Peter checked both web shooters. The web grenades were primed and ready. He looked over at Miles. "Wait until I take some of them out." Without giving him time to argue, he moved out from behind the makeshift barricade. The Iron Spider was fireproof. He had tested the ranges with Johnny and knew it could go pretty high. He ran through the whirlwind of fire and let loose the web grenades. The overload energy exploded on contact, forcing the Fisk to lose focus. The whirlwind collapsed but was soon replace by electrical bolts firing. Peter managed to dodge all of them but he was starting to run out of space. Miles had finished webbing up the remaining guard which just left the woman and Fisk. The weapons they both carried made them formidable. A fireball flew over Peter's head as he ducked only to for it to be hurled back towards Fisk.
"Peter, if you're going to play with people who can throw fireballs, at least invite your friends that can make their own fireballs." Johnny landed next to Peter and surveilling the scene. "Why is everything on fire?"
Relief that they had backup spread through Peter as he looked around. The warehouse fire was spreading to the adjoining buildings and the car was dangerously close to catching the plane on fire. "They've got some kind of alien tech." He looked over as Bobby landed next to him. "Where are Wyatt and Davis?"
"Making sure Miles is ok. The second Wyatt saw the mess you two have created he figured he was outgunned." Bobby looked through the smoke at Fisk and the woman. "Who's the lady?"
"She came in on the plane. And she can shoot some kind of electrical bursts. She's hit me a couple times but so far the suit dampeners are holding." Peter saw Fisk take aim again.
Johnny pulled the fireball off it's trajectory and created a wall of fire surrounding Fisk and the woman. "Yeah, about that...the alien tech...they're rings...as in Ten Rings. My guess is the lady has the Honk Kong ring."
Peter frowned. "Ok. That makes a certain amount of sense. Didn't the Hong Kong ring evade a whole bunch of people?"
Bobby threw an ice spear towards the woman, managing to distract her from letting lose another barrage of lightening. "We can talk about this later. Right now can we please just take down the bad guys?"
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MJ smiled at Morgan as she and Pepper left the room. She thought they were moderately successful at keeping their concern over Peter from showing. Once the door was shut and she had given them a count of ten to get far enough away she looked over at Tony who had grabbed the tablet again. "Can you tell if they've made it there yet?"
Tony nodded. "All of their transponders are reporting in the area we had Peter. I still can't communicate directly with him, but I've gotten into the back door of Karen's programming. The suit hasn't lost any integrity which should mean that Peter is ok."
MJ let out a sigh of relief. Sitting back down, she picked up one of the rings Tony had placed on the nightstand. "All of this for some rings."
Tony glanced over at her. "Be careful. We didn't pick up any adverse affects when we tested the one we had but I don't want to take any chances." He held out his hand to take it from her when he noticed the look on her face. "What?"
MJ frowned. "I don't know. I feel like I've seen something like this before." She reached over and picked up the other ring and studied both of them. Simple gold rings with a stone embedded in them and etchings on the side. The memory resurfaced and she looked up at Tony. "The park. Before you got back. There was this couple. I thought Bucky was going to take them down just for talking to me. The guy was weird. But...". She held up the rings. "He was wearing rings very similar to these."
Tony stared at MJ and set his jaw. "We only knew the whereabouts of six. Seven if you include the one they're after now. That leaves three missing. Tell me about this couple."
MJ handed Tony the rings and wracked her brain to remember details. "They just moved to the area. She said her father had a dog named Cosmo too." She thought they had mentioned their names too. She remembered his was pretty standard but hers was different. "I think his name was Michael? His wife's name was odd. Camina? No, Carina."
"Carina? Are you sure?" Panic seeped through Tony. There couldn't be that many Carina's. And especially not one that set Bucky on edge.
MJ frowned. "Yes. What is it?"
"Carina is the name of The Collector's daughter. The story we heard was that he tried to turn her into a weapon against a threat he perceived to the Universe and she ended up falling in love with him instead." He looked over at MJ. "If she's here that means her husband is the threat The Collector perceived." Pieces were falling into place. The person responsible for Xandar's destruction definitely qualified as a threat. "Did you see the symbols on the rings?"
MJ nodded and grabbed the tablet back from Tony and started drawing.
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Between Bobby and Johnny, they were able to contain Fisk and the woman. Peter was able to use their containment to his advantage and fire off taser webs that hit their mark. Between the containment and the taser hits, Fisk and the woman were starting to act like incredibly pissed off caged animals that had access to incredible weaponry. Peter could hear sirens in the distance which meant the fires were getting large enough that the had been detected. He needed a charge large enough to create taser grenades that would be able to knock them out. He kept trying to draw fire from the woman but he was beginning to think she had picked up on the fact that he was able to use the extra voltage instead of it harming him. He watched in horror as the woman fired an energy blast at a power pole feeding the residential area. Overloading it, the transformer blew plumbing the residences into darkness. Fisk directed a stream of fire to the same transformer causing the fire to travel along the wires toward the houses. "Johnny!"
Johnny had already seen what was happening. He was able to pull the fire back and extinguish the flames but knew it was only a matter of time before they attacked the homes again. "They're trying to distract us so they can escape."
"I know." Peter looked over at Bobby who had formed a taller ice wall blocking their path. "Davis, form a portal to the west field at the compound. We'll get them through it."
Davis formed a portal and watched Wyatt and Miles go through it. He looked over. Bobby was in the process of forming walls giving the group only one place to go. Johnny and Peter were physically engaging with the woman and Fisk. The ring was powerful but Davis had watched Johnny over the years hone his abilities. Fisk wouldn't be a match for him. Peter was strategically sparing with the woman. Davis thought she could probably put up a decent fight against Natasha which meant Peter was well matched. But they were both managing to drive them through the corridor Bobby had created which was good because Davis wasn't sure how much longer he could keep the portal open. Johnny and Peter finally had Fisk and the woman to the edge of the portal and tackled them through. Davis followed letting it close behind him.
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Michael stepped out of the shadows once the portal closed. He had figured out how to trace the radiation emitted by Fisks ring. Now he could track both the ring and those who would stop him.
