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XXXxxx Police Headquarters xxxXXX

"I already told you I aint sayen nothing!" The defiant Monsoon protested to his inquisitor. They held the criminal in a small gun metal gray room. The only light came from a few lights on the ceiling.

"Cut the tough guy act and tell us what happened that night!" Officer Song yelled back at the Monsoon. Song went at him all night and into the morning and the triad enforcer still wouldn't budge. The interrogation room doors slid apart when Chief Beifong came in. She got tired of waiting for Song to crack the triad thug.

"Take a break and wait outside." She said, her eyes never left the Monsoon's.

"Bur Chief I'm making headway here." He protested. Song didn't want to go through all that work and have nothing to show for it.

"Are you deaf!? I said wait outside." Beifong was getting impatient with the Monsoon's stubbornness.

"…Yes ma'am." Song remembered his place and followed her orders and left the room.

Chief Beifong calmly took a seat at the interrogation and dropped a large file on the table.

"I don't care if Republic City's top cop down here I aint sayen nothing." The Monsoon gave Lin his best stink eye he could manage.

Chief Beifong smirked at the convict's proclamation. "You really should reconsider your stance Mr. Cikuq." She opened up the file and started shifting through it.

"I don't go by that name lady. The names Black Out, as in if anyone looks at me funny they experience a little black out. Savvy."

The Chief eyes were still focused on the file as she spoke. Like that was supposed to her. "Black Out huh? That is an appropriate name considering the way my men found you. That street lamp must've put up quite a fight."

That nugget was supposed to shut him up but he only got defensive. "What are you talking about!? I went down fighting for the Red Monsoon's rep!"

Chief Beifong found the page she was looking for. "Hmm. That's strange because according to this medical report you ran into a street lamp running away from the Spider-Man. Oh and here's a fun fact, did you know you were the only Monsoon that wasn't bailed out right? I guess the Monsoon's don't want cowards in their ranks; can't say I don't blame them." She looked up to gauge the suspect's reaction.

He looked away in shame. "So what, that doesn't change anything!" Cikua eyes began to water.

She shrugged. "Alright then we'll just haul you sorry butt to the second cell block then." Beifong called in Officer Song to do the deed. The metal door slid open and he appeared almost on cue.

"Chief isn't the second cell block where we put all of those Agni Kai's?"

Chief Beifong grabbed her file and walked towards exit, completely ignoring the shacking Chkua in his chair. "Yes Officer Song we hold the Agni Kai's there. In fact, their crimes were so heinous that couldn't make bale or parole and they're all in for ten to fifteen years minimum. Beifong broke him with those words.

"Alright I'll talk I'LL TALK! Please just don't put me in there!" A few tears rolled down Cikua's face. He couldn't hold back the anguish anymore.

'Tch. Flake.' Beifong thought. "Officer Song that will be all for now.

"Sure thing Chief." Song complied and left the room.

"O.K. so what do you want to know?" His near miss with the shark tank still had him shaken up.

"Spider-Man. I want everything you got on him, how he moves, how he fights, why he decided to break up that little slap fight of yours, everything."

He wiped his face dry. "I…I don't know where to start."

"Start at the beginning." She said with a stern cold tone. Beifong was not in the mood for games.

"O.K. O.K. Alright so me and my boys were walken around enjoying the night life and we stumble in on Agni-Kai territory. They told us to beat it and we weren't just going to roll over for those jerks so naturally a fight broke out." He coughed. "Can I get some water?"

"No, keep going."

"Fine, fine. So we're scappen it out in the streets and then this weirdo comes outta nowhere and jumps right in the middle of it."

Beifong was a little surprised that Spider-Man simply jumped into the fray. The kid must have a lot of faith in his skills. She continued to listen to the ex-Monsoon.

"So there he is right smack dab in the middle of it. Then he tells us to sit down on the sidewalk and wait for the police, but nobody was hearing that noise so we all jumped him."

"So what did he look like? Beifong didn't expect the vigilante to have some respect for the law; considering how he frequently walks all over it.

He paused to remember the details. "He didn't look real buff or anything like that but he wasn't scrawny either know what I'm sayen. The guy looked like he was average height."

Beifong decided to get to the meat of the inquiry. "Alright then, how did the average height, lean, non-bender single handedly beat up two 'powerful triad' gangs?"

He dug his head in his arms as he relived that night. Cikua breathing became erratic; clearly some post traumatic stress from that night. "The way he moved…he was so fast…it was like he knew what we were going to do before we did."

