Chapter Three
Spider-man was swinging through the streets of New Your City and enjoying his twice a day patrols. After getting the job at Horizon Labs he found he had a lot more time to spend doing what he felt needed to be done and that was protecting his city and everyone that lived it.
Landing on the edge of a building he sat there listening for a minute and let his mind drift back over how well his life was going. He had a good job, Aunt May was remarried to none other than JJ snr, and his great girlfriend. Now that was a memory that he could linger on. Captain Marvel as she was now called was a fellow Avenger like him and someone he knew he would never have to worry about. She was more than capable of looking out for herself. Matter of fact now that he thinks of it she probable spends more time worrying about him. Having a small chuckle to himself his little down time was interrupted by a scream for help.
"Well I guess that's my call."
Jumping off the building he let off a line and moved on to where he could hear the voices coming from. Landing once more on a building he looked down into an ally way to see two women running away from a group of men. The men were laughing and banging on anything they could find while chasing after them. Then he saw why just around the corner another group of five men was waiting for them. This made him mad for he had seen groups like this time and time again as a hero to this city and he will be dammed if he just let this happen now on his watch.
"Ten bad guys and one of me shouldn't be too hard," he mutter to himself as he slowly made his way down into the ally way. "Now who should I take out first?" He dropped down on the man at the back of the group that was chasing the women. Straight away knocking him out without a sound. Not even stopping he sent out two web lines catching the back of the next two and pulling them back to him. Grabbing both of their shirts he lifted both over his head slamming them together knocking them out and dropping them both on their fallen friend. "Now be good little boys and stay right here." He covered them with webbing and ran after the rest of them. He was too late to stop them going around the corner but once there he stopped once again. Once more moving in the shadows he crept around to see what was happening.
The two women were caught by then and now the remanding seven men where terrorising them and pushing them around.
"Give us everything you have on you," One of them said.
Another of the men grabbed one of the women and held her arms tightly as he looked into her eyes. "And then we are going to have some fun," He chuckled. Two more men grabbed the last women and forced her to watch her friend.
Terror went straight over her face as he laughed in her face and now she knew there was no escaping from them. That was when I voice cut through the darkness around her and gave her hope.
"You lot do know this is New York right? This city has more hero's living in it than any other in the world."
Pulling out a knife the man that was holding the women pointed out in front of him. "If you don't show yourself I will use this on this lovely lady." But before he could make another move a web line came out of the darkness encasing the knife and then pulled it back into the darkness in front of him.
"Bad choice of words friend. You see you were lucky it was me you ran into. If it was the Punisher, Moon knight or even my friend the Wolverine you would most likely be leaving in a body bag." Just then one of his men was pulled into the darkness. This was followed by a thump and then quiet. "I on the other hand will just scare some sense into the lot of you." Just then another of his men where pulled into the darkness. This time he was pulled up into the air screaming. Followed by another thump and then he was dropped back down with the rest of them.
"Screw this man I am not taking on the spider." Terror getting the better of two of his men took off the way they had come around the corner. This was followed up with two more thumbs.
"Let the nice ladies go and how about we settle this like man. Mind you I don't know why I'm calling you a man after all a good man once told me that if I did what you lot where about to do. Then I was nothing but an animal." Once more using the darkness to hide himself Spider-man slowly made his way around to be hanging over the small group of people.
Spinning the women in his hands around he throw her to one of the two men that where left. Forcing him to let go of the women he had to catch the other. "Kill them both."
Once more pulling out knives the two men holding the women moved to do what their leader said just to have two more web lines come down from above them. Using a drain pipe as a pulley Spider-man dropped down out of the darkness right in-between the two women and the leader with the other two being pulled up into the air. Bending down Spider-man attached the web line to the ground.
"And then there was one," He quipped.
"Fuck you spider." The last man said charging in throwing a punch at Spider-man's head.
Using both his spider sense and agility he just moved away from every punch and kick that he throw at him. Finally, he retaliated by placing his hand on the man's chest and pushed him over. "Had enough yet or do we really need to keep going? After all I'm getting bored and I do have other places I need to be today."
The man got up off the ground and surprised everyone by pulling out a gun. Taking aim, he fired twice at Spider-man. Who moved just as simply away from the bullets as he did the punches from early?
"Really a gun?" Spider-man quipped. "I fight people like Electro and Doc Oct every other day and you are trying to stop me with a gun." Chuckling to himself he pointed a finger at the man's gun. "I just find that thing insulting."
"Yeah well if it won't work on you how about them?" Changing his aim, he moved targets to one of the two women and pulled the trigger.
