Spider-Moon 2 – The Tri-ad Connection.
Chapter 3: The Hunt for the Tri-Ad location.
It had been a little over three hours since the girls had arrived at Rei's, and still no one had any idea at all where Peter was. They had figured that he was somewhere in Tokyo still dressed as Spider-Man, but other then that they had no idea at all. "Where in the world could he be?" Rei asked again for the third time in that hour alone. "You've been asking that for the past several hours Rei, I don't think that's going to make him show up any sooner." Makoto told her. Rei already knew that, but she figured that it was one way of blowing off steam at the fact that Peter wasn't there. "Yeah, but the question still remains as to where he is, which is the one thing that we don't know right now." Haruka had been sitting at the entrance to the door just looking out towards the section of the city that the door faced. "Well Michiru said that she would go find him and find out what was going on, and that was a little over three hours ago." She stated. "I'm sure that once she finds something out, she'll contact us and let us know." "Right and maybe in the mean time it might help us if we happen to start studying." Piped up Ami as she put a book down that she had been reading. "After all, we still need to pass the tests that are going to be needed for passing the high school entry exams." She finished as she looked around. Everyone had nodded their heads in agreement, the only one that hadn't was Usagi because she was in the middle of yet another snooze fest. "Hey everyone, what's up?" Ask a young voice from the door. Everyone turned around to see Chibi-Usa at the door with her elbows propping up her head. However at the sound of the young girls' voice, Usagi had woken right up. "Oh darn, it wasn't apart of the dream, she is really here." Usagi stated out as she looked with a killing look on her face at Chibi-Usa. "Don't mind her Chibi-Usa; we're just waiting for a friend." Minako told her. "Oh, is it some boy?" She asked in a teasing tone. "Actually as a matter of fact it is. His name is Peter Parker, and he's from America." Ami told her. "He's here from the Daily Bugle to take photos for them, mostly of Spider-Man." Amy finished. She knew that Chibi-Usa wouldn't know who Spider-Man really was. Even though she did come with them to America during their last adventure with Peter, she had never seen him in mask or out of it with just the rest of the costume on. "Oh well if that's the case then he must be down in the warehouse district of the city taking photos of Spider-Man." She told them. Suddenly all eyes were on her. "What...what did I say?" She asked not understanding what in the world was going on. "How do you know that he's down there?" Makoto asked her. Chibi-Usa looked at her. "I saw it on the news, Spider-Man's swinging around down there dodging gun fire like he did every day. It seems that there are quite a few people down there that want to kill him. Since you mentioned that Peter takes photos of him, I figured that he would be there as well." She finished. Usagi was on her feet and so were the others. All of them knew that they had to get down there and fast in order to help Spider-Man in anyway that they could. Haruka was standing and bring out her communicator that she had that was her only link between her and her lover. It was also on a line that no one else had at all. All of the girls raced out of the place and were finding their best ways to get down to that area. However they all knew that there was only going to be one way to get down there the fastest way. Haruka noticed what they were planning. "I'll contact Michiru and let her know what's going on and where to go." She told them as she raced off in a different direction. Rei was leading them around to an area of the house that not even her grandfather ever bothered to head to. Taking out her wand, she knew that it was going to be time now. Everyone else was also following suit as well. "Moon Cosmic...POWER!" "Mars Star...POWER!" "Mercury Star...POWER!" "Jupiter Star...POWER!" "Venus Star...POWER!" Within moments, all of the girls had changed and were now holding each others hands. A power had started to build up between each of them. A channeling of power so great that it could only be focus into one thing and one thing only, a moving, a moving of location from one place to another. Each mind open to the other, a single image placed into each of their minds, everyone mentally and telepathically agreeing on one location. Then the command that would activate this great power that could only be shared through the five of them only, "Sailor...TELEPORT!" A rainbow of colors matching up to each Senshi as their powers blended together for this reaching energy shot. The floated above the ground for a mere few seconds before all vanishing from the area, traveling over a distance that each of them knew would've taken a while to travel to, now only taken mere seconds.
