In a dark laboratory, many glass pods are hanging from the high ceiling with many sheltering feminine-looking mannequins connected with various tubes while floating in an orange liquid. Said liquid being the only light source in the room.
Two nurses can be seen standing beside each other, and another figure that was mechanical by nature but still wore a buttoned jacket furry collar.
"Christmas, Valentine. I have a mission for both of you and the Last Hope that we can never pass up."
"Then what is it, sir?"
"I want you to conduct a raid to find this anomaly."
He turned his back towards them, & a film projector from out of nowhere shot a map of the continent.
"Our Theonite readers have picked up massive readings in this specific location of No Man's Land." A circle appeared around a dot within a small bordered land on the map.
"That's an hour's flight from here," Valentine added.
"Indeed. We do not know if it is an abandoned secret hydra base or Victor had secrets that he took with his grave and we're just uncovering it now."
"Which Victor?" Val asked but only received a lowered head from Brain Drain but his eyes still drilling a hole in her.
Seeing the uneasiness, Christmas diverted right back at the topic, "So, you want us to investigate? We could drop down from the sky to avoid Border Patrol."
"And take whatever it is down there." He finished as he gazed longingly at the screen, feeling the somewhat importance of whatever the Anomaly is there.
ZzzzzzzZZ
BONK!
"Ow! What the hell, Flash?!"
"Wakey Wakey, Snoozeloozers! Hahahahaha! And you too, Puny!" The Jock pitched another football.
SENSE. In a quick reaction, a sleepy Peter side bends his head to evade the incoming brown oval sports ball.
"Aww, you missed." an overweight schoolkid carrying a basket full of the projectiles, commented right beside Flash.
"Shut it, Kong. Nerd's lucky that he has a droopy head." He grabs another and tossed it.
Peter on the other hand sighs in defeat if he wants to keep his Alter ego a secret, so he receives a bonk right on the back of his head.
BONK! ' At least it's way better than what Gobby was dishing'
The Hit completely woke him up and found himself in front of the school grounds & wearing a school uniform like his best friend. Looking back to see their bullies laughing their butts off.
'I don't know which has the more irritating laugh: Green Beans or Flashy Nakey over there. Or maybe they're both the same person, I mean both are ape flinging maniacs with some great accuracy.'
He and his best friend kept walking into the school grounds and reached their lockers, which were coincidentally a cell next to each other also both being at torso height.
"Man, aren't we both sleepyheads?" Harry struck first
"Yeah, just pulled an all-nighter last night."
"Me too, Pete."
"Aren't we getting our test results today?" Peter grabbed a book and shut his locker door.
"Oh yeah! You'll probably get an A just like last time." Harry did the same thing and closed his locker.
They casually converse on their way to their classroom, while passing many schoolmates.
"Hey, didja' hear that the Medicis got attacked by a buncha' Halloween Enthusiasts last night?" Osborn pulled a Bugle newspaper & pointed at pictures of pumpkin masked hooligans on the cover.
"Y'do know I was there that night, right?" He gave a phony lie but his friend ate it all up.
"Oh! Sorry, my head is still a bit in the snooze."
"It's okay, so what are you reading in the paper?"
"Well I read that Filia was heroically shielded by Eddie, and the local star: Cerebella managed to save the day."
"And?"
"And what?"
"You mean to tell me, that those are the only guys that saved the day?!"
"I mean, yeah. Who else?"
From the response, Peter snatched the newspaper from a frightened Harry, "That slanderous Jameson! I saw Spider-Man battling the Green Goblin, He's taking away my-Spidey's credit." He abruptly checked himself before committing the grammar mistake.
He kept reading the newspaper to find more details, 'Hmm it says; costume maniacs attacked the Medicis with many casualties from the fighting along with them is the local celebrity, Cerebella being injured and many more dead...;'
Upon finishing his reading he felt like someone had punched him in the gut or shot him in the gut like-like… 'I felt since he-he…'
Before he could finish the thought, he felt a touch from his shoulder and found the finger of his best friend tapping him.
"You okay, Pete?"
