Chapter 8: Infiltration

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"Text" = Speech

'Text' = Thoughts

PEJP BengtZone V2: Man such intensity! I didn't realize there were people who hated Koichi's mom so much. But to answer your question, no the Punisher didn't kill Koichi's mom. He doesn't even know Koichi's mom. That being said I have no plans to include Koichi's mom, so I guess you're free to pretend that he did kill her. About your second comment, that is what I was trying to portray in that scene with MJ. It's just MJ knows Peter well enough to know when he's only pretending to be fine. Sorry if it didn't come across that way.

King of Fans: Fun fact: I was planning on including Punisher in the team, but realised he would be too similar to Knuckleduster.

The moonlight shines brightly down on the Shie Hassaikai Base. Several lower ranking thugs patrolled the exterior of the building, keeping watch of any possible intruders. It was a calm night, but it was the unsettling kind of calm. All of the men could feel it to some degree. It probably had to do with the fact their boss's plan was in its final stages. With the fate of the Shie Hassaikai riding on its success.

One goon on the roof stopped his patrol to light a cigarette. He took a puff of his smoke, "I hope the boss man knows what he's doing. Attacking a house in broad daylight was a risky move-"

Twip!

Then the man was gone.

A lone figure gracefully landed on the roof without a sound. His bright white eyes, and red and blue suit glistening under the moonlight. He took a quick glance at his surroundings, before quietly entering the ventilation shaft.

Back on the ground, another guard made his rounds around the building. As he turned a corner he came face to face with two large red D's, before he was quickly knocked unconscious. The attacker hid the body in some shrubs, before quickly entering the building.

As that was happening someone else was sleathly sliding around the base, their hood flapping in the wind. They planted small devices in specific locations around the base. Meanwhile on a larger building adjacent to the base, a sniper and a medic watched his surroundings to make sure he wasn't caught. Shooting any guards with tranquilizer darts if they got too close for comfort. After finishing planting the devices outside, the hooded man also entered the inside the base.

Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Crawler had successfully infiltrated the base of Overhaul and the Shie Hassaikai, while Knuckleduster and Pop Step watched from a distance.

Now came the hard part.

Following the blueprints Matt had shown him, Spider-Man crawled through the maze of vents.

'Why do I always find myself crawling through air vents?' Spidey thought to himself, 'Better yet, why don't villains invest in making more comfortable ones!'

After a couple of minutes, Spider-Man arrived at his destination; the server room. He peered down on the room from the ceiling grate. There was one computer with a comically large screen, the kind you'd expect a super villain to have and 2 men standing guard.

"So…" said one guard, "...Wanna play some games on that PC?"

"Don't joke around," said another guard, "That computer is connected to our private server which contains some ridiculously sensitive information. It's not for games."

"Right, right sorry," the other man apologized, "...But I bet it would run the new All-Might open-world game at a ridiculous framerate."

"Y'know we probably shouldn't be discussing products from the enemy...but yeah probably," said the guard.

"I'm more of a fan of the All-Might fighting games myself," said a voice from above.

"I'm not good at fighting games," said one guard.

"Yeah me neither…" said the other.

"..."

"...hold on-" Both guards realised too late and before they could speak another word Spider-Man dropped from the ceiling vent and smashed the two men's heads together. Knocking both of them out in an instant.

"K.O! Spider-Man wins," Spider-Man brushed off his hands, before turning his attention towards the large computer. He plugged a USB drive into the keyboard and began typing away.

"Let's see just how good their security is," said Peter as he hacked into the computer, "Oh you guys forgot the latest kernel patch tsk-tsk..."

Peter successfully broke into the Shiei Hassaikai's server, and began searching for any incriminating evidence that could lock up Overhaul for good. Looking through the files he found a lot of useful information. Locations of secret Shiei Hassaikai bases. Transaction records between them and their dealers. A list of cops and heroes that they had bribed and blackmailed. The computer even had information on where they got their stupid masks from. But most importantly the computer had files on Overhaul's quirk-erasing drug.

"Looks like I hit the jackpot," Spider-Man began downloading the files onto his USB. While the files were being downloaded, Peter began to look through the files on Overhaul's drug, coming across a folder labeled "Video Test Logs." Inside the folder were a bunch of video recordings.

'I wonder what this is? Clinical Trials?' Peter clicked on a random video.

The video opened up to show a slightly younger looking Overhaul standing in what looked like a surgical room.

