Trailing the car had been easy. Peter knew the stealth mode wouldn't hold up if he was fighting, but for covert activities he was actually pretty impressed with what they had been able to accomplish with the suit. He perched on the side of a warehouse watching their target. The target that Karen had finally identified as Wilson Fisk. Fisk was currently standing outside of his town car on an airport tarmac and Peter had the distinct impression that he was waiting for someone.
Miles was on top of the roof, blending in with the shadows. Karen was amplifying sound coming from Fisk to both Peter and Miles but for now the man was completely silent.
The runway they were near was a semi private runway at the back edge of the airport, boarding a residential neighborhood. With so many other planes taking off and landing in the area, both Peter and Miles had trouble hearing the one preparing to land on their runway until they could see the landing lights.
Fisk shifted his large frame against the side of the car and waited for the plane to come to a stop. The doors opened and a woman stepped out, flanked by six bodyguards. "Leiku. I was surprised to see your message earlier. I wasn't expecting you for another couple weeks."
"Unavoidable. M'Nai was attacked." Leiku looked around the tarmac. It seemed like most other airports, bordered a residential community, although not one of any affluence. It still provided enough privacy that she could come into the country without the prying eyes of the government.
Fisk looked at Leiku's bodyguards. Everyone in the inner sanctum knew that Leiku was the real power behind the Ten Rings. The Chinese faction had wrestled control back from the Middle Eastern tribes years ago thanks to Stark destabilizing that entire region. Fisk knew more than the average member because he made sure he knew the people he was in bed with. M'Nai was just for show, although he had also heard that Leiku and M'Nai's relationship was a little more complicated than what was seen on the surface. If Leiku was here without M'Nai, it meant she would be out for blood. It had taken him years to work his way into her trust. He'd be damned if whatever was going on now was going to ruin all of his hard work. "Does this speed up the time table?"
Leiku shrugged. "The status of the New York operation is only a small part of the bigger plan. The fact that we were attacked concerns me. If we can solidify our position here it will help the others fall into line."
Peter tapped his com so silence his voice outside of the mask. "Miles, whatever they're planning it's larger than just New York. There's seven bodyguards including Fisk's driver plus Fisk and the woman. How do you feel about taking them now?" Peter had weighed the odds. Nine against two Spider-Men wasn't bad. The residential area behind the runway was concerning but the rest of the buildings in the general vicinity were all warehouses. They may not get this chance to have them this secluded again.
"Agreed. What's the plan?"
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Johnny looked over at the door as MJ pushed through it. He glanced over at Bobby who was entertaining Morgan with ice sculptures before walking over. "What's wrong?"
MJ shook her head and glanced over at Morgan. Nodding her head she urged him back through the door. Once it closed behind them, she herded him back towards Tony's room. "Tony's worried about Peter."
Johnny nodded. "Fury mentioned something about another ring and told us to stay ready. Then Maria grabbed him. I think Carol called."
MJ frowned as she pushed Tony's door open. "How do you call from space?" Then she shook her head and followed Johnny into the room. "You know what...nevermind...bigger issues."
Tony looked up from the tablet he was working on. "We found another ring. It's in New York in the possession of someone connected to the Maggia that Peter and Miles have been tangling with."
Johnny nodded and took the tablet from Tony and looked at the pictures. He squinted at the blurry symbols on the ring. "That looks like fire."
Tony nodded. "It tracks. Last time they dealt with him, an apartment building went up in flames. No one could figure out how it got so out of control so fast. My guess is it was the ring."
Johnny looked over at MJ. "Where are they now?"
MJ glanced down at the map on her watch. "A regional airport north of Queens." She tapped the image and pushed it over to the tablet.
Johnny looked at the location. "Ok. Davis can portal us in." He looked back at Tony. "Is he going to stand down until we get there?"
"He doesn't know. He isolated Karen from FRIDAY and isn't answering calls." Tony glanced over at MJ. He understood not answering his calls but he didn't understand why Peter wasn't answering MJ's.
