"So why didn't you want me to go to the movies with Cassie?" I asked Kate while we ran on the treadmill.

"It's just, I didn't think it would be a good idea. You just got out of a serious relationship and Cassie... she's Cassie. I was just looking out for you," Kate explained.

"Oh, that's all?" I asked.

"Yeah," Kate replied.

"Okay then..." I accepted her answer.

"What time do you get off work today?" Kate asked.

"Today's my day off," I told her.

"Oh, well we're meeting at... you know, later on," Kate told me. She was reffering to the Avengers Mansion.

"What time?" I asked.

"Around 5 I guess, since you're off," Kate answered.

"Great, can't wait to get out of that mansion. I hate hanging around in there."

Later, 4:30PM... So I'm standing on line in a McDonalds right now, in costume, and about a dozen other people in here are staring at me. Why am I here you ask? Well same reason as anyone else here: I'm hungry and don't want to cook for myself. Okay, maybe that's not all of it. I don't want to hang around the mansion now. Not while Kitty's there. Plus it isn't like I have any close friends there, even Bobby and I weren't that close and he's my roommate. I have the Young Avengers so it really doesn't make much of a difference for me. "Can I get a medium number eight and a sundae to go?" I placed my order.

"That'll be 8.31," the cashier told me. I handed her nine dollars, she handed me my change. "So are you the real Aracnor?"

"Yeah."

"Really?"

"Yep."

"You're smaller than you look in the newspapers," she commented.

I rolled my eyes behind my sunglasses and tried tuning her out until my order was up. She kind of was just talking about how I wasn't as sexy as... just about every other male superhero I know actually. The girl sure could talk.

I swung over to the mansion, bag and drink in hand just in time for the meeting. When I walked in everyone was already there. "Is that what took you so long?" Hawkeye asked me.

"Yep. Isn't like I'm not on time, it's 4:55," I pointed out.

"That crap's no good for you," Hawkeye went on.

"I'll burn it off by the end of the night. Relax Mom," I replied as I bit a chicken nugget.

"Yeah well don't complain when I kick your ass tommorrow morning," Hawkeye said before grabbing a nugget herself and walking to the other side of the room.

"I thought this stuff was crap."

"It is but you're the one eating a full meal of it. I just took one."

I rolled my eyes, "Whatever you say Kate."

"Well if we're done discussing fast food then I'd like to get through our agenda for the meeting," Vision finally said.

"Okay, what's up?" Speed asked.

"Deborah Betrand, Diamondback was recently spotted in Soho, not much else on that though. And Digitek was seen robbing a bank in New Jersey but may have fled to the city," Vision explained.

"So just a few hunches? That's not really like you Vision," Stature pointed out.

"I didn't finish. I've been tracing their movements. If I'm correct Diamondback's next target is Tony Stark," Vision explained.

"That's stupid. He's Iron Man for crying out loud!," Hulkling interupted.

"I was getting to that. Tonight, he's hosting a huge party, didn't bother finding out what, point being he won't be in armor and he'll be easier to get to," Vision continued.

"Why didn't you just warn him?" Wiccan asked.

"Would you guys have honestly been happy if I went and did that?" Vision asked.

Later that night... We were watching the hotel that the party was in. Vision had disguised himself as an attendee who said they weren't coming but is now "having a change of a heart". He was going to locate Diamondback before she struck and also let the rest of us in. Piece of cake. It was only a matter of minutes before he opened the kitchen door for us. "Hurry, she's about to reveal herself," Vision(disguised as a chef now), told us.

"How can you be sure?" Hawkeye asked.

"She left the room. She was watching Stark, she left the room and it's been five minutes. Long enough to determine that she's changing into costume to kill him," Vision explained.

"Well let's hope we can time this right then," Patriot said.

"Young Avengers Assemble!" The battle cry echoed throughout the room as we burst in. We timed it perfectly seeing as Diamondback burst in a millisecond after us.

"Stark! Down!" Speed yelled. He sped over and pulled him to the ground before Diamondback's blade she threw while entering hit. I hadn't even noticed she threw it. I was regretting not having my spider-sense at this point.

Patriot threw his shield at Diamondback and hit her in the stomach, she doubled over. I tried to roundhouse kick her but she ducked and knocked out my other leg from under me before I finished. She pulled out another blade and tried to stab me with it, I rolled out of the way, barely avoiding it before I kicked her in the stomach. Bad move. She grabbed my foot and flipped me into a fountain. She then threw three blades at Wiccan, Hawkeye, and Stature before stabbing me in the legs with another. Oh, what I would give to have my Man-Spider form back, or at least its healing factor. I pressed down on my webshooter to shoot a webload into her face but nothing came out. My catridge was empty. "Shit," I muttered as she pulled out another blade.

Hulkling slammed his fist into her face. "Dude you couldn't have done that sooner?" I asked as I forced myself up.

"I wanted to build some suspense," he replied.

Vision wasted no time and phased his arm into her, giving Hawkeye the perfect shot to shoot her with an arrow. Problem was she caught it, then she stabbed it into Vision's head. She flipped over Hukling as he charged at her and dodged out of the way of Patriot's, Wiccan's, Stature's and my attacks. She ran into the kitchen, she was trying to escape. We couldn't let her. We chased after but when we got out of the kitchen she was nowhere to be seen. She escaped.