Spider-Man did not like this at all; as yet another blast of bullets flew his way. His Spider-Sense alerting him to a dodge mere moments before the actual shots made contact. He had come down to this area looking for where the Japanese Tri-Ad might be located, and it seemed that someone had already tipped them off that he would be here. However something in the back of his mind told him that these were not the Japanese Tri-Ads that he was looking for. However right now the only thing that he even bothered to care about was just keeping his own neck in one piece with out getting a shot placed inside of him. "Why in the world does this always happen. I mean I know that people don't happen to like me, but this is getting to be little bit much." He stated as he swung into an arch and narrowly dodged someone that hadn't bothered to take up a gun and just decided to swing at him with a club of some sorts. "If you're trying out for the Japanese baseball teams, you might actually want to try and go to them, and not try this." He stated to the guy right as he shot off a blast of webbing and anchored him into place. However right as he landed on a wall, he had to jump off into a flip and a spin combined with a web shot leading into a swing that would allow him to maintain being in the air and dodging some of the more bullets that would continue to fly at him trying to turn the web head into some variation of swish cheese. "Hey, not that I mind at all about being shot at here. God knows that I go through it every day in New York, but would you guys mind just holding on a bit so that I can ask some questions." He stated as he landed on the roof of a car that was there. However he was answered by a shower of bullets once again that tried to off our super hero had he stayed there any longer. "Guess not." Flipping over and around he knew that it was time to kick this entire thing into high gear as he continued to flip and dodge the blows and the bullets that were trying to make contact with him no matter what he tried to do. However low and behold Spider-Man had no idea about the rocket launcher that was getting ready to fire off and wipe him off of the face of the earth in one shot. Also what someone failed to mention was that the rocket that was going to be fired off was also a heat seeking rocket. However at that point one could have been able to tell that the person that was firing it off didn't care in the slightest, as long as the web head was killed in the end. However he would've been able to get the shot in, had it not been for a cry followed by a bolt of lightening in a cloudless sky. "Jupiter Thunder...CRASH!" The lightening shot hit the man causing him not only to fire off the rocket, but to shoot it right up into the air. Spider-Man had noticed at last that the rocket had been fired off; however that's not where his thoughts were right at that moment. His thoughts were located on the plane that was flying over head and the only set of heat that was even in the area. Spider-Man had been able to tell right off, that the thing was going to search for a heat source to try and take out. Guess it would've been from all the other times that someone has tried to kill him in New York that he had been able to figure that out on his own. However right at that point the only thing that he cared about as he started swinging his way up was getting to that rocket in time to take it out and make sure to save the lives of the people on the plane. Shooting web line after web line and increasing his speed heading up. Spider-Man knew he would only get one chance at this and only one. And it was one that he was willing to take in order to save those lives. However depending on how he was able to do it, it might also cost him his life as well. Snagging onto a flag pole that had the Japanese flag on it he started to swing around in a circle making sure to gather up enough momentum to fling himself up to the rocket to at least latch onto it some how. With one last flip around the pole, Spider-Man launched himself into the air and didn't realize that the power that he had placed behind the swing was actually going to end up taking him and sending him over the rocket, which in a way is what he wanted in the first place, however it also meant that the rocket was now going to head towards him. Once he got over the rocket and started heading back down, the rocket did get his heat, however it also started to turn more rapidly then what he realized it was going to do in the first place. Seeing a nearby building that was still in the same area that he was looking in, in the first place, Spider-Man shot off a zip line and made a bee line right for the building. However as soon as he landed, he discovered that there were people inside the building. Dang, never an empty building around when you need one. He thought as he flipped back and started diving down hard. He knew now that the only chance that he would have would be to have the rocket land and hit the ground, and that would also mean giving it little to no time to move. The moment that Spider-Man hit the ground he held his hand out towards one of the nearby buildings and waited. He could tell that the other Senshi that had arrived on scene were now dealing with the others that had wanted to kill him in the first place. Spider-Man's Spider-Sense was doing a slow buzzing and that's what was telling him how close the rocket was to him. As soon as the buzzing got to be the point just before a major headache, Spider-Man shot out the web zip line and flew from where he was to the nearby wall. Moments after that with little to no room to turn, the rocket landed on the street and exploded sending shards every where. Spider-Man had only seconds before him with how close to the explosion he was to cover himself in his own webbing. That was too close. He thought as he felt the shards of both the street and the rocket made contact with the webbing shield that he had created. As the rain of debris slowed to a stop Spider-Man busted out of the webbing and looked around. The hole of where the rocket landed was actually bigger then what he realized it would be. Ok, that is gonna be a heck of a repair bill. He thought, as he leaped to the ground and looked around. Only minutes before the entire street had looked normal and then it looked like this. I hope that nothing happened to the Senshi while this happened. He thought as he shot a web line out and swung up as he looked around. Taking in the area he noticed that everything up and down the street had been changed in some way to the rocket and the explosion that had followed suit. The one thing that he was glad about was that there were no bodies lying around dead. That was the one thing that he had feared. After all, with