A/N: Annnnd I'm back. First of all, the arbitrary excuse: I have been playing waaaaay to many video games, and been hitting my MMA hobby pretty hard these past few weeks (Yes that pun was intended). Second a big special thanks to highlander348, Celgress, and NeoTyson for faithfully reviewing. It's awesome to know that people are reading and giving feedback. Lastly, a warning, after this chapter, I cranked the story up to an M rating. Not a hard M. But still, viewer discretion advised.

Chapter 5

Peter woke up to his alarm the next morning. He had his arms wrapped around Felicia who lay facing the other way. She let out a groan of displeasure, indicating that Peter needed to turn off the alarm and get on with his morning routine. Most mornings, Peter was up first to be productive and get a jump on the day. The only time this didn't happen was when the two had sex, and in that case Felicia usually ravaged Peter and he needed the extra sleep. Peter grinned, turned off the alarm, got out of bed, and went to the bathroom that connected to their bedroom. By the time he had reached the doorway, Felicia could be heard snoring quietly, indicating she had fallen asleep again.

The bathroom had a large vanity area with a sink and a marble countertop that housed Felicia's many beauty products. A toilet and walk-in shower occupied different sides of the room. Peter reached into a drawer to pull out a razor and shaving cream, as well as a toothbrush and toothpaste. Ten minutes later he was in the shower, letting the hot water roll over his body in a simple attempt to let his sore injured muscles relax.

While he stood there, he thought how he was going to plan for the next attack from either Shocker or Hobgoblin. Additionally he had to figure out who they were working for. The only way they Peter saw to do this was to figure out what was in the back of that Alchemax van. The only thing that he had been able to determine from the public relations guy on the news was whatever was in the van was some kind of software.

Peter grinned, to the average person, that wasn't much to go on. But Peter was a researcher at a tech company. A few hours reading through scientific journals, Alchemax demonstrations at expos, and computer programming advancements, and he was sure that he could get an idea of what those two thieves were after.

Peter heard the bathroom door open and close, indicating that Felicia was ready to start her day as well. He was just about ready to leave when a soft patter of footsteps came up behind him. A pair of hands grasped him and turned him around.

Peter grinned to see Felicia in front of him ready to use the shower. She wasn't smiling back though, and was glaring at him quite sternly. "Good mon…!" Peter tried to say before Felicia kissed him as hard as she could and forced her tongue into his mouth. She then pushed him up against the wall, grabbed at his back and lifted one of her legs up to his hips.

His brain didn't register what was happing immediately, but luckily his body seemed to as he grabbed her lower back and lifted thigh to support their position. A large portion of blood also was redirected to his lower extremities. Peter's higher thought processes quickly diminished as he fell to the seductions of his girlfriend.

Peter broke away for a second to get air into his lungs and started to grin with self-satisfaction. He readied a joke but Felicia bit down on his right shoulder and clawed at his left and forced him down to the floor of the shower. Felicia was being far rougher than usual with their lovemaking. Peter would certainly define the areas where Felicia was biting and scratching as uncomfortable, and possibly painful. However he was too aroused to really think to stop her though. He was enjoying the overall experience though, so he went with it and pulled her down on top of him.

Felicia still maintained control of the situation though, clawing and lightly biting. She mounted Peter and the two connected. Felicia ground down on Peter, moving back and forth in a rhythm that was neither too quick nor too slow. Peter, for his part, grabbed Felicia's waist and supported whatever movements she made, and kissed her wherever was appropriate on her head when she bent over to kiss or bite him, be it her lips, face, or hair.

After several minutes, the two reached the climax of their interaction and broke apart. They stood up panting, and looked at each other. Felicia now wore a content smile on her face. She reached up to reposition the shower head so that the water fell over the both of them. She then reached over to grab a bottle of body wash and handed it to Peter.

"Would you mind getting my back?" She asked innocently as she then grabbed a bottle of shampoo to wash her hair.

"I'd love to." Peter said. "Anywhere else I can reach?" He asked suggestively. Felicia just gave a vague hum. As she ran her hand through her hair, Peter stood behind her and rubbed the soap solution into her skin. "So what was that, aside from great?" He asked.

"Angry Sex." Felicia said simply.

"I'm sorry?" Peter said in a confused manner. He couldn't recall doing anything wrong.

Felicia turned smiling, her platinum hair pulled over one shoulder. "Don't worry." She kissed him, "You didn't do anything wrong."

"So why?"

Felicia furrowed her brow and flared her nostrils. "Well I want to claw out Hobgoblins eyes. But he's not here right now." She was still extremely angry about losing to the menace. "So I had to find something else that I could claw at." She finished sweetly and kissed him.

"Huh."

"How's your back?" She asked with some concern.

"Feels a little marked up." Peter said, rotating his shoulder and feeling a slight burning sensation on his back.

Felicia tenderly touched the red marks on his shoulders where she had been biting and scratching him.

Peter saw the concern in her eyes, and the he worried that she feared that she may have gone too far. "I rather enjoyed the experience." He said trying to lay her mind at ease. "Just be sure to keep it to that level next time."

Felicia smiled. "Maybe next time you can scratch me." She said seductively.