Just as he fellet the kick back from the trigger a new set of hands grabbed his wrists and just like that out of nowhere Captain Marvel was standing right in front of him. The bullet harmlessly bounced off her chest fell harmlessly to the ground at her feet. "You tried to kill my boyfriend." Grabbing the man by his collar she pulled him right into her face where her eyes where glowing. "Big mistake." Slamming a vicious head but down she knocked him out and then dropped him like a piece of trash on the ground. Turning to the spider she continued, "You must be having a bad day. He almost had them."
"Yeah must be losing my touch." Looking over to the two women, "you two ok?"
"Yes Spider-man we are both fine thanks to you two." One of the two answered.
"That's good. You better take off out of here and call the cops to come and pick up the trash." Spider-man shot out another bit of webbing attaching the last man to the ground.
"We will and thanks again." The other said as the two of them took off back the way they came.
"We should probable be heading off to." Captain Marvel said flouting up into the air.
After admiring the sight in front of him for a second Spider-man followed after her leaping up the buildings. Getting to the top of one of them he waited for his girlfriend to land next to him.
Taking her into his arms he asked her, "So now you have saved these two lovely ladies. What are you planning on doing tonight?"
Pulling his mask up to his nose she wrapped her arms around his neck and answered him. "I'm on my way to the Avengers HQ. Tony has called me in said he had a mission for me but outside of that I'm all good. Why?"
"Well I was thinking of taking you out for dinner tonight."
"Sounds good to me." She answered with a kiss on the lips and then let him go, "usual time six tonight. My place but if you are any longer than an hour late I will hunt you down."
Dropping his arms from her waist he let her flout up into the air, "Don't worry I won't be late unless something big happens. In which case you better come looking for me."
"Oh, don't worry I will and after I finished sorting out what ever mess you managed to get yourself into I might just have to kick your ass to." With that she flew away.
"Ladies and gentlemen the love of my life." Spider-man quipped as she left his sight. Reaching down he pulled out a small box from one of the pockets in his hidden belt. Opening the box, he gazed at the ring contained within it and let out a sigh. "I wonder if I will actually get the courage enough to ask her tonight." Closing the box, he put it back within his belt. "I can find the courage to go toe to toe with the sinister six and yet I'm struggling to ask her a simple question I already know the answer for." Leaping off the building he started to swing in the opposite direction then the one Captain Marvel went. "Something must be wrong with me."
Captain Marvel was flying towards the Avengers HQ day dreaming of Spider-man wondering when he will ask her to marry him after all they have been together for two years now. This was when she noticed Iron man floating in the air scanning the air in front of him. Changing directions, she flew over to him and matched his height.
"Hay Tony what's up?"
"Don't know yet. I'm picking up a lot of Chronokoneic energy right about here for some reason."
"What do you think? It's not Kang, again is it?"
"No, it doesn't have the right signature for that." Once more scanning the area in front of the both of them. "Whatever it is. It is getting stronger."
"Well you called me here so what's up?"
"Oh, right the mission." Dropping his arms, he turned around in the air. "I got a call from the Guardians yesterday. They have been hearing about some sort of new race of living creatures out in space. They call themselves the Race. Some sort of hive mind, bio-mechanical group of creatures. Any way they have just made it to light speed travel and have been running into a lot of the different groups out there. Now there is nothing wrong with that but any group that have been showing any type of hostility towards them and well they just attack and wipe out all of whatever race they are going up against."
"Dam they sound strong. What has this got to do with me?"
"Well the Guardians have been hearing rumours that they are coming this way and, so they want to go meet them before they arrive. I want you to go with them and be Earths representative to show them we come in peace but if they want trouble we are more than capable of taking care of ourselves."
"Right will do when do the Guardians get here to go?"
"They said they would be here sometime tomorrow and that they were hoping you would join them for this just in case they need the back up."
"Well it good to know yo-"just then there was some sort of explosion right there next to them in the sky and some sort of portal opened up next to them.
"Well I guess I know what was causing the reading now" Tony said.
That was when they could hear screaming coming from the portal. Both of them readied themselves just as a young women wherein red and blue came flying uncontrollable out of the portal. She crashed right into Captain Marvel's arms knocking her back a bit, but she formally grabbed hold of the women spinning her around to come face to face with someone who looked a lot like her. After all it looked like she was wearing the same outfit as her only with a spider on the front instead of her star. Just then they women's eyes fluted up to look straight at her. "Mm mum?" she asked as she slipped into uncousesness and Carol almost dropped her in shock. Looking up at Tony she didn't know what to say.
"Well that was unexpected."