a heat seeking rocket, it would've been hard to have the thing land in the bay with out at least trying to take out one of the boats that was there. "Spider-Man." A voice called out as he swung around over head. Spider-Man looked down and noticed that Sailor Pluto was standing there. Landing on the street next to her he walked up, wanting to know where everyone else had gone to. "Well since the start of this crazy adventure, I never thought that I would get to see you again." He stated to her as he stopped in front of her. "So what happened to the others?" He asked her. Sailor Pluto lifted up her staff and then pointed it towards what seemed like down the street. Suddenly out of the end of the staff and energy came out and opened what looked like a portal to another realm of some kind. Having heard about the Gate of Time from their last adventure together, Spider-Man figured that this must be like the portable version to that. As the energy portal opened wider, several figured started walking out; also carrying what looked like people over some of their backs. One by one they emerged, till all of the Senshi were now standing there on the sidewalk and the street. "I was able to transferee them into the portal mere moments before the explosion." Pluto stated as the energy portal closed. Spider-Man put a hand over his head. "Yeah sorry about that, I was just trying to make sure that I could be able to save lives. I didn't know how close I was to everyone else when the rocket hit the ground." He told them. Sailor Neptune could tell just by the sound of his voice that he was truly sorry. "It's alright, no one was hurt and that was the main thing." She told him. "Besides, why in the world were you over here anyway?" Sailor Mars asked him. Spider-Man looked at her. "Believe it or not I was actually trying out a hunch that I had gotten from an old man at your temple." He told her. "He figured that they would try and hide right out in the open and that the warehouse area of town would be the best place to look for them. I just wasn't expecting the welcoming committee when I had arrived in this area." He finished telling them. Sailor Mars looked at him. "Wait an old man at the temple. That would be my grandfather." She stated. "Figures that he would send you over here. Never take his advice Spider-Man; it tends to get people in trouble." She told him. The only thing was that it had actually gotten them moving in the right direction after all. "I know this area." Sailor Uranus stated as she looked around. It was where they had taken me every time the Tri-Ad wanted me to join up with them." She finished as she stepped out into the street. Sailor Neptune had started slowly following her as well. Spider-Man already knew that when it came to these two, if one went into the fiery depths of hell, the other would follow right along as well. Suddenly it hit her like a title wave of pure energy. "You're right this is close to the place." She said as she looked down the street. "And that's where to start looking." She motioned as she pointed towards the spot that Spider-Man had been sticking to that entire time that there had been webbing there. The rests of the Senshi looked at the place, but couldn't picture it. Sailor Mercury had taken out her Visor and was looking at the place. "Yes, that is a good start. I can pick up energy readings of a high concentration worth coming from the place. More so then the rest of the buildings that are around here." She noted as they all started heading for that spot. Spider-Man noticed that caution would be seriously on the better part of valor here, so he shot up a web line and swung over to see if his Spider- Sense would start to trip off by anything over there. However as he looked at the rest of the Senshi, he noticed something that was different and it was growing different the entire time that they were in costume. For one thing Sailor Moon had something on her hair that wasn't there the last time that they had all been together during their last adventure together. Something happened during that time after we had separated, and I would like to find out what in the world it could be. He knew that when he got the chance, he was going to have to talk to Jupiter to be brought up to date on everything that had happened.
Once they got to the building, Spider-Man had started getting a slight buzzing that just wouldn't quit. "Well there is something here that we have to watch out for." He stated as he looked all over. "I just have no idea what in the world it is, but it's setting off my Spider-Sense something bad." He said as he started sticking to the walls and crawling up them. Sailor Mercury was still scanning when her visor picked up something that wasn't even visible to them. "I've found the way in." She told them. Punching in a keyed sequence, the door became visible to everyone else as it started moving back. "Great just like out of that Superman movie." Spider-Man stated as he watched it fully move back. "And here I thought that they would've been original, figures that no one could be these days." Once the door, which looked more like a concrete block, moved all the way back each of the girls and Spider-Man slowly walked in one at a time. Spider-Man was able to go in over head and was still crawling along the ceiling the entire time when he noticed the camera. "Well looks like someone knows now that we're here." He said as he pointed the camera as the nearby wall. "Wonder who that might be." Looking around the hall that they now stepped into, it looked like something of an above subway system. Sailor Mercury was still leading the way as her readings of the power was leading them to the right of the entrance. "The power seems to be coming from this direction." She told them. For some reason, Sailor Mars started getting a feeling that should never have been able to come from any of this. "I'm getting a strange feeling here. Like something is more powerful then we first realized." She told them. That right there put both Spider-Man and Sailor Uranus both on high alert right there. "Stay alert; we don't know what's going to happen." No sooner had that been said then Spider-Man's Spider-Sense started going off and the wall to the back of them slid down into place cutting them off from the way that they came in. Spider-Man's Spider-Sense was still going off when another wall started sliding down. Moving with lightening speed, Spider-Man shot of a blast of webbing at the interconnection between the sliding part of the wall and still wall, it slowed the dissent down enough so that it left a gap. "Girls move it, get under now." He called to them as he dropped down and held the wall up letting them get out. One by one, each of the girls got through the hole