Chapter 21
Heads up, this chapter is a 5,000+ word doozy (My longest yet)
A few days later, the brains of the Avengers called Spider-man about their findings. He laid the phone on the table with speaker on so Kara and Korra could hear.
"So if Octavius isn't behind this, then why do they keep going after Spidey?" Supergirl asked.
"Because the Web Head has made more then one powerful enemy in his career." Iron Man said.
"And it's sorcery based? Magic?" Spider-man asked.
"Yes, that's how it was able to transfer from Thor to Tony." Reed said, "Just jumped ship when Thor was able to see past the illusion it tried to guide him into. Luckily, it seems to have dispersed so it shouldn't be rearing it's ugly head again."
"But Iron Man made his own...illusion, or whatever." Korra said, "Why did Thor believe Spidey was some kind of Spider god?"
"He's fuzzy on the details," said Tony, "But he does remember an old man being able to lay the 'seed of doubt' as it were. We had him give the details to a sketch artist, but so far we haven't been able to identify the man."
"Sooo, are we thinking it's not Doctor Doom?" Spidey asked.
"It's still a possibility, but no, this doesn't sound much like him." Reed said.
"Doom's always been crazy, but he's never been 'gain control of two of the most powerful men on the planet just to beat up Spider-man' levels of crazy." Tony said.
"That's an interesting point." Spidey said, leaning forwards and putting his hand to his chin, "Who would gain control over the god of Thunder just to make him smack me around for a while?"
"When we figure that out, hopefully all the other pieces will fall into place." Reed said, "But for now, that's all we know. We'll keep you updated."
The call ended and Spider-man sat in thought.
"You okay?" Supergirl asked.
"Yeah, I'm just not a big fan of mysteries." he said, "If whoever controlled Thor and Iron Man wasn't Ock or Doom, then that means there are three parties coming after me...or, us I guess."
"Yeah, well we've taken down everything that they've throw at us so far." Korra said, "So try not to worry yourself to death over it."
Peter crossed his arms and leaned back against the couch. He sat there for a few moments before his text tone went off in his pocket. Pulling out his phone, he went slightly rigid when he saw who the message was from.
"What is it?" Supergirl asked.
"It's from Harry." Peter said, "Harry Osborn, a friend of mine that was in rehab. Apparently he's out and wants to meet." a smile grew on his face as he rushed to his room. "You guys go ahead and go on patrol tonight. Call if you need me."
"But..." Korra pulled out her phone. As one means of apologizing, Tony Stark had bough them all new phones and laptops. "I still don't know how to use this thing..."
Peter made his way inside the restaurant. Harry normally liked to go Five Star, but he pandered down to his friend's interest whenever possible. The returning multi millionaire sat in a booth against one of the windows. He had the same brown hair his father did, but he grew it out longer to cover the pointed widows peak.
"Hey Harry," Peter sat across from him. "It's great to see you again. How are things going?"
"Pretty good." Harry said with a smile, "Think I've finally got everything figured out. But I'd rather not go into too much detail about my rehab, so let's talk about you."
"Alright, what do you want to know?"
"Still taking pictures of that Spider-man?"
"I...yeah, but-"
"Don't worry Pete." Harry said, "Like I told you, I got everything together. No vendetta against the Webslinger. So, it's got to be a little more fun now that the Web Head's got two new attractive teammates. Speaking of which...I hear you've got two new ladies in your life."
"I...yeah." Peter said, "How did you know that?"
"I wanted to surprise you so I dropped by your Aunt's." Harry said, "She told me you were living in the city now with two exchange students from Canada. Is Canada really foreign enough to be worth an exchange program? I mean, you don't even have to cross an ocean or anything to get there."
"Um, well they're from really far North." Peter said, "Sorta excluded even from other cities."
"Ah." Harry looked up to the approaching waiter, "Hope you don't mind, but I already ordered. Figured you'd just get the same as every other time we came here."
"Am I that easy to read?" Peter smiled at the burger set before him.
"More than you know." said Harry.
"So I don't remember Pete saying anything about a Harry Osborn, do you?" Korra asked as they flew through the city together.
"No." Supergirl said, "But there's a lot of things he hasn't told us. I'm just not sure if he's hiding them or avoiding them."
"Either way he should tell us. I mean, we've told him everything about us."
"...almost everything." Supergirl slowed to a stop. Korra circled back and used the jet boosters Tony Stark had added to her glider staff to hover in mid air next to her. "I hear a disturbance in the force."
