The Story's Shadow: D's plan will soon be understood. the gilders plans will be revealed soon. Yeah, that chapter was rather quickly edited and could've used more detail and might not be the best in the fighting area, I understand. Any advise is welcomed.
Noble Six: Thanks, you'll find out soon enough.
Earth 2314
Within in the Ultron controlled city was a citadel deal in the middle of the city. Told to be both a controlling station of the Ultron that controls the station and a prision of the spider that inhabits it.
The Spiders were currently residing on one of the buildings near by it with Drifter acting as a look out. They were all waiting for something to happen.
"Sooo...when are they gonna do it?" Punk asked, causing all the spiders except for Spider-Man to grain in response. "When they give us the signal." Drifter groaned as he did what he usually did and looked at his device.
"Christ do you have to ask that every time?" Steam asked with an irritated scowl on his face. "What's up with you?" Sheriff asked as he was leaning on annerby wall with his arms folded.
"I'm tired is what I am. We should have found our spider by now, but now were fighting someone else's war." Steam said as he rubbed his temples.
The spiders continue to Wait as time passed by. Waiting something to happen. "God, I'm bored." Punk sighed out. "We just need to wait." Drifter said to the punk rocker.
"It's been three hours." Spidey pointed out.
"How do we even know they'll pull it off?" Steam-Spider questions. "They've been doing this plan for years. I think they've got a handle on it." Sheriff answwered as he leaned over a wall.
"Yeah well, we'll see." Steam muttered as he and the other spider powered heroes continue to wait.
(Oh, hey. Bet your wondering what the team of spiders are doing on top of one of the rooftops watching over a citadel waiting for something. Well, it happened like this...)
Three Hours Earlier
The rebels and Spiders were currently standing by a holo desk, with an image of an Ultron controlled Citadel. Expect for Drifter and D as they agreed to talk in private. The rebels eyed some of the spiders, unsure about these people, claiming they can help them.
Sounds of steps were heard from all of them. They turned their heads to see D and Drifter walk side by side. They walked at one end of the desk. "Alright everyone, listen up." D ordered, gaining their attention including the spiders.
"People, I've been talking with Drifter, talking about our individual goals. And we've agreed on that we'll work together to shut down the citadel." D announced to her people, causing a massive amount of whispers among the fighters.
She had devised this plan a long while ago and with the recent help from Drifter, finally made come full circle. "We are going provide a distraction to lure some of the Ultrons to us, we'll be scattered around the city, speracticly and far from the prison that should give you enough time to find our guy" D explained.
Drifter walked back to his group. Spidey whispered to him. "You you manged to talk things through?"
"More or less" Drifter said, paying more attention to D's speech.
D continued to speak out her plan to all. "The Spiders are going to get inside the prison using the cloakers we finally managed to fix up."
"So were letting our rare tech go to the guys we just met." One skeptic member said to his leader. "These people show no trace of Ultron tech in them, they're certainly not shifters and they have spider DNA type powers, powers we haven't seen in a long time." D listed out.
"So like any prison, there should be a warden." Steam pointed out. "And that might be?" Steam said, waiting for an answer. "Ultron Gamma." D answered.
Then a image came up. It was Ultron, but his color plate was more golden and had a triangle shaped arc reactor in the middle of his chassis. "This drone is made up of Iron Mans strongest armors made. It's shell ain't gonna break easy."
"He is one of the many Commanding drones the original Ultron made to establish order in each city. This one, being New York is one of the most guarded because of Gamma." D explained.
"But we'll be focused on distracting them..." D then changed the image from Ultron Gamma to the Citadel. "And the spiders will be inside the citadel, freeing our guy out."
D then listed out the tasks the spiders will go through. "Drifter here, will be shutting down these Energy Pylons to take down the shielding holding him, Cowboy Spider will take down their defences by using the implosive bombs." D said while holding said device in her hand.
Steam then stopped D at the moment before she could continue. "How do you even though this will work?" Steam asked sceptically.
