"Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap. I didn't I would run into him here" Carradine, Uncle Ben's killer was running down a steam filled alley, he looked back and pulled out his revolver and looked behind him. He started to pant out of fear, for he knew who was after him "Just my luck to be chased by him" he muttered as his hand started to shake
"Finally found you" a gravely snarl said as there before him as a man in full shadow, the only thing that wasn't was the white skull which was the scariest thing Carradine saw
"What do you want from me?" Carradine asked
"Your life" the man said before loading a round into his gun and fired barely missing his target who scurried off. The man looked at the way he went and stalked after him
"Okay that is not what you want to hear on a Friday night" Spiderman said as another gun blast went off and he went to investigate, it was then that he heard sirens "And that is even worse" he said as he followed the patrol car. He was concerned as he noticed it was the police cruiser that he's uncle use to drive. He quietly landed on the roof and rode as they drove to their destination. Upon slowing down Spiderman hopped off and crawled along the wall until he spotted it, a man in black targeting a wimpy and scared looking man "Found you" he said
"Please, no!" the wimp said
"This is the only way it's got to be done" the man said as he levelled his gun at the coward
"Enough of that" Spiderman said as he yanked the gun out of the man's hand and landed behind him, and upon the man turning Spiderman saw the white skull "And suddenly I'm realising that I didn't think this through" Spiderman gulped because standing before him was none other than the Punisher!
"Out of the way pest" the Punisher said as he aimed at Spiderman who stood there
"Why should I?" Spiderman asked
"He killed a friend" Punisher said
"Which one?" Spiderman asked
"NYPD Sergeant Ben Parker" Punisher said making Spiderman look over at the wimp
'this cowering piece of snot is the one who killed my uncle...I know I should help him, but just this once I could not choose to be responsible' he thought 'No I can't, it wouldn't be right, only this is the guy who shot Uncle Ben; what should I do?' he asked before the sirens of the police cruiser he rode here on sounded, soon out of the car came Jefferson Davis and Yuri Watanabe, the two cops that so far had Spiderman's back, with them there he could get out of there quickly
"FRANK! DROP THE GUN FRANK!" Jefferson said
"Don't try to stop me Jeff, you know who this guy is" Frank said
"Then let us do this the way he taught us to" Jefferson said aiming at Frank
"I can't do that" Frank said
"Why?" Yuri asked
"He knows where Addy is" Frank snarled
"Who's Addy?" Yuri asked
"Adelaide Castle, my last surviving family member" Frank said
"Shit" the police officers said
"Surviving family member?" Spiderman asked curious
"It pains me to see this Frank" Capt Stacy said as Frank was brought in after being arrested
"Yeah same here" Frank said
"Take him to holding" Capt Stacy said "And did you get Carradine?"
"Negative sir, by the time we got Castle Carradine had fled" Yuri explained
"I see, thanks" Capt Stacy said pouring himself a cup of coffee and sat at his desk
"Heads up, Brock's here" Jefferson said
"Must have heard" the police captain muttered
"George, how are you?" Eddie asked as he and Peter walked in
"Stressed, we just caught a big fish" Capt Stacy said
"Tuna, Snapper, Marlin, Great White?" Eddie joked
"Frank Castle" Capt Stacy said
"You actually got him, like in cuffs and what not?" Eddie asked shocked
"Yeah" Capt Stacy said
"Um, I know this might sound dumb but who's Frank Castle?" Peter asked
"Seriously, I thought you dove through the Bugle archive every chance you got" Eddie said
"I haven't reached that far back" Peter said
"Castle was good, real good he served as a US Marine Corp Scout Sniper in Operation Desert storm, upon returning back to New York he transferred over to the NYPD to help out in forming a counter-terrorism unit of SWAT, but that was after he did his basic police training, overseen by your uncle when he was still a detective, like Jefferson and Yuri here. After he transferred to that CT SWAT unit he was called away on a drug bust which was funding the Ten Rings' operation over here, at the same time his family was setting up for a reunion. Three hours later Frank was kicking back with his family having a cold one in the park when members of an unknown gang show up the same time as another gang" Capt Stacy said
"We identified the second gang as the Gnucci crime family" Yuri said
"He's family was caught in the crossfire, heck Frank did as well, but some reason he was the only one strong enough to pull through" Jefferson said
"Then after that he decided to target the Gnuccis, after that anyone and everyone was fair game to him, no matter what kind of messed up stuff they were into guns, drugs, people Frank sought them all out and ended them" Yuri said
"We've been trying to bring him in some he could get some help, the mayor wanted to leave him alone as long he stuck to the gangs. But he over stepped the line one time and it was one of the worse things I've ever seen" Capt Stacy said
