The New Sinister Six

Chapter 3

Beetle flew to the rendezvous point to meet Eel and Blizzard. The three of them were to attempt to draw Spiderman into the open to see if he had regained his powers. They would not capture him just yet, only antagonize him. Beetle landed in the middle of Central Park.

"Where are they," he wondered.

Eel and Blizzard emerged from a public restroom.

"You two just changed into your costumes in there, didn't you," Beetle asked.

"Well, yeah," Blizzard said, "we can't fly like you."

"If anyone saw you go in, they may be able to ID you," Beetle warned them, "don't forget we each have our own secret identities to protect now."

"See that's the problem with amateurs, they forget the important stuff," Spiderman said, perched on the top of the restroom the other two had just come out of.

"Get him," Eel shouted. He fired an electric blast at Spiderman but missed. Spiderman leapt through the air and webbed Beetle's wings so he could not fly. Blizzard fired ice-shards at Spiderman to no avail.

"You know, Beetle," Spiderman said as he dodged the attacks of Eel and Blizzard, "I followed you here, so maybe you should ease up on the other two for now."

"Very funny, Spiderman," Beetle said in disgust. "Destroy him!"

Spiderman landed in front of Beetle and stood there. Eel fired a massive electric blast at him. Spiderman jumped out of the way and the blast hit Beetle. From the other side, Blizzard fired an ice blast at Spiderman., but he hit Beetle instead.

"You guys are gonna love this," Spiderman said, "watch his suit."

"What's happening," Beetle asked out loud as his armor began to crack all over.

"Simple science, Beetle," Spiderman said, "they overloaded your suit and then they caused it to become brittle with their weapons."

Beetle's armor fell off of his body leaving him clad only in the blue briefs he wore beneath it. "Nooooo," he cried.

"Oh come on, you look nice in blue," Spiderman taunted him. He webbed the man up to prevent him from escaping.

"We've got help Beetle! Get Spiderman," Eel told Blizzard. Blizzard fired an ice blast at Spiderman and managed to freeze him in place. Spiderman burst through the ice and used the chunks to throw at Blizzard and Eel. Blizzard fired an ice blast to deflect the chunks of ice, but he only succeeded in making them larger. He was crushed by the sheer weight. Eel evaded the ice chunks and realized the situation was hopeless.

"I'll be back Spiderman," he said and ran as fast as he could.

"Don't leave yet, Eel," Spiderman said as he webbed Eel in a cocoon, "I haven't had a chance to ruin your new costume yet!"

Spiderman walked over to Blizzard and pulled the ice chunks off of him. "I feel bad for the three of you," he said as he began to remove Blizzard's costume, "I mean none of you have any powers, and you get these fancy suits and think you're super-villains," he said as he pulled the last piece of Blizzard's costume off, "but you're really just a bunch of losers in super-suits."

Blizzard laid on the ground in his boxers still unconscious.

Spiderman walked over to Eel and tore the webbing off of him. Next, he ripped Eel's gloves off.

"No! Not again," Eel shouted.

"Without these suits," Spiderman said as he ripped Eel's costume off, leaving Eel in his grey boxerbriefs, "you're just a bunch of losers." Spiderman webbed Eel.

Beetle used the time to loosen his right hand from the webbing. He was able to reach a piece of his shattered armor. It was the abdomen where he had stored one of Smythe's gas grenades. He pulled the pin and rolled it over to Spiderman.

"Spider-sense going off," Spiderman thought. His first instinct was to look up to see if Vulture or any of the others were coming. There was no one. The gas engulfed him. He leapt out of the cloud and landed on his feet. He coughed when he landed and the smoke came out of his lungs. He felt his powers leave him. He also heard police sirens approaching.

"I can't risk staying here and making sure they don't escape," Spiderman thought, "the police will unmask me for sure." He webbed each of the men up and ran toward the restroom to get his camera. Once he had his camera, he had no choice but to run. "This is humiliating."

A police officer saw Spiderman running and ordered him to stop.

"Great! Here we go again," Spiderman thought. He had left his clothes webbed up a block away in an alley. He had to make it there before he was captured. He didn't look back to see how close the officer was. He didn't want to know. All he could think about was what to do when he reached the alley. Finally he made it. He heard the officer running in his direction.

"Only one thing to do," he thought. He removed his costume as fast as he could, tossing his web-shooters under his costume.

The officer ran into the alley and saw a man wearing nothing more than a pair of white briefs.

"Uhhh...some guy in a Spiderman suit stole my clothes," Peter told the officer. "He left his suit and went that way," Peter said, pointing back out of the alley.

"I'll send some help," the officer told Peter. The he ran out of the alley to continue the chase.

"Ok, that was humiliating," Peter thought as he dressed in his street clothes. "He could have at least asked what I was wearing so he might have a chance to locate the guy." He stuffed his costume in his back pack and headed to ward the Baxter Building. Reed Richards may be able to find a way to neutralize the gas they were using to remove his powers.

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"Arrested," Kingpin yelled as he talked on the phone. "All three of them?"

"What happened, boss?" Shocker asked.

Kingpin slammed the phone down causing it to burst into pieces. "Your teammates Blizzard, Eel, and Beetle have been arrested after a fight with Spiderman."

"It appears he has regained his powers," Smythe said.

"Yes, Smythe, it would seem so," Kingpin said.

"What's gonna happen to them," Shocker asked.

Kingpin looked at him for a few seconds. "No doubt they will be charged with the theft of the neogenic recombinator as well as the theft of the costumes they wore. I should think they will be going to prison on federal charges for a long time."

"We better bust them out of there," Shocker said.

"I agree," Scorpion said, "we can't let those guys rot in prison."

"How touching, gentlemen," Kingpin said sarcastically, "but I make the decisions and I am in no mood to engage in a jail-break. Such crimes are beneath me. They should have prevailed. That is the price for failing me."

"That's rather cold of you, isn't it," Smythe asked.

"If they would have returned so badly defeated, I would have had them killed," Kingpin said with no trace of remorse. "One might say they are better off in prison."

"When you put it that way, I suppose prison is a healthy alternative," Smythe said.

"Not really, I have men in every prison they may be sent to," Kingpin told Smythe and the others, "you see, I will not allow them to betray me. They will be dead soon enough."

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Peter took a bus over to the Baxter Building and ducked in an alley to put his costume on. "Man, it takes forever to get here if you can't web-swing," he thought. Once in his costume he put on his back pack and walked in the front door of the Baxter Building.

"May I help you," the receptionist asked Spiderman.

"I need to see Reed," Spiderman told her.

"And you are...," She said.

"I'm Spiderman," answered, "you know the Amazing Spiderman."

"Yeah, right," she said, "walk on the wall or something."

Spiderman fired a webline at the stapler on her desk and pulled it to him. "Ta-Da," he said. "Please get Reed for me."

"Fine, have a seat over there," she said, pointing to a group of chairs.

"Ok, this is really humiliating," Spiderman thought.