Disclaimer: I do not own Spider-Man. I only own the OC George Edwards/The Bladewolf.
"Ugh..." Groaned Mary Jane Watson as one of her eyes cracked open for a moment, only to reflexively slam shut. "Who turned on the sun?" she asked as she jammed her face into the pillow and extended her arm to reach out for her boyfriend. "Peter, get the blinds…Peter?"
He wasn't there.
She thought back to last night. He had gotten her back to her apartment and she convinced him to stay. That's when her memory went fuzzy, she probably had a bit too much to drink. With a significant amount of effort, the Bugle reporter pushed herself out of bed and plodded over to the window and closed the blinds herself.
"Definitely too much to drink." She mumbled as she made her way to the kitchen. MJ opened the fridge and found a thermos with a note stuck to it and pulled it out.
Had to swing out, sorry about that MJ. Fixed this up for you, an old recipe of Aunt May's, a remedy for bad mornings, which I suspect you're having. Hopefully it helps, I'll see you after work.
-Peter
MJ couldn't suppress a smile as she drank the odd fruit flavored tea. Their relationship was definitely unconventional, but she remembered why she put up with Parker's unique traits.
"Stuff works." She admitted as she went to check her phone, the haze starting to clear from her mind.
Peter was swinging through the city, his work was done for the day and he was patrolling. For the most part, it had been quiet, he had stopped only a handful of crimes in the past few weeks, and that number had only shrunk with the arrival of the Bladewolf. The Vigilante wasn't someone the wallcrawler was expecting to encounter. His MO had been to attack specific targets in the night, he had never been spotted during daylight hours. Still, when Yuri had called and told him to meet her at the precinct to discuss the Bladewolf, he made for Chinatown without hesitation.
Peter landed on the roof behind the oriental Police Captain and walked up behind Yuri. "Spider-Cop, overworked and underpaid, checked to see what the Captain had wanted." he narrated in an exaggerated gravelly voice.
He heard Yuri sigh and mutter something that sounded like 'for fuck's sake' before she turned around. "Thanks for coming Spider-Man." She began, sounding genuinely appreciative, one of the reasons he enjoyed working with her, "I want you to investigate a break in that occurred last night. I'll send you the address. It could be the Bladewolf."
"You don't know?" He asked, dropping the Spider-Cop voice at seeing how seriously Yuri was taking this. Something was bothering the veteran officer, and it was disconcerting to the super-hero as well.
Yuri shook her head, "Not for sure, it was at the penthouse of Hannah Lau, a known associate of Fisk. It certainly fits in with how he's been targeting the Kingpin's operations. Lau wasn't hurt and some of the security personnel were killed but not all of them, which is enough for lawyers to hold up a warrant to investigate the purpose of the break in. Fisk is hiding something. The Mayor's priority is taking down the Bladewolf, but if we can nail Fisk as well…"
"I'll get right on it." he assured. If the Kingpin was planning something then it would have to be stopped, Fisk rarely thought small. "With his new assignment, Spider-Cop set off, dispensing his own brand of justice."
Spider-Man leaped over the railing and began to swing through the city, almost able to feel the sigh originating from the precinct rooftop.
He soon reached the penthouse, "Best do this quietly and sneaky like a spider." He told himself as he looked at the shattered window that was likely the Bladewolf's entry point. Instead of the obvious, the webhead spotted a ventilation shaft and quickly pulled himself to it. Slinking inside, he crawled through the vents and paused at a grate.
Down below, the head of security was on the phone with somebody. "Several dead but most are still alive, sir. They swear it was him when they woke up the recount the events."
"Not like him to leave everyone alive." Peter muttered, assuming the 'him' was indeed the Bladewolf.
"No police yet sir, we're busy seeing exactly what was taken. Most of the sensitive materials have already been relocated."
'Taken?' Thought Parker, this was a burglary?
"I already sent teams to guard other locations. So far? A few art pieces are missing and an antique china set."
"That sounds more like Felicia's MO." Peter muttered with a frown. Now that he thought about it, Felicia nor George returned to the club after they left. Peter just assumed that somehow Felicia was interested in George enough to take him to her penthouse and sleep with him, least that's what he thought. But if she was out last night and George never returned...
No, George couldn't be the Bladewolf, could he?
"Calm down, Parker." Peter muttered to himself. "You're just assuming. I mean, Felicia and George could've gone to her place and... well, then Felicia could've left while George was sleeping to do this and encountered the Bladewolf."
He then focused on the guard below. "The server? it's all gone sir. Everything on it was gone." There was a pause on the line. "Shit! That means he probably has all the data. I'll go through the logs myself and see what I can find…right away sir."
With that, the man ended the call and pocketed the phone as he walked off, unaware he was being shadowed by Spider-Man in the vents above. After a few minutes, the man was outside a massive vault and dismissed the two guards at the booth before inputting the code to access what was inside.
