I'm baaaack!!! Sorry for the long wait, I was writing for my other stories, that were becoming abandoned so I gave this one a break for a while. Even started a few more stories that'll be up soon for those who follow me. Sorry for making you wait. But we're back to normal weekly updates, enjoy!

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They make it to F.E.A.S.T. and quickly ditch their outfits as they make it inside. "Okay, mr. Li's usually in his office by now. I'll talk to him about the mask, see if he knows anything. You wanna see if anyone could use some help or join us?" Peter asks Felicia as they walk through the doors. "You know, you collect the information, I'll help someone here." Felicia says smiling and she walks off, as Peter makes his way to Martin Li's office.

Li is in his office and is writing a letter as Peter comes in. "Mr. Li?" Peter calls out. "Peter. What can I do for you?" Li asks as he stops what he's doing to walk up to Peter, keeping him away from the desk.

"Me and Felicia have this friend, Mary Jane. She's a reporter, doing a story on art imports, and Felicia found this piece for her...she wanted an experts opinion and Felicia remembered how you have a degree.." Peter explains to him.

"And might be the first time I finally get to use it." Li says smiling. "Let's see what you have." Li says.

Peter reaches into his bag and pulls out the mask from the crime scene and Li sees it.

"Interesting." Li says as he looks at it. "Where'd Felicia find something like this?" Li asks, looking it over.

"I've learnt it's best not to ask Felicia that." Peter says. "But I'm not entirely sure, being honest. Why, what is it?" Peter asks as Li keeps suspecting it.

"It looks to be a replica of an antique Chinese opera mask. I haven't seen one like this in years." Li explains to Peter as he turns it around to see a symbol inside it. "This symbol roughly translates to Demon." Li states to him and his hands start shaking and Peter takes notice of it. "My father used to read me ghost stories with that mask and symbol in it when I was young. Used to scare the hell out of me." He tells Peter had hand hands the mask back to him. "Peter, listen. That mask, it's...it could be connected to dangerous people. Mary Jane might wanna find a different story and Felicia shouldn't hang around places to find this." Li says to him and goes back to work.

"You think she's in trouble?" Peter asks him.

"I don't know." Li tells him, shaking. "But why take the risk?" Li asks Peter.

"Well, Felicia lives for the risk of life." Peter says as he leaves the office.

He walks around and Felicia in the kitchen, alone cleaning up. "Hey, you find out anything?" She asks him. "The symbol inside the mask translate to Demon. It really spooked mr. Li. I've never seen him so scared." Peter informs her. "He even said that MJ should drop the story." Peter tells her.

"And we both know that's not happening." Felicia states and takes out her phone and texted the information she was given to MJ.

"You think he could more know than he's saying?" She asks him.

"No, I just think he had a weird flashback or something. We both know his childhood was traumatic." He tells her. "Yeah, that would make sense." Felicia says as she finishes up cleaning everything.

"You know, you coulda helped me finish." She tells him as he was just standing there.

"Yeah, But then you go on how you can do things yourself." Peter states, defending himself.

"I know, I like reminding you that." Felicia says, smiling. "Also, don't you have to get to work now?" Felicia asks him and Peter looks at the time.

"Oh, yeah. Lance Texidor is coming over to the labs for his prosthetic arm fitting. Thanks for reminding me." Peter says as he quickly kisses her and starts speed walking out.

"That's what I'm here for, Spider." Felicia says, smiling at how he has an hour to get to the lab.

Peter makes it to the labs just in time to see Lance and Otto testing his new arm.

"So how does this work?" Lance asks Otto.

"Just like a regular arm. You tell it what to do, it'll do it." Otto explains to him as he starts to slowly move his new arm around a cup and slowly picks it up.

Otto and Peter laugh as the doors open and people enter. "Hey, what's happening? What do you think you're doing?" Peter asks them as the woman in charge hands him a click board.

"This buildings been declared a safety hazard." She informs him and Peter looks at the list as they start taking their equipment away.

"Stop this right now!" Otto yells seeing them take their work. "This is highly sensitive equipment. That's it, I'm calling the mayor directly." Otto states as he pulls his phone out.