that was still there. Spider-Man wasn't about to let it hit the floor till everyone was fully out. Once they were, he leaped down and rolled and was out. Suddenly the webbing broke on the other side and the door, with just inches to spare on Spider-Man's side slammed to the floor. "That was way too close." He stated as he got back up and looked at where they were now. It seemed that they entrance to where they had just come from had lead to a bigger hall like area. However they weren't alone any more. Someone was on the other side clapping his hands together. "Congratulations I believe are in order." The man stated. "I have never seen such movement like yours in all of my life, even when I was with the Chinese Tri-Ad over in Hong Kong." He said as he got up off his chair and started walking around the desk. Slowly the Senshi and Spider-Man walked further into the large chamber and looked around. Spider-Man could tell that there were quite a few things there that were right out of the movies; however he couldn't quite place which films they were. The man walked up to Spider-Man and looked him right in the eyes. "So you're the famous Spider-Man that I've heard so much about. I believe you can understand what I happen to be saying and these girls can not." He stated. Spider-Man smiled under his mask and hoped that the others wouldn't let on to the fact that everyone in the group had a translator that Reed Richards had provided for them on their only trip to New York. "Yes you're right, only we can understand each other." He told him in. Peter knew that either way, the guy would understand it. The guy smiled. "Good. As for who I am, I believe that you were the one that commented that the door way was like something out of that American movie Superman, so just think of me as the Japanese version of Lex Luther. My name is Atria, just Atria." He told Spider-Man. "Now as for what's been going on, no those weren't Tri-Ad people. Actually they were here on gang land business, however I have a feeling that once they saw you, they thought that you were there to arrest them and to take them into custody." Spider-Man started walking around the room. "Actually I was looking for this place and didn't know that there was going to be anyone even down here at all." He said as he looked at the science set that was there. Atria looked at him and smiled. "Ah I see that you are a man of science." "Actually it's in my blood." He said as he picked up one of the glass containers and swished the blue colored liquid in side of it. "After all, I was a bit of a science nut before the spider, however after the spider is something where my mind took off at it." Atria looked at him and smiled. "I know Mr. Parker, and yes I do know your name. I was informed of it after you had all gotten off the plane in San Francisco. You've been something of a wonder to me during the last few months since that Heart Snatcher incident had happened." He told him. Peter didn't bother with the mask any more since the guy knew anyway. "So you know who I am and have been keeping an eye on me since. I take it that guy last week in New York was also working with you as well?" Peter asked him. Atria smiled once again. "As much as I would like to say yes, I have to say no at this point. I know about the man that you're talking about; however he isn't one of mine. Right after he was done talking to you, my men kept track of him till he just vanished right off the face of the earth like he was never there in the first place. So naturally we back tracked the gentlemen in hopes of finding out where he had come from, however much to my dismay, every single trail that was check turned up empty. As you can believe I was not a happy person at that." Peter didn't bother to smile. That same guy had disappeared right off the roof as well, like he had never been there. And now it turns out that the guy could move with out even so much as leaving a sound behind him. "Honestly in that regard, I don't know what to say." Peter said at last. Atria shrugged. "In all honesty, it really doesn't matter, what matters now is that you're here, and so I can ask you in person to join the Japanese Tri-Ad. After all, with your powers and abilities, it seems more then fitting." He stated. However something in the back of Peter's mind was telling him something was wrong. "Can I ask you something first?" Peter Asked. Atria nodded. "Certainly." Peter looked around then dead into his eyes to make that there was no mistake. "If you just wanted me here, then why try and have them killed?" Peter asked him. Now there was nothing but confusion in his face, and Peter could see it right off, so could everyone else that was there as well. "What are you talking about; I would never try to have the Sailor Senshi kill off. To do that would just be about suicide coming from this city." He told Peter. Peter pulled the mask back on and looked at him dead in the eyes once again. "Then I think you might have a problem." He stated. Turning to Sailor Uranus, "Who were the ones that approached you every time, were they with him?" He asked her. Uranus looked at him and then back at Spider-Man. "Everyone that I met said that they were working for the leader, however when me and Neptune finally did meet up with this so called leader, it wasn't him." She stated pointing at Atria. That right there cinched it for him. Now he knew that something had gone seriously wrong from day one. They had wanted him to look were the Tri-Ad might be so that... Suddenly an explosion rocked the place. I should've seen this one coming. Spider-Man thought. "We've got company and I believe that these are the guys that are trying to take over the Tri-Ad." He yelled as he leaped up and zip lined to the ceiling of the place. With out warning the second metal door exploded in and more men then he could count started pouring into the place. Shooting off a huge blast of webbing, Spider-Man was able to create a thick wall of webbing just in time before one of them had a chance to fire. "I do believe that it's time to take our leave." He stated as he dropped down. Looking around, he spotted a back door to the place. "This way." He yelled. "By the way, if you can blow this place up, I would suggest you do so, at least before it's too late. I know that you would just love to keep some of these things, however I know that you won't be able to." Spider-Man told him as he followed the girls out.
To Be Continued...
Next up: Between a Rock and a Hard Place Well so far things have been popping left and right like crazy, and now the Tri-Ad, which actually turns out to be a renegade Tri-Ad has come knocking. As our heroes leave, have they actually just traveled further into the reaches of the place or is there hope for them yet?