"What do you mean he knew?" This was getting interesting. She was getting more out of him then she had planned.

"One of my boys ran up to him and tried to hit him with some water boxing from behind right. Then the guy just side stepped him and threw him like a ragdoll."

His story reminded her of the web heads debut in Republic City. She thought that the kid just used some fancy earthbending to beat the Triple Threats and evaded arrest that night, but this guy just confirmed that there was more to his masked man that meets the eye. How did he fight? Did he use any chi blocking techniques at all?"

Disbelief was written all over his face. "Chi blocken? Lady did you see how busted up we were? He ain't no stinking chi blocker. I mean sure we all thought he was some rookie chi blocker tryen out his new skills for something but believe me sister he wasn't chi blocken that night."

The disrespecting 'sister' comment was ignored as Chief Beifong pressed the issue. She remembered Saikhan mentioned webs and there was some left on the scene when they picked up the knocked out thugs. "How did he use the webs? Did he bind any of you and then hit you?"

"No …I mean yes…it was more than that. He used them to move around the block. The guy was so fast. It was like one minute we had the drop on him and the next he ended up getting the drop on us." He recalled how the web-head jumped on top of one of the Agni Kais and slammed his head on the pavement.

Chief Beifong leaned back in her chair and contemplated the prisoner's words. Unfortunately this interrogation gave Lin more questions than answers at the moment. The new info on what Spider-Man could do was helpful but the questions came from what he was exactly. This whole thing might just be the shenanigans of a renegade spirit trying to strike fear in the hearts of evil doers. This reminded her of the stories her mother used to tell her about an abandoned library in the middle of the Si Wong Desert and how the original Team Avatar bad to fight some crazy owl spirit and barely made it out alive. You can't exactly read a spirit's Miranda Rights and send it off to jail, and if the Monsoon's story was true then this kid was sounding less and less human. "Alright Cikua that will be all for today. We appreciate your cooperation." She said in a robotic monotone, she had too much on her mind to pass out pleasantries at the moment.

"…So you won't lock me up with the Agni Kais right?" The ex-Monsoon was on the edge of his seat.

"Oh that? We couldn't throw you in with them if we wanted to."

"Say what?" The idea that he just spilled his guts out for nothing got him a little angry.

"You see we don't lock up whole gangs on one place. Too risky, they would come together and plan a break out."

"So I gave you all that for nothing!?" Disbelief was all over his face.

"Yep." Chief Beifong said as he grabbed her file and made her way out of the gun metal grey interrogation room. Officer Song was waiting for her outside and he heard the whole story. He decided to take a shot in the dark with the Chief. "Umm, excuse me Ma'am, do you think all that stuff he was yapping about Spider-Man true?"

This was one of those rare moments where Chief Beifong spoke to one of her subordinates as a peer. "At this point Song I don't know what to believe. But I have to assume this Spider-Man is a concerned citizen taking the law into his own hands. It's still too early to draw conclusions."

Officer Song laughed. "Maybe we should give him a job then. He's doing a bang up job with the triad thugs right chief."

And just like that every rule, regulation, and protocol came rushing back like a flash flood. She turned around and stared into Officer Song's soul. "I don't want to hear that kind of talk Song!" She could tell the Song didn't understand why he was getting disciplined. "You don't get it do you?"

"Umm no Ma'am I don't. This spider guy's helping us out right?" Song knew the Chief wouldn't like his answer but lying wouldn't do him any good.

"Why did you become a police officer Song?" She tried to be as calm as humanly possible from his asinine comments.

"To protect and serve Ma'am." Song started to sweat from the impromptu grilling.

"Correct. We are here to protect and serve the people and uphold the law in this city. We are here so the people don't have to take the law into their own hands. This city is under the rule of law not street justice and that responsibility falls on our shoulder not some self righteous vigilante punk!"

"Un-Understood Ma'am, I was speaking out of term."

"Good, you can think about your responsibilities on parking detail."

Officer Song was about to protest Chief Beifong's orders but he knew his place and stood at attention. "Yes Ma'am." Meter maid duty was a tough pill to swallow.