"Peter Parker!" A new voice says and they turn to see mayor Osborn. "How the hell are you?" Norman asks, smiling at Peter.

"Speak of the Devil." Otto states seeing him.

"Mr. Osborn." Peter says, seeing him.

"Please, Peter. How long have we known each other? It's mr. Mayor." He tells Peter. "Norman! It's Norman." He says, revealing the joke and laughs.

"What are you doing here?" Otto asks Norman.

"The grant agreement you have has strict safety provisions. This isn't your first violation" Norman informs Otto.

"Those were all excused." Otto states him.

"By me. We should've confiscated it a long time ago." Norman says to him.

"But I've had a breakthrough." Otto says, showing the arm. Norman approaches him and helps him up.

"Thank you for your service to our country. These folks will escort you to Oscorp laboratories where you'll receive the finest in prosthetic enhancements." Norman tells him as he's brought out of the room.

"Norman, this isn't about safety provisions, is it?" Otto asks him.

"I'm trying to help you, Otto. You're free to continue your work. In a secure environment." Norman informs him.

"At Oscorp." Otto says, seeing through him.

"You always had the biggest mind in the room." Norman says as his men are taking everything.

"You haven't changed a bit." Otto says, angrily.

"Neither have you." Norman says to him and looks to Peter. "Hey Peter, Harry will be returning from Europe early next year. Maybe the two of you can start that business you always talked about. This is opportunity knocking." Norman tells him as he and his people take everything and they all leave. Otto takes a seat and Peter comforts him.

"They didn't take everything. We can start over." Peter tells him, trying to lighten the mood.

"Peter...there's no we. Without the grant from the city, I can't pay you." Otto tells him and looks sad. "If I We're you...I'd look for a new job." Otto says and Peter starts leaving the labs, sad to see his boss this sad.

He leaves the labs and throws on his suit when Yuri calls him. "Spider-Man, Shocker just escaped. And now he's robbing the bank on East thirty-first. Black Cat is already on her way." She informs Peter quickly. "What happened?" Peter asks as he starts rushing, hoping he makes it in time.

"I thought he was behind bars." Peter jumps across rooftops and starts web swinging.

"He was, but the guard just walked up to his cell and released him. Then gave him his costume and gear back." She explains to him. "I knew shocker was working for someone!" Peter states, avoiding traffic.

"What did the guard say about his actions?" Peter asks.

"Wish I could get something out of him, but he's dead. Whoever wanted Shocker free, didn't want loose ends." Yuri states to him. "But looking at the Security footage, he looked to be in a trance of sorts. It could've been the lighting, but his eyes looked like they were glowing."

"Kreepy. I'll see what I can get out of Shocker when I get there." Peter says and she hangs up and MJ calls.

"Peter, I've been looking into the Demons, and it looks like they set up base right after Fisk was arrested." She explains to him.

"An arrest me and Felicia were responsible for." Peter realizes. "Jamison is right. The Demons are my fault." Peter says to her.

"What were you gonna do? Let Fisk keep godfathering?" MJ states as Peter is near the bank.

At the bank, Shocker is leaving with a bunch of bags filled with money out of the vault when Felicia comes in and hangs from the chandelier above his head.

"You know, I'm not exactly Mathew Murdock or ant lawyer, for obvious reasons, but I'm sure this counts as a parol violation." Felicia says to him and uses her grapple hook to swing and kick him back into the vault.

As Shocker is getting up, Felicia closes the door to hold him for a minute and hopes Peter gets here fast.

"Looks like we're stuck in here together for a while. Quick word of warning, I've got a boyfriend. So don't get any ideas." She says, jokingly and starts dodging his blasts.

Shocker hits the doors and Felicia leaps and wraps his arms with her grapple hook. Shocker makes quick work of the rope and starts shooting at her.

"You know, that rope is expensive." Felicia states as Shocker exits the vault with money flying everywhere.

"Have it your way, Cat? You wanna fight? Let's fight!!" Shocker shouts and starts sending shockwaves in her direction.

