Continued from X-Men Days of Future Shadows chapter 9
He was working on a lead that Teresa had given him on a group called the Enforcers and that they were working out of a gambling den somewhere in New York; Fury wanted them since they were working alongside something called Wide Awake; so Spiderman started to hunt them down, but something made him head to this location and saw the Enforcers were about to attack someone, so he jumped in and webbed up the big guy's legs and pulled them out from under him when he fired two web bullets at the other two
"About time I found you guys, so what's up; you playing 52 pick up?" the new guy asked before he turned to the guy about to be attacked who was charging up some cards, Spiderman then aimed at him with his webshooter at him
"Who are you?" they asked each other before they were forced back to back and facing down the four villains.
"Well this is going to be fun" Gambit said
"SO do you know these guys?" Spiderman asked
"No I don't" Gambit said "Name's Gambit"
"I'm Spiderman" Spiderman said 'How did I get into this mess?' he thought. He noticed that one of them were not a part of the Enforcers "Who's that guy?"
"That's Arcade, one seriously sick puppy" Gambit said as he threw some cards at Arcade who dodged the charged cards who then tried to grab a case "And make sure he doesn't get that case"
"Why what's in there?" Spiderman asked
"Funding for someone who controls an anti-mutant agenda" Gambit said
"Ant-Mutant, does that include metahumans?" Spiderman asked
"I'm not sure, but if they do, we're all screwed" Gambit said
"Imagine my surprise when I walk into a particular bar and I find you all of people here" a gruff voice said as Teresa was at the bar sipping her cocktail "Fury send you?"
"No, he didn't we were tasked with tracking another problem, the Enforcers since they had been a problem for awhile since they have been acting rogue" Teresa said
"So what else is bothering you?" Logan asked
"They have been rumours of someone named Arcade, he's apparently been hired by Wideawake to test something dubbed a Sentinel" Teresa said
"That creep" Logan said as he lit a cigar, only to have it put out by Vanessa who refilled his glass, he shrugged and started to drink "Never thought he would be working with Trask"
"Bolivar Trask?" Teresa asked
"You know of him?" Logan asked
"He's worked with SHIELD before, so we have a file on him, never thought he would be one of the anti-mutant agenda" Teresa said
"Yeah, we've been in a shadow war with Wideawake to recover the students of Xavier's academy and stop the Sentinels" Logan said
"They kidnapped the students?" Teresa asked
"Yeah they did" Logan said "But we have no idea where the professor is" he sighed sadly
"We could help with that" Teresa said
"Hit the deck" Spiderman said as he flipped over a table giving him and Gambit cover. Gambit then threw several cards at Arcade who simply dodged them and pulled out a simple gun and open fired at the two heroes
"A gun, he has a carnival of murder, several death robots and other sadistic ways of murder and his using a gun?" Gambit asked
'I don't think it is" Spiderman said as his spider sense went off when the bullets broke through the table shocking the two teenagers. Gambit then charged up more cards and threw them at Arcade who dived out of the way and pointed his gun to the left and fired twice
"He'll miss" Gambit said as he threw more cards
"DOWN!" Spiderman said pulling the mutant down as the bullets embedded in the pillar behind them
"Smart bullets, this asshole has smart bullets!" Gambit said "How does he has those!"
"And where did he get them" Spiderman said
"I have no idea" Gambit said
"Man, I would hate to go up against this guy" Aaron said looking at something on the computer
"Who?" Flash asked
"Harcourt Teesdale aka Arcade, who's a mad scientist assassin" Aaron said
"Define Mad Scientist assassin?" Oliver asked
"He's a genius in the areas of robotics, mechanical and electrical engineering, he appears to process medical training as well" Aaron said "Heck he is also the owner of the world's worse and most dangerous theme park; Murderworld" Aaron said "Plus he has ties with Project Wideawake; an anti-mutant movement which has ties to government funding"
"And that means?" Oliver asked
"Arcade is not someone to mess with" Flash said
"Which is why Pete's picked a fight with him" Gwen said
"WHAT!" the three guys said
"Those wide awake bastards must have given him those smart bullets" Gambit said throwing some more cards
"Yeah, but how many?" Spiderman said as he dodged a couple more, Gambit frowned before looking at Spiderman "What?"