The two fished their joined shower and finished getting dressed. They met in the kitchen for breakfast. Peter ate a massive bowl of sugary cereal while looking at a research paper on his laptop. Felicia sat with a banana and a cup of yogurt scrolling through the contact list on her phone.

"I've got a plan for our problem." Peter said confidently.

"So do I." Felicia said.

"Oh." Peter said with some surprise.

"Don't give me 'Oh'. Just because you're the genius, and do most of the thinking for us doesn't mean that I don't have to contribute brainpower." She defended.

"All right." He said with his palms up. "What's your idea?"

"Well I can figure out who hired Shocker and maybe what he's after."

"How's that?"

"Well the criminal underworld has a certain level of gossip, if you know how to ask." She said plainly.

"Okaaaaay…" Peter said trying to get more information.

"There are places where crooks and thieves like to be social and they see and hear things. I'm gonna talk to these people." She explained.

"How about what he and Ugly in Orange are after?"

"Well Shocker and I used to have the same fence for stolen merchandise, so that option won't work."

"Wait. You and Captain Underpants used to sell your stolen stuff at the same place?" Peter asked in disbelief.

"As you said, we both like shiny things." Felicia justified. "Anyway, due to Shockers strange sense of honor, his fence and allies won't flip on him and ruin his score. Luckily, The Great Ugly Pumpkin has made it a habit of screwing over people and partners. Lots of people are willing to rat on him to get even."

"Look at you, making jokes about the names of bad guys." Peter noticed with a smile.

Felicia just smiled and shrugged her shoulders.

"All right, so you get to partake in both gossip and vengeance. This is shaping up to be a good day for you, isn't it?" Peter stated.

"A girls gotta have her vengeance sometimes." Felicia said still smiling.

"Hell hath no fury…" Peter quoted.

"So what's your plan?"

"Read through the past two years of Alchemax press releases, industry updates, scientific studies, and research papers. Try to figure out what they have been focusing on. Combine this with finding out who hired Shocker, we can look at what the competitors are focusing on, figure out what was in the back of the van." Peter explained, putting his plan together.

"Well that sounds fascinating." Felicia said with dry sarcasm. "I need to get to calling people. Revenge won't extract itself." She said with venom and malice. Peter wasn't paying attention, already back to his laptop, grinning like a kid on Christmas.

Peter spend the day tapping and clicking away on his computer. Occasionally he would make a remark about how something was brilliant, or clever, or ask an out loud question about the technical specifications of whatever piece of Alchemax equipment. Felicia spent the day talking on the phone with some people who had nicknames like 'Sunny Jim', 'Blob', and 'China'. Additionally, she sometimes introduced herself under aliases such as 'Snow', and 'The Girl'.

This process finally ended when Peter turned the screen of his computer to face Felicia. The screen had a number of windows that had nanotech drones, super computers, and chemical compounds. "I've got a list of the most likely candidates for what may have been in the van." Peter said.

"All right. You show me yours. I'll show you mine." Felicia said.

Peter missed the double entendre. "Alchemax has been focusing most of its work in research on nanotech programing, development of artificial intelligence, and medicine. Now while I tussled with The Dreaded Pincushion, I didn't notice any coolers or biohazard symbols, so we can safely rule out medical stuff." Peter explained. "What do you have?"

"A few people saw Shocker talking with one of Wilson Fisk's agents." Felicia said. "Gave Shocker all the information he needed to pull a heist. Unfortunately, no one knew anything about Hobgoblin. In fact no one knows anything. But this has to help."

"Actually yeah." Peter said. "There is no way that Fisk would trust an AI. Can't control them the same way that he can control people. That means that whatever was in the back of the van involved nano tech. On top of that the news guy last night said that it was some kind of software. So putting this all together, the thing that Shocker and Hobgoblin were after was some king of nano technology software. HAHA. Suck it Sherlock. You're not the only one who can deduce stuff." Peter said with joyful enthusiasm.

"Well the only thing we don't have an idea about then is who hired the goblin." Felicia said.

"Well, the only other two corporations that are looking into nano tech development are Raxxon Energy Corporation, and Stark Industries. Somehow I don't think that my fellow Avenger is hiring international super villains to steal prototype stuff that his company probably already has more advanced versions of. Raxxon might though. This also doesn't include any evil organizations that might be looking into this type of stuff as well such as HYDRA, AIM, or ULTIMATUM. "

Felicia had one last question. "Okay, how exactly are we going to catch the two bad guys with this information?"

Peter just stared at her with a dumbfounded look on his face. "Uhhh…I have no idea. Might have to stake out Alchemax, just wait for them to come back. Break into a Kingpin hideout, get information that way." Peter looked up while pondering. "Figure that out tomorrow."

Felicia groaned. "Can we at least go out tonight? I need to punch some other slime of society if I can't punch that orange menace."

Peter smiled. "I'd love to. Maybe we'll get luck and stumble across Shocker robbing a jewelry store." Peter said hopefully.

I want to know what you all think. Too much detail. I wrote the first part of this chapter while listening to Addicted and The Sex is Good by Saving Abel, Jet Black Dress and Breath by Miracle of Sound, Up All Night by Hinder, and the raunchy parts of Nickelback's Dark Horse album. They seemed to set an appropriate mood.