TOTALLY SPIDER-MAN!
Chapter 4: Mystery Ninja Part 2
I'm back everybody! Now time to get on with the story, because it's about to get really interesting when Iron Fist sets out to get some answers. The rest of the team, especially Sam and Peter, may not like the idea of him doing it alone. But hopefully, they'll get some answers in no time at all.
Now I don't own anything related to Totally Spies! or Ultimate Spider-Man, just the ideas for the fanfic and the OC, Michiko Satori. Okay, on with the show!
The following night, Danny wearing his Iron Fist guise, was leaping across all the rooftops. What he didn't know was that Peter and Sam were following him closely behind, only in stealth mode. Not long after the six friends had discussed the whole matter about the Black Viper encounter, they had gone and talked about with both Jerry Lewis and Nick Fury, but Danny was still very determined to do it all by himself. Now both agency directors had assigned Spider-Man and Agent Simpson to keep an eye on Iron Fist for the time being, although they both felt it was wrong to spy on their own friend's private business.
"Do you think this is a good idea Peter?" asked Sam with a matter of grave concern for the whole thing.
"We just got to know what this is all about." Peter told her earnestly, they both turned back to where Danny was standing on the roof. Iron Fist stood right where he was until he heard the sound of a grappling gun being fired at the roof. He turned around in time to see a familiar figure approach him from the edge, sure enough, Michiko Satori aka the Black Viper walked straight up to her longtime friend.
"Oh Danny, it's been so long" she greeted before rushing forward and hugging him tightly. From not far off, Peter and Sam looked at each other in surprise, it wasn't everyday that someone would get embraced by a complete stranger. "What is he doing?" Sam wondered.
"I don't know" Peter answered "But whatever it is, we've got to keep our eyes open." They turned back to the scene on the roof where Michiko finally let go of Danny.
"I have missed you so much" she told him with a monotone voice.
"Then what were you doing here last night?" he asked her solemnly, Michiko looked down at her feet as if she were ashamed of something. "I've been looking for you because I need your help" she told him. Danny was a bit surprised to hear that, he had never imagined that one of his friends from K'unn L'unn would ever inquire some assistance.
"Well, what is it?" he inquired patiently.
"My family has been kidnapped" she revealed, Danny looked shocked when he heard that, never had he imagined Michiko's family being kidnapped. But now it sounded very serious. "How could this happen?" he asked her.
"I honestly don't know" she admitted sadly. She felt like crying for a split second, but there just wasn't the time for it. "But I do know that a man who calls himself Mr. Negative is holding them prisoner." Iron Fist arched an eyebrow when he heard that, Spider-Man and Agent Simpson also heard it not far from their hiding place.
"Something tells me that there's so much more to this than just a simple little reunion" he whispered to Sam, who nodded in agreement.
"I agree, but who's this Mr. Negative?" she inquired.
"I think that's something we'll have to discuss with directors Fury and Lewis." Spider-Man reminded her "But for right now, let's just go home and get some sleep." So they headed off, back the way they came while Iron Fist and Black Viper continued their conversation.
"So, where do want us to meet?" asked Danny.
Down by the warehouse at the wharf, 7:30 tomorrow night," Michiko answered before putting on her mask and walking to the edge of the roof. She looked back at him and smiled warmly. "I really hope we can do this again, once this is all over." She told him before jumping off the roof and swinging away, leaving Danny to his thoughts.
The next morning
Everything at school was just downright peachy, except for Danny Rand, who was feeling a bit confused from his encounter with the Black Viper last night.
Right at the moment, he was now sitting down at a table all by himself. The others saw this and decided to join him, "What's the matter, Danny?" asked Peter.
"Oh, it's nothing," Danny answered, however, his friends didn't seem to buy it. So Clover came over and sat right next to him, "Would like to talk about what you were doing last night?" she asked seductively, at first, Danny only seemed to just ignore her, but then he relented and spilled the events of what happened the previous night.