"How far can you shoot them dere webs?" Gambit smirked
"Oh...I didn't think of that" Spiderman said
"On three" Gambit said
"Okay" Spiderman said
"THREE!" Gambit shouted throwing cards out making them explode over Arcade's head giving Spiderman time to web-yank the gun out of Arcade's hands and passed it to Gambit. The Cajun smirked before charging the gun up and throwing it at Arcade, making it into a grenade.
"WHOA!" the trio said making it explode.
"That was awesome" Gambit said as the two heroes went over to Arcade, Spiderman quickly webbing him to the floor
"So what do you want to know?" Arcade asked
"What's in the case" Spiderman said
"What I be wanting" Gambit said opening the case before frowning "That not cash"
"No shit" Arcade said
"So what is it?" Spiderman asked
"Vibranium" Arcade said "1.2 million dollars of the alloy, smuggled out of Wakanda during the failed uprising by Killmonger"
"How did you get it?" Spiderman asked
"It was passed to me by a man named Klaue when I was passing through Somalia" Arcade said
"And you're here because?" Gambit asked
"I was going to sell the Vibranium to the Enforcers and then they were going to sell it on the black market" Arcade said
"And where did they get the money?" Spiderman asked
"We're in a gambling den, dumbass! You do the damn maths" Arcade said before he was punched by Gambit
"Anyway, were you going to give this shit to Wideawake?" Gambit asked waving a cylinder of Vibranium around
"Do I look that stupid? I was going to give it to the Enforcers so they could do the stupid shit with it" Arcade said before being punched by Spiderman "WHY ARE YOU PUNCHING ME?"
"Cause we can" Gambit said punching him before turning to Spiderman who was looking at something "What is it?"
"Kraven was a part of Killmonger's uprising and since we're talking Vibranium he should be nearby" Spiderman said
"Well, I'm getting my money and leaving" Gambit said
"Why do you need this money for?" Spiderman asked
"Hiring someone to help us" Gambit said he went to looked for the money. Arcade them pulled out a remote and aimed it at the wall before something crashed through the wall
"What is that?" Spiderman said looking at what was a simple looking robot
"A murderbot" Spinneret said as she landed with Spiderman's team
"And we thought he didn't have any one him" Wolverine said walking in with a small team of X-Men composed of Rogue, Shadowcat, Colossus, Havok and Psylocke
"You couldn't keep out of trouble could you?" Rogue asked
"Ah guys the murderbot?" Spiderman said as several more came crashing in
"I'm going to kill you after this!" Arana said
"Who cares, I'm getting itchy for a fight" Agent Venom said as he jumped into the fray, smashing one once he landed on it and webbed second one towards him, only for Steel Spider to spear it with his spider arms "That was mine" he griped
"Too slow" Steel Spider said jumping into the air
"Aluminium Asshole" Agent venom said punching another murderbot
"Silk behind you!" Ghost Spider said as she webbed one to the ground
"I've got you" Shadowcat said phasing through it to disable it
"Thanks" Silk said landing next to the mutant girl before he spider sense went off, she grabbed Shadowcat's hand and pulled her out of the way as a murderbot landed where she just was standing "Now we're even"
"Wasn't keeping count" Shadowcat said smiling
"HEY!" Rogue said sliding around the corner with Ghost Spider, "You two okay?"
