stations. We also had the radio on and the tv which we started out scanning periodically. The police scanner was on too but as soon as it reported that the thieves had been caught, we kinda got distracted. Cindy was bored and started to rub my back - then my leg. Then I kissed her once, and then again, and then without stopping. She had me lying on my back, kissing me passionately, one hand behind my head and one hand on my chest. Mine were rubbing up and down her back and wrapped in her silky black hair. I'm not sure how long we were doing that when my phone started ringing. I got it and Cindy scanned the monitors again. It was Peter. "Hey Miles, you two having fun?"

I cleared my throat and said, "Yup - just checking the monitors. Any good news?"

"Yup; apparently the three teams we ran into were part of a five pronged operation - two of which were to get into Stark Tower and scan his generator and to get to my spinner and recreate it."

I groaned and then shot up with a gasp. "Wait, your spinner is at Cindy's dorm!"

"I know. Cat and I are on the way now. Tell Cindy and stay with her. Anything on the news?"

I looked over at Cindy, who returned the look with concern. "Just that you were successful and not much more. We'll keep watching, though."

Peter replied, "No. You two need to get some sleep, alright? Set her up there and keep an eye out. We'll keep you informed."

I chewed my lip and said, "Alright. Both of you - be careful! Call us when you're done and make sure Felecia does the same. Take care, Brother."

- The Following Morning

We all met for breakfast in normal, everyday clothes at a Dunken Donuts. Felecia looked tired and so were we which made it annoying that Peter seemed just fine. He looked grim though. As soon as we were settled in, he took Cindy's hand and said, "Cindy, I hate to tell you this but our friends on high;" which was our name for SHIELD, "said that Julia was missing from your apartment. They think that she was kidnapped."

I gasped and wrapped an arm around her. "No;" she gasped, "oh no, not Julia! What happened? How? Was it when they scanned the web spinner?"

Peter grimaced and said, "They seem to think so. We don't know how but they slipped past the SHIELD agents, scanned the silk spinner and took Julia."

She looked down, tears spilling from her cheeks as she pressed closer to me. I kissed her temple to try and comfort her. Felecia continued where Peter had left off. "There's more; there were several other kidnappings throughout the country. A Jessica Drew was kidnapped from Washington D.C. She was apparently on vacation with her family and is originally from Transia in southern Europe. Another was Martha 'Mattie' Franklin from New Jersey was kidnapped from her home."

Cindy wasn't listening. Suddenly, she looked up and glared at Peter. "You could have stopped them, Peter. You could have done something."

Peter suddenly looked shocked. "What? Cindy, I'm sorry your friend was taken but..."

"MY BEST FRIEND!" she almost shrieked, jumping up. "She's gone 'cause you and your new girlfriend were being heroes."

With that, she stormed out, grumbling to me, "I'll be in the car, Miles. I want to go home."

I looked at Peter who looked shattered. Immediately, both Felecia and I said, "It's not your fault, Pete. They set this up perfectly."

"He's right Peter; you and I did everything we could. Not even SHIELD saw this coming and they have eyes and ears everywhere. I'm sure it's just a matter of time before they call us. Please don't blame yourself."

We both gathered around him and hugged him. Suddenly, one of the worker at the coffee shop, a cute blonde and a junior from our high school name Debra Whiteman, asked, "Are you okay, Peter? Is she okay?"

Peter didn't answer and Felecia said, "Yeah. We just got some rough news and had an argument and both Peter and our friend is taking it pretty hard. Thanks, Debbie;"

- Peter Parker

I was angry and upset and anxious all the same time. It was a week before graduation and I wanted to find these thugs and save those three girls. I had gotten my silk spinner and used one of the more permanent spider silk formulas to make a belt and pouches. Filling them with web cartridges, a camera, film and my phone, I went hunting. I stopped petty crimes as I found them, listened to the police scanner and called Captain Rogers, asking about the kidnappings. He told me everything he could but they didn't have much. Whoever these guys were had all the skills of the very best SHIELD agents and were horribly difficult to track. "Please be careful and don't do anything to drastic, Peter;" he urged me. I promised I would and kept on with my hunt. I didn't find anything, though. However, when I was in Manhattan, I ran into a group of ninjas slugging it out with three heroes - a big, African-American man, a smaller but highly skilled man and a man dressed all in red with his face covered by a mask. I jumped in, downing two of the ninjas as I did and we fought four square, driving out opponents back until they fled, carrying their injured. The other three looked at me and the big guy said, "I heard about you - wish you'd make your way to Harlem more often, Spider-man."