"Stop that." Korra said, "I don't need you making references too. I may have gotten that one, but you watch at least three times as much TV as I do, and I don't want you to start saying things like you expect me to know what they mean."
"I'll take it under advisement." Supergirl said, "But seriously, somethings up a few block to the South."
"Something who's butt we can kick?" Korra asked as they flew towards it.
"I'm certainly hopping so. Now try to keep up!" Supergirl flew out ahead as Korra pushed her glider to the limit just to stay close. Floating above the scene for a moment, Supergirl flew down to the roof of a nearby building where she was joined by the Avatar.
"What's up?" Korra peered over the edge at a man in the middle of the street. He wore some kind of tight black suit with yellow a zig-zag pattern design. The mask was faceless except for the eyes.
"I don't recognize that guy from Spidey's list of his normal villains." Supergirl said. The Living Laser blasted another car, causing it to topple over on it's side. "He'll get upset if we fight someone we don't know, so I'm going to call him real quick." She pulled out her phone and delicately pressed the buttons, trying not to break the screen like she had last time.
"Hey, what's up?" Peter said on the other end.
"There's a bad guy running around on East One Eighteenth Street. He's shooting lasers out of his hands." Supergirl said, "Solid black suit, yellow lighting things on it. Permission to punch?"
"Uh, yeah sure." Peter said, "Just be careful. I'm gonna swing by in a minute to check on you guys."
"We'll probably have everything wrapped up by then, but whatever." Supergirl said. Cautiously, she pressed the 'red hang' up button, then smiled and gave Korra a thumbs up.
"Sorry Harry, but I need to leave a little early." Peter said, putting his phone back in his pocket. "Something going down that may warrant a Spider-man appearance."
"Oh, I'm sure it will." Harry said, "Go ahead Peter. I've got your number, so I'll give you a call later."
"Sounds good." he calmly strolled out of the restaurant, the first time in a while he had left early and wasn't in a hurry. Korra and Supergirl could likely handle whatever they were facing, and with the Avengers approval, there was nothing to really worry about. He crossed the street and ducked into an alley to take off his civilian clothes and get to his suit underneath.
Swinging from building to building, Spider-man chuckled to himself at the thought of one of the girls holding the Living Laser up by his ankles when he arrived to the scene. As he approached the scene, something struck one of the buildings with tremendous force. Spidey landed and saw a large hole busted inward at the bottom. Quickly, he swung down to street level and investigated.
Inside, Supergirl had her arms crossed in front of her to block an attack from the huge man in a red-orange dome helmet. The Juggernaut punched, and the impact with the Girl of Steel sent out a shock wave that rattled Spider-man's bones, and sent Supergirl crashing into the wall behind her.
The Juggernaut took a step closer, but Spidey web zipped in and kicked the back of his knee as hard as he could, buckling it. The unstoppable villain, turned and swung at the Web Head who had already retreated to the ceiling. His face may have been obscured by his helmet, but what little was revealed, clearly showed his fury. Before he could make another move, Supergirl closed and punched him with enough power to send him flying out of the building.
"Supergirl, are you alright?" Spider-man asked. The cut above her eye was the first time he had actually seen her bleed.
"I'm fine." she said, "Help Avatar, she's fighting some guy with a sword and a skull mask."
"Taskmaster? Al-alright, but be careful. Juggernauts one of the strongest guys on the planet." he hopped off the ceiling and swung outside to the literal flames of battle.
Korra took a few clumsy steps backwards from the Taskmaster, her left arm dangling from her side. Another man with green skin and large orange goggles hopped on top of a street lamp.
"Toad?" Spider sense flared up, so he jumped to the side to avoid the crashing sand, then flipped to dodge the streaking lasers.
"Spider-man, good of you to join us."
"Dammit all." he turned to see Doc Ock descending from a rooftop where Sandman and the Living Laser were perched.
"I debated on holding off on the festivities until you joined us, but after careful deliberation decided it would be much better to take advantage of you leaving your little allies all alone." Octavius said.
"Doc, Moe from the Three Stooges keeps calling. He is adamant about having his haircut back." Spider-man said.
Octavius smiled and adjusted his pitch black goggled with one of his metal claws. "Ah yes, it wouldn't feel genuine to destroy you without hearing at least one of your loathsome quips."
There was another tremendous boom as Supergirl and Juggernaut slammed into another building. Korra grunted, and he could hear the sound of her airbending blasts behind him. Banter wasn't going to get very far this time, he needed to help his team, and now.
