THE SPIDER, THE WIDOW AND THE HAWK.
It was a quiet night in New York City. Despite being the center of the world in problems with supervillains, that day had been pretty quiet.
There were no incidents that the Punisher or Daredevil had to calm their way, there were no problems that the Heroes for Hired were hired to solve, there were no problems with mutants in which the X-Men had to intervene, and above all, there were no plans of conquest or global destruction that could've required the immediate appearance of the Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers.
However, there were a few wrongdoers who tried to cause trouble for the citizens, but for the good fortune of some and the bad luck of others, their Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man had managed to stop them.
And since it was almost 10 pm, the young hero who was secretly Peter Parker was swinging towards his Aunt May's home, to rest after an arduous day as a superhero photographer, freshman student and masked vigilante.
It was true that no one knew exactly what to think about the wall-crawler, because he had literally appeared from one moment to another and had passed very quickly from being a simple delinquent who had stolen an ATM, to being the champion of a semi-professional wrestling group. Not long after that, he was labeled as a criminal linked to the death of Ben Parker's killer, to finally become a defender of the innocent, but now they were all divided among those who agreed with J. Jonah Jameson on thinking that Spider-Man was a masked menace and those who believed that he was a hero.
But no matter what, Peter Parker knew that he was a hero, or that at least he tried to be one with everything he had because he wanted to avoid failing someone he loved again.
All thanks to his immaturity and his ingenuity.
With great power comes great responsibility.
Those were the last words he had exchanged with his uncle Ben, a motto that had been burned into his mind and with which he guided his actions.
Within his mind, Peter knew that he still needed a lot to be called a true hero, but at least one couldn't say he didn't try with all he had.
And while the young man stayed on his way to go home, after an arduous day of studies, photographs and captures of criminals, the masked vigilante was watched behind a giant banner of the Daily Bugle by a man who wore a curious purple suit, who carried a quiver full of arrows and a bow, and who was riding some kind of flying scooter.
- There's your target, Iron Man. - Said the man with the bow and arrows. - I don't know what worries you, he's just a child.
- A child who, according to reports, can lift a bus, climb the walls as if he were an insect and weave webs proportionally as strong as normal ones. Not to mention that he's involved in the robbery of an ATM and the murder of a petty thief. - Said the voice of Iron Man through a communicator in the ear of the man in the purple suit.
- You worry about nothing, Stark.
- I don't, Clint, keep in mind that he changed from being a juvenile delinquent to being a vigilante in the span of six weeks.
- Stark, he's a teenager, they change their mind more times than they change their underwear.
- Then everything is even worse, we can't let a teenager be around fixing and/or causing disasters whenever he pleases.
- As you wish, tin-man, I'll take him to the Mansion... or at least 80% of it.
- This is serious, Hawkeye, do not overdo it, just knock him out and bring him in.
Hawkeye just chuckled and ignited his flying scooter, then flew after Spider-Man, believing he could take him by surprise without any problem.
However, as soon as he was close enough, Spider-Man's spider-sense activated and made him turn his eyes slightly to look over his shoulder and let out a gasp when he noticed the archer following him, so the young wall-crawler increased the speed of his swings to try to lose his pursuer.
As soon as he noticed that, Hawkeye sighed heavily and increased the speed of his scooter to reach his target, at the same time he prepared his bow to shoot a capture arrow at the teenage hero.
However, just at the moment he fired and prepared to smile seeing the boy fall, the arachnid hero simply made a pirouette in the air and dodged the arrow with alarming ease.
Immediately after, Hawkeye frowned and growled in frustration, then took two more arrows and shot them at Spider-Man, obtaining the same result.
- This isn't possible! - Hawkeye said. - I never miss!
- There's always a first time for everything, old man! - Shouted Spider-Man with a laugh.
At the boy's reply, Hawkeye had a twitch in his eye.
- That's it! I don't care what Iron Man says! That brat dies tonight! - Hawkeye said as he changed the configuration of his arrows from stun to kill.