XXXxxx Republic City Shopping District: a few days later xxxXXX

Peter was out shopping with the remainder of his pay advance. He got the new threads from a thrift store so it didn't set him back too much. The clothes couldn't pass as high fashion but it was a hell of a lot better than his improvised disguise, and frankly they smelled a lot better too. He wore simple grey trousers with a pair of white leggings over his shins and a pair of thin soled shoes a lot of people seemed to wear in this city. The vigilante was also wearing a dark blue short sleeve button up shirt with the collar pooped and the top few buttons were undone, which showed his black undershirt. The coke bottle glasses completed his 'fragile' demeanor. Peter was trying to figure out what to do with the rest of his spare yuans. He had already bought himself a hammock, much cheaper than a full bed, the clothes, and a good amount of food. Peter continued to walk through the streets when a phonograph shop caught his eye. 'I bet they have a radio somewhere in there. It would be nice to listen to some tunes on my down time.' He thought as he walked up to the small shop.

An old man was sitting in front of the shop working on a phonograph when Peter came into view. "Oh hello young man, may I interest you in a phonograph today?"

"No thanks, I'm actually looking for a radio. You got any spares in stock?"

"Yeah I got a few in the back just call me if you see anything you like and I'll ring you up."

"Thanks Mister." Peter walked into the back of the shop and found a few radios in the sea of phonographs. A small brown radio was to his liking. The radio reminded him of the one his aunt and uncle owned. When he was a kid, his Uncle Ben used to turn on some boxing matches in their small living room back in Queens. He used to jump and cheer for his favorite fighter Battlin' Jack Murdock whenever he won a fight. Peter picked up the small radio when a loud engine roar rumbled through the shop. The engine was cut off as Peter walked to the front window and saw three triad members walk up to the shop keeper. He couldn't believe it was the trio he had fought when he came to this world. 'That irony is going to get me killed.' He left the shop to face the trio. He knew he couldn't fight them out right in broad day light without his costume; he always had a hard time thinking ahead when someone was in trouble. 'I can at least distract them until the police arrive.'

"Mr. Chung please tell me you have my money or else I can't guarantee I can protect your fine establishment." The ring leader said to the shop keeper. The firebender held some fire in his hand to drive the point home that insufficient funds equals severe punishment. Peter did get a little satisfaction seeing that the waterbenders little dive through that window left him with plenty of bandages over his face. Unfortunately the injuries didn't teach him a thing about humility.

"Please business has been slow this month." He reached down for the phonograph he was cleaning and held it up. "Here have a phonograph." His peace offering was met with a firebending kick which broke the appliance into a million pieces.

"My friend is not a music lover." The waterbender was enjoying every minute of the shopkeeper's torment.

Peter couldn't think of anything else to do but make his presence known. "Hey!" The trio was startled by the yell; it reminded them of the guy who handed them a beating of a lifetime. They almost sighed in relief when they took a look at who the voice belonged to. "Leave the guy alone. He doesn't have your money so give him a break." Peter knew he couldn't do much but he could at least have them focus on him and not the old man.

The earthbender got tired of the kid's little stare down and acted accordingly. "Buzz off shrimp!" The earthbender stomped the ground and in a flurry of dirt and rock puhsed Peter to the side of the shop wall hard. The glass even cracked a bit. He knew the attack was coming and it drove him nuts to just sit there and take it. The attack didn't hurt him in the slightest; Osborne's enforcers punched him harder on their off days. What was eating him was the fact that he always dodged on reflex. 'Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you your Friendly Neighborhood Punching Bag.' He thought. Hopefully the police response time was a hell of a lot faster here then back in New York. He pretended to act dazed and rubbed his head like he was hurt.

The Triple Threats had a good laugh at Peter's expense. The leader spoke up. "Well now that that little distraction has been taken care of." He turned to Mr. Chang. "Give us our money or else…"

"Or else what hoodlum!" The gang leader was interrupted by a female voice. The voice came from a Inuit looking girl with messy dark brown pony tail and bangs. She wore a form fitting light sleeveless shirt and baggy dark blue pants. A miscellaneous animal fur was wrapped around her waist and arm and wristbands wrapped around her arms. She stood there, her brown moccasins planted firmly on the street.

Peter didn't get a good look at her and the giant white blob behind her as he was still playing dead. The Triple Threats didn't take the girls threats seriously and laughed in unison. 'Seriously do they practice doing that?' Peter thought.

"Since you're obviously fresh off the boat let me explain a few things. You're in Triple Threat Triad territory and where about to put you in the hospital." The ring leader pointed at the girl with confidence.

Peter continued to play dead but was ready to jump into action at any time. Secret identity be damned, he wasn't about to let her get hurt. 'Great now I got to protect this crazy chick.'

"You're the only one who's going to need a hospital and for your sake I hope there's one nearby." She caught her fist and grinned.