Considering that our enemies had swords, guns and every weapon in between and the fact that his clothes were cut to ribbons but he wasn't bleeding, I assumed he was the bullet proof man Luke Cage. "I wish I could to but I don't really go into places where I know someone else is handling things, Mister Cage."

He waved his big hand and said, "My name is Luke - no need for this 'Mister Cage' bullshit. My friends here called me up to help with a gang of Yakuza thugs who were transporting heroine through here. What brings you here?"

I said, "Well there have been some kidnappings recently and I have evidence that supports the idea that whoever is doing it is based here in New York. They are heavily armed mercenary groups wearing unmarked military gear and no flags. I'm just patrolling the cities and keeping my eyes open for them."

The second individual, who was wearing strange cotton pants, a sleeveless t-shirt that showcased well defined muscle and longish brown hair, proffered his hand. "I'm Danny Rhand; it's good to meet you. We'll keep our eyes open for you while we're out and about."

I turned to the third man. He hadn't been looking at any of them, his head turned to the side to listen. I turned to him and said, "You must be the devil of Hell's Kitchen. Heard some pretty amazing things."

He smiled and said, "Likewise and I prefer Daredevil these days. It's easier. What's a number we can reach you at?"

I gave them the number of the phone that SHIELD had given me and they gave me theirs as well. Luke Cage suddenly had to answer his. I talked with Danny and Daredevil until he came back. "My wife will be here in a minute to pick me up. Listen we should do this more often. Maybe we can learn who this Kingpin of Crime is and take him down together. What do you think, Spider-man?"

"I wouldn't mind that but now I have this to take care of. I have a friend who might like to join up with us, too. Anyhow, I need to get going. The night's still young and this city never sleeps. Take care, guys."

Just before I was about to leap off, a woman landed right next to me and Luke. "Ready to go, Honey;" she asked. Luke nodded and wrapped his arms around her from behind. He frowned suddenly and said, "Have you been drinking, Jess?"

"Don't you start with me, Luke Cage. I only had one drink before I took off to come get you."

I chuckled as they squabbled and she flew off into the night. "Someone who can fly without a tech suit of some kind; well that's a new one for me. I wonder how she does it."

Daredevil shrugged and said, "Not sure but it would take a real smart physicist to explain it. Anyway, I'm getting back to Hell's Kitchen. Have a good night, Gentlemen."

I chuckled and took off, heading towards Queens.

Aside from a few petty crimes and even a couple more organized crime related ones, I didn't find anything of note, so I went home to get some sleep.

- The Morning of Graduation

I was wearing a nice suit and was very nervous. I don't know why. This ceremony wasn't as dangerous as most of my nocturnal activities but somehow, this one caused my anxiety to skyrocket. There was a nock on my door. After making a quick scan throughout the room to make sure none of my spider-paraphernalia was visible, I said, come in. It was Aunt May and she was smiling proudly with a tear in her eye. "Oh Peter, look at you;" she said as she walked up to me. She brushed some imaginary dust off my shoulder and fiddled with my tie. "Put on your robe and tie. We need to leave soon."

I did and she just gazed at me with so much pride and love. "You look so handsome, Dear. Your uncle would be so very proud."

I felt a lump come into my throat and I tried to clear it. "Thanks, Aunt May. That means a lot. I..." and for a second because I was afraid I was going to start crying; "I wish he could be hear."

"Oh me too;" she sighed and hugged me. Suddenly, there was another knock on the door. It was Mary Jane in her own robes. "Looking good, Pete. Are you both okay?"

