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Partnership
*The next day*
"Great, just great. Not only is there an imposter out there ruining my reputation even more, but also the whole city is covered in this stupid fog. I wonder if that fake me has something to do with this?"
When Peter woke up from his rest, he notices the sun wasn't shining through his window and sees that it is foggy outside. He turns on the TV to check the news and sees that report that the fog was poisoned and was hard to see through. Of course, the story of the fake Spider-man still is being talked about, which didn't make things better for Peter.
"Breaking news, the Jade Syndicate is robbing a bank and have taken hostages."
Peter looks back at the television after hearing the news, remembering his first encounter with those thugs. It was on that same day he met up with Spider-woman and took on the Jade Syndicate together, though she acted like she had a stick up her butt during their first encounter.
"Those guys again? If they are making their official move, then maybe I will see Spider-woman again since she will want to take these guys down as well. Though assuming that she saw the news and the fact that our first meeting went horrible, she most likely will consider me a bad guy now." Peter sighs to his self before getting up and walking to his closet to check out his new suit.
"Guess it's time for the world to get acquainted with the all new Spider-Man suit. Maybe this will take some of the heat off me as I try to figure out who is behind that mask. Huh, that sounded weird coming from me saying that." Peter jokes as he puts on his new suit and heads towards the bank.
Later, Spider-man makes to the area that the bank is located and stops at a local rooftop. He figures it's better to stay above the fog as much as possible so he can avoid the authorities on the ground. He notices an NYPD helicopter heading to the bank and is about to go after when a familiar voice stops him.
"Nice try Spider-man, but even with a new costume that doesn't change the warrant that's put out for you." said the voice of Spider-woman appearing behind Spider-man. Unknown to Peter, Spiderwoman was impressed by his new look. Peter's new suit features Nano-technology discreetly borrowed from the labs of Reed Richards, thanks to his bro Johnny storm, which allows him to go invisible for a short amount of time. It also comes with a web like cape with the colors of the suit red, black and blue.
"That suit looks better than the old one and hot," Jessica admits to herself proceeding to stare at how mature the new suit makes him look.
"Ah, if it isn't my female counterpart. Where have you been? Here to admire my new attire I see?" Spidey poses for her making her blush and snapping her out of thoughts.
"I am not! I am here to take down the Jade Syndicate once and for all and arrest you in the process!" She quickly gets into serious mode and throws a bio-blast at him knowing he could quickly avoid it keeping her act up.
"For your information, I prefer dinner and a movie before we play cops and robbers." Spider-man jokes, while dodging another blast from Spiderwoman in the process.
"So you are admitting that you stole that device last night?" She runs at him to strike with Spider-man blocking and avoiding her attacks.
"No, I was bantering, I mean I'm innocent, and I need to find that fake before he succeeds in whatever he has planned." He tries to tell her.
Jessica already knows that Peter is innocent; still, she needs to be sure that it was Peter underneath that mask instead of the poser from yesterday. She won't let her guard down that easily just because of Peter's friendly nature. "You need to be more convincing than that." She sends him a flying kick only for Spider-man to catch her leg to hold her in place.
"Okay, how about this for convincing. If I'm the fake Spider-man or gone rogue why would I put myself out in the open the next day and continue to be a hero? As a wise old man told me, with great power comes great responsibility. Therefore, it is my duty to keep using my powers for good and stop that fake me." Spider-man pleads his case hoping that would be enough for Spiderwoman to believe him.
Jessica had to avoid the warm smile that wants to appear on her face from hearing Peter sticking to his morals despite the city being against him. "I'm going to give you one chance to prove you're innocent, even though I shouldn't even be around you for that will give me a bad rep helping a vigilante."
"I take offense to that!" Spider-man interrupts her raising a finger up.
She rolls her eyes at his childish response and continues, "Like I was saying, if you give me one reason not to trust you, I will drop you where you stand and when we team up you follow my orders is that clear?"
Spider-man scratches the back of his head nervously. "Not to come off rude, but there might be times where I would have to break that rule so I can't promise to do that. I will try my best to give you reasons to trust me like I'm trusting you." Even though Spiderwoman would make a great teammate to help him out of the crazy mess, he doesn't do well with taking strict orders like that.
The last part of his response surprises Spiderwoman. "You trust me already when I could easily knock you out and hand you over to the police?"