It had been a little over three hours since the girls had arrived at Rei's, and still no one had any idea at all where Peter was. They had figured that he was somewhere in Tokyo still dressed as Spider-Man, but other then that they had no idea at all. "Where in the world could he be?" Rei asked again for the third time in that hour alone. "You've been asking that for the past several hours Rei, I don't think that's going to make him show up any sooner." Makoto told her. Rei already knew that, but she figured that it was one way of blowing off steam at the fact that Peter wasn't there. "Yeah, but the question still remains as to where he is, which is the one thing that we don't know right now." Haruka had been sitting at the entrance to the door just looking out towards the section of the city that the door faced. "Well Michiru said that she would go find him and find out what was going on, and that was a little over three hours ago." She stated. "I'm sure that once she finds something out, she'll contact us and let us know." "Right and maybe in the mean time it might help us if we happen to start studying." Piped up Ami as she put a book down that she had been reading. "After all, we still need to pass the tests that are going to be needed for passing the high school entry exams." She finished as she looked around. Everyone had nodded their heads in agreement, the only one that hadn't was Usagi because she was in the middle of yet another snooze fest. "Hey everyone, what's up?" Ask a young voice from the door. Everyone turned around to see Chibi-Usa at the door with her elbows propping up her head. However at the sound of the young girls' voice, Usagi had woken right up. "Oh darn, it wasn't apart of the dream, she is really here." Usagi stated out as she looked with a killing look on her face at Chibi-Usa. "Don't mind her Chibi-Usa; we're just waiting for a friend." Minako told her. "Oh, is it some boy?" She asked in a teasing tone. "Actually as a matter of fact it is. His name is Peter Parker, and he's from America." Ami told her. "He's here from the Daily Bugle to take photos for them, mostly of Spider-Man." Amy finished. She knew that Chibi-Usa wouldn't know who Spider-Man really was. Even though she did come with them to America during their last adventure with Peter, she had never seen him in mask or out of it with just the rest of the costume on. "Oh well if that's the case then he must be down in the warehouse district of the city taking photos of Spider-Man." She told them. Suddenly all eyes were on her. "What...what did I say?" She asked not understanding what in the world was going on. "How do you know that he's down there?" Makoto asked her. Chibi-Usa looked at her. "I saw it on the news, Spider-Man's swinging around down there dodging gun fire like he did every day. It seems that there are quite a few people down there that want to kill him. Since you mentioned that Peter takes photos of him, I figured that he would be there as well." She finished. Usagi was on her feet and so were the others. All of them knew that they had to get down there and fast in order to help Spider-Man in anyway that they could. Haruka was standing and bring out her communicator that she had that was her only link between her and her lover. It was also on a line that no one else had at all. All of the girls raced out of the place and were finding their best ways to get down to that area. However they all knew that there was only going to be one way to get down there the fastest way. Haruka noticed what they were planning. "I'll contact Michiru and let her know what's going on and where to go." She told them as she raced off in a different direction. Rei was leading them around to an area of the house that not even her grandfather ever bothered to head to. Taking out her wand, she knew that it was going to be time now. Everyone else was also following suit as well. "Moon Cosmic...POWER!" "Mars Star...POWER!" "Mercury Star...POWER!" "Jupiter Star...POWER!" "Venus Star...POWER!" Within moments, all of the girls had changed and were now holding each others hands. A power had started to build up between each of them. A channeling of power so great that it could only be focus into one thing and one thing only, a moving, a moving of location from one place to another. Each mind open to the other, a single image placed into each of their minds, everyone mentally and telepathically agreeing on one location. Then the command that would activate this great power that could only be shared through the five of them only, "Sailor...TELEPORT!" A rainbow of colors matching up to each Senshi as their powers blended together for this reaching energy shot. The floated above the ground for a mere few seconds before all vanishing from the area, traveling over a distance that each of them knew would've taken a while to travel to, now only taken mere seconds.