"Kill him." Ock said.
Spider-man went low to all fours as Toad's tongue lashed out overhead. Then he rolled to the side as a laser struck the ground.
Turning the Living Laser on Sandman was obvious. The high heat would turn at least a small portion of Sandy to glass and eliminate one villain. The problem was that they were content shooting at him from range, and he'd have to get past their attacks and Ock's arms to get to them. Toad was a minor inconvenience on his best days, but Octavius had clearly given him instruction to stay to the side as he avoided any cross fire.
Spider-man dodged for his life from lasers, sand and tongue as he tried to think of a plan to take out as many bad guys as possible, as quickly as possible. Meanwhile Korra was fighting Taskmaster with one arm for some reason, and Supergirl was destroying a building every time she or Juggernaut landed a punch.
Toad lashed out with his tongue, which Spider-man easily dodged again, though this time he kept his eye on Laser as he prepared to launch another attack. Spidey webbed the tongue, then pulled it in front of him to take the shot. Toad let out a gurgled yelp as he retracted his tongue, but the Web Head followed it with his fist and both met the mutant's face at the same time. With shattered goggles, Toad rolled backwards and fell limp.
"One down." Spidey said, "Whose next in line?" With one assailant gone, getting Sandman to get hit by a laser was suddenly easier, but he'd have to dodge in between Ock's arms and stay still while being uncomfortably close to Sandman, in order to convince Living Laser to take the shot.
"You will be the next to fall Spider." Octavius said, "Unless you enjoy seeing your friend's blood spilled all over the city."
Juggernaut's thunderous footsteps drew close and the wall to Spider-man's left burst outwards as he came through. In his right fist was Supergirl's red cape. The Girl of Steel herself hung from it, completely limp.
Korra groaned from his right. He turned to see Taskmaster holding her up by her pony tail with his sword against her throat.
Octavius chuckled, "You never were a match for my intellect Spider-man. I know more about your little team than you do. Like that your blond friend here is vulnerable to magic. Or that pressure points can shut don your Avatar friend's chi. Now you're all going to come with us, or my team is going to to turn yours into a bloody mess."
Taskmaster held his blade a little closer, causing a small red streak of blood to roll down Korra's neck.
Spider-man racked his brain, trying to find a way to get the girls out of this. Any movement and Taskmaster would pull the sword against Korra's throat. And he couldn't even conceive of a way to loosen the Juggernaut's grip. There was one possible trick he could use. He'd been saving it for a desperate occasion, and he couldn't think of a more desperate time in recent memory. Reaching into his belt, Spidey pulled out a clear cube as discretely as he could. Sandman and Living Laser took aim, right as Spider-man threw the cube to the ground. "Shadow clone jutsu!" he crouched and jumped, sending out three Spider-men in different directions.
"What?!" Ock exclaimed.
"How'd he do that?!" Juggernaut asked
"Kill 'im! Kill 'im!" Sandman yelled.
The villains ran helter skelter, trying to take out the Spider-men as they spewed insults and taunts.
"Come at me bro!" "Up high! Down low! Too slow!" "Almost had me that time!" "You can't catch me, I'm the Spider Bread-man!" "You know, it would help if you aimed."
"Stop you fools!" Octavius yelled. "They are just distractions! Stay with the girls!" None of the villains obeyed as they continually swung at the bouncing Spider-men. Dock Ock reached out for the girls with his metal arms, but suddenly they were webbed towards a trash can. The real Spider-man popped out of the illusion and scooped the girls up under his arms.
"Next time you see Mysterio, give him my regards." Spidey said as he jumped to the top of the closest building and ran off.
Octavius searched the ground and found the holocube, crushing it with one of his metal claws. Immediately the other Spider-men blinked out of existence. "Find him! Before he escapes, find him!"
Spider-man carried the girls to the top of the nearest skyscraper and set them down, resting their heads and shoulders on an air conditioning unit. He peeked over the edge to make sure none of the Sinister Six had followed him.
"Wha...what happened?" Supergirl said, her eyes barely open as she shifted slightly but staid laying down.
"I was hoping you could tell me." Spider-man said, "If I would have known you were weak to magic, I never would have allowed you to fight a guy empowered by a magic crystal." He held up Korra's wrist to see if she could do anything to hold it up when he let go, but it fell limp on her thigh. "And Taskmaster knows every pressure point in the human body and every conceivable way to hit them." He crouched down next to the girls. "Why didn't either of you tell me this?" Both girls looked down and away. "You still don't fully trust me."