The Triple Threat leader got dead serious. "Who do you think you are?" He said in a low growl.

"Why don't you come and find out." The crazy girl popped her knuckles in anticipation for a fight. The weird thing was she looked like she wanted to brawl.

Peter did his best to imitate a dazed weakling trying to get up. 'Alright Parker, don't let the crazy dame get hurt. As soon as they make a move jump in and drop these guys like a sack of hams. Then but out and hope no one got a good look at your face.'

The mob squad leader reached in his coat pocket like he was drawing a gun. He used his waterbending instead of a forty-five at the girl and, to Peter's surprise, the girl caught the water and sent it flying right back at the goon. She froze the thug's head in the process. He stumbled towards her and she kicked his iced over head on the triad's hot rod. The block of ice shattered and he was put to sleep.

'Well I'll be damned.' Peter was relieved he didn't have to expose himself since the girl could clearly take care of herself. 'I guess she can back up all that talk. Should've none she was a bender.' It was a good thing everyone was paying attention to the waterbender or else everyone would have seen him in his trademark fighting stance. He caught himself in time and pretended to faint from all the excitement. He wouldn't be winning any acting awards any time soon but his secret was secured.

The earthbender tried the same attack he used on Peter but the mystery waterbender girl actually continued his attack with earthbending and he couldn't believe his eyes. 'A waterbender and an earthbender? …No way.' Peter got his answer when the firebender sent a large hap hazard fireball her way only to be shoved away like it was nothing. She grabbed his hands and threw him through the front window of one of the surrounding shops.

"Got an idea who I am now chumps!" She stood tall after her victory over the ignorant Triple Threats, and Peter for that matter.

'Saved by the Avatar. I guess truth is stranger than fiction after all.' Peter thought as the Triple threats car rolled up and picked up the firebender as they made a break for it.

The Avatar ran towards the fleeing hot rod. "You're not getting away!" She said as she caused a small tremor that shot towards the fleeing hot rod. The small earthquake caused the car to flip and did a barrel role into another shop. The Avatar's grin returned. "Humph!"

'Hope she can pay for all this.' Peter thought as the massive white blob walked up to Peter. The blob materialized in his vision as a massive dog as it started licking Peter. "Ah!" He wasn't faking this time, this was a monster of a dog and it generally scared the wall crawler. This thing easily dwarfed great danes and saint bernards and the monster kept licking him. Its scale could be compared to a bear.

The Avatar came to Peter rescue again. "Naga NO! Bad girl, get off of him!" The dog followed her master's orders and walked behind her in defeat. The Avatar extended a hand to help him up. "Sorry about that, she just gets like that when she's hungry."

Peter adjusted his glasses and took the hand. "Ah not a problem. Thanks for the save by the way." He took off his glasses and started drying them off. Peter did his best to hide the look of embarrassment and kept an eye on the giant dog. 'And I thought I had to do the rescuing.'

"Don't mention it though you really shouldn't shoot your mouth off to a bunch of hoods if you can't fight." The Avatar said with a smile.

Peter almost squirmed from the 'shame' and laughed weakly. "Yeah I figured I had to do something and my mouth was faster than my head." He looked away. 'If you only knew.' "Oh by the way can I get my rescuer's name so I can thank you properly."

"Sure my name is Korra." She did a customary bow.

Then the metalbending police sirens became audible and surprised Korra but not Peter.

She looked up with wonder in her eyes. "Cool metalbenders." Peter didn't share her glee though. He knew how the police here treated good Samaritans. But hay they might be nicer considering she's the Avatar.

"Stay where you are!" A loud voice said. The voice came from none other than Captain Saikhan. A team of metalbenders descended to the ground in their usual manor and walked over to the Korra and Peter.

Korra pointed to the crashed hot rod and the destroyed shop. "I caught the bad guys for you officers."

"Arrest them!" Saikhan pointed to the dazed and confused thugs. The officers did just that and wrapped them up with cold steel. The captain walked over to Korra. "You're under arrest too!"

'Here we go.' The thought crossed Peter's mind. "Sir why is she under arrest? She was only trying to help and she saved me and that shop keeper over there."

"Yeah these two were helpless and I got them out of a jam." She said much to Peter's annoyance. "Besides they were smashing up the guy's shop."

"From the looks of it you smashed up a lot more than that." And with that he tried to bind Korra with the metal cables with a whip.