"Okay, so would you like the rest of us to help out?" asked Luke, the others seemed to share the same look of agreement.
"No!" said Danny sternly, "This is something that I must do alone." With that said and done, Danny Rand got up from the table and left.
"Well, that was not expected." Alex remarked, the rest of the group nodded their heads in solemn agreement.
"But no matter what happens, we've still got to do something about it." Sam said seriously, Peter took her hand as he looked at her with a look of sympathy. Now he was more determined than ever to help Danny with the situation, "We'll help him, but first, we need a plan." He told her reassuringly.
"What kind of a plan?" asked Clover curiously.
"I'm glad you asked," Peter answered, he motioned the others to lean in closer, so they could talk in whispers. "Alright, here's what we're going to do…."
Later that night
The whole group, which was all five of them (Peter, Sam, Clover, Luke, and Alex), quietly followed after Danny, who was unaware of their intentions. They came to the spot where the Black Viper would meet up with Iron Fist, while the rest of them watched carefully from the shadows, the young kung fu warrior waited patiently for his long-time fellow martial artist.
Before he knew it, there was the sound of the wind whistling and the pitter-pattering of feet on the rooftops. Just then, somebody landed on the roof next to him and stood straight up, it was Michiko Satori, Aka the Black Viper.
"I was starting to think you'd never come" she told him.
"Well, you should be glad that I did," he replied, then he got serious. "Where has your family been taken?"
"Follow me." Black Viper turned and jumped off the roof, Iron Fist followed close behind. The five figures (Peter, Samantha, Luke, Alexandra, and Clover.) got up and followed them as quietly as possible. Before too long, they came to a strange-looking warehouse, that looked like no one had ever there for a long time. But as far as the group was concerned, it was just the perfect place for common criminals and foreign terrorists to make their base of operations.
"Are you sure this is the place where Mr. Negative is keeping your family?" they all heard Iron Fist say.
"Yes, this is it." Black Viper answered, then without another word, both of them went directly inside, leaving the others to ponder what had happened so far.
"I wonder, how is it gonna take?" Alex asked puzzled.
"I honestly have no idea." Luke told her, putting an arm around her shoulders, "But at all times, we've got to keep a cool head, and not do anything rash."
"Anything rash?!" snapped Clover indignantly, "I can't believe that Danny went in there without the rest of us to back him up. I also really can't believe that he went in there without me."
The others stared at her in disbelief. "Seriously, are you really thinking that you should be with every guy that you've set your sights on?" asked Peter, he just couldn't understand why Clover was so boy-crazy.
"Just stay calm, Clover," Sam reminded her friend. "Unless the situation is dire, we can't just go charging in." Clover didn't say anything else, she just huffed with such indignation.
Meanwhile, inside the warehouse, Iron Fist and Black Viper were searching the entire place from top to bottom. First, they went through the foyer and when they found nothing, they went upstairs to continue looking. By the time they got to the loft, there was still nothing. "Are you certain this is the right place?" Danny asked seriously.
"Yes, I'm positive." Michiko answered, but there was a hint of sadness in her eyes.
"Michiko, what's wrong?" asked Danny, he was now starting to get suspicious and before Michiko could answer, the lights suddenly came on and several dozen men armed with tommy guns and wearing demon masks stepped out into the open and surrounded the pair. Then there came a pair of hands clapping, as a very bizarre-looking Chinese man with glowing ebony skin and a white business suit came into full view, "Thank you very much, my dear. Now at last, we have the mighty Iron Fist, and we couldn't have done it without you."
Iron Fist stood frozen to the spot, shell-shocked, he couldn't believe what he was hearing. He turned to look at Black Viper with an angry glare, "Michiko, what's the meaning of this?!" he demanded.
"I…I didn't want this…" she stammered, trying to explain, "He said that he wouldn't hurt my family if I'd…"
"No need for petty excuses, my dear." Mr. Negative interrupted sternly. "You've done your part, but now you've outlived your usefulness." Now Danny didn't like the sound of that, the only kind of guy that would say that someone had outlived their usefulness, was the kind that pulled off a double-cross. But there no way on earth that he was going to let this crook harm Michiko.
