Amanda immediately hid behind Kurt and Spider-Man upon the sight of the woman wearing black. Kurt got into a fighting position preparing form the worst. Spider-Man just stood there and covered his eyes in embarrassment. "You can't be serious..." Spider-Man said quietly.
Black Cat put her hands on her hips responding to Kurt's fighting stance. "Why does everyone always think I'm the bad guy?" Black Cat asked presumably to herself.
"I think it's the black costume that throws everyone off," Spider-Man voluntarily answered Black Cat. She obviously didn't appreciate the answer.
"You know her?" asked Kurt turning to Peter, but not moving from his stance.
Black Cat was about to answer with a usual smart-ass remark, but Spider-Man beat her to it. "We've had our run-ins?"
Black Cat scoffed. "Run-ins?" she half-yelled sounded slightly offended. "Is that what you call it?" She then put her hands over her heart as if it was hurting and pretended to sound sad. "You hurt my feelings, Spider."
"Pe...I mean...Spider-Man," Kurt caught himself before he could say anything he would regret. Black Cat's to the blue elf seemed to sky rocket. The blue never actually scared her...she heard Spider-Man talk to 'Bruce' about him, but for an obvious reason, a blue teenaged boy just never seemed real...until now. "Vhat in zhe hell is going on!?" Black Cat then noted that he is native German, as well as he has a very heavy accent when he seems angry.
"Nothing," Spider-Man said so casually that surprised Black Cat, Kurt, and Amanda. "She's completely harmless." Black Cat began to clinch her fist...very tightly. She tried her hardest not to show her anger with her face, but it was failing. No one seemed to notice just yet. "A little annoying, but harmless." Kurt lowered his hands very slowly, but still kept his golden eyes on the woman in black. "Ok, Cat," Began Spider-Man again. "What could you possibly want, now?"
She continued to try to conceal her anger. "What would you do if you were swing through the city and saw people on the roof of a skyscraper?" Spider-Man caught the anger in her voice, but was hardly threatened by it.
"Heh..." replied Spider-Man. "Good point." Spider-Man turned his attention to Amanda who was still hiding behind Kurt. "Don't worry, Amanda. I said she was completely harmless." There he goes again, running his mouth. Did he even notice how angry Black Cat was getting. Kurt did, so he again prepared himself for a fight. "Kurt, what's wrong?" asked Spider-Man after noticing him tensing up.
"So that's what you think, huh?" asked Black Cat as if answering the question herself. "I'm harmless??" Spider-Man then realized he hit a soft spot, but instead of feeling regretful, he felt proud. All this time Black Cat got the best of Spider-Man, but this time he found something against her. She HATES being underestimated. A small smile crept beneath Spider-Man's mask. Kurt and Amanda were both baffled. "But that's ok," she said somewhat shockingly. "I guess you don't care the Shocker broke out and is now at large in the city."
Spider-Man's smile disappeared. "What?" he asked quickly.
"Oh...don't worry about it..." Black Cat said teasingly. Now Spider-Man's anger began to rise. "It's no big deal. I just hope that blue fur doesn't conduct electricity." Kurt was baffled at Black Cat's comment, but Spider-Man got the 'joke' perfectly. "Oh well, I'll see you guys later!" Black Cat than ran past the three teenagers and leaped off the balcony. Spider-Man gazed at the female acrobat as she drew out her chain-gun thingy and swung safely onto another building. She was moving way to slow...she wants him to follow her.
"What the hell was that about?" asked Kurt still baffled. Amanda didn't say anything, but she was definitely freaked out about all this. Mutants, super heroes, super villain....it's getting way too crazy. Spider-Man didn't answer immediately. He just jumped onto the balcony monitoring Black Cat's very slow movements. Spider-Man quickly turned to Kurt with a very worried look on his face, however the two other teenagers didn't notice due to the mask. "I'll explain later," Spider-Man finally answered as he dove off the building in a similar fashion to that of Black Cat. He spun a web onto a pretty far building result in an almost dangerously large swing which closed most of the distance between him and Cat.
