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Issue 2: Hero's First Day
Midtown. Manhatten, New York 8:42 p.m.
"Get her! Take her out!" a thug swiping his switchblade near Anna's face, as she dodged the stab and kick him in the gut while another had a cut on his shirt before getting hit in the jaw
"This kitty has claws." Anna said in a taunting tone. "So how's about you boys just stay there until the cops get here? Please and thank you."
"Screw you, bitch!"
Anna grabbed his wrist and twisted the thug's arm. "Didn't your mother ever teach you some manners when in the presence of a lady?" she inquired, taunting kicking the thug in the adbomen and sterum before tossing him toward a dumpster. The thug attempted to pull out a knife, only for Anna to step on his hand. "No, no, no. Can't have you cheating while my back is turned."
Peter and Cindy stood on a rooftop above the action taking place, ready to provide some back-up for Anna if she ever need it. On the start of Anna Maria's first try being a fresh new crime fighter, she was dealing with some hiccups on the night out. On the first try, she got back of the head hit from a trash can lid from a mugging. In retaliation, she kicked the mugger in the groin area along with a jab to the gut and sent a mean hook across the face. So far after that first experience, she's been analyzing her situation whenever she was fighting against crooks, muggers, and thugs as a superhero herself. Studying the fights from her as experience, then adapting to defend herself from an upcoming problem while fighting until she found a solution to the problem. There were only two thugs left as she grabbed one by the head, landing her knee toward his face while she sent out a karate chop to the other's neck. The thug behind her rubbed his neck due to the quick hit to his throat, as Anna kneed him in the gut and sent a strong kick landing him on the ground. The final thug began to rush toward her, only for her to toss him toward the downed thug as they fell unconscious.
"She's getting the hang of it so far." Spidey admitted
"She is?"
"Yep. All she needs is some puns."
Silk shook her head and said. "No puns. We don't want her acting like you."
Spider-Man looked to Silk offended. "I'm not that bad."
"I heard about all the foes you have in your rogues gallery. It's pretty bad." Silk replied. "I can see why villains always want a piece of you."
"It's my charm."
"If by charm you mean having every super criminal tear your head off, then yes it is." Silk countered, hiding a smile under her mask
"Hey!" Spidey and Silk looked down to see Black Cat Anna Maria staring at them with her hands on her hips. "You two coming down yet or am I going to have come up there myself?"
"Let's see if you can with those new skills of yours, kitty cat." Silk said out loud
"Did you call me kitty cat?"
Anna readied her position and ran, as she used cat like speed and agility to leap toward the wall of the building Spider-Man and Silk stood. Her feet landed on the rail of the fire escape, leaving her to crawl on all fours as she stuck her claws at the wall. Anna Maria retracted her claws, giving her an edge to jump further and ran on the wall before she leaped to the end of the fire escape. Her hand stood still on the side of the roof top, leaving Anna Maria to perform a quick back flip and land on her feet as she gazed at the wall crawling spider heroes in front of her.
"Satisfied?"
"I'll say. You're at the same level as to being fast just like Silk." Spider-Man said admiring Anna's abilities. "I can see you and her in a crime-fighting partnership."
"Only if she's interested."
"I'm always up a dynamic duo partnership."
"I won't lie, Anna. It won't be easy for you."
Anna took a moment to stare at rest of the New York as she said. "I know it won't. Especially since probably most of the city would want to arrest me now that I'm inside the body of Felicia Hardy."
Wall street. Manhatten, New York 10:19 p.m.
Inside a business and finiancial building, a suited man rest his feet on his office table while he was on the phone. It was blue business suit and red tie, as the man's clean cut brown hair was comb to the left and his arm resting behind his neck. He looked to the corner of his right eye to spot a secretary who was making an appointment to the worker's boss, as he eyed her and looked away before she glanced his direction.