D looked down for a moment before saying to the gaslight spider. "Sometimes we just need to take risks, this is one of those times and I'm not about to..."
"So, blind luck. Here I thought that you were a competent leader and strategist. But looks like I was dead, right. No, your just a and idiotic idealist."
"Listen here, Mr tea and crumpets! We know what were doing" D's second in commanded remarks at the Steam-Spider. "Really? is that the best stereotype you can think up for?" Steam mocked.
"How original of you!" Steam faked smiled. "You trigger happy, fast eating, shit spewing, american...twat" Steam fired his own back at the solder.
Drifter put his hands up. "Alright enough! Steam, for once, is it at all possible for you to be quiet" Drifter scolded.
"There is, but with the amount of stupidity I'm surrounded by it makes it difficult." Steam snarky repiled.
(Makes me wonder how Connors in his world puts up with him while my teammates can barley stand me. Well, except for...)
"As I were saying" D said, slightly agitated at Steams insult towards her. "while Drifter take care of the pylons and Sheriff the air fire. Once those are out of the way, you should be able to find the cell where our guy is being held. It will be up to Spider-Man to find the cell itself."
"Sure thing! My training at Shield can really make a difference." Spidey said proudly. "You work for Shield?" Steam said with an eyebrow raised.
Drifter then took over the last part of the plan. "While all that's happening, Steam-Spider will look out for any Ultron Drones that might figure what were doing." He then gestured to Spider-Punk. "Spider-Punk will help you with that."
Steam was alright with this..."Are you bollocking me, Drifter!?" Steam said in shock, causing Drifter to roll his eyes. "There's no way on earth I would ever work with that anarkist, or anyone for that matter." Steam protested.
"You know I am in the room right" Punk said, but Steam-Spider ignored him. "He does have a point Drift, I cause Riots and have a tendency to be loud as hell. stealthily stuff isn't really my thing."
"It'll be fine. Just follow Steams lead and you'll be fine." Drifter advised. "Right so, act like a dick to everyone I meet, think I'm better than everyone else and just be all around unpleasant?" Punk listed out, causing Steam to glare at him and a few of the rebels to chuckle in response.
"Do you really think they'll get him out?" One rebel asked his friend, Drifter immediately knew they were talking about the spider. "I hope so, I really miss having the guy around." His friend responded.
"After they get our spider out, we'll all regroup and finally take this city back from that metal bastard." D spoke all out, causing the rebels to chant in approval. "If we'll stay long enough that is" Steam muttered under his breath, no one could hear his comment.
"So then, lets get moving and save our guy!" Spidey said with excitement. D smiled at this, liking the wall crawlers enthusiasm.
"That table there has all the equipment you'll need." D pointed at a table that contained a arsenal of weapons made of destroying, disabling and shutting down an Ultron drone.
The spiders inspected the gear they were given, impressing Steam of all people. "You know, these people may be a bunch of idiots and inexperienced losers, but I'll give them this, their gear is the only redeeming quality about them" Steam said as he looked over the EMPS.
"I might even..." Steam said until he was stopped by Drifter "Don't even think about it, Peter." Drifter said sternly, looking up from his equipment. "By the end of this, your giving those back."
Steam scoffed at this. "What? like hell I am, these things are advanced then anything I've ever seen before. Why shouldn't take these?"
"Because this is not your world. Earth 936 is a world powered by steam not these." Drifter said, guestering the two emps he was holding. "You don't want to mess with the balance of the multiverse. Just don't take these into your world, clear?" Drifter asked, expecting a single answer.
Steam-Spider was quiet for a moment before saying."Fine" Steam huffed. He continue to load his belt with the equipment for the mission.
"Okay, people!" D shouted out. "Were heading out to cause a distraction. While that's happening, Drifter and his people will head inside the citadel, take down the guards, shut down the shields around the city and most importantly, free our friend."