On the other hand, well hidden in the shadows, Spider-Man saw Hawkeye pass in front of him, noticing the expression of murderous fury on the face of the Avenger, which made him feel a little worried, as if Hawkeye was one of the less acknowledged Avengers, he was more than certain that he wasn't part of the team just for the sake of it.
- Alright, I have to find a place to detransform and then I'll make up another excuse for my aunt May to not ground me for being late again. - Peter said to himself. - Though... why the hell did Hawkeye try to catch me?
- Why do not you ask Clint yourself after Fury interrogates you? - Said a female voice with a Russian accent, a few moments after Spider-Man's spider-sense went off.
At that moment, Spider-Man jumped from the shadows upwards, managing to evade a series of shots with relative ease, then his spider-sense went off again and he barely managed to dodge an explosive arrow from Hawkeye.
Faced with the situation, Spider-Man stood in combat stance while he faced Hawkeye and a beautiful red-haired woman who wore a skintight black jumpsuit, golden bracelets and a black belt that had a red hourglass in the buckle.
- Thanks for helping me find the insect, Nat, but I saw him first, he's mine. - Hawkeye said while he prepared several arrows.
- I do not think so, Clint, the boy is coming with me. - Black Widow snapped.
- I'm sorry, but the boy will only go to his home, so move. - Spider-Man snapped.
- Don't dream it, kid, you're too dangerous to walk around without supervision. - Black Widow and Hawkeye said in unison.
- Why does everyone think I'm a kid?!
- Shut up and surrender, and I may not hurt you! - Hawkeye said.
- I do not believe that...
With that said, Spider-Man jumped back as he shot several webbing balls at Hawkeye and Black Widow, causing the spy and the Avenger to roll on the ground to dodge the arachnid hero's attack.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man jumped from the roof of the building and began to swing as fast as he could, in an attempt to escape from his pursuers.
On the other hand, Hawkeye jumped from the roof where they were and landed on his flying scooter, then turned it on and started chasing Spider-Man, while the Black Widow did the same, using her S.H.I.E.L.D. devices and her acrobatic skills to stay close to the Avenger and the vigilante.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man managed to gain enough distance between himself and his pursuers, which caused the wall-crawler to let out a laugh of victory, which was quickly silenced by a tingle on the back of his neck. Reacting instinctively to his spider-sense again, Spider-Man made a sharp turn in a corner and dodged a shower of stun arrows from Hawkeye, which made the boy swallow with difficulty.
- Isn't that guy supposed to have no powers and shouldn't be so dangerous?! -Spider-Man snapped for himself.
Suddenly, Spider-Man felt another tinge in his neck, this time much more painful, which urged him to look forward. However, this time the young Queens hero had no chance to dodge Black Widow, who lunged at him and knocked him down, making him fall gracelessly into a dumpster while she landed nimbly with a pirouette on the ground.
- You're good, child, I'll give you that, but you're not as good as we are. - The Black Widow said while she aimed her stingers at the dumpster. - Surrender and I will not hurt you anymore.
However, Spider-Man didn't respond, the boy simply growled in frustration inside the dumpster and began to think of a way to get out of there without being hit by Black Widow's stingers.
On the other hand, Black Widow was getting impatient, the boy was much rougher than she would have believed and seemed smart enough to take advantage of his speed and agility to escape from far more experienced fighters like her and Clint.
And speaking of Clint, the archer came to the alley where the Widow and Spider-Man were, then jumped from his flying scooter and landed with acrobatics as he grabbed his bow and a stun arrow, which he aimed at Natasha.
- What do you think you're doing, Clint? - Natasha asked.
- I have a mission, Nat, it's nothing personal. - Clint said.
- This is because of what I did to you during the HYDRA affair, isn't it?
- Ok, I'll admit it, a little, yes.
- You're a jerk.
- And you're a complete hypocrite.
At that time, Spider-Man came out of the dumpster with a powerful jump, while he shot several webbing balls against his attackers, managing to stick them to the ground, only this time, the substance was much more viscous and sticky than before.