"Video Test Log No. 36," said Overhaul, "Attempting to train the subject to control their quirk has turned out to be a failure. Her progress on her own is too slow and any attempts to speed up the progress results in the loss of my men. So instead we'll be moving onto Plan B."

"I don't like the sound of that..." Peter whispered.

"If the subject can't control their quirk themselves..." Overhaul gestured to someone off screen. A younger Eri was brought into the sugerial room and strapped onto the bed, with wires attached all over her body, "Then we'll simply have to take it for ourselves..."

"Oh my god..." Spider-Man gasped.

Overhaul turned towards his patient, who was struggling to not break down in tears, "If we can isolate the subject's quirk from her DNA, we'll be able to control it more effectively than the subject ever could. Of course this requires a more messy approach"

"P-Please Don't!" the girl whimpered, "I-I'll d-do better this time, I-I promise!"

"Shhh, it's too late for that now," Overhaul picked up a scalpel, "Now sit still and you won't be punished."

The young girl squirmed in her chair, clenching her eyes. Her body began to glow with a yellow aura, before Overhaul quickly grabbed her and-

Splat!

"She activate her quirk before she died, that should provide us with some good data," said Overhaul coldy, picking up a syringe

*PAUSED*

Spider-Man clenched his fist. Rage flowed through his entire body. Of course, he had known about this beforehand. Eri had told him. He had studied the drug himself. But seeing it up close, seeing it happen right in front of his eyes was something different entirely. Peter hadn't felt this angry since…

'He'll pay for this!' Peter cursed.

The computer finished the download, and Peter pocketed the USB drive.

'With that finished, I can finally get Eri out of this place,' Peter thought before his Spider-Sense began blaring, 'Uh oh...'

The doors to the server room opened and a group of 3 men walked into the room. One of them was blonde with a plague mask, another was bald with a white face mask, and the final one looked like he was wearing a potato sack on his head.

"You two scram, the boss wants us to-huh?" the blonde one stopped, realizing the two men who were supposed to be guarding the room were unconscious on the floor. With their assailant nowhere in sight. Peter was above them on the ceiling, he wasn't fast enough to hide the two goons he knocked out.

"An intruder?! Where they'd go?!" the men scanned the room.

"Up here!" a voice yelled from above

The three men looked up, before getting a face full of webbing.

"Aw what the hell-"

Before they could even fully comprehend what was happening, Spider-Man pounced on them. Delivering a series of quick but powerful blows. His opponents were too dazed to fight back. Peter was right about to finish off the blonde one by punching him square in the mask, but his Spider Sense went off.

Peter managed to stomp himself before it was too late, 'He must have a weapon hidden in his mask.'

However in that moment of hesitation, the blonde man reached out his hand. Causing one of Peter's web shooters to come flying off his wrist and into the man's hand.

"Hey get your own toys, that one belongs to me!" Spider-Man fired a webline at the blonde man, but the potato sack man jumped in front of him and ate his webbing.

"Did you just-?" Spider-Man said, puzzled, "That can't be good for your diet."

"Yum Yum," the potato masked man smiled.

"Ugh! Now you've just reminded me of Vermi-" Spider-Man doged and crystiled punch from the bald guy. Spider-Man backflipped further back and took a better look at the men he was facing.

"Wait a minute, I know you guys. You're three of the 8 babies or something," Spider-Man quipped. Daredevil had gotten the team police files on all known Shiei Hassaikai members.

"8 Bullets!" yelled the Blonde man, aka Toya Sensuno, "We might be trash but atleast get the name right!"

"The Boss came up with that name!" said the bald one, aka Yu Hojo, "Don't you dare disrespect it!"

"Eat! Eat!" yelled the potato sacked man aka Soramitsu Tabe.

"Oh, I'll be doing much more than just disrespect him," Spider-Man's eyes narrowed, "Now if you don't mind, you're in my way."

Hojo launched towards Spider-Man with a crystalised fist, but Spider-Man simply front flipped over him. While mid-air Peter shot a webline at Hojo's back, pulling the crystalized man off his feet.

"Gotcha!" Spider-Man spun the crystalised man several times in the air.

"Ultimate Web Throw!" Spider-Man launched Hojo towards his two allies at high speed.

Sensuno's and Tabe's eyes went wide as Hojo's huge crystalised body crashed into the two. Causing the three of them to be sent flying out of the server room, impacting against the hallway wall, taking all 3 out with one attack. This of course, notified every Shiei Hassaikai member of his presence in the base.

"So much for the element of surprise." Spidey sighed, requiping his lost web shooter, "Let's hope the others have gotten their jobs done."