"Technically, you could have already done that. However, you didn't, and my spider-sense didn't go off meaning I wasn't in any real danger. With that said I trust you, partner." Spider-man explains with sincerity in his voice.
To say Jessica is now confused would be an understatement. How could Peter switch from being a guy who cracks lame jokes to have a serious moment like this? "Um, Spider-woman?"
Spider-woman blinks a few times and tells him, "Just was thinking of something. Don't get used to calling you and me partners."
"Aye aye captain." Spider-man does a mock salute, earning a groan from her.
"Let's get a move on before the syndicate hurts those people." The two take off together towards the bank to witness the NYPD already there to make their move on the gang.
"NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT! DESCEND AT ONCE! LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS AT FULL.." Before the officer could finish his statement, the Jade syndicate copper launch two rockets at them causing the plane to crash and killing the officers inside.
Both Spider-man and Spider-woman watch in horror as the aircraft fell through the fog. "These guys are relentless!" Spider-man blurts out in disbelief
"You're not lying there. I can't believe they just shot down those police choppers." Spider-woman agrees with him.
"Yeah, just my luck I will probably get blamed for that too," Spider-man mutters in frustration, thinking how the media will try to throw his name out there saying he was part of the attack.
The Jessica side of Spider-woman wanted nothing more but to hold him and comfort him, saying it will be okay and that she's here for him, and yet she couldn't and because of some part of her hurt seeing him like that.
Nevertheless, Spider-man shakes it off and asks, "Is that the bank ahead?"
"Yes, it is. It looks like they have arm members on top so we need to take them out quietly so they can't alert the others about our arrival." She warns him.
Peter smirks underneath his masks and says, "I believe I can manage that."
"I find that hard to believe when you talk so much that you give one a headache." Spider-woman folds her arms not buying that he could stay quiet.
Spider-man places a hand over his heart to act like he was insulted. "I have you know that my constant talking is what help take down the bad guys."
"Whatever." Spider-woman goes over one side of the building to take out the three guards, leaving Spider-man with the other two.
Following her lead, Spidey glance at how well her suit shows off her curves. "Nice view from here. Stop Parker your dating, Jessica... Who I need to check on when I get the chance to make sure she's okay."
Meanwhile, Spider-woman, with her stealthy skills from her training with S.h.i.e.l.d gives one of the guards a choke hold until he passes out. Afterward, she uses her pheromones for the other two guards, causing them to be infatuated with her as they walk up until Spider-woman takes their heads and slam them against each other.
She turns around to see the two guards that Spider-man is supposed to take care are still up and moving when out of nowhere both guys get knocked down to the ground.
"That's the last one. Hopefully, those hostages are still alright." Spider-man said suddenly appearing out of nowhere.
"How did you do that?" Spider-woman stares in amazement.
"Comes with the new suit, kind of cool right? Even though I can only stay that way for a short period to recharge." He shoots an impact web at a glass window and proceeds to jump through the hole.
"Not bad." Spider-woman quietly said following Spider-man into the building.
*Inside the bank*
Spider-man and Spider-woman finally got in the construction through the ventilation system. Spidey kicks down a vent leading to one of the rooms guarding by one of the jade members.
"I hope they don't mind if I make a quick deposit," Spider-man said, jumping down to the grown and webbing up the thug to keep him quiet.
Really?" Spiderwoman rolls her eyes coming down the vent as well.
"Come on you have to admit that was a good one." Spider-man laughs softly.
"I heard better from you." She whispers.
"Wait, is that your way of saying that you like some of my work?" Spider-man responds with a nudge to her arm.
Jessica at that moment set herself up for that comment, so she quickly tries to change the subject. "Stay focus." In her mindset, she was thinking, "I don't get it, Peter, how are you constantly joking/talk like that when you are fighting crime? This is the same guy who is my current boyfriend and the same hero that Steve and Tony want me to recruit. Unbelievable, and speaking of Peter I need to find a way to let him know I'm okay with the fog situation going on. Once we separate, I can give him a call so that he won't get any ideas."
Afterward, the two work together to take out each member while making sure the hostages got out safe. So far so good things were looking bright for the spider heroes until they reach the floor where the banks safe is located.
Uh oh, more hostages and a bomb, we need to be careful here." Spider-man tells Spiderwoman who pushes the button that opens the door to the room where the rest of the gang held the hostages are at.
"That's being careful!?" Spider-man wonders to his self.