"No, I assure you. Your assets and finiancial properties still remain intact to you." he said as he heard a sudden tap on his window, to see there was nothing. "Of course. Your welcome, Mr. Lincoln." he received another call as he answered it. "Vasquez. Is my car painted down?" he asked on the phone only to sigh rubbing his forehead. "We''ve been over this, I want it in black." he moved his feet off the table and stood up from his chair. "Don't concern yourself with why, Jerry. Concern yourself with how."
The window shattered openly into the floor, as a gloved green hand grabbed Vasquez by the collar of his shirt. His capturer flew out of the window as they soared up in the air, landing on the rooftop with the man being held off the roof itself leaving the figure's appearance to finally be revealed. Vasquez' kidnapper was nothing more than an old man wearing a green bird outfit, with a pair of eye goggles covering his eyes. This elderly man was none other than Adrian Toomes aka the Vulture.
"I understand that you handle loan and properties for L. Thompson Lincoln." he said still holding him by the collar of his shirt. "Which is why you are in this current position. You are going to give me all his assets and do what I say."
"Are you insane?!" Vasquez shouted out to the old villain. "With what's going on who's trying to take over as Kingpin of New York since Fisk ate it, every crime boss is aiming to grab the perks of being Kingpin."
"I am fully aware of that." Vulture said as mini vultures flew beside him. "Know that you have two choices. One: Hand over all finiancial assets, or two: You could fall to your death. The choice is yours, Mr. Vasquez."
After a moment of looking down with a panicking expression on his face, Vasquez was forced to comply. "Yes, yes! Just don't kill me!" he begged
Vulture tossed on the floor of the rooftop. "That's a loyal pup. But if you betray me, I will finish the job." Vulture concluded in a threatening tone. "Am I understood."
"Of course, Mr-"
"Toomes. And a pleasure doing business with you." Vulture said as he hovered in the air alongside his mini-vultures. "Do you job well, Mr. Vasquez. You do not want me to come back and remove you for insurbordination."
"What did I get myself into?"
Soho. Manhatten, New York 11:50 p.m.
In a distinctive art gallery, eight armed men attempted to carry off an operation of stealing priceless painting. Two stood guard while one of them was trying to take off the handle, allowing him to acquire the painting itself as the new Black Cat sneaked behind him. He felt a tap on his shoulder as the armed burglar turned around, only to receive a quick jab across the face and a chokehold leaving him to quickly fall into unconsciousness. Anna Maria turned her attention to a piece of rope as she grabbed it, taking another thief by having it wrapped by the neck and dragging them near the direction of where she jabs to the face knocked the thief unconscious which Black Cat leaped toward the second floor sliding near another thief, remaining undetected as she kicked him in the ankle. Upon the impact of falling to the floor, she wrapped her legs around his neck until he passed out. She sneaked by another and placed her hand on his mouth before dragging him off, putting him into a chokehold causing him to pass out as well.
"Stiles, are we still clear?" she heard walkie -talkie on the knocked out thief as Anna spotted two more thieves. "Stiles, you there? Stiles."
Anna Maria formed a mischievous grin on her face as she pounced on them, a karate chop across the jaw along with a kick to the face on one as she judo flipped the other thief. She ran up to the last two as she tossed the rope on the second last thief, dragging him away from the last thug beside him while she jumped on his head which knocked him unconscious. The last thug fired at her, leaving Anna Maria to use her super speed and agility as she jabbed the man in the groin along with twisting his arm. The gun flew off his hand while casting a glare at Black Cat, who only smiled deviously at him. She launched a strong right hook to the nose and tossed him down on the ground, falling unconscious as the police arrived on the scene to see the theives knocked out cold while Anna left using the skylight.
Anna stared at her hand as she cocked her head. "Maybe having cat powers to fight crime could be beneficial. Though, I still need to be prepared."
"Hey you! Up there! Stay where you are!"