"No, it's..." Supergirl tried to reassure him, but couldn't find the right words.
Spider-man put his hands on the back of his neck. "Ock's been studying us for weeks, picking up on strengths, weaknesses, and fighting styles, while I've been too busy trying to get you guys to like it here. This is all my fault, I'm a terrible team leader."
A small fire lit up the street below. Spidey peaked over the edge to see Living Laser and Juggernaut rampaging through the city.
"Damn. They're going to tear this place apart until someone stops them." Spider-man stepped up onto the ledge.
"Pete, no." Korra said. She grimaced, but her body refused to stand "Those guys took us out one on one. You can't take all of them by yourself."
"Yeah, I'm-" Supergirl tried to push herself up, but her arms gave out before she could even get to her legs.
"Stay here. You two are hurt and I'm not going to risk you. Now don't worry, I've beaten the Sinister Six before. The roster wasn't quite as intimidating back then..." he mumbled. "But I got this. Just let uncle Spidey go to work." he jumped off the building and swung low in between buildings.
Spider-man crawled along the walls in the direction Juggernaut and Laser had gone. He'd need to take down Juggs as fast as possible, but knew from experience that he couldn't hurt him. The last time they had fought, Spider-man lured him into a pool of cement. He wasn't very unstoppable when he couldn't get moving. This time, however, there was no pool of cement in the entire city deep enough to trap the Juggernaut in. Fortunately, there was a small parking garage nearby that should be empty this time of night. Spidey had made it a point to know what buildings were safe to drop on the big baddies he couldn't stop by any other means.
As the Living Laser split down another street, a back up plan came to the wall crawler, which was nice since he wasn't sure the building in mind even could stop the Juggernaut. After a few moments, he pulled out the sonic chip and zipped onto Jugg's back. He threw the active chip into one of the eye holes and grabbed onto the latches on the back of his helmet. Juggernaut roared and jerked left and right, trying to get the chip away from his ears. Spider-man was hardly bothered by the motion as his adhesive appendages kept him sticking. The main problem was that the latches required an enormous amount of strength to move, and it felt like his fingers were going to snap off before the latches broke. Finally, they gave just as Juggernaut leaned forward and caught the chip falling out of his helmet. Webbing the latches open, Spider-man jumped and swung away before the villain could grab him and tear off any limbs.
Circling back, and over a hundred feet above, Spider-man landed on the roof of a building in between Living Laser and Juggernaut. The next trick was a bit of a classic, but he'd need to time it perfectly. He shadowed both from above as they neared the end of the street. In his enraged state, Juggernaut's pace was significantly quicker as he made it to the end of the street first and took a left towards the street where the Living Laser was searching.
"Perfect."
Spidey quickly descended from a web in the middle of the street in front of the Living Laser, only he kept his back to him and faced towards the Juggernaut's loud footsteps. With his spider sense, he could feel the villain taking aim. If he was lucky, the blast would weaken or destroy one of the latches on Juggernaut's helmet, but then again if he was lucky he wouldn't be facing the Juggernaut at all, let alone without his team. Spider sense kicked in, so the Webslinger pulled himself up and out of the way as the unstoppable and unsuspecting victim rounded the corner, just as the laser shot out and blasted him in the face.
"The hell do you think you're doing?!" Juggernaut yelled.
"S-sorry, the spider was just here." Living Laser replied.
"Yeah, well so am I, so watch what your aiming at next time!"
Atop the building, Spidey debated looking down at the villains he had duped. He wanted to see the terrified look on the Living Laser's face, but couldn't risk giving away his position.
Spider-sense.
Back flipping, the wall crawler narrowly dodged Taskmaster's sword and landed behind him.
"I hope you've learned your lesson from the last time we crossed paths." He said.
"I've learned a trick or two." Spider-man said. Taskmaster's photographic reflexes were a pain for any fighter to deal with, but especially one that was a slave to his instincts. All he had to do was watch Spidey dodge an attack once, then he instantly knew how the Web Head would move the next time he came under the attack that his photographic reflexes could mimic perfectly. Taskmaster practically knew what Spider-man was going to do as soon as he himself did.
The Wall Crawler staid low and backed towards a water tower. Sword and shield raised, the Taskmaster kept with him. A flash of steel and Spider-man jumped backwards in between the metal support beams of the tower. In here, they would both have to come up with their own attack angles, which would diminish the effect of Taskmaster's reflexes.