"If you wish to harm the Black Viper." Iron Fist warned, stepping in front of Black Viper as he spoke. "Then you will have to go through me to do so." But despite his best intentions to intimidate the man, Mr. Negative started laughing, much to the young martial arts master's confusion.
"Oh, I don't have to go through you," he corrected. "Because I've already thought of everything." No sooner had he said that when all of a sudden, three of the thugs shot taser strings at the master of kung fu, causing him to scream out in pain. The Black Viper couldn't believe this was happening, she was now torn between saving her family and saving Danny.
Unknown to her, five figures watched the whole thing unfold. Even when she tried to stop Mr. Negative from torturing Danny so much, "No! Stop, Stop!" she cried out in fear for her friend.
"Stay out of this, girl!" Mr. Negative snapped, backhanding across the face and sending her sprawling across the floor.
Outside
Spider-Man and the rest of the team were starting to get restless from all the waiting, Clover especially, since she was finally starting to become impatient.
"I still don't get why we all have to wait so long!" she complained. "For all we know, Danny could already be in some big trouble, and there's no telling if he'll ever be able to…" Just then, there was a loud noise inside the warehouse, followed by loud cries of pain. "Oh man, that doesn't sound so good." Luke commented.
"Ya think?" asked Alex seriously, but now Clover was really agitated.
"That's it!" she snapped at the others, pushing them out of her way. "I've had it! I can't take this anymore, because I'm suppose to be the prettiest, yet fabulous girl in the spy business! So I get to go first!" Now Clover was so upset in pushing past the others, that she carelessly forgot to look where she was going. She put her foot in a cement crack and then all of a sudden, fell down flat on her face, right in a puddle of wet, soaked-up mud. Spider-Man, Power Man, Sam and Alex were all in utter amazement, they had never seen anything like this. Of course, no one ever expected to see Clover to fall down into the mud. But when she picked herself up, the others could hardly even contain themselves when they saw the predicament of how she was not only covered in mud, but also the fact that she had a very much disgusted look on her face.
"Did…anyone…see the mudhole…that I just…fell into?" she mumbled in absolute annoyance. All at once, the rest of the group burst out laughing, and they couldn't stop until tears came to their eyes.
"Oh, this is so very funny!" Alex exclaimed. "Teammate falls down in mud, classic element of physical comedy. Now comes the part where we throw our heads back and laugh, ready?"
"Ready!" answered Spider-Man, Agent Simpson and Power Man, then all at once, they laughed out loud some more, much to Clover's chagrin. The latter just wiped off her face and grumbled quietly to herself. "Why does everybody think this is SO funny?!"
Before anyone could answer, a loud scream of intense pain echoed from inside the warehouse. That got the group really worried.
"Sounds like Danny's in basic trouble." Sam told the others, they all raced towards the warehouse and looked inside through a window and saw a strange, discolored man torturing Iron Fist. Spider-Man and the others were really worried this time, but Clover was really more indignant. "Hah! I should have known that two-faced bitch would even lead him into a trap!"
"I wouldn't think so." Alex reminded her. "Look over there."
They all looked in another direction and, sure enough, there was the Black Viper being hauled away by two thugs, kicking and screaming while begging for Iron Fist's life. The others were very perplexed when they saw that, "Well, I guess there's no longer anyone being in cahoots with that guy." Alex commented. "Speaking of which, who is that guy?"
"That would be Mr. Negative, I believe." Spider-Man told her. "His real name is Martin Li, and he's one of the world's biggest criminal minds from New York City. The only reason he looks the way he does now, is because he was given power from an experiment that resulted in him also gaining two distinct personalities. One, a philanthropic do-gooder, and the other being a full-on villain as we're seeing right now."