The Spiders started to leave until one of them was called by D. "Hey, cowboy guy. Come over here for a sec. I want to talk to you." D shouted over. The Sheriff looked at his team for a moment before walking towards the rebel leader.
"What is it ma'am?" Sheriff asked. "I have something for you, don't tell your other teammates, just keep this to yourself for now."
D then gave Sheriff something in his hand. It was a circular object with a glowing blue centre. It was a power core. "Why are you giving me this?" Sheriff asked curiously.
"Because...it will be important once you find the spider. Trust me." D explained. Sheriff raised his eyebrow at her. "Why give it to me and no the others?" The cowboy spider asked.
"Because, The spiky spider is too reckless, that Drifter guy is a bit too suspicious, the one with the old classic suit is a bit off a showoff and I don't like nor trust that guy with the steam pack." D explained.
"Okay, the last I get but, is this thing here important or something?" Sheriff asked, gesturing the power core. D was silent for a moment before peaking up again. "You'll figure out soon enough." D said skeptically.
"Besides, you look like the type of person that guard something to his life" D answered honestly and respectfully. Sheriff then looked at the leader, hearing those words to him again for a long while.
D then went back to her rebels, readying themselves for the distractions they were about to bring.
Sheriff-Spider just looked down at the core given to him. Sheriff replayed the words spoken to him back in his mind. "Guard something to his life" Sheriff said somberly. "Apparently not good enough in my case." Sheriff mused as he thought back to his past and where it got him up till he met Drifter.
"Sheriff, were moving. Come on!" Drifter yelled over, causing Sheriff to regain his focus and put the core he had on away. He went to follow the rest of his team for the breakout of one captivated spider.
Present
(And that's how we got here. Hopefully our guy or gal should be alive when we get there. Just hope he'll be willing to come with us.)
Spider-Man looked left and right at the moment before looking at the sky, thinking about his journey and how it affects not only him but his other lives.
(Y'know, I never got a moment to think about things until now. But, I used to think I had the whole multiverse thing figured out. But, in reality I have so much more to learn.)
"I wonder how the others are doing back home. I bet they're doing great, with Ava leading them, I'm sure they can take down anything that comes across." Spidey mused.
Drifter in the meantime was checking his scanner over. He looked over the spider dna signal. The others didn't know it, but when he said that there was a signal, he lied when it was spider because in reality, he didn't know. There was a signal yes, but it was clear what exactly it was.
"I'm not getting anything, even if those rebels are telling the truth about the spider, my scanner doesn't pick up anything" Drifter thought to himself as he continue to look over the scanner.
"I still don't like those guys." Steam simply said. "Why, because they have opinions?" Sheriff replied snarky, still looking over the object he held.
"No because it's apparently taken them years to take down some servant bots."
"They're more deadly here then there, Peter." Drifter Reminded.
"Yeah. But when you think about it, It's like Star Wars!" Punk compared, causing Sheriff and Steam to look up in confusion. "Star what?" Sheriff asked in confusion, raising an eyebrow. "The hell is that?" Steam asked.
"Y'know, basicly space wizards fighting and all that. A rebellion against an empire. How is it not like that?" Punk explained. "I don't know what it is but it sound stupid and I instantly hate it" Steam scoffed as he turned away from Hobie.
"I see it more the lines of Terminator." Spidey whispered to Drifter as he continue to look over the scanner.
Sheriff, in the meantime was looking at the core that D gave him earlier. What was it for? and why give it to him of all people. Whatever the reason, he knew that it was important.
"Hey, you alright there cowboy?" Spidey asked beside him. Sheriff-Spider then got out of his thoughts, put the core in his pocket and turned his head to Spider-Man. "Yeah, kid. I'm just..fine." Sheriff answered his younger counterpart.
Spider-Man then noticed that Sheriffs tone of voice was sounding disinterested, as if he had other things on his mind. "You okay? You seem a bit...off." Spidey asked.