A Couple of Minutes Earlier,

Above ground another of Overhaul's goons made his rounds before a pair of red hands grabbed him, dragging him into the darkness. Daredevil had made a decent way inside the Shiei Hassaikai building, taking out any men he came across. His Radar Sense was perfect for this mission, as it gave an exact layout of the building along with telling him exactly where everyone else was at any given moment. He could see a guard playing on his phone on the second floor. He could smell another goon cooking instant ramen in a break room. He could sense two guys were making out in the bathroom. But most importantly he could tell that May Parker was in the room down the hallway to his right.

While it was Peter's job to hack Overhaul's computers in the underground base, it was his job to rescue May Parker. The only issue was the two men guarding the entrance to the room she was held captive in. Matt analysided the two men from around the corner.

'Just need to split them up," Daredevil pulled out his billy club, banging it on the wall behind him. This got the attention of the two men guarding the room.

"What was that?" said one goon.

"It's probably just one of the guys fooling around," said the other, "Go check it out to make sure."

The first goon nodded in response, walking down the hallway. As soon as he turned the corner Daredevil smacked the man across the head with his billy club. The goon fell to the ground with a large 'Thud!'

"Huh? Hey man, are you okay there?" asked the other goon. But before he could ponder the situation any further Daredevil jumped from around the corner, throwing his billy club. The billy club bounced off the hallway wall and directly into the remaining goon's head, knocking him before he could react.

Matt retrieved his billy club from the ground, and entered the room the two men were protecting. The smell of medicine and disinfectants and the humming of the equipment told him he was in the medical ward. There were two eldery people lying in hospital beds, both hooked up to IV's. One of them was May Parker, resistrainted to her bed with straps. The person next to May was a bit of a mystery. The person was elderly and frail, clearly suffering with some health issues. Unlike May this person wasn't strapped to the bed, showing that they weren't a prisoner. In fact the room seemed pretty luxurious for a medical ward. Whoever this person was, they were important.

'This must be the previous boss of the Shiei Hassaikai...' thought Daredevil, 'His true name is unknown and he was presumed dead, but I guess that wasn't accurate.' Daredevil turned his attention back to Peter's aunt. The Boss could wait, right now he had to get May Parker to safety. He carefully undid the straps and removed the IV needle. Aside from some light bruising from the slaps, the older woman would be okay.

Pressing his finger to his ear, Daredevil activated his comm line, "Crawler I've secured . I need you to pick her up."

"Alright I've just finished planting the last device, I'm on my way," Crawler confirmed.

A few seconds later and Crawler entered the medical ward.

"Did you have any trouble?" asked Daredevil.

"Not really, the Master taught me some stealth techniques which came in handy," Koichi did a karate chop motion. Crawler picked up the still unconscious May Parker, putting her on his back, "Alright I'll right I drop her off with the others and come back as quick as possible."

Daredevil nodded, "I'll head into the underground base in the meantime, Spider-Man will probably-" then from underground Daredevil heard the sound of panicked footsteps, nervous heartbeats, and people getting punched.

"Um, is something wrong or...?" Koichi asked.

"Hey guys, we can see Overhaul's men running to the entrance of the underground base. What's happening in there?" Pop Step asked from over the comm.

"Spider-Man got caught," Daredevil said into the ear piece before turning to Koichi, "You have to get her out of here, now. I'll go assist Spider-Man."

"Right, I'll be back as soon as possible," Crawler glided out of the room.

Matt took a deep breath.

They were both outnumbered and outgunned.

But there was no chance in hell he was giving up now.

Koichi silently gilded down the halls of the Shiei Hassaikai building with the eldery May Parker on his back. Lucy for him, at this point most of Overhaul's men were either preoccupied with Spider-Man down in the underground base or unconscious. Allowing him to make a quick escape without being caught.

Now in the courtyard, Koichi noticed that there were no guards in sight. Seeing that the coast was clear, he zoomed over the large wall surrounding the base and landed on the street. From there he glided up a building where Knucleduster and Pop Step were.

"Crawler, are you alright?!" asked Pop Step.

"Yup, and I've got with me," Crawler gently laid the woman on the rooftop.

"Good job," said Knuckleduster, "Did you finish setting up the devices?"

"Yeah I did," Koichi answered, "Alright, I'm going back in there."

"Wait, I'll go with you," Pop Step suggested.

"Huh? Really? Enclosed spaces aren't your specialty," said Crawler.

