This chapter is mostly description, but it does have a mystery to keep it entertaining.

DISCLAIMER: I own nothing except for Runt, Claw, Cobra, and others.

Danny's pov

I was watching Luke carefully. Honestly, I hadn't expected him to figure it all out. Before I could offer an explanation, we all heard shooting. We rushed to the source of the sound. Several S.H.E.I.L.D agents were fighting with three people in costume. One was a girl, with a black leather dress, Long black hair and jagged bangs. Big furry ears stood up from her head. Instead of feet, she had claws and instead of arms, she had glossy bat wings. But her most striking features were her eyes. She had huge eyes that covered half her pale face, and her pupils matched the rest of the eyes, a foggy gray color, she was blind. As she fought she uttered small squeaks, obviously echolocation, and only struck the agents directly four feet or less in front of her.

Then there were two boys. One had dark skin on the top half of his face, with wild black hair, and blackish-blue scales covering the rest of his face. He had no limbs, instead, he had the long, slim, body of a snake with the same scales. He narrowed his far-apart snake-eyes and lunged at the nearest agent, sinking his sharp fangs into him, which sent the poor guy twitching on the ground of the Tricarrier. The other boy had pointed ears, and a slobbering snout. His messy brown hair hung over his slightly tanned skin. He had the lower body of some sort of dog. He was covering the girl's back and moving on all fours.

"Cobra! Claw! We have more guests," The girl, who seemed to be in charge, said.

"Wow, not good," Spiderman started, "Ok, Tiger and Nova, get drool boy, Powerman and Iron Fist, you're on snake duty. I got our newest bat-girl," He ordered, snapping into leader mode. I instantly saw why Luke and I were fighting the snake, who I figured was Cobra, because between Powerman's impervious skin, and my senses, Cobra couldn't use his poison. He struck again and again, we were focused on his fangs, a mistake. I saw too late, his tail wrapping around my feet. He slammed me into a metal wall and dug his fangs into my shoulder. He released me and I saw Spiderman on his knees, holding his head as "Bat-Girl," let out wave upon wave of ultrasound. White Tiger was pinned under who I assumed was Claw, an unconscious Nova beside her. Even Powerman was struggling to stay awake as Cobra used his tail to strangle him, hissing in pleasure. My friends were beaten, we were beaten. I closed my eyes and felt the poison in my blood.

Luke's pov

"Powerman! Dude! Wake up!" I woke up to see Nova shaking me. I looed around as I stretched. We all seemed to be confined in a square, bare room, with thick glass as one of the walls. What had happened? I was fighting something, with Danny...a snake. I jumped up, fully alert.

"Danny! Is he ok? He was bitten by that snake!" I was hysterical, wildly scanning the room.

"I am fine friend," A calm soft voice said. I turned and saw Danny in a meditation pose on the other side of the room. I hugged him.

"Namaste, but we are in prison, you can't say my name," He pointed out, and if I wasn't so happy to see him alive, I would have face palmed.

"Oh right. Sorry. It's just, I saw you get poisoned," I lowered my head.

"Indeed. But the poison was not naturally generated. Someone just picked up a recipe and brewed it."

"No way!" I laughed, I knew what he was going to say.

"Frozen Death, a poison from Kun'Lun which I have been exposed to enough to form immunity," He chucked. I hugged him tighter. He had told me that Frozen Death was one of the most powerful mystic poisons on earth. It was however, easy to become immune to after being injected several times, and was ofen a test of strength for Immortal Weapons.

"Well then, that's great and all, but we're still stuck here," Sam whined.

"Patience-" Danny began.

"Is a virtue!" We all finished for him. He smiled, and we laughed.

"Glad your having fun," We froze at the sound of another voice. I looked through the glass wall and saw another cell across from us. Pressed against the glass was small boy. He had pasty skin, long white bangs, and looked about 14 or 13. His large eyes were deeply sunken in and we could see the outline of his ribs under his tattered shirt. I looked closer and gasped slightly. One of the boy's eyes was crystal blue ad the other was blood red.

"Whoa, freaky," Sam whispered.

"Namaste, what is your name," Danny greeted him politely. Pete read my mind...

"Leave it to Fortune Cookie to be polite in life and death situations," He rolled his eyes under his mask.

"The other students called me runt before I was banished down here," The kid, "Runt," said sadly.

"How long?" Ava asked in concern.

"Two, almost three, years now," He snarled. Danny was looking at him oddly. He had his head tilted slightly, as if remembering something.

"Your eyes..." Danny said. We looked at him, not expecting him to be so direct.

"I don't remember much. I think I was born like this, maybe. I remember being captured by an octopus man. With many limbs. It hurt, so much pain. Burning, I was burning alive. I couldn't breathe. I screamed for help, no one came, no one wanted to save the freak. I was so alone. Then, I must have escaped, I don't remember how, but next thing I knew, I was running through crowded streets. I heard a TV, a really big one above the city. And it looked like it was pointing at me," He stopped.

"Go on," Pete coaxed gently.

"He said that a mutant had ruined the city with a spider or something. I didn't have a spider, so I thought there were other freaks like me. I eventually wandered into this jungle. I lived here for two years, until a bird man came. He said this was his jungle, but he let me join his team. But I couldn't do anything. I wasn't a mutant like them, I was a freak. He said the sight of me hurt his head. I've been here since," He was crying now.

"The TV man didn't say...Spiderman is a menace...did he?" Pete asked what we were all thinking. Runt nodded. Webbs began explaining who Jonah J. Jameson was, and how we got here. Maybe we could get an ally, and one who must know this place well.

"I wonder..." Danny was still staring at Runt.

"What's up?" I asked him. He seemed to snap out of it. He shook his head and smiled in that relaxed way of his.

"Oh he just reminded me of someone," He said idly. I figured you would remember anyone that looked like Runt, but I let it go. And my mind wandered to Mom and Dad. I'll find you. I'll be there soon, just hang in there. I promise...

See, I wasn't lying when I said I would have OCs. Anyway...

Wolf Out...