She caught the metal cables in mid-air and tried to reason with the cranky captain one last time. Peter backed away just in time to avoid the struggle between the two. "Wait you can't arrest me. Let me explain."

"You can explain yourself all you want down in headquarters." Saikhan replied with another attempt to capture Korra but she dodged the cables with a rolling back flip. The captain was about to go for another swipe but Naga rammed the captain flat on his back. The other officers who were not attending to the captured Triple Threats ran in to engage the Avatar. She quickly jumped on the giant dog and rode it away like a horse. Korra made her get away.

Peter saw Korra kicked a metal bender away as the others went into pursuit of the Avatar. "Hell of a girl." He said to himself.

Captain Saikhan got his bearings in check and rose to his feet. The other policemen were either in hot pursuit of the Avatar or making sure the captured Triple Threats stayed where they are. Either way the captain couldn't add much to the cause at the moment so he went to question some of the witnesses. He turned to the kid with the glasses who came to the Avatar's defense. "You!"

"That's me." Peter said on reflex, not looking at the captain.

Saikhan stopped and instantly recognized the retort. "What did you say kid?" His eyes locked with Peter's.

"Uh…I said 'that's me' sir." Peter was a little on edge. 'Didn't think a beat cop would be this sharp. Great now I got to make a run for it. There all busy with Korra so that shouldn't be too difficult.

The suspicious captain got closer to Peter. "Yeah that's what I thought you said." He came face to face with him. "I heard that wise crack and it wasn't funny the first time either."

'Crap. Better call on my inner book worm.' Peter adjusted his glasses again and put up his best scared kid farce he could. "Really sorry about the bad joke there Mr. big scary police man. You see I get real jumpy whenever I'm around authority figures and the bad jokes and awkward laughing comes outta nowhere when I'm un-easy." Peter prayed to god that he bought the story.

"You don't say? Well kid you shouldn't be un-easy around little old me. It's not like you have something to hide right." Saikhan got a weak smile from the kid and decided to go deeper. "What's your name son?"

"Uh my name is…Takuya. My name is Takuya sir." Peter pulled that name out of nowhere. He had to admit the name had a certain ring to it.

"Well Takuya, you want to know where I heard that bad joke before." The kid didn't look like much to Saikhan but he had a strange feeling about him.

Peter gulped when the Airships loud speaker called on the captain. "Captain Saikhan. We apprehended the Water Tribe girl and we got orders to return to base."

Saikhan took one last look at Peter before making his way to the airships lift cable. "Stay out of trouble kid."

"Will do sir." Peter replied with a wave.

'Stupid kid couldn't be Spider-Man. Poor guy almost wet himself just talking to me.' Saikhan thought as he was en route to police headquarters.

"If he'd cut that any closer and he would've hit bone." Peter said to himself as he walked back to the phonograph shop. He went back in and picked up the small radio. "Hay, Mr. Chung right, I know it's been a crazy day and all but can I still buy this radio?"

Mr. Chung was still shacken up from the ordeal but had enough sense to complete the transaction. "Young man did that Triple Threat hut your head too? You're acting like nothing happened, weren't you afraid?"

"Oh that? Well I try not to live in the past when I don't have to. So how much do I owe you?"

"Take it. You didn't exactly trade blows with those trouble makers but you did stand up for me and I say that's worth a radio so take it. It's on the house son."

"Huh thanks Mister." Peter smiled. 'Guess I got something out of that little humiliation.'

XXXxxx Small inconspicuous noodle restaurant xxxXXX

Zolt couldn't believe the warring triad gangs agreed to his meeting proposal. They were more scared of the Spider-Man then he thought. The gang leaders all agreed to meet in a small noodlery to discuss ways to deal with their mutual enemy and the terms to their alliance; if it holds that is. The conditions of the meet were that each boss could only bring themselves and a bodyguard as an escort. So Lighting Bolt Zolt just sat there waiting for the other bosses with Shaddy Shin sitting beside him on the large table.

"Where the devil are those eastside losers when you need em?" Zolt said as he took in a mouth full of noodles.

"They should be here any minute boss." Shady Shin said.

Zolt turned around and gave Shin a stern look. "Whatever. Look Shin, don't embarrass me here just try to look tough and keep your mouth shut. This whole meet is real fragile and I don't need it broken up with your words. Get me."