"Well, that's something to know about." Sam remarked, the others nodded in unison. But then, they looked back into the warehouse and noticed that something else was happening. Two more thugs were now dragging Iron Fist towards a huge containment unit, that looked just like a huge cylinder, once they opened it up, they tossed their prisoner inside and shut the door. "That'll hold him alright," remarked one of the thugs.
"You can say that again," said the other thug. As both of them walked away, the rest of the gang could some pounding from inside the unit. They all huddled in a tight spot, so no one could hear them whispering. "So, what's the plan?" asked Alex curiously.
"Okay, here's what we're going to do," Peter began to explain….
Back inside the warehouse
From inside the containment unit, Iron Fist had a really hard time trying to breathe properly, only because more and more air was being drained out of there. He was even more concerned about the fact that sooner or later, he would also get so dehydrated and die. Then there was also the concern of saving Michiko and her family, if only his friends could get here in time, then they would be safe. His only hope was to pray that they would all live through this.
Outside the unit, things were starting to get really mixed up. Just when the demon thugs were about to celebrate their victory of capturing Iron Fist, there came the sound of glass breaking and shattering. They all turned around to see a familiar person, that they never thought they'd see, wearing a red and blue suit with web patterns all over and two emblems of a spider on the front and back, in addition to a red mask with lenses.
"Spider-Man!" One of the thugs cried out. Unbeknownst to any of them, the webslinger just smirked underneath his mask.
"Not just me," he told them, to their bewilderment. Just then, part of a wall came blasting in. The thugs turned around and, much to their dismay, they saw another familiar face along with three girls that they had never seen before. "What? You've never seen three beautiful girls before?" Alex taunted teasingly.
"We may not know you young ladies, but we do certainly know Spider-Man AND Power Man," retorted one of the thugs, then all at once, all hell broke loose. Four of the thugs went straight for the wallcrawler, six others headed for Luke and the girls. That was when the fighting began.
Elsewhere
In another part of the warehouse, Michiko and her family were all confined inside a pantry storage. On one hand, they were all very happy to be together again, but on the other hand, it still hurt to be stuck in a tight spot. They were just now starting to feel very miserable when all of a sudden, a loud racket was heard outside.
"What in the world is that awful noise?" asked a frightened little girl, who turned out to be Michiko's little sister.
"Don't worry Aika, everything will be alright." An older woman reassured the little girl, this was Michiko's mother. On the other side of the pantry sat Michiko's father and brothers. The father looked extremely disappointed in his oldest daughter, even as he leaned forward as if to admonish her.
"This is certainly some mess that we all have gotten ourselves into, isn't it?" he asked her.
"Papa, I honestly had no idea that it would turn out this way." Michiko reassured her father, the two boys who were also there stared at their sister in complete, utmost disbelief. Just then, the door to the storage pantry was suddenly ripped out and thrown to the side. The whole Satori family was so startled that they all jumped up, then they saw who ripped out the door, it was a young man with dark skin, dark glasses, a yellow shirt and black pants. Michiko immediately could tell that this was one of Danny's friends from S.H.I.E.L.D., Luke Cage, aka Power Man.
"The door is finally opened, ladies and gentlemen." Luke announced joyfully, the Satoris could definitely hear the humor in his voice, even as they stood up feeling very much relieved that they were being rescued. "We'll hold those goons off, long enough for you all to escape." Luke told the Satoris before turning back to the fight, Michiko was very jubilant about finally freeing her family and walking away from all this madness, but she was still hesitant about it.
"Is there something wrong, sister?" asked one of her brothers, this being the oldest.
"I…I'm just not sure of what to do." She admitted, her father then took up the incentive.
"You know that you can do the right thing, even as your heart tells you." He reminded her. "If you truly wish to help Daniel, then that is up to you. Of course, it wouldn't right to just leave him like this." Michiko thought for a moment, she knew that her father was right in what he was saying. So she made her choice.
At that same instant, Spider-Man, Power Man and the Spies were dealing with the demon goons while Mister Negative was putting his own plan into action.