"Meaning?" Peter asked
"He went after a tech company that was doing human experimentations, the subjects were being delivered by the last remnants of the Gnucci and this company had hired help, a small upcoming PMC that was run by Billy 'The Beaut' Russo an old comrade of Castle's during Desert storm, rumours are one he came back Billy fell in with the likes of Howard Saint and later Ma Gnucci. Well Frank didn't exactly like, especially when he heard it was Billy himself who shot Frank's wife and kids" Yuri said
"Oh dear" Peter said
"Yeah, he tore up the lab pretty bad" Jefferson said "And since that day we've been trying to arrest him"
"It was only luck that he went after Carradine" Yuri
"I see" Peter said
"You okay there Pete?" Jefferson asked leading him to another section of the station
"Yeah, maybe, I'm not sure" Peter said
"You wanted him to take down Carradine huh?" Jefferson said
"Is that a bad thing?" Peter asked
"I'm not sure" Jefferson said
"So why are we letting Frank go?" Yuri asked
"I'm asking myself the same thing" Jefferson said as Spiderman watched over head
"Hey Jeff" Frank said
"What is it?" Jefferson asked
"That boy from before, was he Ben's nephew?" Frank asked
"Yeah, what about it?" Jefferson asked
"Feed the kid a damn steak or something" Frank said as he walked off
"Well do, you just find your niece" Jefferson said before it started to rain. Spiderman leapt off the wall he was on and followed Frank a fair bit as he turned into an abandoned warehouse, which was basically a small armoury, Spiderman crawled in side and saw it was set up like a military bunker and a police operations room
"So how long did you follow me for?" Frank asked
"The police station" Spiderman said landing on the floor
"Are you the reason I was let go?" Frank asked
"No, I wasn't" Spiderman said "So what is all this?" he asked
"A war, a private one" Frank said
"And how does Dennis Carradine fit into things?" Spiderman asked
"He is usually a low tier burglar, but he moonlights as an informant, finding things for people, one of those things was my long thought dead niece, that is why I was after him" Frank explained
"And that fact he killed your training officer?" Spiderman asked
"I only learnt of that recently" Frank said preparing some ammo
"So what are you going to do?" Spiderman asked
"Simple, I'm going to get the information out of him on where my niece is and then I'll deal with him" Frank said grabbing his skull marked armour
"What if I can get that information out of him for you?" Spiderman asked
"Alright, but let me guess you want him in prison" Frank said
"Naturally" Spiderman said
"No, I'm not going to do that bullshit" Frank said "He's going in the ground" Frank said about to grab the gun when Spiderman webbed his hand to the desk "Seriously?" he asked
"Yeah" Spiderman said "Now think about what you done"
"You're not going to get him to talk" Frank said as he fumbled for the knife close to him "You don't even know where he is"
"Try me" was all he said as he walked off
"Maybe I should have lead him to Carradine, then I could have actually gotten justice for Uncle Ben, but again I don't think he would approve...wait about Officer Davis and Detective Watanabe, if I tell them where they can find Carradine and arrest him and get the information, or I could drop him off of somewhere high, no that's too much like the Punisher, not someone I really should emulate" he muttered webswinging through the city "Why am I even thinking about this, he's a criminal and they should be in prison" he sighed he then continued swinging through New York silently with his thoughts. Unaware that a certain man's van was following him. Spiderman soon arrived at the place he was looking for, an old Skulls hideout which was abandoned since he took down Bonesaw. He then went inside and found Carradine raiding one of the caches that was left behind
"I should get out of town, maybe Jersey I hear its nice this time of year" Carradine said
"CARRADINE!" Spiderman shouted as he webbed up the villain and lifted him into the air and glared at him "So finally nice top meet you"
"Hi" Carradine stuttered
"Now we need to talk" Spiderman said
"About what?" Carradine asked
"People, namely Police Sergeant Benjamin Parker and Miss Adelaide Castle" Spiderman said
"what about them" Carradine said
"First where is Miss Castle?" Spiderman said
"I'm no snitch" Carradine said
"Okay, have it your way" Spiderman said as he loosened his grip on the webline holding up Carradine, making the crook descend a bit
"Alright, Alright last I heard she was in Miami waiting for her new employers to pick her up" Carradine said as Frank looked like he was about to fire
"Now the cop you shot, why did you do it?" Spiderman asked
"I wasn't going to but that damn siren spooked me and so I shot him, I wasn't going to I swear, especially with that kid there, I was just pointing my gun at him to get the cop to back off!" Carradine said panicking
"Okay then" Spiderman said webbing Carradine into a cocoon and lowering him, once that was done Spiderman headed outside, "Did you get that?"