"No problem boss." Shin adjusted his shirt's neck line. Two men entered. It was an older bald man with a jet black suit and fedora and a taller young man in a Red Monsoon waterbending tunic. Zolt knew the Monsoon's boss when he saw him. He and Zolt went way back. They both used to be enforcers for Yakone back in the day. Of course there was no honor amongst thieves so they weren't exactly on speaking terms. Zolt smiled at his old friend. "Look what the cat owl dragged in. Taloak what's it been twenty years?"

Anyone could see the vain on Taloak's balled head. He straightened his black and blood red suit and spoke. "We aint here for idle chit chat about the good old days Zolt. Let's get down to business already."

"He comes in late and expects everyone to work on his time, typical Taloak." Zolt smirked. Just then the Agni Kai triad boss Ukaza walked through the simple restaurant door. She was younger then Zolt and Taloak. Her hair was long and jet black and she had a little of it covered her right eye. Her golden eyes were deadly serious and she wore a black dress with red overtones. She had a large fire breathing dragon etched into the skirt. She sat down abruptly. "Let's get this over with Zolt, I got stuff to do." She said.

Ukaza had quite a story about her. Rumor has it she was a former first officer in the Firenation navy. She had come from a long line of Firenation officers and she continued the tradition and was commissioned during the late reconstruction period. Her grandfather was an Ozi Loyalist and didn't take kindly to Fire Lord Zuko's leadership of her beloved nation. In fact the entire family thought Zuko stabbed their beloved country in the back when he reversed almost all of Ozi's polices. Ukaza only joined Fire Lord Zuko's navy because of the family tradition or for some vain attempt to recapture the glory days of Fire Lord Sozin. The Firenation navy kicked her out after she attempted to stage a mutiny on the courser she was serving on. They say she did it because the captain bad mouthed Fire Lord Ozi. All that rage and dishonor drove her to Republic City and like a raging inferno she made a name for herself in the cities underbelly. Nobody knows if this story is true or not but Ukaza never said they weren't.

Zolt gathered his thoughts and took a swing of water and started the meeting. "Gentlemen and Lady despite our...differences we can all agree that we have a serious bug problem that must be dealt with."

Despite Zolt choosing his words carefully, the other bosses still needed more convincing.

"What do you mean 'mutual bug problem' Zolt." Taloak gave Zolt the stink eye. "The freaks obviously hitten your guys the hardest. What's stopping me from walken outta here and letting the bug take your organization apart? Heck it'll by my guys more time to waste the freak with less competition to boot." Taloak was not impressed.

The insult was met with Zolt laughing at himself and shaking his head in amusement. "You see Taloak, that's why your strictly small time. You never could see the big picture."

The Agni Kai boss simply sat back while they got into their little shouting match. Her military thinking already came to the conclusion that she would need her rivals help with Spider-Man. It didn't matter which one would play ball.

"What are you yapping about Zolt!" Taloak's face contorted with rage.

Zolt always said Taloak got rotten luck being born a waterbender and not a firebender. "The freak takes down the biggest game in town, and let's not kid ourselves I am the biggest game in town, and all you have to worry about is Beifong, the bug, and miss scary over there." He nodded to Ukaza. She wasn't offended at all. He knew what she was here for.

"And who's not looking at the bigger picture Zolt!?" Taloak's little tantrum caused Zolt to get to the point.

"Tell me something, both of you." Ukaza started paying attention. "You heard from a few of your boys after they fought the bug right?"

"I got a few of my men back from the fuzz; the others are still in the hospital." Ukaza leaned back in her chair and folded her arms. Those words were harder on her then they would ever know.

Taloak was still scowling at Zolt. "It's the same for me, though I kicked one of the bums out for running from him. Stinken coward."

Zolt leaned forward over the table. "When they were telling their stories to you were they angry? Were they ready to go a few more rounds with the freak…or did they shake when they talked about him? Did they look away; did you notice the bass leaving their voices?" The triad bosses shook their heads and grunted in frustration and that was all the answer Zolt needed. "Thought so. That's why we need to work together on this one." He slammed his fist on the table almost spilling their drinks. Zolt wouldn't admit it out right but his enforcers acted the same way whenever Spider-Man came up. "You see a minor threat Taloak, I see the beginning of the end! We come together just this once and take this guy out before it's too late." He looked at the bosses' faces and gauged them for their responses.

Ukazu marinated on Zolt's words and came to a decision. "I'm in."