As soon as the massive steel door began to open, Spider-Man silently opened the grate and hit the man with a pair of webs, pulling him up into the vent and webbing him to the ceiling of the confined space, making sure to cover his mouth to ensure he couldn't call for help. With that done, he dropped down and had a look around.
Judging from the still decent condition of the vault door, it looked intact enough that he doubted it had been forced open last night. Which meant whoever got in did so quietly. Moving to the security booth, he checked to see if he could find security footage of who was responsible. "Wiped, not surprising." He muttered as he took a quick look through the system before he saw something unexpected. "Well, hello there."
It was one of his programs, or rather a modification of one, that he had given to Black Cat during their brief partnership. This all but confirmed that the thief had been here as well, were she and the Bladewolf working together?
"What were you doing Felicia?" He whispered as he went inside the vault.
There were a small handful of items missing, but the vigilante ignored them and went to the small server bank. Looking at it right away, he could tell someone had downloaded data from it. Pulling out a custom USB drive, he inserted it and hoped the built-in programs would be able to get into the system and get whatever may be left.
"Yo boss! You almost done in there?" Shouted one of the guards from outside. "Mr. Lau is about to arrive!"
Peter immediately grabbed the flash drive and ran back outside the vault and pulled himself back up into the vents, placing the grate back into place. "Boss? Boss where'd you go?" asked the guard as he crawled back the way he came.
Back on the roof, he quickly began swinging away until he was safely out of the area and came to a stop atop a gargoyle statue. Pulling out the drive he looked at it, "What have you got for me little guy?"
"Project Cinderblock?" George muttered to himself as he sat at his computers in his loft, having uploaded the data from the servers to his computers so he can get a look at what was on the server. "Is that what Fisk is planning? He's invested millions so far, and not just in weapons, about two thirds of it has gone into construction equipment and supplies. Most of the stuff here is inventory for the construction equipment and what they're going to make. Looks like it's all commercial, office spaces and apartments. Only right now, none of Fisk's companies have property in the city to build these projects on."
George leaned back with a frown on his face. What's the connection here? he leaned forward and scrolled through the information some more and found something that caught his interest.
"Hello Mr. Lau." George muttered with a smirk as he found out that Lau s currently contracted as a consultant at an architecture firm in New York owned by Fisk.
And George just found his location.
But another thing caught his eye. "Let's see. Fisk is planning on a nine-month trip to Europe in three days... doesn't want to be around when his major crime organisation is underway, it seems. Well, looks like I've got three days to stop this Project Cinderblock."
'Really need to upgrade this gear and armour.' George thought to himself as he reached his destination, perched on a rooftop across from the building he was hitting. 'Maybe I should take a page out of Iron Man's book, let my suit fly so that way the grapple hook doesn't need to be used too much. And maybe upgrade the armour to a stronger material.'
Shaking his head, George readied his duel pistols before putting silencers on them. Wouldn't do to shoot up the place and have Lau get away before he can ask the guy some questions.
Standing up, George fired his grapple hook and swung over to the building, his feet making contact with the window but he didn't smash through it. He looked upwards, being ten floors below where he wanted to go. Since the hook was attached to the rooftop ledge, George ran up the wall of the building, making sure he was checking for any guards posted at windows.
Soon, George grabbed was where he wanted to be, 63 floors up and hanging off the side of the skyscraper. George looked at the window before he used his feet to kick himself back into the air then swung and smashed through the window, landing in a roll and he soon had his pistols out, checking his surroundings before he stood when he saw no guards nearby that could've heard.
George activated his mask's night vision so he could see where he was going since the place was dark as shit. He moved through the standard office space, shotgun swinging to each door as he checked the rooms behind. Vast spaces of cubicles, server backrooms, and file cabinets, none of which had anything he was looking for.
He finally reached a cluster of larger executive offices deep in the office suite. On the third one he entered; he saw a plaque on the desk. 'Hannah Lau' it read as the vigilante holstered his guns, kicked the chair aside and got to work on booting up the laptop.
Taking out a USB drive, he inserted it into the port and began downloading data. Suddenly, he heard something outside the office and ducked just as a hailstorm of gunfire came through.
"Shit!" George shouted as he ducked into a cubicle and took out his pistols, taking off the silencers. "So much for not wanting to shoot up the place."
He stood and returned fire, gunning down several men before he ducked back down. He checked his HUD to see the download was nearly complete, it was at 50% just now. George stood and fired at the thugs again before using the darkness as best as he could to make his way closer to them and tackled one of the men, using his rifle to gun down his friends before he snapped the guy's neck and used the rifle, which was a M4 Carbine assault rifle, and gunned down the rest of the men until they were all dead.
George tossed the rifle aside and made his way towards the computer when he noticed the download had been completed. Before he could do so, the window smashed, and George found himself being dropkicked into the wall, causing him to grunt.
"So we finally meet, huh?" A chipper voice said as George looked up and almost groaned.
Spider-Man had arrived...
Time for the Bladewolf vs Spider-Man.