"Soon, I will be rid of you sooner than you think, Spider-Man." He sneered before raising a huge grenade launcher with a very sharp point on the end, he was just about to pull the trigger when something came flying through the air struck his hand. The madman let out a howl and dropped his grenade launcher, clutching his right hand. He looked for the source and found a shruikan laying on the ground, the master criminal now wondered who could have thrown that thing at him when a loud shout brought him out of his stupor.
"HIYAHH!"
Mister Negative looked up just in time to see a foot hit him in the face, knocking him down in the process. It took the master criminal a while to get his bearings all together again. But when his vision cleared, he was greatly alarmed to another familiar figure standing over him. It was the same man whom he had locked up in the containment unit, yet there he stood.
"Surprised to see me?" asked Iron Fist with a smirk, the look on Mister Negative's face immediately went from alarmed to berserk, even as he turned to see Black Viper standing off to one side also smirking. Then the criminal became really fed up with everything not going as he had hoped, he pulled out a handgun and pointed it at the ninja-themed heroes.
"You may have won this fight!" he declared. "But you'll never have me taken in to the authorities!" But just as he started to back away, something tapped him on the shoulder.
"Don't be too sure about that." A familiar voice reminded him, Mister Negative looked over his shoulder to Spider-Man standing there with his hands on his hips. "You know, for a master criminal, you can be very convincing when it comes to threatening the families of innocent victims. But when you try to cut your losses and escape, you're just not made of sterner stuff aren't you?"
Now Mister Negative was really furious. There was no way he would abide with such insolence. "I'll prove who's made of sterner stuff!" he shouted, training his gun on the wallcrawler, only for Power Man to get in the way and take the hit to his chest. But as usual, the bullet bounced off his skin just like so many other times that he had been shot at.
"Now you've done it, mister." Luke growled, he then grabbed the criminal's gun and crushed it. Now Mister Negative prepared to defend himself with the dark energy that he possessed, but before he could do that, his hands were all webbed up. Then Power Man leapt forward and socked Mister Negative on the jaw, the dark energy-infested criminal crashed into a heap of crates that filled with isotopes, knocking him unconscious. From not too far off, the rest of the Satori family all breathed a sigh of relief.
"Finally, it's over." Mr. Satori told his wife, who nodded in agreement.
The next morning
After the whole fiasco with Mister Negative and the demon triad, the Satori family were all ready to go home to Japan. Michiko also took the time to introduce the rest of her family to her friends. The first names of both her parents were Haru and Emiko, the names of her two brothers were Kai and Baka, and her younger sister was called Aika. Now Danny and all of the others were there at the airport to see just them off.
"I promise to call and write every day, even when I've been gone for a whole year." Michiko promised Danny, her parents and siblings all smiled in unison while the rest of the spy team watched with enthusiasm. Clover couldn't help feeling so much uptight that Danny seemed to be interested in another girl, she had such high hopes that Danny would ask her out.
"Well, I would certainly hope that we could meet again." Danny answered, even though he couldn't help feeling so sad. He wondered if he would ever see Michiko again.
Michiko took notice of this and walked up to him, placing a hand on his face, much to Clover's chagrin. "Don't worry, I'm certain that we'll see each other very soon." Then she planted a kiss on Danny's cheek, much to everyone's surprise. Even Clover was stunned beyond belief that the Japanese girl would do something like that just before leaving for Japan.
Haru then stepped forward and shook Danny's hand. "I certainly hope that we will meet again, Daniel Rand." He told the young kung fu warrior, Emiko also expressed her thanks while Kai and Baka also shook hands with Danny, then Aika hugged him around the waist. As soon as they were all finished saying goodbye, the whole Satori family boarded the plane which took off into the air, heading back to Japan.
"Well, I guess that's it?" asked Alex wonderingly, Danny looked very unsure, but Peter, Sam and the others felt very confident.