"Yeah we are" Silk said
"Colossus, throw me" Wolverine said before Colossus nodded before getting ready to throw him
"I've got your back" Scarlet Spider said as he jumped over the murderbot and tripped it with his web before Colossus threw Wolverine at a second one about to stab it when it caught the mutant and threw him into Scarlet Spider before Colossus caught them, then turning his attention to the murderbot and charged at it before Wolverine blocked the blade of another one and using his un-occupied hand he slid the claws into the murderbot he was facing down when another one tried to sneak up on him, only to be dealt with by Spinneret yanking his head off. Wolverine huffed before he saw two of the murderbots attacking Psylocke, with a growl he jumped over and shoved both sets of his claws into them. Psylocked then summoned her psionic-sword and cut them in half
"Thanks" Psylocke said before they all gathered again with Arana ripping one of them apart as she walked over
"Okay So who gets him" Arana asked
Arcade quickly gulped and back up before he was webbed back to the floor
"You wouldn't let them harm me would you Miss, Wolverine?" Arcade asked
"Shut it" Gambit and Spiderman said punching him in the face. Spiderman then frowned
"Hey Steel, think you can work your magic here?" Spiderman said
"You think there's some robotics?" Steel Spider asked
"Yeah, and we've been dealing with him since the beginning" Spiderman said
"You mean this isn't the real Arcade?" Gambit asked
"No, well not now. He must have swapped out with this thing when we were scuffling with the murderbots, straight from Murder World I take it" Spiderman said
"Yeah" Havok said blasting the Arcade bot "He must have gotten the idea from the asshole Doom"
"Well, we recovered the Vibranium and that's all that matters" Spinneret said "Wait, where's your Cajun friend?"
"He must have snuck off, Gambit!" Rogue snapped
"And with this final twist I shall have all I need" Gambit said as he went to open the safe, only for it to be webbed close "We really going to be doing this?"
"Yeah we are" Spiderman said as he walked in "So, you think you're going to get pass me and rob this safe of what, 100 grand, then what?" the webslinger asked
"I'll double it and then offer it to a merc who has knowledge my team needs" Gambit said drawing the Spade of Ace while charging it up
"Okay, even if I was okay with you robbing an illegal gambling den's safe. What makes you think I would be okay with you robbing a gambling den in the first place" Spiderman said
"200 grand to help save mutantkind instead of it being spent to buy the things needed to kill dozens upon dozens of people I can't see the downsize" Gambit said rotating the card slowly
"You're still stealing, look maybe I can get you some funding from SHIELD or something like that" Spiderman said
"Please, SHIELD would most likely want my kind in the ground" Gambit sneered before he tossed the card, only to have it knocked out of the air by a web bullet. Spiderman used the explosion to jump at Gambit, who simply drew his collapsible quarterstaff and hit Spiderman with it, the spider theme hero wavering a bit before focusing a bit going in for a hammer blow when Psylocke appeared and used her telekinetic ability to break the fight up, she sent a not so subtle glare at Gambit who backed down a bit
"Are you two done?" Psylocke huffed
"Yeah" they said
"Good" Psylocke said releasing them making them fall to the floor. Gambit sighed, grabbed his staff and walked out into the room
"That actually hurt" Spiderman said moving his lower jaw
"Not the smartest move" Spinneret said holding a bag of ice to Spiderman's jaw as SHIELD looked around the place, Wolverine and the X-Men were talking with one of the agents who was on good terms with Wolverine, once he was done the leader of the X-Men came over
"Well this was an experience we would have to do again" Wolverine said
"I agree" Spinneret said "Now to the matter of what your friend wanted, what was the name of the merc he was trying to hire?"
"Deadpool" Wolverine said
"Okay we'll look into that since SHIELD has been wanting to keep an eye on him and since he's a part of Wideawake, things will not be easy to get him" Spinneret said
"Nonetheless, I look forward to our next partnership" Wolverine said before walking off "And Dugan we'll have to go for the beer"
"Sounds good" the agent he was talking to before said
"Come on, we should get you home before Aunt May gets worried" Spinneret said
"Okay, okay" Spiderman said
Meanwhile back in his fortress of death and merriment Arcade sat on a throne composed off large dice he smirked as he watched the groups leaving
"I may have lost the Vibranium, but I had so much fun that I might have to play with them again in the future" he laughed before taking a handful of darts and throwing them at a collection of photos, which one being those who attacked him. However his manic smile turn to a stern frown when he looked over at another screen "Though, I might be playing with them sooner than I thought" he said before viciously smirking "And I hope you will have fun playing with them; Cain, Sergei!" he said laughing his head off.
G'day Guys Grizz here With the second part of the crossover special with Arcade running away like a coward but he'll be back. Anyway one of the things I had planned for Radical Spiderman was that Gambit was going to be Peter's hero mentor then I started Days of Future Shadows but I think I like this version better also yeah I might do a mini-series about Arcade's revenge later on, but it was a challenge writing the character so he'll be back and who knows what he has planned
So until next time I'll catch you on the flipside