Taskmaster stabbed three times and Spidey pushed himself flat against the edge each time to avoid the sword. "You know skull-face, I'm a little jealous. Most people have to work hard to be a good fighter, constantly training and whatnot." Taskmaster circles around from the outside, not wanting to get in between the metal supports and deal with the Webslinger's superior strength up close. "You could have been sitting on a couch for the past three weeks and still just gotten up and gone toe to toe with me. But Sandy here." The Sandman rose from the ledge behind him and prepared to charge. "He's all washed up." Spider-man shot webs at the bottom of the supports and pulled them in, causing the water tower to fall and break, washing all three of them off the roof.
Spidey clung to a wall as Taskmaster and Sandman fell to the street below. Soaked and unable to maintain his form, Sandman was little more than sentient mud. Taskmaster appeared to be unconscious.
Spider-sense.
He jumped and turned sideways to avoid two of Doc Ock's metal arms, then webbed and flipped backwards to avoid blasts from the Living Laser. The spider sense only got stronger, and as Juggernaut burst through the wall to his left, he realized he hadn't dodged away from danger, but farther into it. He jumped and shot a web, but Juggernaut punched him out of the air.
The next thing he knew, he was lying in the broken remains of a concrete wall. Sitting up, there was a pain in his chest.
"Ow. Broken ribs. And I just got those fixed." Spider-man looked around. In a small turn of almost luck, he had landed in the empty parking garage he intended to drop on Juggernaut. The next step was to lure him here, and by the sound of the increasingly thunderous footsteps, that part wouldn't be hard.
Spidey placed himself against a pillar as Juggernaut burst threw the wall and charged straight for him. He jumped to the ceiling and the pillar broke like styrofoam.
"You know, I miss the good ol days with Rhino." Spider-man said, "I can't make jokes about you being horny." he lowered himself in front of another pillar. "And I reserve all jokes about stupid fish bowl helmets for Mysterio. So I'm just having a hard time getting the feel for how I can best mock you."
Juggernaut punched, but Spidey flipped out of the way and landed to the side as another support was obliterated. Ock and Living Laser entered the garage and Spider-man webbed to the far wall just as a flurry of metal arms and lasers riddled the air he had just occupied.
The pain in his chest was growing the harder he had to breath and from the warm sensation he has above his left eye, he was bleeding. His vision was a tad blurry, so there was a chance he could add a mild concussion to the list of injuries.
"I desire to see you grovel, wall crawler." Doc Ock said. He and Living Laser flanked Spider-man on both sides while Juggernaut stood directly in front. "So I will offer you one last chance to admit defeat and beg for your life."
Behind his white lenses, Spider-man searched the entire room. Ock would almost certainly identify his plan to drop a building on them immediately. And to make matters even worse, he couldn't leave Ock and Laser under the tons of concrete, wouldn't be very superhero-y of him. He needed a plan of attack, and the more he thought about it, the more the least logical place to be seemed like the most logical, so he charged forward on foot, directly at the Juggernaut.
As he expected, Laser and Ock offered little resistance to avoid the risk of taking each other out with crossfire. Juggernaut too had no idea what to think. He stood with a wide stance, thinking Spider-man would go around or above him, and was caught completely by surprise when he got a face full of Spidey as the web head pulled on the front two latches.
"Get off me!" Juggernaut yelled. Spidey pulled the latches and helmets off, but before he could jump to safety, the Juggernaut grabbed his thigh and threw him into another support pillar.
Sprawled out on the ground, Spidey lay nearly lifeless. He could tell the villains were closing in, but struggled to react while his face felt flat as a pancake. Spider sense practically took over to make him kick and roll backwards to avoid Ock's grasp. Juggernaut, the red headed beast of a man, held a chunk of concrete over head and hurled it. Spider-man jumped and flipped, avoiding it and the Living Laser's projectiles. His senses were slow to pick up something behind him and it took out his left foot just as Doc Ock's metal arms seized his wrists.
Spider-man looked behind him to see the Taskmaster standing in the hole in the wall. "Thought I told you to hit the showers." he said, pulling on Ock's arms.
"Takes more than a little water to take me out." Taskmaster replied. "Can't say the same for Sandman."
"No matter." Octavius said. "I have the Spider, now finish this and lets get out of here."
"Gladly." The Living Laser took aim.