Spider-Man did not like this at all; as yet another blast of bullets flew his way. His Spider-Sense alerting him to a dodge mere moments before the actual shots made contact. He had come down to this area looking for where the Japanese Tri-Ad might be located, and it seemed that someone had already tipped them off that he would be here. However something in the back of his mind told him that these were not the Japanese Tri-Ads that he was looking for. However right now the only thing that he even bothered to care about was just keeping his own neck in one piece with out getting a shot placed inside of him. "Why in the world does this always happen. I mean I know that people don't happen to like me, but this is getting to be little bit much." He stated as he swung into an arch and narrowly dodged someone that hadn't bothered to take up a gun and just decided to swing at him with a club of some sorts. "If you're trying out for the Japanese baseball teams, you might actually want to try and go to them, and not try this." He stated to the guy right as he shot off a blast of webbing and anchored him into place. However right as he landed on a wall, he had to jump off into a flip and a spin combined with a web shot leading into a swing that would allow him to maintain being in the air and dodging some of the more bullets that would continue to fly at him trying to turn the web head into some variation of swish cheese. "Hey, not that I mind at all about being shot at here. God knows that I go through it every day in New York, but would you guys mind just holding on a bit so that I can ask some questions." He stated as he landed on the roof of a car that was there. However he was answered by a shower of bullets once again that tried to off our super hero had he stayed there any longer. "Guess not." Flipping over and around he knew that it was time to kick this entire thing into high gear as he continued to flip and dodge the blows and the bullets that were trying to make contact with him no matter what he tried to do. However low and behold Spider-Man had no idea about the rocket launcher that was getting ready to fire off and wipe him off of the face of the earth in one shot. Also what someone failed to mention was that the rocket that was going to be fired off was also a heat seeking rocket. However at that point one could have been able to tell that the person that was firing it off didn't care in the slightest, as long as the web head was killed in the end. However he would've been able to get the shot in, had it not been for a cry followed by a bolt of lightening in a cloudless sky. "Jupiter Thunder...CRASH!" The lightening shot hit the man causing him not only to fire off the rocket, but to shoot it right up into the air. Spider-Man had noticed at last that the rocket had been fired off; however that's not where his thoughts were right at that moment. His thoughts were located on the plane that was flying over head and the only set of heat that was even in the area. Spider-Man had been able to tell right off, that the thing was going to search for a heat source to try and take out. Guess it would've been from all the other times that someone has tried to kill him in New York that he had been able to figure that out on his own. However right at that point the only thing that he cared about as he started swinging his way up was getting to that rocket in time to take it out and make sure to save the lives of the people on the plane. Shooting web line after web line and increasing his speed heading up. Spider-Man knew he would only get one chance at this and only one. And it was one that he was willing to take in order to save those lives. However depending on how he was able to do it, it might also cost him his life as well. Snagging onto a flag pole that had the Japanese flag on it he started to swing around in a circle making sure to gather up enough momentum to fling himself up to the rocket to at least latch onto it some how. With one last flip around the pole, Spider-Man launched himself into the air and didn't realize that the power that he had placed behind the swing was actually going to end up taking him and sending him over the rocket, which in a way is what he wanted in the first place, however it also meant that the rocket was now going to head towards him. Once he got over the rocket and started heading back down, the rocket did get his heat, however it also started to turn more rapidly then what he realized it was going to do in the first place. Seeing a nearby building that was still in the same area that he was looking in, in the first place, Spider-Man shot off a zip line and made a bee line right for the building. However as soon as he landed, he discovered that there were people inside the building. Dang, never an empty building around when you need one. He thought as he flipped back and started diving down hard. He knew now that the only chance that he would have would be to have the rocket land and hit the ground, and that would also mean giving it little to no time to move. The moment that Spider-Man hit the ground he held his hand out towards one of the nearby buildings and waited. He could tell that the other Senshi that had arrived on scene were now dealing with the others that had wanted to kill him in the first place. Spider-Man's Spider-Sense was doing a slow buzzing and that's what was telling him how close the rocket was to him. As soon as the buzzing got to be the point just before a major headache, Spider-Man shot out the web zip line and flew from where he was to the nearby wall. Moments after that with little to no room to turn, the rocket landed on the street and exploded sending shards every where. Spider-Man had only seconds before him with how close to the explosion he was to cover himself in his own webbing. That was too close. He thought as he felt the shards of both the street and the rocket made contact with the webbing shield that he had created. As the rain of debris slowed to a stop Spider-Man busted out of the webbing and looked around. The hole of where the rocket landed was actually bigger then what he realized it would be. Ok, that is gonna be a heck of a repair bill. He thought, as he leaped to the ground and looked around. Only minutes before the entire street had looked normal and then it looked like this. I hope that nothing happened to the Senshi while this happened. He thought as he shot a web line out and swung up as he looked around. Taking in the area he noticed that everything up and down the street had been changed in some way to the rocket and the explosion that had followed suit. The one thing that he was glad about was that there were no bodies lying around dead. That was the one thing that he had feared. After all, with