Chapter 2

After a brief chat with Matt Murdock, Felicia was relieved to learn that she could continue to go out as the Black Cat. She was especially happy to go out with Peter. She didn't realize how much she missed going out at night with Spider-Man until recently. Like Peter told her earlier in the day, it would be like old times.

Peter met Felicia outside of her apartment in his Spider-Man costume. With the sound of a grapple hitting concrete, and an answering thwip, the two heroes were off to see what kind of trouble they could find. To stop or… possibly get into.

It didn't take the pair too long to find some trouble.

A man and woman were walking down the street. They had just come out of a deli when a tall, muscular man wearing a dark leather jacket approached them.

"Hand over your valuables and you won't get hurt," the would-be mugger said to the couple.

"Go to hell, tough guy. You aren't getting anything from us," said the man fiercely. The woman with him moved closer to him.

"Well, well, well. We got ourselves a smart mouth here. I have something here that will change your mind pretty damn quick." The mugger pulled out a gun with his hand on the trigger and the hammer pulled back.

As the couple fearfully handed him their valuables, the mugger waved the gun in front of them. Suddenly, the gun was unceremoniously taken out of his hand by what appeared to be webbing.

"What the…"

"You know, I hate it when people wave guns around. That's just not nice," Spider-Man said atop a lamppost.

"Spider's right, tall, dark and gruesome. There are more better things to do than wave a nasty looking gun at people," Black Cat suggested in a sexy tone of voice. She had just appeared by the same lamppost.

"What do you have in mind, baby cakes," the mugger leered as he approached Black Cat.

When he was within arms length of Black Cat, she caught him by the arm and flipped him over the top of her. He landed roughly on the pavement.

"Apologize to these nice people – and do it now!" Black Cat shouted at the mugger while twisting his arm tightly behind his back.

"I would do what she says, mister. As you can see, she can be a little rough," Spider-Man told the mugger.

The mugger then quickly apologized for what he did and was immediately webbed up to the lamppost. At the same time, Black Cat handed the couple's valuables back to them.

"I would call the cops as soon as you can – that webbing won't keep him there for long," Spider-Man said to the couple once his handiwork was finished.

"Sure thing, Spider-Man," the woman replied gratefully.

"You ready to go, kitty cat?" the wall crawler asked his partner in crime.

"I'm right behind you, Spider."

And the two went back into the night, but not before hearing a thank you from the couple they had just helped.


The heroes continued on their way through the city. They headed to a familiar building, one that Spider-Man knew very well.

"What are we doing here?" asked Black Cat.

"Seeing that the two of us are patrolling the city for old times' sake, I thought I would do a little something to mark the occasion," responded Spider-Man.

Black Cat just gave Spider-Man a quizzical look as he prepared to lower himself from the roof of the Daily Bugle.

"Are you coming or not?" Spider-Man asked.

With a grunt, Black Cat followed the web slinger down the side of the Daily Bugle. Using his spider sense, he checked to make sure the office was unoccupied. Satisfied, he climbed through the window. Black Cat was about to follow him inside when he stuck his head back out and said, "Stay there. I'll be back before you know it. Just keep on eye out for me."

Black Cat started to speak… but he went right back in to do whatever it was he was doing. A few minutes later, Spider-Man came out the window very quickly, with the skill and grace only he possessed and was right next to his companion.

"Well?" Black Cat asked.

"It's all set," came Spidey's reply. He took Black Cat by the waist and brought the both of them up to a ledge above the window. "The show is about to begin."

Peering over the ledge, the pair had a perfect view of the office. All of a sudden, a man walked into the room. Oh, of course, The Black Cat grinned. It's J. Jonah Jameson himself.

Jameson came into his office grumbling about something or other while making his way over to his desk. As he sat down, there was a fairly loud noise that sounded like someone giving out a raspberry.

"What the?" Jameson wondered, as he got up out of his chair and found what appeared to be a whoopee cushion on it. He examined it closely thinking that it looked like the cushion was made out of some kind of webbing. Jameson thought that was ridiculous. Tossing it aside, he tried to do some work but when he tried to pick up things from off his desk, he couldn't. Everything that Jonah had on his desk was stuck securely to it. He heard some snickering coming from behind him.

He turned to see Spider-Man hanging upside outside his window. "Hiya, JJ. What, no hug or kiss?"

"You! I should've known it was you, you wall-crawling menace!" Jameson shouted.

"Aw, I think I made you upset. You better take a seat to calm yourself down."

Spider-Man fired some webbing and brought Jameson's chair right up to him. He sat in it abruptly. Jameson tried to get back up to yell some more at Spider-Man but he couldn't because he was stuck to the chair.

"Get me off of here, you web-headed weasel!" Jameson shouted again at Spider-Man.

"No can do, buster, I've got places to go, people to see and bad guys to humiliate. See ya in the funny pages, pickle puss," Spider-Man replied and he disappeared from Jameson's view.

"Get back here. Get back here, right now!" Jameson exclaimed, slowly making his way to the window even though he knew it was fruitless.

Spider-Man returned to Black Cat and said, "Time to go, my work here is done."

"You know, Spider, you're incorrigible," Black Cat said, shaking her head with a small smile on her face.

"What can I say? Cat, you wouldn't have me any other way," was Spider-Man's response as he fired a web line and began to swing away.

"You're right, Peter. I wouldn't," Black Cat said to herself as she launched her grapple and followed Spider-Man back into the night.


AN: A little lighter than the previous chapter and I hope this chapter is enjoyed by all. As always, leave a review but no flames.