Ultimate Avenging Alliance Chapter 6 Missing and Wanting

"Science class."

"Case research."

"Gatorade."

"Coffee."

"Aunt May's cooking."

"Foggy's heartbeat."

"Wind in my ears when zipping between buildings."

"Oh, yeah. That's sublime. The rush of sound…"

Peter smiled sadly. They were starting to run out of things they missed that weren't slightly…dodgy. "The satisfaction of a hogtied villain."

"And a heartfelt thank you from the victim," Matt assed wistfully.

"I don't miss being called a menace, though."

"Or being shot at by the police."

"We do appear to be being injured less than normal," Peter commented. "I've been here a week, and I've only had one nasty injection and a few cuts and bruises from trying to break out and snap the chains. Bit freaky."

"They spent hours exposing me to stimuli to watch my brain respond," Matt moaned. "I think I'm hallucinating the smell of cloves."

Peter winced. "I'm sure it'll fade, buddy."

"I hope so; I never liked cloves," the lawyer grumbled.

Peter felt his muscles starting to cramp, and stood. He stretched as best he could, and flung himself down onto the blanket pile. "Is there any power you wish you had?" he asked.

Matt shifted. "Well…healing. It's got to help, right? I can speed it up a bit with meditation, but that's not much help when I'm unconscious and bleeding out."

"Well, it makes taking meds difficult, 'cause you metabolize it so quick," Peter mused. "Hard to judge how much to take."

"Can't stand painkillers," Matt grunted. "Compromises my hearing. And with no sight…"

"You don't like losing another sense; I get it," Peter nodded. "So if these guys reckoned they could give you my healing factor, would you let them? Happily, I mean."

"I'm hardly going to be happy about being experimented on, but yeah, I'd like that," Matt confirmed. "But I hate to think what they'd do to you to get the healing."

Peter shrugged. "I've seen you take a beating and keep fighting. I've heard stories. Been in a dumpster lately?"

Matt glared sullenly. "Doesn't mean you should let yourself get dissected for me."

"Matt, I don't know if you're noticed, but we kind of don't have a choice," Peter argued. "If they decide to give it a go, they'll shoot us with tranq darts and do it anyway."

"Fantastic," Matt grumbled. "Sorry I mentioned it."

"You know what would be cool? Wolverine's healing factor," Peter smirked.

"Great. Now they'll kidnap him," Matt complained. "He smells like a wet dog and cigars."

"But I bet his claws can take out the restraints," Peter grinned. "And then we go home."

Matt smiled back, then frowned. "Ah. Maybe not." He raised his wrists to his face, sniffed, then banged the restraints off the wall. "Adamantium. I knew I recognized the metal."

Peter winced. "At least that explains how the chain managed to cut my hands."

"Could we use the chains as a weapon?" Matt asked seriously.

"They're tying our ankles together. I might be able to manage something, but that's stretching even my flexibility," Peter pointed out.

Matt thought for a moment. "Okay. So when they next come for us, we jump them-"

"We tried that twice. I got tranqed both times," Peter grumbled.

"This time, you will jump from above and throttle 'em with the ankle chain," Matt informed him.

Peter snorted. "There is no way that could possibly go wrong."

"We can try," Matt said stubbornly.

"Yeah, maybe eventually I'll develop an immunity to the sedative," Peter snarked. "Can't you just use your radar/sonar thing to find a tunnel?"

"Doesn't work like that," Matt shot back. "Can't you weave us a protective cocoon?"

"No, 'cause they took my webshooters, and despite certain rumours, it's not actually naturally produced by my own body," Peter hissed. "You should hear some of the cracks I've heard about why the webs aren't more 'appropriately located' for a spider."

The cell door shuddered open. Suit was accompanied by the two male Bees. Peter launched himself for Bee Two and got a rifle to the stomach, while Matt collapsed with One's tranq dart in his shoulder.

"You two had some great ideas," Suit smirked.

AN: So this week's BR chapter gave me problems, so that delayed everything. Whoopsy. But I did also get a few paragraphs of LBV written.

Hopefully there'll be more up by the end of the week.

Also updating today, Jason and the Argonauts, Black and Red and Ultimate Writing Adventure. Next time, JA, BR, UAA and UWA. Maybe LBV. We'll see.

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Katara