Sheriff looked up at Spidey for a moment then down again."To tell you the truth, I guess I'm feeling, a little overwhelmed by all this." Sheriff answered honestly.
"I mean different dimensions, other versions of myself, evil solders led by a guy with my powers and now evil robots that have taken over the world." Sheriff listed out, chuckling at the last on. "It's like something my old man would say when he was drunk, and trust me It'd happen often then you'd think."
"It's been years since something this strange has happened to me. And I'm trying my best to cope with it"
"You didn't bring this up before." Spidey pointed out, concerned about Sheriffs. "Cause I was trying to keep it all in. Now I see, it's a little...well, like some amazing fantisity."
Spidey just laughed at this. "Yeah, I guess you can put it like that. But, it's worth it to save lives like the rebels. You know, so no one can suffer again and make them feel safe" Spider-Man said to his wild west counterpart.
Sheriff thought about what he said. Knowing what he was saying and understanding the meaning. "Besides, You managed to beat Tombstone in the end. And he caused you to go into hiding."
"Tombstone wasn't the one who caused me to quit. It was someone...far worse." Sheriff said darkly. Spider-Man would've asked who until he heard Drifters voice to them.
"Guys! over here. I'm getting a signal from D." Drifter called out to the rest of the spiders. The walked towards the veteran spider. D's voice then came from the scanner.
"Okay spider guys, were about to give our distraction. When we do, you guys get inside and do your thing." D instructed. Out of all the spiders, Punk was the one to ask.
"How are we going to know what the signal is? The rocker spider asked. Before anyone could answer, a massive explosion occurred suddenly, the spiders turned behind them and saw that there were a number of random explosions at different parts of the city.
On top the of the prison/control tower a number of Ultron drones flew out of the top and head for the points of explosions. Drifter and the other spiders has activated their cloakers as not to be detected.
"Okat, that's our que" Drifter said getting up from his spot. "Finally time to wreck some skynet knockoffs" Punk said, cracking his knuckles.
"Good luck everyone" Sheriff said to his fellow spiders.
"I'm leaving now." Steam stated as he fired a web cable at the citadel and swung towards it. "Hey! wait for me!" Punk shouted as he followed the Steampunk Spider.
Drifter gave Sheriff a spare web shooter. "Sure you can handle this? Drifter asked. "I have a sold grip on it. I'll be fine." Sheriff assured. He then fired a web line headed for the citadel as did Drifter.
"Okay Spider-Man or something of this world, here we come." Spidey said as he webslinged towards the citadel.
The Citadel
Drifter got inside of the prison by climbing inside the venation shaft, not being detected by the drones. He crawled in the vents carefully. He looked at his map to see where the Pylons were. "And here I thought my days of crawling through vents were over. Guess sometimes I can get things wrong." Drifter mused as he continue to find the defenses.
Sheriff-Spider managed to handle the web slinger despite not being as skilled as the other web slingers. He entered through the vents. Instead of going through them, he went under them and entered into a metallic hallway.
"This shouldn't be too difficult. I handled worse I can handle going pass a few bots. Now to find those defences." Sheriff mused
He carefully walked around hallway he was in. hid in the corner as not to be seen by the drones. He then pulled out one of his revolvers out, in case if there was a fight coming. He reloaded them with special made emp bullets to take down any drones.
Suddenly his spider sense went off. He turned behind him and saw two pairs of Ultron drones about to head in his direction. He quickly hid at a nearby corner. The Drones walked past the cowboy. One of them stopped for a moment.
Looking around him. What is it Drone Unit#272123?" The other drone inquired. "Sensors indicate that there are no by organics" The drone responded. "Recommendation: Head for repairs." The drone said in a monotone voice. "Soon, The Organics will be history."
"Ultron Gamma will handle the situation and finally eradicate the organics in the city of New York." The drone said with a voice without emotion. Sheriffs interest was raised. "Sounds like this warden has other plans for this city. I'll let the others know when I get a chance. In the meanwhile..." Sheriff said to himself in his thoughts.