"They are messing with us, start the timer on the bomb and take out all the hostages." The leader commands the other two. This leads to the bomb to get activated to go off in two minutes.
"I will take care of them while you figure out how to get rid of that bomb!" Spider-woman jumps into action fighting the last three thugs.
"Easier said than done, move it, people!" Spider-man directs traffic escorting the workers out of the room. Once they were gone, Spider-man picks up the bomb and begins to walk out with it over his head slowly.
"Where are you going with it?" Jessica questions him.
"I need to put this bomb in a safe place." Catching on to what he meant, Spider-woman runs over to the other button that opens up the door to the safe room, allowing Spider-man to throw it in there giving Spider-woman the chance to close the door and lets the bomb blow up in the safe room with the bank still intact. Making their way out of the building, with the leader, Spider-man starts to celebrate their victory.
"Score one for team spider!" Spider-man shouts with excitement.
"That's a horrible name." Spider-woman shakes her head at that choice in name.
"It's a working title, I mean it's not every day a street hero like me gets to work with one of the members of the Avengers. Must be nice being able to be taken seriously by the big leagues." Spider-man shrugs. The conversation he had with Jonah pops in his head after talking about the group of heroes.
"Yeah." Spider-woman agrees and looks away.
Her change in demeanor catches Spidey attention to where he walks over to check on her. "Hey, wait a second, are you okay?"
Spider-woman looks at him with a blank expression. "Why are you asking?"
"It's just when I mention you with the Avengers; it seems to have hit a nerve." Spider-man answers with concern placing his hand on her shoulder.
Spider-woman bites her lips and gently pulls away from him. "Look, I need to go take care of something important, try not to cause any more trouble than you already in." Without letting him get another word out, Jessica quickly leaves the scene trying to shake off the guilt and reminder of why she came to Peter's life in the first place as well how she has been treated him in costume. He's been through enough as it is and deserves better.
"I know Spider-woman has been a pain in the butt for you, Peter, that is going to change soon I promise." Jessica quietly promises traveling across the rooftops away from Peter.
Peter watches her leave confuse on why her mood had changed the way it did. Seeing that he has some distance from her, Peter leans into a corner to where no one could see him, pulls his mask off, and takes his cell phone out to give Jessica that long awaited call.
Ring ring, ring ring
Peter: Jess?
Jessica: Hey Peter, I was going to call you to check on you with all this fog drama and stuff, but it looks like you beat me to it.
Peter: Haha Yes, it sounds like I did. I wanted to tell you that I miss you.
Jessica: Aw, I miss you too Peter.
Peter: I wish I could see you right now, but I have to take care of important business for the Bugle despite the circumstance.
Jessica: I completely understand, and I have to take care of some stuff on my end as well. Hopefully, we can see each other soon; I miss them soft lips.
Peter: Haha and I miss you your tasty lips as well.
Jessica: Before I go I just want you to keep your head up and know that whenever you feeling down remember that I am cheering you on from the sidelines.
Peter: Wow Jess that means a lot, though I won't be able to stop thinking of you in a cheerleading outfit now.
Jessica: If you continue to be a good boy I might I have to do an up close and personal cheer routine for you.
Peter: I will keep that in mind. I will talk to you later and be careful out there Jess.
Jessica: Same goes for you, Pete. Take care.
Feeling better after having from Jessica, Peter dials the Bugle to talk to his boss. "Jonah I got shots of the bank robbery.." but Jonah cuts him off yelling, "Parker shut up and call 911, Kraven the hunter broke into the office you need to ahh!"
"Kraven? I got to get there fast!" Peter swiftly puts his mask back on, and web swings his way to the Bugle.
Author's note: There you have it, Spider-man and Spider-woman are teaming up to clear Peter's name and hopefully figure out where did the fog come from. I know some of you may be getting tired of Jessica acting the way she does as Spiderwoman but bare with me it's going to change, plus I enjoy writing her character where she has different personas since she is supposed to be undercover and doesn't want Peter to know that she knows his secret yet. Don't worry though, at some point in the story Peter is going to give her a piece of her of his mind.
Wasn't my best chapter since I haven't worked on this story for a while, but it's an update nonetheless. Yep, I went with the unlimited costume instead of the black suit cause I remember as a kid playing the old Spider-man game always using that one because of the stealth ability. Next chapter will see an old friend and old enemy making an appearance.