Spider-Man noticed that his target turned her head around to make sure he was following her, and then began to speed up. "Come on, Cat!" Spider-Man yelled to his rival in black. "I really don't have time for this!"
"Well," she yelled back while she was still running. "No one's asking you to chase me!"
Spider-Man was having a little trouble keeping up with Cat, but he was able to keep in yelling distance. "What do you know about Shocker!?" he yelled the question.
"Sorry! I can't here you!" Lie. "Maybe if you were a little closer!" That was usless...looks like its time to fight dirty. Spider-Man used a webline to launch himself toward Cat going very fast. Although he new it wouldn't be enough to catch her, he just needed to get close enough to spin a web...and he did. The web was big enough to trap cat in a net. She was able to break out, however, not fast enough to escape Spider-Man.
"No...please. Stay a while," Spider-Man said mischeiviously as he spun a strong web on each of Black Cat's feet. She let out a small yell of frustration. "I don't think that's gonna help you. Now, about Shocker...what do you know?"
Black Cat decided to stop struggling and just tell him. "Fine! Fine!" she began. "3 days ago, an inmate at the New York State Prison named Cletus Kasady organized a jail break." Kasady...Kasady....the name didn't ring a bell for Spider-Man. At least 30 prisoners broke out, but they all were eventually caught.....except one."
"Yellow mask? Big silver braclets?" asked Spider-Man sarcastically. "Just a hunch..."
"Well, you hunched right."
"Where is he now?"
"I'm not sure."
Spider-Man put his hand chin to think for a minute, not even noticing Black Cat's struggle to get free from the webs. "Let's see, if I were a villain with a stupid costume, a few henchmen, and absolutely no brains...where would I hide?" Then, it hit like a ton of bricks.
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"The same place as last time???" asked Black Cat dumbfounded as she and Spider-Man arrived to a warehouse on the coast of Manhattan. She gazed at it for a few seconds the turned to her counterpart. "Are you sure?"
"No," replied Spider-Man simply. "But one thing I do know is...well...Shocker was never really a thinker." Just then, there was an electric flash coming from the windows of the warehouse. It was confirmed...Shocker was in there.
"Aha," replied Black Cat. "Come on! We'll surprise him from the ceiling," she continued as she prepared to jump off the building onto the warehouse.
"Wait, wait, hang on, hang on!" said Spider-Man quickly. "'We?' As in you and me? This is my catch Cat. I can take it from here."
"Your catch?" asked Black Cat. Spider-Man felt the tension raise. "YOUR catch!? You wouldn't know about this if I weren't here!"
"What? All you did was tip me off! I was the one who knew where to find him!" Black Cat didn't stick around any longer to listen to Spider-Man's argument. She proceeded to jump onto the roof of the warehouse. Spider-Man decided to let it go. Right now, he just wants to get this over with. Besides, the way he and Cat argues almost sounds like a married couple....it's kind of scary.
The Cat and Spider easily snuck into the ware house from above. Black Cat didn't really know what to expect, but Spidey did. He predicted 15 or so men surrounded a single man wearing a goofy yellow costume who's counting the money and/or gems he stole as he's trying to come up with some other diabolical scheme to rob from more museums, banks, and other places so that he could take over the crime streets of New York City...you know...that same old thing. But Spidey was off by one thing....the man counting the money wasn't wearing a goofy suit. He was actually wearing casual clothes. Black pants, black jacket, fancy redish, blackish shirt, sunglasses....and ugly.
"Is that him?" asked Black Cat.
Every instinct in Spider-Man's body was telling him to say, 'how the hell should I know?' But if he's going to be working with her, then they can't afford to fight...not now. "I think so...look!" He finally replied as he pointed to the man who was supposedly shocker. "Look at his wrists."
Black Cat then spotted an electrical wrist gauntlet on each forearm. "I see..." she noted. "So, how you wanna do this?"
