The hand ninjas came out to fight; but that was only what was visible. There were many more; and they too were greatly shielded from hero detection; even from Jean.

Hydra shooters came out of stealth shields and even traveled through portals to counter the hero attack here. The hydra hitters wore armor, a derivative of Stark tech that too could shield wearer thought. Oh brother Peter thought. This is gonna be painful!

The fight commenced. Both sides opened fire. But hydra did so with laser like weaponry... It was ahead of what shield had. It cut down the shield agents with ease. Thankfully they had many more incoming but this wasn't good so early on in the fight.

Peter leaped into them and bashed away with powers and suit reinforcement. His suit had nano tech web shooters built in thus taking stress off his organic ones for the time being. They also had wrist stingers Peter had used before. He did his normal fancy acrobatics and continued to knock them down and away. But still they came. This might have been a trap.

He saw Kwannon cutting down baddies with her psionic blade and real blade combination and remembered what she'd said about the spy world not being like the normal or even typical superhero world for that matter. The lie was the key tactic for victory in the spy world. Nothing was what it appeared to be.

As this fight went on Peter sensed that on some level with growing certainty. Still, they had to pursue every possible lead.

Shield air support came in hot and fired down on the advancing enemy. The rounds cut them down. Still more portals opened. Some were teleporting in. Where the hell did they get this tech? He thought. It's gotta be alien or something. Kree Scrulls or Shi'ar or something thereof. They're the most advanced known to us.

Nat hit a group of hydra commandos with a grenade from her rifle's launcher and blew them away; this shook the ground near to where Peter fought. Hawkeye fired off an explosive arrow to take out a group of hand ninjas to prevent them from getting too close for sword use.

"You got more coming in; be advised," shield air said. Nat said, "fire heavy. Danger close." "Are you sure?" "Do it." "Copy that black widow. Stay down."

Missiles and rockets shot out from the shield jets as they flew in fast from overhead. They had total vertical capability as well but opted for speed given the heavy nature of the baddie ground force they were dealing with. Several shield transports covering the ground fighting heroes had already been shot down by hydra surface to air rockets.

The shield jets closed in and fired the heavy stuff as ordered by widow to do. Peter's sense went off in addition and he hit the deck. The shield heavy stuff hit and blew stuff up all around them. Jesus. Hydra and hand hitters cried out as they were taken in fire.

Peter was glad for it but didn't want any intel destroyed either. This was about finding his sister as well as getting intel to find her. Granted, all threats like this needed stopped and that was a job too; but Peter's job was his sister first.

The jets screeched away as they returned to the Kirby to reload for additional runs. Peter was back up. MJ's scans showed the area to be clear of immediate threats. Jean and Scott joined them from having fought a number of enemies as well.

"That heavy hit did the trick," said Hawkeye to Nat's agreeing nod. "Good call." She reloaded. "We need to clear the structure."

They formed up with the new shield agents that had joined them. They swept and cleared. Peter led his own group of agents. It was a large base. Likely used for the entire region Peter theorized based on its overall size.

Peter remained at point for his own force. MJ and senses were constantly active for anything. Suit scanners showed clear-

Boom. Hydra hitters emerged from high density cloaking fields; even beyond MJ's ability to detect. Peter's sense caught it but just barely. It was almost as though they defied space time itself. Definitely alien tech Peter reasoned in those instants from ambush to defense.

He flipped back as hydra hitters fired at where he'd been. He shot a web blob onto the face of one before then lunging at him and stabbing him hard with his wrist stinger.

A baddie slashed at his head with a plasma covered sword but Spidey dodged it in time before doing a quick backflip kick to the baddie's chin to knock him off balance. Peter then put two suit generated webs onto him and ripped him toward him. When in range Peter did a fancy super jumping spinning side kick that struck perfectly dead center on the hitter's neck and audibly snapped it.

As that one fell dead two of Peter's squad flanked his sides and exchanged fire with more hydra hitters. The hydra baddies continued to use that strange laser weaponry that have given them an early advantage until shield air had taken it from them. But now that the heroes were inside the baddies would again regain the advantage.

This proved true as hydra started making solid kills of shield agents. They were losing too many. Peter couldn't stop them all with just spider powers or the suit alone. He needed a third option...

"MJ: scan the enemy weapons. Give me a readout." "Here it is boss." The particle wavelengths appeared in his HUD. Definitely advanced stuff. EM scans show their power packs to be bosonic in nature... "MJ: can the suit generate a massive low level gamma field?" "Yes boss. Why-?" "For a tactical diameter of one hundred meters?" "Yes boss-" "Generate it now." "Yes boss."

It was a risk to do; gamma rays could easily affect living tissue; but shield agents continued to fall. They were fighting star wars blasters with flintlocks by comparison. They needed an edge. Peter dared to give them one... "It's working sir! I understand now. The gamma field is interfering with their weaponry power transfers..." "Alert all friendlies. Press the attack." "RFN sir."

Hydra weapons were essentially jammed up. Peter flew up and out from cover using his suit's repulsors. He then started blasting enemies from overhead. Shield took note and pressed the fight forward. Cyclops was now below Peter and blasting away with concussive optic shots. Jean was on the Shield's right flank and ripping hydra guns away and hitting them with whatever she could mentally throw at them. That single tech workaround was making all the difference.

It was working. Peter could clearly see they were turning things around.

"Boss; I'm picking up an unusual power signature." "Show me." MJ displayed it in his hud. What the hell? That's nuclear... but not fission. "All units Parker. We have a live fusion warhead onsite. Repeat. It's live." "Are you sure?" said Widow. "Damned sure. Contain it. I'm going in." "Parker!"

Peter flew down fast for where it was. A mixed baddie group protected the device. Hydra weapons stayed jammed. They switched to melee variants that their Hand comrades favored by choice. He landed among them and bashed away. Hand swords struck his armor but did nothing. Peter bashed them away in a blur of spider speed. Spider foot and fist were solid enough to dispatch them with rapidity. His sense thundered like Mjolnir hitting the back of his head. Suit sensors backed up the enhanced intuition.

"No shit the damn thing's about to go off!" He fell to his knees hand scanned the device and then removed a plate. It was definitely a fusion IED WMD. What was the point of nuking Tokyo? What did that accomplish? Another mind game? Diversion? Evidence erasure? Sadism...?

There was no time.

"Parker?" said Widow, now at his side. The others hung back. "MJ: give me good news..." "I'm sorry boss; but I don't have any. I estimate one minute until the device goes off. In that event-" "I know!"

"We won't get there in time," said the Kirby bomb squad over comms.

"Can you do this Peter?" said Widow. "Don't have much choice now," he said. He then formed some suit nano tools and began trying to save millions from certain annihilation. And given that it was fusion based the destructive yield could be much higher; easily.

Peter didn't pray a bunch like Daredevil or Nightcrawler. He did now as he worked.