Sheriff-Spider looked and saw that the drone were out of sight. He then continue to sneak around, using a map he had to find the defences. "I would say I'm too old for this, but I'm about 27 years old now. I'm still young enough, just enough get myself out there and get to those defences." Sheriff mused as he watched walked away.
With Steam Spider and Spider Punk, they walked carefully around the area. Steam using a Ultron drone scanner in case if any got in there way. "Anything?" Punk asked.
"If they were I'd bell telling you by now." Steam remarked as he looked over the Drone detector.
"So, what are your interests?" Punk awkwardly asked. Steam just looked at him before turning his head in the other direction. But it was awkward for the pair as they just walked around the area in total silence.
"Got any friends?" Punk continued, Steam was silent. "What's your favorite band?" Punk kept going "How about your..."
"What are you doing?" Steam asked while an annoyed tone. "Just, trying to make conversation" Punk answered. "Why?" Steam rolled his eyes at him.
"Well, seeing as were working together, I thinks it's best if were learn more about each other so that we can kick ass together" Punk explained. "That's unnecessary."
"Why would that be..." Punk was about to say until Steam stopped him from going on. "Because I work better on my own, I find people mostly annoying and I find it best if I did things on my own because I don't need people like that idiot rebel leader or Drifter." Steam explained.
"That doesn't sound like a good thing to go by mate." Punk gave his thought to the steam-punk spider. "I don't want an opinion from an anarchy spider who plays loud music. I say music, its more like loud unpleasant crap" Steam remarked..
Spider-Punk was silent for a moment. "I can see why the others had a problem with you." Punk commented. "Well, if they can't handle me then they'll just..."
Suddenly, Steam and Punks spider sense went off at the same time. They both turned around to see three Ultron Drones staring at them. "You'll be erased from existence." The front drone called out.
The Drone then started to use his communicator. "Calling all..." But before he could, Spider-Punk quickly threw disc shaped emp at the drones, stopping the call. "Take that you dumb toaster!" Punk declared in pride.
"This is what happens if I talk to dumb people, bad things happen all the time!" Steam hissed, activating his talons and charged out at the drones. "Steam we need to use the..." Punk tried to tell but he ignored him.
Steam activated the claws and used them to slice the first drones chest, while two of his talons has driven through the chest plates of the other two beside him. He then pushed the other two away and used all four talons to drive through the chest. He picked up him the air.
Steam then gave a confident grin and pulled his talons far from each other, causing the drone to be ripped apart. "See I work fine on my..." Steam said as he turned back to Punk who suddenly threw something towards him.
It missed him and hit something behind the gaslight spider. Steam turned to see a hidden fourth Ultron drone that was about to blast him away. The drone then fell to the ground, deactivated.
"You missed one out." Punk pointed out, causing Steam to grumble under his breath. Punk then continue to decatviated the rest by implanting emp discs onto their faces, shutting them down.
"See! I just save your life. This is what happens when you put a little trust in someone" Punk said.
"I don't trust anyone" Steam said while walking away from the anarchist Spider to continue the mission and hopefully get this over with.
"Maybe you should." Punk spoke out to him. Steam turned his head for a moment. "If you had people beside you, it get the job done a lot quicker." Punk said to his fellow spider, who was quite for a few moments.
"Or it could be wasting my time, either way, let me do my own thing while you do whatever the hell you want." Steam-Spider quickly shot back and continue to walk away. Spider-Punk sighed. "Can never read that guy."
Thanks for reading this chapter. Well the spiders are preforming a prison break for the spider, hopefully they'll get him/her out of their without a hitch.
I admit to myself, that this chapter could be improved more but I'll plan to put more effort into the rest of the chapters.
Next, Nova, Iron Spider and Falcon continue chasing after the two solders that got away from the battle. But when they catch up to them, they find a strange discovery of their plans.
This is the Timeless Writer saying thanks and see you around!