"Yeah I did, thanks kid" Frank said walking off
"That's it you're leaving?" Spiderman asked
"Yeah I am" Frank said "Got to pick something up in Miami"
"Good luck" Spiderman said before swinging off
"So Carradine's in custody and Frank got away, you okay with that sir?" Yuri asked
"I am for now, do you know where he is headed off to?" Capt Stacy said
"Miami, he said that Carradine gave up some information that she was there" Jefferson said
"Sir, what do you think the Parkers will do upon hearing about Carradine?" Yuri asked
"Probably cry, May's been unstable of late, but I'm worried about Peter. I think he's dealing with a lot of things and being a teenager a death in the family is a lot more hard to deal with especially since it happened in front of him, I just wish I could help him is all" Jefferson said sounding down
"We all do" Yuri said
Peter was sitting in the stairways looking down when he heard footsteps so he moved over
"You okay Tiger?" Mary Jane said sitting down next to him, Harry was behind him with Gwen
"No, I'm not. There have been days when I thought I have been, but just lately I haven't been" Peter said
"You want to talk about it?" Ben asked as he joined the group
"I probably should" Peter said "They said that it was an accident that Uncle Ben was shot, the police sirens spooked the guy, but if I had moved at that point, he might be alive...guys I'm the reason Uncle Ben died. It's my fault and now I have to live with that" Peter said as a tear leaked out of his eye.
"No, no its not man" Ben said
"He did it because he loved you" Mary Jane said
"No matter who tells me that, to me I'm the reason Uncle Ben was killed" Peter said about to cry
"Hey man, look it's okay to be sad about this, but you can't let the sorrow and pain take control of this" Harry said pointing to Peter's head
"Then how?" Peter asked
"Stay positive" Gwen said "And come to us if you ever feel down"
"Because we'll be there to pick you back up" Ben said
"So I heard Spiderman detained your uncle's killer" Mary Jane said turning it to a better topic
"Yeah, but the Punisher was after the killer as well" Peter said
"I'm guessing a part of you wanted it to be the Punisher that had dealt with him" Harry said
"Yeah, but now it doesn't matter" Peter said getting up and walking off "He's been dealt with" he said a bit sad, but then Gwen and Mary Jane surprised him by hugging him tightly. There and then he just broke down and did something he hadn't time in all the time since the shooting...cry
"Let it out man, just let it out" Ben said rubbing his cousin's back. "We're not going to think any differently of you"
"Thanks man" Peter said
G'day Guys Grizz here asking what would you do if someone was going to kill the killer of a loved one, would you just stand there and let it happen or try and prevent? That is the question I had Peter ask him while tying in a modified Punisher mythos as well as giving the guy a break by giving him a niece that was alive, but that opening question is what I based this chapter off of, because in most forms of media Spiderman does get the killer, here the killed got away in all of the chaos not to mention we have Peter actually blaming himself for ben's death while he's friend are trying to pick him up which is something we don't see much anywhere outside of fiction. But to Peter these friends are important since they keep him from going to dark places in times like these
So until next time I'll catch you on the flipside