"The only way I know how," Spider-Man whispered.
"Let me guess," whispered back Black Cat. Your going to let yourself down upside down using your web, say some wise crack, beat them up, make fun of the boss, web them up, then hand them over to the police?"
Spider-Man stopped to think for a second. "I'm I really that predictable?" He asked.
"Uh...Yeah!" she replied sarcastically in the typical girlish tone.
"Ok, then," Spider-Man began. 'Do you have a better idea?"
Silence.
"Didn't think so." The web slinger proceeded to do exactly what Cat predicted. She didn't want this to be the same old, Spider-Man bust as usual...she wanted to spice things up a little! That's why she wanted to come with him in the first place!
...And she knew just how to do it.
As Spidey was sliding down his web, a black blur who he knew to be Black Cat shot from the ceiling to right in front of the dozen of men....maybe more. Spider-Man cringed badly after seeing her stand in front of all those guns. "Hey, boys!" she said in her usual seductive way. "Is this a private party, or can I join?"
"Shoot her!" Shocker yelled immediately, and surely enough, the men withdrew their guns and began to fire. Black Cat lucky jumped out of the way and landed behind some old crate that shielded her from the bullets. Spider-Man was not far behind. "Keep shooting! I don't want her to leave this warehouse!" Spider-Man landed right next to here also being shielded by the crate.
"That was real smooth," he sarcastically complimented.
"Hey! How was I supposed to know they had guns!?"
"I wasn't walking about that."
Black Cat gave him a confused look.
"'Is this a private party or can I join?'" Spider-Man mocked the Cat in black. "Jesus, Cat, can't you get any more original?"
"We're getting shot at by more than a dozen men, and you complaining about my dialogue?"
"Well...it was bad!" Spider-sense. "Get down!" Spider-Man yelled as he flattened himself against the floor pulling Black cat with him. Seconds later, one of Shocker's giant electric waves tore through the crates just barely missing Cat and Spidey. Shocker walked over to the two costumed heros slowly.
"Spider-Man!?" He said somewhat surprised. "...Good. Now I get to have my revenge!!!" Shocker then through his arms forward and released another huge electrical wave...bigger than Spider-Man has ever seen. The two heros went their separate ways in order to dodge this giant attack. Black Cat jumped out of harms way while Spider-Man jumped over the blast, spun a web onto the ceiling, and used it to drop kick Shocker. The criminal flew back at least 20 feet.
"Shocker, Shocker, Shocker..." Mocked Spider-Man. "You were in jail for about a month, the least you can do is learn some new tricks!"
Shocker yelled in frustration then shouted "What the hell are you standing there for!? SHOOT HIM!" The henchmen began to fire their weapons, but it was obviously to no avail. Now with help from Cat, Spider-Man was able to take down all of the gunman using his quick reflexes and agility. He then spun a web onto each of them then hung them from the ceiling.
"Just give it up, Sparky," said Spider-Man crossing his arms. "Your half-baked electrical attacks didn't work last time...what makes you think it'll be any different?"
"Trust me, you little insect," he threatened as he stood up brushing off the dust. "It's a whole lot different." Just the, Shocker focused his electric gauntlets to obtain a huge amount of energy. The Spider sense was off the walls, this was going to be big.
"Stop him!" Spider–Man yelled to Cat as they both tried to disengage the electric criminal, but the energy was too strong for them to reach him. A small laughter was heard from Shocker just before he were to release the blast. There was no way either of the heroes could escape, and the power of Shocker was sure to bring the warehouse to ashes.
Just then....everything stopped. The light dimmed. The static turned into silence. And the laughter was replaced by a moan of agony. When Spider-Man was able to see again, he saw Shocker on the floor KOed and a body standing over him...with a tail.
"Zhat was too easy," said the blue elf as he brushed of the non-existing dust off his shirt. "Maybe I should start getting into the superhero biz."