After that, the wall-crawler adhered to a wall and propelled himself to the parallel wall, repeating the process until he reached the roof of a building, while the Black Widow and Hawkeye struggled with the webbing that held them together to the ground.
Using an acid arrow and a combat knife, Clint Barton and Natasha Romanov managed to free themselves from the bonds that the young vigilante had put on them, then proceeded to resume the pursuit, having to use the barely notorious weblines that the boy was leaving in his path.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man was swinging as fast as he could. He was already very nervous, because most likely due to his small confrontation with Hawkeye and Black Widow, his name was already on the criminal list of both S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers, something with which, being the simple teenager he was, could secure a cell inside any of the prisons of the world for him... or a grave.
Inside his mind, everything was in chaos, because while a part of him told him to flee and try to escape from his pursuers, two others told him to stop and surrender to not worsen his situation, only that these parts didn't agree in who he should surrender to, if to Hawkeye and the Avengers or Black Widow and S.H.I.E.L.D.
Meanwhile, Black Widow had already been fed up with the fact that the boy had managed to elude her and make her look like a rookie several times already, and worse than that, he had also managed to escape from her former partner and current Avenger, Hawkeye; therefore, Natasha began to think of a way to slow down the teen's pace or distract him long enough to knock him out and take him away, before Hawkeye could get him.
After a few moments, she managed to get an idea, although it was against everything she believed, she knew that the boy could handle what she was about to do. Without thinking twice, Black Widow threw a couple of devices at strategic points of an ad and these detonated, knocking down the ad and causing it to fall to the bystanders in the city.
Shortly before the detonation of the explosives, Spider-Man felt that his spider-sense had gone off, so he took an acrobatic turn in the air to see what had alerted him and let out a gasp when he saw a billboard explode. As he saw this, Spider-Man and Hawkeye opened their eyes widely and hurried to try to stop the debris and save the people.
Hawkeye fired several capture arrows and created a net which retained some of the debris, while Spider-Man wove another net, which stopped almost all the rest of the debris. However, civilians were still in danger, so Spider-Man plummeted and lunged at them, while Hawkeye shot explosive arrows at the debris, making them less than gravel and dust.
On the other hand, Spider-Man swung quickly and managed to get a man who was distracted with his phone off the path of a beam, then let him down and jumped back to where the debris fell. Using his webs, Spider-Man pulled a group of teenagers away from a pile of plastic and metal that could've crushed them, and left them somewhat sore from the pull and the fall, but safe. Finally, he ran to a woman, who was carrying her son in her arms, and tackled her out of danger.
Finally, Spider-Man stood up and looked back, noting that all the other civilians had been able to get to safety, but his relief was replaced by surprise, which quickly turned into a huge anger and frustration when the woman slapped him to then spit in his face.
- Stay away from me and my son, masked menace! - The woman snapped before walking away with an air of indignation. - I'm pretty darn sure all this is your fault!
- Yeah, you don't have to thank me for saving your and your son's lives... - Spider-Man sighed as he wiped his face.
Suddenly, Spider-Man's spider-sense went off, but he couldn't react in time before feeling 20,000 volts of electricity running through his body, causing everything to turn black for him.
While some people gasped when they saw the young hero fall to the ground unconscious, a beautiful woman with reddish orange hair and a skintight black jumpsuit walked from the rubble towards the teenager.
- "You're good, kid." - Said Black Widow in Russian. - But I'm better.
However, before she could even bend over to pick up the boy, an arrow hit her in the back, knocking her unconscious with 10,000 volts of electricity.
- Sorry, Nat. - Hawkeye said as he landed his flying scooter. - But even if I don't like the boy, I won't let S.H.I.E.L.D. put its hands on it. And about the arrow... you owed me one for making me get imprisoned in the Vault.
With that said, the Archer Avenger picked up Spider-Man and Black Widow, placed them on his scooter and flew away heading to the Avengers Mansion.