"Maybe, but right now we need all hands on deck," said Pop Step, "Besides you'll need someone to watch your back, and to patch you up when you inevitably get hurt."

"I'll watch over and notify you if anything happens," said Knuckleduster

Koichi smiled, "Alright follow my lead Kazuho."

"Always!" Kazuho smiled back.

'Welp, things are not going to plan,' Spider-Man thought to himself as he dodged a punch from one of Overhaul's goons. Peter was fighting through a hoard of Shiei Hassaikai men, looking for Eri. These guys weren't particularly powerful or skilled, but they were differentially very passionate.

"How dare you invade our home you-" Spider-Man silenced the yakuza thug with one punch across the face..

"Take this punk!" another man tried to attack Spider-Man from behind, but Spider-Man effortlessly dodged, counter attacking with a quick kick, knocking the man out.

"I'm sorry guys, but I don't have time for autographs at the moment," Spider-Man quipped as he took down another thug with an uppercut.

"Screw it! Everyone, just rush him at once!" one yakuza thug yelled. His 20 or so other allies nodded in agreement.

"GET HIM!" the men yelled together, as they charged the vigilante in front of them.

On paper this was a good idea, however the fact they were in a rather small hallway meant…

"I said no autographs, so have some completletary webbing instead!" Spider-Man unloaded his remaining webbing, onto the charging men.

"Ah! "The Shei Hassaikai men painiced as they were all covered in webbing. Their struggling only made things worse for them, as they began falling over each other. Leaving them all stuck to the floor in a massive pile of webbing.

"Aw, what the hell!"

"What is this stuff!"

"Can't move!"

"Someone's stepping on my leg!"

"Well aren't you guys just as snug as a bug in a rug,' Spider-Man replaced his empty web cartridges, with spares from the belt he wore under his suit, "Now if you excuse me. There's a damsel who's distress." Spider-Man leaped over the pile of men, swinging down the hallway.

'I can't waste time on these guys, I need to find Eri. I hope Matt gets here soon, he could find her easily.' Peter said to himself.

RUMBLE!

Spider-Man dropped from his web line. The entire hallway began violently shaking and bending in a very abnormal fashion.

"What the?" Spider-Man went on all four, "I didn't take any drugs by accident did I?"

The layout hallway began to change, with walls popping up and halls twisting and turning, blocking off his previous path and redirecting him somewhere else.

"Well that's just fantastic. I didn't think I'd have to fight against the building itself," Spider-Man complained, 'If I had to guess, this is probably the work of that Mimic guy. He's probably using that drug to power up his quirk. And the fact he blocked off that direction means I was probably going the right way. In that case...'

Spider-Man ran up the newly formed wall and smashed it down with a single punch.

"Sorry pal, but I forge my own paths!" Spider-Man joked as he continued down the hallway. Even with walls twisting and turning like crazy, Peter's adhesive powers and his perfect equilibrium made traversing these halls a piece of cake. And whenever Mimic would bring up a wall to block his path, Peter would just smash it down.

"Phew! This isn't really difficult, but it sure is tedious," Spider-Man exhaled. Then just as Peter broke down another of Mimic's walls, his Spider-Sense went off.

Spider-Man barely dodged in time as a knife flew by his face, missing his face by a few centimeters, "Whoa!" the hero yelp, "Talk about a close shave..."

The hallway returned to normal, and two figures stepped out of the darkness.

"Aw I missed," a blonde girl in a school uniform pouted, "That's okay though, I'll just have to try again!"

"Wow this guy costume sucks!/It's so cool!'' a man in a black spandex with white eyes said in two different voices.

"Uh, are you guys new? Because you guys seem very out of place," Spider-Man rubbed the back of his head.

"Oh we don't work for these losers," the blonde girl smiled creepily, "Think of us...as transfer students, here to kill you!"

"The name's Twice and She's Himiko Toga, and we represent the infamous League of Villains!/What's our name again?!" said Twice

"Ah, so you guys are the League of Villain schmucks that the fatman talked about," Spider-Man pointed at the pair, "You must be really desperate to work with Overhaul of all people. Though I guess it makes sense after the beatdown your boss received on live television."

"Urgh, You are so not cute," Toga grimaced.

"It's on now! I'll show you to not disrupt the League/We suck!" said Twice

Toga launched at Spider-Man, two knives in hand. Peter dodged the incoming stabs and slices with ease, "Me not cute? You must be mistaken," Spider-Man ducked another slice and counter with a quick kick to the stomach, sending Toga flying off her feet. But before Peter could capitalise, Twice came in swinging. Spider-Man dogged the villains flurry of attacks, giving Toga time to recover.