a heat seeking rocket, it would've been hard to have the thing land in the bay with out at least trying to take out one of the boats that was there. "Spider-Man." A voice called out as he swung around over head. Spider-Man looked down and noticed that Sailor Pluto was standing there. Landing on the street next to her he walked up, wanting to know where everyone else had gone to. "Well since the start of this crazy adventure, I never thought that I would get to see you again." He stated to her as he stopped in front of her. "So what happened to the others?" He asked her. Sailor Pluto lifted up her staff and then pointed it towards what seemed like down the street. Suddenly out of the end of the staff and energy came out and opened what looked like a portal to another realm of some kind. Having heard about the Gate of Time from their last adventure together, Spider-Man figured that this must be like the portable version to that. As the energy portal opened wider, several figured started walking out; also carrying what looked like people over some of their backs. One by one they emerged, till all of the Senshi were now standing there on the sidewalk and the street. "I was able to transferee them into the portal mere moments before the explosion." Pluto stated as the energy portal closed. Spider-Man put a hand over his head. "Yeah sorry about that, I was just trying to make sure that I could be able to save lives. I didn't know how close I was to everyone else when the rocket hit the ground." He told them. Sailor Neptune could tell just by the sound of his voice that he was truly sorry. "It's alright, no one was hurt and that was the main thing." She told him. "Besides, why in the world were you over here anyway?" Sailor Mars asked him. Spider-Man looked at her. "Believe it or not I was actually trying out a hunch that I had gotten from an old man at your temple." He told her. "He figured that they would try and hide right out in the open and that the warehouse area of town would be the best place to look for them. I just wasn't expecting the welcoming committee when I had arrived in this area." He finished telling them. Sailor Mars looked at him. "Wait an old man at the temple. That would be my grandfather." She stated. "Figures that he would send you over here. Never take his advice Spider-Man; it tends to get people in trouble." She told him. The only thing was that it had actually gotten them moving in the right direction after all. "I know this area." Sailor Uranus stated as she looked around. It was where they had taken me every time the Tri-Ad wanted me to join up with them." She finished as she stepped out into the street. Sailor Neptune had started slowly following her as well. Spider-Man already knew that when it came to these two, if one went into the fiery depths of hell, the other would follow right along as well. Suddenly it hit her like a title wave of pure energy. "You're right this is close to the place." She said as she looked down the street. "And that's where to start looking." She motioned as she pointed towards the spot that Spider-Man had been sticking to that entire time that there had been webbing there. The rests of the Senshi looked at the place, but couldn't picture it. Sailor Mercury had taken out her Visor and was looking at the place. "Yes, that is a good start. I can pick up energy readings of a high concentration worth coming from the place. More so then the rest of the buildings that are around here." She noted as they all started heading for that spot. Spider-Man noticed that caution would be seriously on the better part of valor here, so he shot up a web line and swung over to see if his Spider- Sense would start to trip off by anything over there. However as he looked at the rest of the Senshi, he noticed something that was different and it was growing different the entire time that they were in costume. For one thing Sailor Moon had something on her hair that wasn't there the last time that they had all been together during their last adventure together. Something happened during that time after we had separated, and I would like to find out what in the world it could be. He knew that when he got the chance, he was going to have to talk to Jupiter to be brought up to date on everything that had happened.
Once they got to the building, Spider-Man had started getting a slight buzzing that just wouldn't quit. "Well there is something here that we have to watch out for." He stated as he looked all over. "I just have no idea what in the world it is, but it's setting off my Spider-Sense something bad." He said as he started sticking to the walls and crawling up them. Sailor Mercury was still scanning when her visor picked up something that wasn't even visible to them. "I've found the way in." She told them. Punching in a keyed sequence, the door became visible to everyone else as it started moving back. "Great just like out of that Superman movie." Spider-Man stated as he watched it fully move back. "And here I thought that they would've been original, figures that no one could be these days." Once the door, which looked more like a concrete block, moved all the way back each of the girls and Spider-Man slowly walked in one at a time. Spider-Man was able to go in over head and was still crawling along the ceiling the entire time when he noticed the camera. "Well looks like someone knows now that we're here." He said as he pointed the camera as the nearby wall. "Wonder who that might be." Looking around the hall that they now stepped into, it looked like something of an above subway system. Sailor Mercury was still leading the way as her readings of the power was leading them to the right of the entrance. "The power seems to be coming from this direction." She told them. For some reason, Sailor Mars started getting a feeling that should never have been able to come from any of this. "I'm getting a strange feeling here. Like something is more powerful then we first realized." She told them. That right there put both Spider-Man and Sailor Uranus both on high alert right there. "Stay alert; we don't know what's going to happen." No sooner had that been said then Spider-Man's Spider-Sense started going off and the wall to the back of them slid down into place cutting them off from the way that they came in. Spider-Man's Spider-Sense was still going off when another wall started sliding down. Moving with lightening speed, Spider-Man shot of a blast of webbing at the interconnection between the sliding part of the wall and still wall, it slowed the dissent down enough so that it left a gap. "Girls move it, get under now." He called to them as he dropped down and held the wall up letting them get out. One by one, each of the girls got through the hole