"Y-yeah, whatever. Let's attend class before Victoria smacks us with a ruler or does the book standing thing."
"OoOoOhh." Both shivered at the last time they were standing with their knees bent while holding books in both outstretched hands.
The duo entered the classroom with Peter sitting at the window side and Harry next to him. Peter looked behind him to find the school princess' seat empty.
'It's very understandable if she needs time to recollect after being attacked last night.'
'Maybe if I could've changed faster, maybe her father never would have been scared or more deaths could've been prevented.'
Smack! A loud wooden smack echoed throughout the classroom that made every student turn their heads frontwards.
"Goodmorning, students!"
"Goodmorning, Missus Victoria!"
'Perhaps attending class may ease my mind.' he reassures himself.
"This may surprise you for today, but a new student moved in and has enrolled in our class." Murmurs spread around the whole classroom, leading to their teacher being irritated from their rudeness
Smack!
After everyone cleared their voices, Mrs. Victoria continued, "Please make the best impression for our new student. You can kindly come out now, Miss Beeson."
The door opened to reveal a tanned, short-pink-haired girl wearing their female school uniform, waving her hands and curving her lips to the rest of the class.
"Hello, as Missus Victoria has told you: My name is Melissa Beeson." She took hold of the chalk and wrote her full name on the board, yet unintentionally showing her behind to everyone.
"Holy moly, she's a hottie!" Osborn whisper-yelled.
'That I agree.' Peter thought to himself
Unfortunately for Harry, their teacher was shooting daggers at him, and mouthing, "After. Class." which made the half-elf gulp in fear, while Peter just stared in disappointment & pity.
After finishing writing her name, she turns around to greet the class, "I hope you all treat me well!" and makes her way to seat herself behind Peter's chair.
"Oh! Um… that seat is taken." Peter timidly warned.
"But I don't see anyone sitting here?" she replied playfully
"That's for the school princess but she is currently absent."
"She can send a complaint tomorrow if she likes."
'Well well well, someone's challenging the throne for Meridian High's miss pretty princess.'
"Attention, Class!" Upon hearing their teacher, they saw her moving a table with wheels for legs & carrying top of it is a movie projector.
"Today, we will have a history lesson about one of the devastated countries in No Man's Land! Could you guess which one?"
"Symkaria?" Peter answered first.
"Hmm… Close."
"Latveria!?" The new girl returned.
"Correct!"
WRRRR!
Above the high clouds, a giant plane is soaring through the heavens, and inside it, is a dark shuttle colored red from the jump signal being the only light source.
The dark shuttle is stored full of female figures sitting at the side bench while wearing military paratrooper uniforms.
"So ya' tellin' me that we slip in the Banjaxed Lawtveria, rob the dead fecker's Kha-leh, an' ditched the shitehole with this birdy?" asked by a horned girl.
"That sums it all up." Valentine reminded.
"Aight but how we ditchin' exawctly? We don' have boikes or jeeps to scram outta there."
"Newly made a mechanism that was researched called the Skyhook. It releases a balloon that this plane will try to hook." a male voice echoed onto everyone's minds
"Sounds wee bit deadly, Brainy? Hangin' loike a Piñata an' how about Easter here bein' thicker than a bowl of oatmeal, she cood' snap the bleeding line."
The comment received a growl from her Massive co-worker, "Maybe hanging you like a Piñata isn't so bad once I start beating you."
"Oooh, not until I stourt crackin' you first!"
After hearing their bickering, their red-head leader stood up in dominance, "Enough ladies! Patty stop instigating, and pipe down, Easter!"
"We need a quick getaway after we trigger the security, and alarm the leftover Doombots guarding the place." Christmas explained the plan.
"But isn't dem Doombots all have crazy magic powers? How our we gon' pass them?"
"Like Chess kingdom automatons, our state-of-the-art theonite EMP could temporarily fry their systems before they start waking up. They'll never see it coming."
EEEH!
Upon the sound reaching their ears, the red light turned off but the green bulb flashed right beside it, signaling that they are above their destination.
"You see the light ladies, it's time to fall in!"