"Yes, we are Dear;" said Aunt May as she straightened my robe. "Right, let's get this show on the road."

We all drove together to Midtown High. A bunch of our friends met us with big grins. We hugged and high fived each other, laughing with excitement. We were almost done with Highschool and it was a very invigorating moment. Miles was grinning his huge, white toothed grin and he couldn't stop laughing and slapping my back. Suddenly, while we were gathered, Cindy ran up and hugged me. "So proud of you;" she whispered. "I'm so sorry about everything I said, Peter it wasn't fair."

I hugged her back tightly. "I know, Cindy. You were upset and I would probably act similarly. Thanks for coming here. I really appreciate it."

She let me go and smiled before turning to Miles and kissing him. "See you later, Baby. Proud of you."

Gwen came up to me and hugged and kissed me, saying as she did, "We're finally almost done with this. Isn't it so exciting?"

I smiled "Yes, Miss Valedictorian, it is very exciting. You deserve it, Gwen. Do you have a good speech written? Don't tell me - Miles helped you with it, didn't he?"

She chuckled and said, "Maybe a little."

We had a pretty big class and spent two hours afterward getting pictures. Flash surprised me by coming up to me afterward and hugging me roughly, slapping my back hard enough for it to hurt a little and laughing, "We did it, Parker. Hey, thanks for all your help, bro. I might have been sunk without it. Come on, get a picture with me."

I chuckled and said, "Alright, Flash. Let's do it."

A big group of us went to a restaurant afterwards with our families, basically having reserved the entire place. It was a lot of fun. The festivities went late into the night and when it was finally over and we went home, I was actually too tired to go out on a patrol. I was about to tumble into bed when I got a call on my Spider phone. I groaned, knowing that the only people who had that number were the other New York superheroes, SHIELD, the Avengers and my three team mates. It was Captain Steve Rogers. "Hey Peter. Can you meet us down the street? It's gonna be quick, I promise. No mission, just a quick conversation."

I nodded and climbed out my window, hustling down the street. There was quite the group of them - Cap, Natasha, Clint, Morse, Sam Wilson, Tony and even Fury were there. They were all smiling. Cap came up and proffered his hand. "Way to go, Peter. You're done one big stage of life and another one is about to begin."

I took his hand and he pulled me into a rough hug, slapping my back. The others shook my hand and Natasha even kissed my cheek. Stark gave me a business card with his office and personal number on it. "If you need an internship in college, I'm your man, Peter."

"Thanks;" I said with a grin. Fury shook my hand and said, "Congratulations, Kid. Now that you've graduated, I'm going to make you an offer that I really don't expect you to take at the moment - to join SHIELD."

I was shocked. "Th-thank you, Director Fury but you're right, I can't accept that yet. I still want to go to college."

They all nodded and chuckled. "Where're you thinking of going?" asked Agent Bobbi Morse. "I've only applied to ESU at the moment and am waiting - well, hoping - for the acceptance letter."

She nodded. "Well you're brilliant and you already invented a ground breaking piece of tech so I wouldn't be surprised if you got it."

They all slapped my back and shook my hand one more time before Stark handed me a small box. "Congrats, Kid."

I said thanks as they piled into their SUV's and disappeared into the night. I hustled back to my room and opened the box. Inside was a note saying:

Dear Mr. Parker,

Congratulations on your graduation. Use this money to keep working on your silk spinners - the big one and the smaller ones. Use it to buy more chemicals and equipment and you could go far and maybe, just maybe I can convince you to either sell it to me or work for me - preferably the former. Regardless, best of luck to you.

Sincerely,

Tony Stark

I set the card to the side. Aside from the card was a really nice watch, not mentioned in the card, a tablet of the highest quality - of course it was Stark Tech, and a check for fifteen thousand dollars and it was labeled for 'advancing spider silk tech' in Tony Stark's rather shoddy handwriting.

I was shocked. That was a lot of money. Immediately, I called Cindy and said, "You will never believe this..."