Felicia dodged several blasts and tries to stop him as Peter finally makes it.

"Looks like I made it just in time." Peter states seeing the bank destroyed.

"A few minutes ago couldn't have hurt either." Felicia says to him.

"What are you gonna do?" Peter asks while dodging a sonic blast and they focus again.

"Oh, you remember our first fight?" Peter asks.

"Us so young and stupid. You see just..." Peter starts and Felicia interrupts.

"You were just stupid. Yet again, not much has changed." Felica states

"You talk too much!" Shocker shouts while flying to the center of the bank.

"Well, that's the matter of opinion." Peter states.

"No matter how many of the same opinion he gets." Felicia comments, agreeing with Shocker he talks too much sometimes.

"It's not like there's a standard metric for how much talking someone should do." Peter says and Felicia looks up at the top of the bank and sees it's getting weaker by every blast and gets an idea to stop him. Peter continues to fight him as Felicia starts breaking the roof.

"If you come clean, we can help you." Peter tells Shocker.

"You really wanna help me? Just let me have the money." Shocker states as he keeps trying to bring Peter down.

"Sorry, not gonna happen." Peter states as he gets a second to web him up and leaps onto his back and webs his gauntlets together again.

"You know, people don't use banks anymore. Your lucky you found actual cash." Peter states as he webs Shocker to the ceiling. "If you really wanna rob banks, try day trading. It's all the rage."

Shocker gets free of the webbing using his gauntlets and blasts the ground hard. Felicia gets shaken from the blast above the fight as she's working on the last two supports to the roof.

"If you tell me who you're working for, I can help you cut a deal." Peter says to Shocker, dodging more blasts and they break through the walls.

"If I talk, I'm dead! They made it very clear!" Shocker shouts.

"You're freaking me out, Herman. It's not like you to be afraid of people." Peter states.

"I'm not even sure they are people. It could be anything under those masks." Shocker says.

"Wait, did he say masks?" Felicia asks Peter.

"It sounds like he did." Peter says while dodging another blast. "These mask guys, what do they want the money for?" Peter asks Shocker.

"Don't know, don't care. As soon as I finish the job, I'm done!" Shocker screams, still trying to hit him. "And where'd your cat friend go?" He asks

Above, Felicia can't get the last foundation to fall and Peter gets an idea.

"Cat, get out of there!" Peter tells her and she does and Peter stands still for Shocker to blast him.

Shocker aims and blasts at him, at the last second, Peter moves and brings it down on him.

"You brought this on yourself, Herman." Peter tells him.

"He means that literally and physically." Felicia explains as he can't get free.

They leave the bank while the police arrest Shocker and call Yuri.

"Well, Yuri, Shocker is all yours now." Peter tells her.

"Good work, team." Yuri says to them. "And we have a new special cell waiting for him at the RAFT. We'll make sure he stays behind bars this time."

"And from what we were able to get out of him this time, we think he's working for the Demon gang." Felica interrupts.

"Demons? Sounds like a Daily Bugle headline." Yuri comments

"Hey, the Bugle is a perfectly fine news organization." Peter comments.

"I wouldn't call it news, but it's just my opinion." Felicia says.

"Anyway, have you had any other reports with guys in masks?" Peter asks Yuri.

"Let me check." She says and goes through the computers. "It looks like they've been pretty busy. Hitting a lot of Fisk properties." She tells them.

"Are there any that haven't been hit yet?" Felicia asks.

"Patrol has gotten reports on a lot of activity near his shipyard in Portside." Yuri tells them.

"Then that's where they're gonna hit next." Felicia says as she heads out.

"You have any idea what he uses it for?" Peter asks Yuri.

"No idea. Let me send you an officer to meet there. His names Jefferson Davis. That's his area." She says as Peter follows Felicia. "He's a good cop. Been working to take Fisk down for years. If anyone knows what's happening there, it's him." She explains and hangs up.

They make it there and see dozens of Demons around.

"Okay, let's take them down, together." Peter says and they start sneaking around to take them down.

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