6 years had passed since he had became Spider-Man and Peter had been doing his best to balance his normal life while keeping it secret along with being Spider-Man. He ended up staying up night and gotten into trouble at school for coming in late as well as Aunt May asking what he had been doing in his spare time. He had rescued people, stopped criminals and thugs and the odd villain that he had come across. There were quite a lot of people sceptical of him such as local politicians, law enforcement and controversial online news personality J. Jonah Jameson for him being a masked vigilante and collateral damage that happened during his fights with villains or criminals. Plus it didn't help with his early rookie mistakes such as leaving criminals just hanging on webs for the authorities which any decent lawyer was able to have them released (since as he learned afterwards he would need to physically bring the criminals to the authorities) or interrupting an operation where the criminals would be followed back to bosses.

Peter had managed to score an internship with noted scientist Doctor Otto Octavius at Octavius Labs; the man was an underrated genius and when he was a kid he was at a science camp that Doctor Octavius had run and he was very encouraging to him when he came to him when one of his personal experiments had failed. After high school it became a part time job while he was at college and now that he had graduated he was working there all time.

Peter was at the lab at night working overtime on one of the projects that they had been working on; robotic limbs to help amputees. He was listening to the news on the radio about how earlier that night famed philanthropist and New York mayoral candidate Wilson Fisk had been found guilty of all charges against him. Peter smiled with vindication at the news since Fisk New York's Kingpin of Crime had been his main foe since he had gotten his powers and over the years had finally managed to gather enough evidence to put him away. Fisk did try to fight off the charges but years of evidence and testimonies for those who before were scared into silence finally caught up to him.

Of course in the fallout he had to deal with stopping the gang war that resulted from Fisk's empire tumbling as those he kept in line as well as former underlings fought to take over the territories and take over as the new Kingpin of Crime; but at the end of the day Fisk deserved what had happened.

Peter had finished one of the tests on a remote control of one of the protype robotic limb when Doctor Octavius had came up to him. He was a brown haired man with glasses in a dark green jumpsuit along with a labcoat. "Okay Parker, I think that you have worked long enough here for the night. As big as our brains and IQ are; our bodies are still human and need rest and sleep so we could go about our day to day lives at full strength." Octavius told him and Peter nodded to him as they went to work closing up for the night. Peter was ready to go home first and Octavius came up to him.

"Before you go Parker, I have some paperwork to finish before I leave so do you think that you can dispose of these for me please." Octavius told him handing him some unopened offers to buy the place from Stark Industries. Peter nodded as he left waving goodbye to him. Peter went to a dumpster in the alleyway right next to the building to place the letters in. He felt what he called his Spider-Sense go off and he looked up to see a figure scaling up the building and towards a window.

He then made sure that the figure wasn't looking as he changed into his Spider-Man suit; he went through a lot of evolution from the cheap suits that he wore when he was in high school; this one looked more professionally done with special lenses that he managed to create for the holes in the eyes as the full body suit was red, dark blue with a black spider logo and a spider pattern.

He heard his phone alert in his bag as he answered the text coming from his girlfriend of a few months:

I had a long day and I wanted to spend the rest of the night with you, are you going to be working too late?

Peter knew she had a busy life and sighed as he answered back.

I am done for the night but I have to take care of this guy first, will be home soon.

You had better or I will be coming to get you myself.

Peter climbed up the wall thinking that he had better take care of this fast or else he would be better off being killed by this guy.

Peter jumped through the window and noticed the figure was wearing a black bodysuit with dark purple armor plates, a dark green symbol on his chest as well as a purple mask with black lines around the eyes. He recognised the figure as a Prowler; an identity of a cat burglar in purple which has been adopted by various criminals and mercenaries and most used advanced tech that they managed to get their hands on. He had came across one named Hobie Brown who was going against those that had stolen his inventions but helped him reform and even helped him out on occasion. This one was using a more advanced looking but still familiar suit.

"So is that you Hobie or just another crook using the identity and costume. I hope it's the latter because it would be a shame if he went rogue." Peter told him as the Prowler was startled but angrily went to fight him and Peter was easily dodging his punches as the bullets coming from his wrist gauntlets. It seemed this Prowler was not prepared to fight Spider-Man.

Then came in Octavius who called the police and the Prowler frustrated activated some smoke pellets and he was gone before the smoke cleared. Peter went to the window to check and saw that he was gone to his frustration. "Don't worry Spider-Man; he will be caught if he decides to come back but I am sure that you will find him yourself. Thank you for the help." Octavius told him gratefully as Peter gave him a thumbs up as he went back through the window. He collected his backpack as he web slinged to the apartment that he shared with his girlfriend. He went through the window and put on the light.

Standing there with a smirk on her face was a tall beautiful woman with raven black hair and an Amazon like physique. She had a golden headband, a black sleeveless leotard like bodysuit with golden armor platings, a golden belt, golden wrist bands and black boots.

She was Zarda the Power Princess of the Squadron Supreme who in her secret civilian life was a boxer going by Zarda Shelton. She took the surname Shelton in memory of Howard Shelton the sailor who in World War II shipwrecked on Utopia meeting her and introduced her to the normal world and helped sacrifice his life to stop the Nazi research division known as Hydra. It was safe to go by her actual name was it was not common to find people named after famous people and in her boxer identity she would hide with her hair tied back.

Peter unmasked himself and explained "there was a guy going by the Prowler who was breaking into the lab. He got away but I stopped him from doing whatever he wanted to do or stealing anything. Hope I didn't keep you waiting." Zarda shook her head.

"Went a few rounds with some rookies in my spare time but stopped a kraken out at sea and with the Squadron we stopped an attack orchestrated by the Institute of Evil. After getting home I decided that I wanted to surprise you by changing back into my superhero garb." Zarda said casually as her talking about her superhero activities would always blow whatever he had to say out of the water. They embraced and shared a kiss as they went to their bedroom.

The walls were plasted with posters of Zarda and pin ups of photoshoots that she had done as well as others including Susan Storm-Richards one of the smartest and most beautiful female scientists in the world. Zarda actually told Peter not to worry about him crushing on other women (it was actually her idea to keep the pin ups on his wall after they had started dating) and even teased him about not minding if he found someone else he would also like to date in a polyamorous relationship.

On the desk was Peter's childhood Squadron figures along with a Spider-Man figure (among the assorted unofficial Spider-Man merchandise that he didn't see a penny of royalties from due to having a secret identity) was arm in arm with the Zarda figure. Zarda was carefully helping Peter out of his Spider-Man suit after he tossed his web-shooters aside. "A cute adorable nerd with a built physique and the strength and stamina beyond my previous lovers. I love that I get to spend the night with the nerdy vigilante hunk." Zarda told him as Peter started to help her out of her boots and bracelets along with her headband.

"I get to spend my nights with the 2nd best Squadron member..." Peter said helping her out of the suit as Zarda's demeanour showed that she was annoyed; Peter liked to annoy her by pointing out that Hyperion was still his fave hero. It would only be fair from all the teasing that she gave him.

Zarda only kissed him and Peter kissed back as they went on the enforced bed in eachother's embrace.

Decided to surprise you all by having Peter and Zarda already together, how did this happen? Well that is for you to find out.

Decided to make the Prowler into a collective identity