The freight door lowered itself and the ladies got a view of the sunrise sky. They promptly ran fast & leap to the cloudy sky.
"WOOO! I'M HAVIN' A CRAICING TIME!" The goat feral squealed in excitement while she & the rest of Last Hope felt the passing breeze upon their faces, they were nearing the clouds in a speeding descent.
"Formations!" Christmas ordered.
Just like the preparations they had before the mission, the group of ladies collected themselves to form a ring which made them feel the decreasing speed of their fall.
And falling for some short time, they all pulled a rope from their backpacks that released an expanding cloth that slowed their descent to the ground.
On their slowing descent, the clouds are starting to clear away & have much better eyesight on what's below them. In the distance, is what appears to be building ruins on top of a large green hill & a small abandoned city below it. The whole place is surrounded by a river, creating a natural moat.
In a dark classroom where the windows are blocked by curtains & the only light source can be found from the film projector showing an image of a grand castle on a green hill, overlooking a small city underneath and a river surrounding the beautiful location.
"What is the capital's name in this picture that I've shown?"
"Hassenstadt?" Harry answered this time.
"Doomstadt?" Melissa returned.
"Correct again Miss Beeson! And you too Harry!"
"I thought there should only be one capital per country?" Flash questioned.
"No, Eugene. It is still the same capital but the name was recently changed by a dictator-who?"
"Victor von Doom." Melissa answered.
"Exactly!"
"Pssh. What kind of egotist names a city after himself?"
An image flickered to show a man wearing knight armor, a green cloak covering him, and his iconic metal mask. The man was standing with his arms crossed on a roofless car driving through a street full of cheering people on the sidelines.
"This picture was taken a day after Doom, himself led an offensive against the Canopy army without a single human casualty to his side. The most destructive defeat the Canopy kingdom ever faced before any war there was."
"How so? Isn't Latveria pretty small and irrelevant?" Peter asked.
"For a time, it was. Until Doom came along and usurped the throne from King Karl Hassen the third, then massive changes started occurring when he was on the throne."
The next image is an army of green, metallic lookalikes all aligned themselves in formations while saluting the King of Latvaria who was standing on his castle's balcony.
"He somehow amassed an army of magic-powered Automatons that greatly resembled himself and managed to go toe-to-toe with the three superpowers."
With their parachute on their backpacks, they glided towards the ruined castle and over the walls. Upon landing on the stone ground, they quickly unbutton their paragliding suits and unveil their nurse outfits and their ninja-medical equipment.
"Aah! Lawtveria! The only country that manages to kick three gigantic arses at the same toime!"
"Keep that one to yourself, Patty," Holly warned
"Ye ye! Oi'll nevour shut me mouth, ye belt mouth."
"Focus, everyone! Where is the EMP?" Christmas barked.
"Right here!" Valentine came in with an object in her hand; a palm-sized metal cylinder with an obvious red button on one end.
"Hey this is locked!" the sound came from the goat feral trying to yank the tall doors' knockers.
After subsequent yanking failed, she was pulled over by their oversized teammate, "Leave this one to me, lil' lamb."
After being pulled over, Easter took a few steps away & cracked her neck for preparation then bulldozed against the wooden door, sending splinters everywhere from the impact.
CRASH!
She later came to a halt and flicked off a splinter from her left shoulder. Looking back on her destruction, she smiled smugly at her feral teammate only being met with quiet Irish cursings.
They observed the surroundings until they spotted a tall throne and a gigantic stained glass that was above-said throne while cracked and missing a few glass pieces, yet still showering colored sunlight over the room. Confirming they were indeed in the throne room. The place was still standing but specks of dust & debris littered the ground and cobwebs hanging above castle arches.
"The signal is directly here, search the whole room and any possible clue to lead us to it."
They quickly investigate the whole room with Patty smashing a few precious decors. Easter gently lifting furniture for secret passages. Christmas ordering Patty to stop causing unnecessary damages.
Meanwhile, Val & Hal were staring right at the throne with Valerie being silent and Holly showing a worried expression.
"Hey… I know you & him had history but-"
"Forget it, Holly. Let's just look for the damn anomaly and be done with this." Valerie walked over behind the throne and flicked a hidden switch.