"I've got your back!/You're on your own!" Twice yelled to his ally.

"Thanks!" Toga charged back into battle. Spider-Man punched Twice across the face, then fired webbing at the girl, only for her slice through the projectiles.

"You're mine,"Toga jumped into the air, and slashed downwards. Spider-Man managed to backflip out of the way. However this left him wide open to get kicked by Twice. And Spider-Man was sent flying into a wall.

"Oof, lucky shot," Spider-Man groaned. Peter caught off guard when someone else from Twice and Toga grabbed him and kneed him in the face. Spider-Man pushed his 3rd assailant away from him, "Augh, what the...huh?" Spider-Man realized that the person who attacked him was a second Twice.

"Oh, so that's why you're called Twice," Spider-Man rubbed his head.

"You scared? Wanna give up?/Keep fighting!" the two Twices said together.

"You're not here alone right? In that case, you might be worth sucking" Toga smiled holding up a needle connected to a device on her back.

"Sorry lady, but I don't usually go that far on a first date," said Spider-Man, "Plus it's a personal policy to date girls who try to kill me."

"Oh please like I'd date a loser like you! I've got my sight on a way cuter hero," Toga blushed, "Oh Deku~"

"Deku? You mean Broccoli Boy?" Spider-Man scratched his head, "What's he got that I-"

"He's distracted, get him!/We should wait!" One of the two Twice's charged at Peter, pulling out a measuring tape out from his wrist, and swinging it like a whip. Spider-Man dodged to his right, and to where the other Twice was coming in with a sucker punch. Spider-Man blocked the attack, but before he could counterattack his Spider-Sense warned him of danger behind him. Spider-Man pushed Twice off and attempted to dodge out of the way, but Toga managed to slice his side with her knives.

"Ouch! Watch the costume!" Spider-Man clutched his wounds, slowing down the blood loss.

"Now that's more like it" Himiko held up the bloody weapon, "Even ugly people like you look better bloody." Toga then began to lick Peter's blood off her knife.

"Uh, I would really not recommend you doing that," Spider-Man cautioned.

"Too late now. Now after we kill you, I'll take your place amd-" Himiko began coughing violently.

"...And that's why," Spider-Man said with concern.

"Himiko you alright?" Twice ran to Himiko's side.

"N-No…*cough* T-There's s-something *cough* wrong with his blood..., Himiko wheezed. The villainess fell to her knees.

"My blood is radioactive" Spider-Man explained, "You need medical attention right away, I can-"

"Stay the hell away from her!" Twice yelled, "Grab my shoulder, I'll get us out of here."

"Wait I can help you-" Spider-Man reached out, but the Twice clone rushed him, tackling him to the ground.

"Again, not on the first date!" Spider-Man kicked Twice off of himself. Spider-Man got back to his feet, only to see that Toga and the other Twice were gone. Peter looked back at the Twice that just attacked him and watched as he began to disintegrate.

"Well I guess that's over," Peter sighed. Spider-Man patched up his cut with web bandages, "Damn! I got careless and now both me and the guys I were fighting got hurt..."

Spider-Man took a deep breath, "I need to focus. I can't worry about those guys, I need to find Eri and then get her the hell out of here."

Spider-Man continued down his previous path. Searching blindly for the little girl in need of rescuing.

Eri trembled in fear in her dark, cold room. She could hear all the fighting and yelling, and was terrified. Was it because of her? Was someone trying to take her? Was she going to be punished again?

While in the midst of her fear, the door to her room opened, light pouring in through the crack in the door. It was Overhaul.

"Eri it's time to go," Overhaul said coldly, "It seems like that deranged Spider is here for you."

'Peter is here?' Eri thought to herself.

"Don't worry though," said Overhaul, "He'll be dead soon enough, and it'll be all your fault. Now let's go."

Eri nodded silently and followed him out of the room.

It's been awhile huh? Sorry it took so long, but I was preoccupied with Summer Classes. To make it up for you guys, I made this chapter a bit longer than usual. This of course will probably mean that there's more spelling/grammar mistakes than usual, so I hope you can forgive me. Anyways we're reaching the end of the story. There'll probably only be 2-3 more chapters. People have asked if I'll continue this story past the Overhaul arc, and while I will be continuing the series, I'll be doing a prequel story, showing things Peter did in Seasons 1-3. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and remember to stay safe out there.