"What!? Ukaza I can't believe your buying this trash." Taloak said. He was about to get in full rant mood when his bodyguard whispered some news he overheard from one of the patrons into his ear. "…The Avatar's here!?" The news took everyone by surprise and took the fire out of Taloak's gut. Images of Avatar Aang taking Yakom's bending away flashed across his mind. The late crime lord was one of his personal icons. "First the spider freak and now the Avatar. Sigh, alright Zolt I'll join your little rat pack." The bodyguard whispered in his ear with more news. "Huh, apparently the Avatar smacked your boys around today Zolt." He didn't gloat too much he was simply stating a fact.

It was Zolt's turn to be mad. He did his best to hide his rage during this delicate proceeding. "Shin, get on the horn and see if this story true." Zolt's jaw line was wired shut with his concealed rage. He had hoped it was a baseless rumor. The Avatar's arrival would complicate things. "Alright now that we're all on the same page let's move on to the plan. We can worry about The Avatar on our own."

"About that, what's the plan for Spider-Man spit it out!"Taloak asked Zolt, who was still reeling from the Avatar's presence in the city.

"Spider-Man hit three of my boys when he made his little debut in the city. They were muscling in on a late payment, nothing fancy just standard procedure so on and so forth. My guys weren't goona kill him or anything like that; at worse they were going to break his legs. And they say that's when he showed up and went on to smack them around." He stopped to take a sip of water. "So I figure the guy is some kind of bleeding heart wannabe hero. So we use that hero complex of his and lure him into one of my warehouses. Then we box him in with our guys and go in for the kill. When we kill the spider we leave some foreboding note on his corpse. I'll leave that little tid pit to one of you."

"Which warehouse are we going to use?" Ukaza asked.

"We'll use the one on the Southside of town." Zolt answered.

"I have to admit Zolt this is a good plan, but what do we do when the dust settles and the spider is dead? You expect us to get together and sing secret tunnel."

"No Taloak, we go back to business as usual. We do this once and we can go our separate ways and go back to being at each other's throats for the prize of this city." Zolt said with malice in his voice and an evil smile on his face. The thought of hitting his two rivals with lighting went through his head. Their smoldering corpses made his smile wider.

Ukaza stood and got made her exit. "I can live with that Zolt. Call me with any more details."

Taloak followed suit leaving Zolt all to himself. He waited a bit for Shin to come back with fact checked news. Unfortunately the rumors were all true. The Avatar got Two Toed Ping's squad locked up and they weren't going to get out anytime soon since this was their third strike. "I didn't expect the Avatar to show his mug so soon. So how did the Avatar get here Shady?"

"She boss." Shin corrected Zolt.

"Huh?"

"The Avatar's a Water Tribe girl."

Zolt sighed. "Now the Spirits are just maken fun of me. Poor schmuck's get all the luck huh. Let's get outta here Shady." Zolt said as he got up. "Waitress, get me some steamed dumplings to go."

An anxious waitress came up to him. "Yes sir, with your friend's drinks and your meal that will be twenty-seven yuans."

"What did you say to me?" Zolt glared at the young waitress.

"Umm…the bill was twenty-seven yuans sir." The waitress shivered, her fear was evident.

Zolt exhaled fire as he held back a savage rage. "Do you know who I am girl!"

Zolt almost burned her when Shady Shin stopped him.

"Boss we don't need this right now. Come on we got bigger things to worry about right now. Don't throw everything away on her she doesn't know any better. Please boss." Shady's attempt to quell Zolt's rage was successful.

"Fine." He glared back at the waitress. "Get my food and get out of my face." Zolt said in a low growl. She complied with tears in her eyes and the duo made their way out of the restrant in a fancy Satomobile.

The waitress waited an hour before going outside to a phone booth. "Hello…Yes this is Mei Ling. I have important information and …no this is big…The triads are planning to ambush, what was his name, Spider-Man… 'Which one', All of them! …They're going to do it in a warehouse…its one of Lightning Bolt properties…Yes thank you brother…may the revolution come upon us."

A/N: Hello there fandom long time no see. Sorry for the wait guys I would have gotten this chapter our sooner but life got in the way. (You know what I mean) The next chapter will be a dozy so that one might be a little late. Anyway I wanted to get some news out on this new system to that all of you can see how far along I am on chapters. Here's how it works. I divide each chapter into 5 phases.

(Outline Phase)-The easiest part.

(Rough Draft Phase)-A little more time consuming here. This is where I put the basic structure of the story.

(Edit Phase)- This phase isn't that time consuming; it only took me a day and a half to do this phase for this chapter. This is basically where I read over the vomited words I wrote and put a little more thought into the wording and story elements.