RUMBLE
Hearing the rumbling sound, the ceiling shook in vibrations and dust started falling off. The throne, on the other hand, slid aside and revealed a dark lowering stone stairway.
"So obvious! Oi should've known the egotist had a cliche secret way from his chaiyr." Patty exclaimed.
Marching onwards in their dark descent for a good ten seconds to find a wide hallway decor with valuables & artifacts belonging to different cultures from around the world & metal men aligned themselves right outside the long green carpet leading to a sitting metal armor with a green cloak over a smaller throne.
But what was the most obvious detail was the blue glowing circle at the chest from the armor. Valentine pulled out a small grey rectangle device & pointed the object towards it which resulted in many, strong clicks from her detector.
"The Anomaly."
"Back then, He preferred being addressed as Doctor Doom but enemies and allies alike called him, The Infamous Ironman."
Another image has shown sunlight flying over him with his charging metal army against another mechanized army of Chess themed golems, specifically Rooks.
"And this battle took place over Symkaria with the Chess kingdom suffering many automated casualties and shortly being reversed engineered by the Latvarians, furthermore turning the Rooks against their creators."
The next image showed a green symbol over a black circle located on the left side and a black cross under it with a red outline outside the black parts, lastly the green background.
"After liberating the neighboring nation, he set out to conquer back more territory that was most of today's No Man's Land. His motive was to save the world from human problems like greed & hatred but also save them from the future Skullgirl before it was too late. Or so he says in his visions."
Another image of him fighting alongside from the air with King Franz, Gilgamesh, and Captain Canopy who was wearing a Stahlhelm helmet with a white star in front, & goggles underneath while wearing a dieselpunk grey military uniform to complement. On his hand, is a round shield with a white star on the middle like the one on his helmet, the round background is black instead of blue, and the rest is red and white rings.
Rough idea
The trio was facing non other than the Queen of the Canopy Kingdom Herself, the Skullgirl: Queen Nancy.
The female group was drawn closer to the object until Christmas lifted her hand to stop them. She motioned Valentine with her and approached the armor.
Pulling out her razor Wakizanshi bone saw she tried prying the damn thing & popped it right off. "Well, this is too easy."
"Valentine! Be careful!" Christman warned.
"If it works, it works." she smiled smugly underneath her mask.
EEEEH! EEEEH! EEEEH!
A screeching alarm blared throughout the abandoned building that resulted in many of the mechanical men standing, coming to life to retrieve the stolen property & trying to dispatch the female intruders.
"Damn it! Use the EMP!" Christmas ordered which Valentine willingly followed through with a push of a button from the device.
BOOM!
A large bluish explosion enveloped the whole room, which resulted in the robots shaking in electricity and slouching over to indicate their temporary shut down. After that, the room was shaking & more dust was poured on the ground.
"We have the anomaly, now let's get out before we get crushed!" Hallow screamed
The Last of Hope ran in a frenzy towards upstairs and narrowly being crushed from the falling debris. They stop to look back at the sealed stairway while panting hard from their escape.
The goat member swipes away her eyebrows filled with sweat, "Wooh! That eee-em-pee thin' did a number on them robots luckily we don't have to deal with one of the-... " She stared at the back with disbelief.
The rest of the group turned around & find themselves in front of the same Doctor Doom armor, now hovering with his jetpack & was glaring below at them but. Lastly, the hole in his chest indicates the missing Arc Reactor.
"All Intruders will be disintegrated. Including you, Valerie."
(Line)
"Class is over! No homework since it is Halloween tomorrow night!" Mrs. Victoria loudly announced throughout the whole classroom.
Many of the students stuffed their belongings in their bags & booked it to the exit and headed to the cafeteria to eat their lunch over there. But not everyone managed to leave since Mrs. Victoria called out a few students.
"Harry! You're in detention!"
"Oh, maaan!" Harry moaned.
"And you, Peter!"
"Why am I in trouble!?" Peter protested too.
"You're not in trouble. We just need you to tour Miss Beeson here." she motioned her hand at the pink-haired student, "Is that any trouble?"