"And that's my cue to leave." she said to herself, as she begun evading the cops before she would noticed. 'I can only hope that they couldn't see my face. The face of a well know cat burglar, to be exact.' she thought leaping off the art gallery building, crawling up to the roof of another building as she brought her phone while she dailing numbers. "Pick up, pick up. Hi, Peter. I need some help in something."
"Anna, is this really the time?"
"Kinda is. Do you have a spare of those web-shooters?"
"Yeah... why?"
"Let's just say it's something that could come in handy for me." Anna replied
"I'll see what I can do."
Midtown. Manhatten, New York 1:26 p.m.
"So how was your day as a superhero?" Cindy whispered as her and Anna walked through the street
"It felt... good. It made me feel so alive. The rush. Kicking bad guy butt and saving lives, I liked it."
"I had a feeling you might." Cindy replied. "You'll keep getting use to this for as long as you can go."
"And maybe correct some mistakes Otto has done."
"What kind of mistakes?"
"The "Superior" Six." Anna stated. "So far it was pretty much just five of them. Sandman is taken care of and in a maximum security prison. Electro's depowered and a normal human being. Chameleon is already dealt with with some help from that DeadPool guy Peter called. And all that's left are two. Vulture and Mysterion."
"Have any idea where they could be?"
"Not really, no. Vulture will pop up whenever he does. As for Mysterion, I don't know much about him. There's been Quetin Beck and another like him, but there's no record on who this guy is."
"Did Otto know anything about him when he was Spider-Ock?"
Anna shook her head. "I don't think so. There was a mention that he was young. Probably some college student."
"I wish you luck on finding him, then."
"Thanks." Anna glanced left to see a coffee shop. "I could use an espresso." she said now glancing at Cindy. "You?"
"Sure, I could go for something to drink."
"Alright, then." Anna stopped once they entered the coffee shop. "Cindy, can I ask you a personal question?"
"Why personal?"
"It's just I'm curious about something."
"You know what they about curiosity."
"Really? You're going to pull that on me?"
"Fine, fine. What did you want to ask?"
"Do you have any thoughts on finding your family?"
Anna's question had left Cindy in a pause of thought as they ordered their drinks, taking a seat while Cindy remained at pause of her family. She had been in that abandoned bunker by Ezekiel Sims for a decade, all because of a prophecy that foresaw a end to all spiders in the multiverse. She wondered how long have her family had been gone. A year, two years, maybe ever since she was locked in that bunker. Cindy was still unsure of the matter even due to the fact Peter told her that Morlun was dead, twice. She snapped out of her trance as she turned her attention to Anna.
"You okay?"
"Sorry, I was miles away."
"We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to."
"No, it's not that." Cindy replied. "It's just... I haven't seen my family for 10 years. That's how long I was gone. And now, I don't know where they are."
"Maybe you will. Someday you'll have the answers."
"I can only hope."
Undisclosed location.
A splash of water landed on the bruised man's face as a light shined on him, a few footsteps sounding closer near him. A hand stood out the shadows and brought his head up showing a left black eye, a bloodied nose, and blood coming from his mouth as the footsteps came closer to the beaten man. A man with a large forehead stepped forward, wearing a blue pinstripe suit with a black shirt underneath and a red tie. He took a cigar and lit it using his lighter as he huffed in, blowing smoke into the man's face. The beaten and bruised man looked away as the one in charge took a step back, motioning his hand for one of his men to send a hook across the beaten man's face.
"Do I have your attention now?" he asked seeing the black eyed man and bruised man glance before looking down. "Let's try this again."
One of the men grabbed a tug of hair from the man, with a knife pointed at his neck. "Okay, okay! You have my attention! I'll talk."
"See? Was that so bad?" the crime boss took a chair and sat by his captive. "Now, Vasquez. Can I call ya Hugey?"
"Uh..."
"Don't answer that, pal. Now," he paused to stare directly at Vasquez. "I understand that you help out some beneficial assets for Lincoln. You're his accountant. Ya handle all of his financial holdings."