that was still there. Spider-Man wasn't about to let it hit the floor till everyone was fully out. Once they were, he leaped down and rolled and was out. Suddenly the webbing broke on the other side and the door, with just inches to spare on Spider-Man's side slammed to the floor. "That was way too close." He stated as he got back up and looked at where they were now. It seemed that they entrance to where they had just come from had lead to a bigger hall like area. However they weren't alone any more. Someone was on the other side clapping his hands together. "Congratulations I believe are in order." The man stated. "I have never seen such movement like yours in all of my life, even when I was with the Chinese Tri-Ad over in Hong Kong." He said as he got up off his chair and started walking around the desk. Slowly the Senshi and Spider-Man walked further into the large chamber and looked around. Spider-Man could tell that there were quite a few things there that were right out of the movies; however he couldn't quite place which films they were. The man walked up to Spider-Man and looked him right in the eyes. "So you're the famous Spider-Man that I've heard so much about. I believe you can understand what I happen to be saying and these girls can not." He stated. Spider-Man smiled under his mask and hoped that the others wouldn't let on to the fact that everyone in the group had a translator that Reed Richards had provided for them on their only trip to New York. "Yes you're right, only we can understand each other." He told him in. Peter knew that either way, the guy would understand it. The guy smiled. "Good. As for who I am, I believe that you were the one that commented that the door way was like something out of that American movie Superman, so just think of me as the Japanese version of Lex Luther. My name is Atria, just Atria." He told Spider-Man. "Now as for what's been going on, no those weren't Tri-Ad people. Actually they were here on gang land business, however I have a feeling that once they saw you, they thought that you were there to arrest them and to take them into custody." Spider-Man started walking around the room. "Actually I was looking for this place and didn't know that there was going to be anyone even down here at all." He said as he looked at the science set that was there. Atria looked at him and smiled. "Ah I see that you are a man of science." "Actually it's in my blood." He said as he picked up one of the glass containers and swished the blue colored liquid in side of it. "After all, I was a bit of a science nut before the spider, however after the spider is something where my mind took off at it." Atria looked at him and smiled. "I know Mr. Parker, and yes I do know your name. I was informed of it after you had all gotten off the plane in San Francisco. You've been something of a wonder to me during the last few months since that Heart Snatcher incident had happened." He told him. Peter didn't bother with the mask any more since the guy knew anyway. "So you know who I am and have been keeping an eye on me since. I take it that guy last week in New York was also working with you as well?" Peter asked him. Atria smiled once again. "As much as I would like to say yes, I have to say no at this point. I know about the man that you're talking about; however he isn't one of mine. Right after he was done talking to you, my men kept track of him till he just vanished right off the face of the earth like he was never there in the first place. So naturally we back tracked the gentlemen in hopes of finding out where he had come from, however much to my dismay, every single trail that was check turned up empty. As you can believe I was not a happy person at that." Peter didn't bother to smile. That same guy had disappeared right off the roof as well, like he had never been there. And now it turns out that the guy could move with out even so much as leaving a sound behind him. "Honestly in that regard, I don't know what to say." Peter said at last. Atria shrugged. "In all honesty, it really doesn't matter, what matters now is that you're here, and so I can ask you in person to join the Japanese Tri-Ad. After all, with your powers and abilities, it seems more then fitting." He stated. However something in the back of Peter's mind was telling him something was wrong. "Can I ask you something first?" Peter Asked. Atria nodded. "Certainly." Peter looked around then dead into his eyes to make that there was no mistake. "If you just wanted me here, then why try and have them killed?" Peter asked him. Now there was nothing but confusion in his face, and Peter could see it right off, so could everyone else that was there as well. "What are you talking about; I would never try to have the Sailor Senshi kill off. To do that would just be about suicide coming from this city." He told Peter. Peter pulled the mask back on and looked at him dead in the eyes once again. "Then I think you might have a problem." He stated. Turning to Sailor Uranus, "Who were the ones that approached you every time, were they with him?" He asked her. Uranus looked at him and then back at Spider-Man. "Everyone that I met said that they were working for the leader, however when me and Neptune finally did meet up with this so called leader, it wasn't him." She stated pointing at Atria. That right there cinched it for him. Now he knew that something had gone seriously wrong from day one. They had wanted him to look were the Tri-Ad might be so that... Suddenly an explosion rocked the place. I should've seen this one coming. Spider-Man thought. "We've got company and I believe that these are the guys that are trying to take over the Tri-Ad." He yelled as he leaped up and zip lined to the ceiling of the place. With out warning the second metal door exploded in and more men then he could count started pouring into the place. Shooting off a huge blast of webbing, Spider-Man was able to create a thick wall of webbing just in time before one of them had a chance to fire. "I do believe that it's time to take our leave." He stated as he dropped down. Looking around, he spotted a back door to the place. "This way." He yelled. "By the way, if you can blow this place up, I would suggest you do so, at least before it's too late. I know that you would just love to keep some of these things, however I know that you won't be able to." Spider-Man told him as he followed the girls out.
To Be Continued...
Next up: Between a Rock and a Hard Place Well so far things have been popping left and right like crazy, and now the Tri-Ad, which actually turns out to be a renegade Tri-Ad has come knocking. As our heroes leave, have they actually just traveled further into the reaches of the place or is there hope for them yet?