"Um, no Ma'am! Just surprised, that's all."
After the little conversation between teacher & student, the two students left behind Harry & roamed around the campus to show the rooms & activities these rooms were involved with.
"And this is the school's workshop where mechanics and other engineering projects are worked on," he stated joyfully.
"I could tell a nerd like you, visits this place frequently." she giggled.
"Well, I mean i-it is true that I make things he-here." he stutters at a few words 'Nice going Pete.'
"Calm down, four-eyes. Y'know… you nerds are pretty cute when you all go shy away." leaning in closer to his face.
'Whewy. Ok, calm down Pete. You faced life-threatening situations, you should not be pressured by a cutie.'
"Um-, That's everything in this school, so I'll take my seat at the cafeteria since I'm kinda starving." He stated in fear, & walked off in embarrassment towards the cafeteria, alongside Melissa.
(Line)
BOOM! BOOM! ZAP!
Lighting was being flung across the whole throne room with the Last Hope constantly dodging many of the attacks. But what was noticeable was the attacks were weaker compared to the last time they faced him during the war.
Easter grabbed the throne itself and threw the whole damn thing against the cloaked menace. It hit Doom which resulted in him falling on the ground.
The Metalman slowly lifted himself & faced the group of tired women.
What noticeable feature they saw was the blue sparks of electricity coursing through him, indicating its mechanical origin.
"It's a Doombot! Use the EMP!" Christmas barked
Valentine on the other hand instinctively pressed the device that resulted in another enveloping blue explosion which led to frying of the Doombot.
Seeing their chance, Patty launched her javelin at great speed and penetrated the armor but the Doombot pulled & threw it back at her, which she narrowly sidestepped.
Christmas came from behind to slice his metal calf, and a stab through his nape protruded the scalpel-katana inside his mouthpiece in brutal fashion.
After the resulting beatdown, Easter came for the finisher with her bodybags that wrapped around the Bot, next she clobbered the black plastic seal.
To then threw it upwards with many of the nurses throwing certain projectiles at the object from sword-scalpels, IV spear, and syringes with mysterious liquids.
Resulting in an unmoving bodybag punctured with all sorts of objects like a glorified pincushion.
They escape through the door and stay in the courtyard to wait for their exit.
"We are at the extraction point, Brain Drain!" Christmas requested hurriedly.
"Extraction may take a while but nearby reinforcement will arrive shortly."
"Ready your skyhooks, ladies!"
*Not yet.* a mechanical male voice came from the dark hallway with the Doombot's silhouette's cloak fluttering from the wind.
"He seriously still aloive!" complained a panting Patty.
*What you Miss-demeanors took, was rightfully mine! My legacy!* it said while lifting its hand & crushing the air to form a fist.
The Last of Hope group formed in their combat stances all except their second in command, "Your legacy is gone, Victor!"
*B-but Valerie! I need that reactor for my power! To save the world from its evil corruption of men and the selfish desperation of women that led them to the next Skullgirl, unlike last time!*
Valentine, on the other hand, stared at him in sorrow. Reminiscing her childhood with the Dictator of how they play in the fields, how they didn't have to worry about Skullgirls & still disheartening at the fact that her former lover died a long time facing the last Skullgirl but his purity to save the world became its corruption to cold-heartedness stab her heart the most.
"Y-you are not the real Victor! But a shadow of who you were!"
*No! I am real! And I will save the world for the last time!* He levitated on the air & began with a flurry of lighting attacks that only hit the walls of the courtyard with the Last Hope dodging from the angered automaton.
Valentine slid under lighting & jumped over another one. She ran along the walls to keep distracting her lover's creation's fury.
*You will submit to my righteous rule!*
"Super-sonic Jazz!" another mechanical male voice jumped in.
"What the-" before he could finish the sentence, the Doombot was hammered by a gigantic golden rocket of instrument that made it fly across the courtyard & crash at a stone brick wall.
After the attack, the figure landed that gave Valentine the chance to observe the hulking cyborg; Its height is 7'7, wearing a beige coat that covers most of its body & wearing the same colored hat. His skin tone is dark, & the lacks under the coat are revealed to be too small to possibly carry its whole weight.