"As far as I'm concerned, you never know when there might be a time that the Black Viper ever returns." Peter replied honestly, Sam couldn't really help agreeing with him even as she linked her arm with his. Luke and Alex turned to Danny, who was still staring off after the airliner.
"Are you okay, Dan?" asked Luke.
"I'm not so sure," Danny answered, "I wish I knew."
"Sure you do" Alex told him. "Everything will be alright, so there's no reason to doubt that Michiko will be back for a visit someday, so don't give up hope."
Danny pondered on what they just said, then his face lit up with an expression that resembled happiness. Turning to his friends, he proudly announced, "From now on, I will be looking forward to the future. Which is why I hope that all will be well."
They all smiled at their friend, feeling proud of him for being able to move on with everything else that mattered in his life. So, with all of that said and done, the six friends left the airport and went home where they belonged.
Somewhere else
Meanwhile, in a disclosed location, three men were seated at a table planning their next move. So far, each of them had been going over the printed reports that had been mailed to them, in regards to the results of Mister Negative's failure. Now, if anyone could recognize them, they'd realize that this was Tim Scam, Dr. Octopus, and the Green Goblin.
"I can hardly believe that Li failed to meet his objective!" exclaimed Otto Octavius, who was very much frustrated with the reveal of what had happened just last night.
"My thoughts exactly," Scam added before turning to face the Goblin. "So, got any new ideas on how to deal with the wallcrawler and all his so-called friends?"
"Well, the possibilities are endless." Osborn replied, as he turned on a projector that showed the profiles of several different individuals, who all looked very much familiar.
"Say, how come Martin Li's profile is on there?" Scam inquired.
"Because he and several others would make perfect members for a new iteration of the Sinister Six." Osborn replied, scrolling through a slideshow of each profile. "Each one has a unique power and talent, to the point of not only destroying the insufferable wallcrawler, but also to conquer the whole planet. This is our big score, gentlemen, and our one chance to march out and conquer the earth."
"Then we must certainly get our new band together so we can get started," Octavius added with glee.
"But how area suppose to recruit them?" Scam questioned a final time.
Osborn threw him a devious, contemptable smile. "Well, I'm so glad you asked."
Okay, now that this chapter has been officially wrapped up. Time to forward to when the next chapter's going to be posted!
For those of you who have been patient, this has taken about half a year and ten months for me to get this done. I apologize for taking this long, I can assure you that it won't happen again. I had originally intended to post this two weeks back, on Friday, November, 13th. If I had been successful, then it would be one heck of an update for a new chapter to be posted on a Friday the 13th, just one way or another. There are 2 reasons that have took this long, one being that I was too preoccupied with outside chores, writing my other fanfics, losing my first job(Not to worry, I'll let you know when I've got a new one.), helping out in any way that I can and so on. The other reason is that I have also clips and videos that have to do with scenes from animated movies and TV shows that would do nicely for a bit of inspiration for future fanfics, which I'm still planning out in advance with titles that I've made up for them.
Now, in case you're wondering, the scene where Clover fell flat on her face in the mud was gotten directly from a scene in the Disney film, George of the Jungle, where the bad guy falls flat on his face in a small pile of poop left by an elephant before groaning "There's an...elephant...around here?". Somehow, I had thought long and hard about having Clover fall down in poop herself, but figured that mud feel mush better for her case.
Finally, just so you all know, I'll be continuing to work on the next chapter in my very first, yet original story, JLU Spider-Friends Vol. 1: The Journey Begins, by the time this is posted. Then I hope to finish the last couple of chapters in Beauty and the Man-Spider, at least before the year is over.
Speaking of such, just bear in mind that as of right now, the highly-trained, yet professional physicians have already got a vaccine ready for medication against the afflictions of COVID-19, no matter what the news articles say. Which is why no one should ever give up hope, so I encourage all of you out there to keep on praying for your problems to solved and eventually, everything will be alright the following year. That I can promise you.
Your friend and author, 7-Eleventh.