MJ took the tablet back from Johnny and glanced over at Pepper. "Bobby is currently entertaining Morgan..."
Pepper nodded and leaned over and kissed Tony on the cheek. "Now that I know you're not dying I'll bring Morgan back to see you. I can take her upstairs if I need to." She knew the anxiety Tony and MJ felt would be picked up on by Morgan so she wanted to limit the worry as much as she could.
Johnny nodded and followed her out the door. He knew Peter's position and knew where Davis could portal where they wouldn't be seen. The idea was to provide backup, not screw up whatever it was that Peter was doing.
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Peter scampered up the side of the warehouse and dove off the roof. Tucking into a ball he flipped over the guards and launched web grenades, creating enough of a delay that Miles could come in behind them and finish wrapping some of them up. He was expecting weapons fire but it still caught him off guard when bullets hit his chest. The Iron Spider suit was able to deflect just about any kind of bullet, even armor piercing rounds. Miles's suit wasn't quite as bulletproof so they made a point of webbing up as many guns as they could.
Miles slid under one of the guards, flinging taser webs to the side which managed to take out the legs of the guard. He looked back as he felt a fireball fly past his head, eventually landing on the town car engulfing it in flames. "Peter!" He had called out to Peter to bring his attention to the fire but managed to look over just as Peter was hit in the chest with a bolt of lightening.
"Peter, your suit is currently charged at 300%". Karen piped into his ear.
"Huh, is that why my teeth are numb? Off load to taser grenades." The dampeners they had developed over the years had come a long way. They were able to absorb incredibly high voltages although what had just hit Peter was stronger than he had felt before. The suit seemed to be handling it though. He fired the taser grenades at a group of guards, incapacitating them. He focused his attention on the woman. Whatever he had been hit with came from her. "Karen, what was that weapon?"
"Unable to determine. It has signatures of being alien in origin."
Peter checked down on the remaining guards, Fisk, and the woman. All has taken cover in one of the warehouses. Miles was on the other side of the car which was currently on fire. "What happened."
Miles crossed over to meet Peter, "Fireball. No idea where it came from."
Peter nodded. "I'm counting three guards, Fisk, and the woman. She has some kind of alien tech."
They figured five targets should be fairly easy. Miles and Peter split up and approached the warehouse from different directions. Peter's spidey sense triggered and he glanced around. Engaging night vision he glanced around again. Not seeing anyone he opted to ignore it. It wasn't the 'someone is trying to kill you'. That threat was directly in front of him, not the direction he was triggering from. He pushed on and scampered up the wall of the warehouse. He could see the four targets below him. He saw Miles in position so he fired webs.
Both his and Miles's webs were met with fireballs. "Crap. How is he doing that?"
The fireballs had started a fire in the warehouse, forcing the occupants to scramble. Peter jumped down to the ground and flung a web at one of the guards, and followed it with a sidekick, driving him to the ground. Smoke was starting to billow upwards. Peter and Miles had lost their positioning and now risked getting trapped inside the burning building. Dragging the unconscious guards outside and away from the burning building, Peter felt another charge hit his suit.
"How many more of those can you take?" Miles threw webs behind Peter blocking him from the view of their remaining targets.
"So far the suit is holding." Peter pulled Miles behind him as they both checked down on Fisk, the woman, and the single remaining guard. "Karen off load to grenades." Once fully charged he flung them towards the group. The guard took the brunt of the charge and was taken down to the ground, pinned by webs.
A full volley of electricity flew in their direction. Lightening flickered across Peter's suit. "Ok. I might be hitting my max." Peter watched the readings on his HUD flicker up to 500%. He started to offload to taser grenades again when a whirling cyclone of fire appeared in front of them.
Miles flung a web to a piece of building wall and pulled it in front of him. "We are outgunned."
Peter started running through their options and realized they didn't have many. "We do what we started out to do."