"You want a beat down, King?" he reeled himself in preparation, "because this dance will be your Doom!"
*No! I must save Latveria and the world!*
"Newsflash, Majesty! Latveria is gone and you're just a machine pretending to be a man that made expendables like you!"
Hearing those words, the bot lifted & looked at his sparking forearms to realize the truth of his identity. He formed a fist once more in anguish, *Maybe you are right, but his legacy will still live on!*
The Doombot charged through with his jetpack in screaming fury, *RAAAHH!*
"Uh-uh! Flick that EMP beat, Val!" Shortly after his immediate request, Val activated the device again & the resulting automaton suffered in fatigue.
BOOM!
After the bot shakes some more, Big Band swoops in with his finisher; by charging through with his super-sonic dash again at the Doombot by transforming into a rocket-powered instrument; Brass against Tin.
"Horn Crush!"
WHAM!
But after the smash, Big Band did not relent with his next attack. Being, a flurry of gatling punches that repeatedly pummeling the poor Tinman.
TUBATUBATUBATUBATUBATUBATUBATUBA!
TUUUUUBAH!
Because of the destructive force of the finishing attack, the cloaked robot was propelled forwards, resulting in it crashing through the metal main gate, bending the portcullis outwards where it kept bouncing on the ground.
Stopping from the momentum with its jetpack, it stumbled a few times from his bent & dented metal legs with sparks of blue electricity dancing around it. Even with all the damage it received, it still lifted its singular finger in a declaration.
*I-I sti-ill, must li-ive o-on in mem-or-!" SLICE! Thump!
Before he could finish his last line, he was decapitated by none other than Valerie, who teleported from behind. She walked over the fallen head & held it with her two hands.
"You may now rest, Victor. I can no longer love who you now represent but I still adore those times in my memory when we were young." She leaned her head against the robotic forehead and kissed it sorrowfully.
"I may not have had the chance back then, but Goodbye Vicky. You've been a good man, a hero to those who look up for you." Upon finishing her last whispers, a cold-mechanical announcement came from the head.
*Self-Destruct will be initiated for 60 seconds*
Sensing the urgent danger, she teleported in the incoming plane where said plane can be seen hooking the rest of the Last Hope while Big Band flew near them.
"Hey! Can you lower the Hangar!" Valentine followed by pushing the button to let the jazz machine in the metal bird.
"So, it's done?"
"Yeah, it's done. Just wish things could've been different if they just played differently."
BOOM!
A bright light came by that could've blinded Valentine if it weren't for her enhanced eye that was designed to resist flashbangs. However, her coworkers had to look away from the explosion.
After the artificial God rays died down, they could only see a crater of what was once a beautiful nation that was Latveria that was nothing more than a distant memory.
"Mission Accomplished, The Theonite Arc Reactor is at our hands"
(Line)
On a random street corner, several classic cars are driving by a humble bodega deli store filled with numerous groceries; some fresh fruits & vegetables, others are packets, cans & small boxes of food or candy. And a glass countertop displaying cold meats.
Where a brown-skinned man is reading two newspapers oddly enough, one of them being from the Bugle & the other labeled as "Seven Year Night Scout".
"Like I was saying, this Spider-guy is causing trouble in the streets. He could be possessed by a parasite for all we know. Isn't that right, Murph?"
He motioned his hand to a sleeping cat, receiving a pleasing purr from it. Grinning with satisfaction, he dropped the Daily Bugle paper & took hold of the "Scout" Paper.
Reading it claimed, "Wrestling hero: Beowulf, now dethroned from the championship by his main rival: The Grizzly!"
"Can't believe it." whispers to himself.
Dingling!
The sound came from a bell in front of the door that was opened by a white-haired cat-woman wrapped in her black trenchcoat & black fedora ribbon, tied with yellow banding.
Nadia smiled directly at the shop owner while approaching him. When she got to the counter, her clawed hand was beginning to pet the sleeping cat.
"Hey, can I get a cheeseburger?"