(Final Draft Phase)-I take all of the edited work and type it out. I read over the edited rough draft and see what I want to keep and what gets kicked to the kerb. Example: The arughing future industries workers in the last chapter were added in this phase. (Did you guys think Ukaza was always a women lol).

(Publish Phase)-Basically what your reading right now with some responses to reviews and other information.

These phases will be displayed on my profile page for all to see so you guys can at least get a sitrep on where I am from the next chapter.

PS: Any artist out there? I am not a good artist at all and to be frank I think anyone could get Peter some better clothes then I can make up. I'll put my deviantart page link on my profile page so you guys can see my terrible attempt at artwork of Peters new clothes. So any takers on that? ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH…WOMAN ENOUGH!

And now we move on to my favorite part and respond to a few of these reviews. And by the way people, I don't mind anonyms reviews I just ask that you put a name with them. I only ask this of you because I like responding to you guys thoughts on my work.

PPS: Thanks for catching any grammatical error I may have missed. I get a little sloppy when I'm close to publishing time.

DISCLAIMER: You can stop here if you want. Till next time guys!

Guest 1(this is what I mean) – I tell you what I told this person when they requested a story crossover. First of all no, I will not be writing that Spider-Man/One piece crossover for two reasons. One, I just don't really care for One Piece. I never got into that franchise and it would be a chore if I were to write that story. You see this story right here is fun to write and that's why I keep coming back. Two, I just don't think I would do it justice. Again I don't care for that story and that would show through my writing. I can sit down and watch Legend of Korra any day of the week and watch it like it was the episodes debut all over again. And Spider-Man…I've been a fan of his since I was 6 and that affair is still going strong in my 20's. In conclusion, I really appreciate your faith in my writing skills, and I'm still a newb to this site, but like I said I just wouldn't do One Piece justice if I wrote it. It's not like I hate it or anything. I just saw that one episode on Toonami last night with Afro Luffy and I laughed my a$$ off on that one.

Guest 2(seriously people name 1 or 2 will suffice) :Yep staying on this one only. I've seen my favorite writer have a tone of story ideas and with his update frequency we will be on our death beads before he get to Idea 7. So yeah staying on this one only; thought I do have an Ultimate Ironman/Young Justice crossover rattling around in my overactive imagination.

That Geeky Guy- Thanks bud. As for Peter learning Airbending…ERROR 404! ERROR 404! FILE NOT FOUND!

Guest 3(…you know my gripe) Yeah that was always the plan with the pacing though my original plan had things going much slower than they are now. Spider-Man was originally going to meet Korra around the episode "And the Winner is" episode. And you really think my grammar is getting better that's good. That kind of thing really bothers me sometimes.

Captain Ash: Huge Shout out to this guy. He's the one who gave me the fake name Peter used on Saikhan. So Thanks again man your golden. And Groovy!

Aztec 13: Please be patient with the stories. This thing takes time for me and I won't quiet anytime soon. And believe me when I say that all of my readers will know if I'm taking a hiatus or something(hopefully I can do that because if I can't then something seriously bad has happened to me). I'm not mad or anything man just wanted to let you know.

Guest 5(I'm starting to rage man. Lol jkjk): I don't intend on adding any of Spider-Man Noir's roges gallery in this story. But the sequel though…

Hyper Peter: So many topics to cover with you jeez dude. I don't think I turned up Zolt's intelligence that much. Think about it, he was the only one to bring three bending groups into his criminal empire and that decision took him straight to the top of the food chain if the triads. And he's been in business for a long time without any major arrest against him. That takes a little bit of intellect. Granted Zolt isn't a Rhoads scholar or anything like that but he does have some tricks up his sleeves. Now my theory on what we all saw in episode 3 was the caged animal in Zolt. He was utterly defeated and his rage got the better of him when he fought Amon. That's his weakness. His arrogance and rage ultimately led to his down fall. Or maybe I just like writing smart interesting villains I don't know. On that council meeting Tenzin won nothing in city hall it was more of a stale mate between him and Tarrlok. I might even go as fare to say that the only thing Tenzin did was buy himself a little time so that the other members don't fall for Tarrlok bs law making. And finally on your last review. Peter is not Batman he's a traumatized kid with issues. He fights his pain by actually fighting the bad guys and trying to move on from Uncle Ben vicious murder. So to answer your question, he's not so much a pariah he's more of an cool urban legend that no one is sure that he exists or not. Not so much dark but not exactly bright either. Thanks for the input.