With his last act of defiance, Spider-man kicked up Taskmaster shield and deflected the blast right back at the Living Laser, knocking him out across the room. Doc Ock then pulled him close, ensnaring him in all four metal arms. The arms coiled and tightened against Spidey's broken ribs and he yelled in pain.
"Quit your whining!" Ock said, "If you were not wanted alive, your pain would be magnified a thousand fold."
Spidey gasped for nearly every breath. "So...you're...not the...big...brain?"
"Of course I am!" Octavius said, "I'm just not the one with the finances to hire such illustrious associates. Now, Taskmaster, knock him unconscious so I don't have to suffer any more of his incessant blabbering."
"With pleasure." The skull-faced villain approached and raised a fist. There was a streak of red heat vision and suddenly he was face first in the far wall.
"Ack!" Korra had rushed in and put Doc Ock in a choke hold. He pulled one arm away from Spider-man to pry her off and toss her away, but the distraction had been enough for Spidey to break his grip. Octavius' fear showed through his goggles as Spidey jumped forward and punched him in the face.
Juggernaut charged in, but Supergirl punched him from the side, sending him backwards into another pillar. "Alright missy, if your so desperate to get killed tonight." he grunted
Supergirl tried to stand tall, but it was obvious from her sluggish actions that she was far from top form.
"Yeah Juggs, stick around." Spider-man goaded, "The X-men will be here any second and I'm sure their new psychic will love to meet you."
Juggernaut froze and glared at him.
"Don't...don't fall for it." Doc Ock pulled himself up by his metal arms. "...obviously...a bluff."
"I ain't gonna risk going back to prison for this!" Juggernaut grabbed one of Ock's arms and pulled him towards the hole in the wall, punching and completely destroying another stone pillar. The building quivered.
"Oh poop." Spidey muttered. He dashed over to the half destroyed pillar he had been punched into a few moments earlier and grabbed a hold of it.
"Sp-spidey, lemme-"
"No, Supergirl you need to get Korra out." Spider-man said.
"Y-yeah." she flew over to the Avatar as she struggled to stand, took her under the arm and carried her out.
"Now get the villains." the weight on the pillar was increasing exponentially with each passing moment.
"What? But Spidey-"
"Hurry!" the building shuddered and the ceiling began to crack.
Supergirl dashed to the villains and scooped them up under her arms and flew out as sections of the ceiling fell. She dropped the villains as Korra rushed back towards the garage. She stomped to raise concrete to support the building, but her bending had yet to return. Supergirl rushed past, trying to get to Spider-man as his arms quivered and shook.
There was a loud crack, then the building fell in a cacophony of sound.
"SPIDEY!" the girls screamed into the billowing cloud of dust.
Supergirl fell to her knees, mere feet away from the building. Coughing and hacking on the dust, Korra stomped and thrust out her fists, trying to earthbend. When that failed, she rushed forwards and began to dig at the rubble.
"Avatar..." Supergirl stood.
"Maybe we can still get him out!" Korra said, "I mean, if he could take a punch from that Juggernaut guy..."
Supergirl put a hand on her shoulder. "I...I don't hear his heartbeat. He's..." Tears came to her eyes, but she held them back. Korra couldn't. She embraced Supergirl.
"No..." she whispered, "...no...he-he was..."
Supergirl hugged tightly, then looked up at the collapsed building. Soon, Korra could hear it too, the sound of something stirring in the concrete. Suddenly, a small section of the wall fell outwards as did Spider-man.
"Spidey!" the girls rushed over, picked him up and hugged him.
"OW!" he yelped, "Gah, I appreciate the affection, but- ouchie."
"We thought you were dead." Supergirl said, "I-I couldn't hear your heartbeat."
Spider-man pulled off his mask to cough up some dust, then looked at her. "You have a concussion. A severe one. It's fortunate you can hear anything over your ears ringing."
"I-well..."
"How'd you get out?" Korra asked.
"Fortunately the whole thing didn't come down at once." he said, "The pillar I was holding up, as well as a bit of the ceiling close to it, stayed up for a bit longer. So I didn't get caught under the whole thing."
With a collective sigh, the girls gently pulled the wall crawler close again, resting their foreheads on his.
"So, uh...who's up for a bandage party back at the apartment?" Spider-man asked.
Hello Lords and Ladies, thanks for the reviews, and feel free to keep them coming. Always looking for ways to improve. Next chapter, ghosts from the past are forced to the surface, and Spidey can avoid the story of Gwen Stacy's death no longer