"Of course, if you don't steal more of my potato chips! Or I'll double the price from now on for you!"
"Come on! That's not fair! Finder, keepers n' all."
BANG! Dingling!
Before anyone could react three figures banged through the door with two are humans; one overweight & the other skinny, & lastly is a wolf feral with a mustache. All wearing suspenders with the wolf wearing a black collar shirt & brown pants.
"Rent's due, Delmar!" barked the Wolf which resulted in waking up a disgruntled Murphy who was now hissing in danger.
"Nadia walk away. Now." he nervously whispered behind her ear.
"Listen to the man, Puss puss! Haha!" The Wolf came by near her and he groped her bottom.
Feeling threatened, she clawed his right eye with a singular slash while hissing in defense. The Wolf, on the other hand, pulled out a pistol from his pocket & backed away slowly in safety.
"Alright! Slash me again n' we shoot up this place, ya' hear!" he scowled in fury at the owner & aimed the gun at the scared man, "Your protection's due, no late payments this time!"
"How about we chop the bastard! Ain't that right, Lawrence?" The slim Riccardo nudged his partner, but Lawrence was less enthusiastic with the ordeal but still relent of pulling his machete.
"But that's impossible to pay with that amount! My business can't produce that much money! I didn't even ask for your protection, Bigsby!" Delmar clasps his hands in a desperate plea.
"Then how about we start by paying blood! Starting with Mister Murphy." he angled his iron at the still hissing animal until…
Dingling! Thwip!
BANG!
"Not surprised that the dog would shoot the kitty first." Quipped someone from the front door.
Before anyone comprehends what just happened, Bigsby looked at his hand to be missing his gun & looked back to see the figure was spinning his gun and slingshot it at Lawrence smack dab to the face.
"Ah! Mai Shnoze!"
"Haha! Score~!" the figure singed in victory.
"Its-its Spider-Man!" the three racketeers yelled in fear.
"The one and only! Oh, so you guys must be the three stooges! One celebrity to another!" he quipped, that gave Nadia a giggle.
Spider-Man followed by shooting web lines among the Racketeers with a total of three of them being pulled outside the bodega. Which landed on the sidewalk & Riccardo hit his face again at the nearby traffic pole, "OW! Mai larj schnoze!"
Lawrence recovered first and charged, "Real funny! Hayah!" The gangster came in with a chopping maneuver with his machete but Spidey out-maneuvered him shamefully again & simply tripped him with his left leg.
"Sweetcakes, you really gotta start exercising or your sandbag of a belly might spillover!" This quip earned a burst of howling laughter at the feline customer
"HAHAHA! This guy is still dishing more than I could!"
SENSE
Bigsby on the other hand, was sneaking up behind the arachnid but was thwarted again with a web being shot under his chin & wrapped around his snout to the point he can no longer bite.
Then he was kicked against the pole and squished poor Riccardo, "Seriously guys, we gotta stop meeting like this."
"People are starting to talk," Afterward, Spider-Man webs them up together underneath the pole, "mostly about what big doofs you are."
"Especially the fact I already webbed Bone chewer over here last week from the money laundering hideout" He leaned closer to the troublemakers, "and you two from last week's burglary."
"You guys really like playing; Trick-or-Treat-hardcore."
EHOOOHH!
Out of the blue, a cop car came to a halt beside the group & two police officers came out with their Colts pointed at the Web-head.
"Freeze, Spider-Man!"
Thwip, thwip!
Nevertheless, their arresting attempt was futile since both of their guns were yanked away in an instant.
"Guys! I did like eighty percent of your job, and this is how you repay me?! I am very heartbroken~." he mockingly whimpered.
After disarming the boys in blue, he leapt away in great heights then shot a line to swing away from the scene.
'Still have time for my internship, well better swing to it.'
Notes:
Didn't expect Doom to be the Iron man, huh? Remember, this is a spider-man centric story & the rest of the Marvel characters are doing its own thing like certain characters being killed off to make it so that spider-man will have to fight hard for a barely worth victory, especially once he faces the Skullgirl in a year and finds out what the Medicis really are sooner.