"And you want every property he's purchased. Is that why you sent that Vulture guy?"
"The hell are you talkin' about?"
"Vulture. That old man Toomes, he- he showed up in my office yesterday and threaten me to hand over every asset from Lincoln."
"Is that so?" he inquired seeing Vasquez nod his head back in reply. "Good. You give the asset and payments, you get to live another day."
"I can't do that. I gave the assets already."
"Every last one of them?!"
"I had no choice, I had to! You have to believe me, Hammerhead." Vasquez exclaimed. "That old bird was trying to kill me! I had to do what he said!"
"And now you've complicate things, Hugey." Hammerhead said, as one of his men pulled out an automatic pistol from the pocket of his jacket. "This is gonna cost ya."
"I could get it all back. I just need time!" Vasquez begged. "I can have the funds! The assets! Everything I gave to Vulture and transfer to Lincoln, all to you! Please! All I ask is that you spare me."
Hammerhead's henchmen raised the gun and aimed it near Vasquez's head. "Your time's already ran out there, Hugey."
"Hammerhead. Please-" Vasquez was cut off due to a gun shot to the chest as his body hit the floor, leaving the corpse in a pool of blood
"So much for that."
"Want us to move up the game plan, boss?"
"The title of the next Kingpin is up for grabs, and I want it." Hammerhead narrowed his eyes as he looked at his men. "Got it?"
"Yeah, boss
"Read ya loud and clear, boss man."
"Good, now get rid of the body." Hammerhead said leaving the room
Gramercy. New York, New York 5:38 p.m.
Anna Maria donned in her Black Cat costume leaped through the hood of every vehicle driving the roads of New York, as she fired a grapple from one of Spider-Man's web-shooters. Aside from the wrist shooter, she had other on her right which shot darts as the one on her left pulled her to a three story building. She quickly ran and jumped off the roof as she shot out another grapple, running up the wall before performing a leaping front flip while landing on her feet. In her belt were tools that Felicia Hardy would use in her time as the Black Cat, which Anna would take of being a vigilante while in her body. Her right wrist shooter composed of sleep darts to render her enemies unconscious along with a small tracking device to always stay on the trail of whoever she was after.
"Thank you, Peter." she said sending out a text before putting the phone back in her possession. "With the help from you and Living Brain on these wrist shooters." Anna wall ran and leaped back-to-back to a couple other buildings, reaching the top on the one on her left. "Now, what to do today? Find some crime to stop, or more likely try and find either the Vulture or that Mysterion guy? If I was an old man that looked like I was bitten by a radioactive parakeet, where would I go?"
"Why don't you ask me yourself, little cat?" said a voice behind her
"Who-"
Before Anna would look to see who it was, she was immediately grabbed and lifted in the air as she was off the roof. She stared up to see an old man in a green bird costume and green eye goggles who she realized was none other than the Vulture. But Vulture himself was not alone as he held her in his talons while he flew through the city. There were mini-vultures along with him, Anna thought possibly children he mind controlled when Otto had encountered Toomes as Superior Spider-Man. She used her right arm, grabbing one of his wings as she began dragging him down while he was trying to maintain control on the air. She then used her legs to wrap around his waist and cover his eyes, making him unable to see where he was heading while in the air as he crashed into the street. The mini-vultures dive in to protect their master as Anna fired out darts at them, allowing him to knocked into unconsciousness before finally turning her attention to Vulture. Civilians among the crowd began to notice both her and Vulture, as they saw Black Cat and Vulture about to have a fight on their hands.
"I know I'm suppose to respect elders, but using children against their will is a big no-no." Anna taunted as she got into a defensive fighting stance. "Though to be honest, you look like a bald Larry King in a bird suit."
"Silence!" Vulture spatted as he launched metal feathers at Anna, who dodged the projectiles along with moving a father and his baby son away. "I am the Vulture."
"You're more of a buzzard."
"Enough!" Vulture roared as he charged the Black Cat, while she did the same