Spider-Man laughed for a second. Saved by the elf...thank God for teleporting. Spider-man was about to congratulate his blue friend, but then something caught his eye. We quickly dashed to where Shocker was lying and looked around. He couldn't find anything. There was a few moments of silence, then Spider-Man finally threw down his fist to the floor hard.
"DAMN IT!" he yelled as hard as he could.
"Vhat?" Asked Kurt dumbfounded.
Spider-Man rose again slowly. He hesitated to speak. "Black Cat..." he eventually spat out. "...Took the money."
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Peter woke up and ran down the stairs around 9:30 the next morning. He was sure that the Bugle wrote something about the events that took place last night...he just needed t get to it before anyone else. After dodging a few kids, and running into a few others, Peter finally got to the den, which was where Kurt was. The blue mutant quickly shoved something that looked like a newspaper behind his back.
"Let me see it," said Peter.
"I don't think you want to..." replied Kurt not moving.
"Ok, dude. Now you just wet my appetite, lemme see," Peter replied holding out his hand waiting for Kurt to hand over the paper. He eventually did.
"SPIDER-MAN AND SHOCKER TEAM UP TO ROB A JEWEL STORE"
"I might have known..." Peter said quietly to himself, but loud enough for Kurt to hear.
"Hey, guys," said Scott as he walked in the room suddenly. Peter quickly hid the paper behind his back.
"Go...good morning, Scott," Peter said nervous.
"Nice day, ja?" added Kurt.
"Um....yeah...I guess..." said Scott dumbfounded.
They needed a plan.
"So, how was the spider hunt last night?" asked Kurt trying do by some time.
"Not so good," replied Scott, still unaware of the paper as he picked up the New York Times, which had nothing about Spider-Man on it. "Mesmero took the second key, and we have no clue where the third one is."
Peter thought of something. "What the hell is that?" he asked acting shocked as he looked past Scott. Scott turned around to see what he was talking about, and Peter quickly through the paper towards the ceiling and shot a web onto it so it would stick. It worked. Scott turned around.
"What was what?" Asked Scott.
"Oh never mind," replied Peter. "I thought I saw something...anyway, you were saying?"
"Um.....ok...." Scott was very confused. "Anyway, we might end up going to Egypt to stop the awakening if something very strong, and very dangerous."
"Dangerous?" asked Peter. Now he and Kurt we're actually interested in this whole 'ancient key' business.
"Like vhat?" Kurt asked.
"The professor will explain everything at the meeting later," assured Scot as he looked at his watch. "Damn, it! I'm gonna be late! Sorry, guys, I gotta go. Jean's making me go to some stupid graduation meeting at school."
Scott stormed out of the room. "Beautiful..." said Peter sarcastically. "First Cat gets away with the money. Then everyone thinks Spider-Man took the money. Now there's probably gonna some great evil we have to fight?"
"Yup," replied Kurt. "Zhat seems to be the case...." Peter used his webs to retract the newspaper from the ceiling and took another look at it. Too much stuff is happening for Peter, and currently Kurt, to handle....not to mention school. "Thanks for bringing me into your shit, by zhe way."
Peter laughed. "No problem," he said with a smile as he stopped laughing.
"So...now what can we do about Black Cat?" asked Kurt.
"I don't know..." There was a few minutes of silence. It looks like Kurt was unofficially accepted into Peter's fight for the greater good, now all that have to do is find Black Cat and take back the money. Just then, Peter had a thought. "You wanna get a sandwich?"
Kurt gave Peter a look. "Yeah, lets go get a sandwich."
The night will come and rip away her wings of innocence through every word we say. We should have spat out the core of our rotting union...instead of it choking us to our senses. The hero drowned to an intoxicating beauty that tears everything down. But still my webs are bound at the wrist....and this romantic tragedy is suffocating from her face, in a sea of fire.
(A/N: I am soo sorry I haven't been able to update. School and work is hell. But im back with a few more chapters coming. PLEASE REVIEW! I WILL FINISH THIS STORY!!!)
