At the office of L. Thompson Lincoln, better known to the criminal underworld as Tombstone, Lincoln enters his dim lit office to find a man in a green hoodie and blue jeans sitting in his chair. "Can I help you with something?" Tombstone says calmly, not at all surprised by the man's presence.
"Mr. Lincoln, glad you could make it."
"It is my office. Now then, give me one reason in the next ten seconds not to have my security break both your legs."
The young man stands up and walks around the desk. "I'll make this quick. I am a hitman and I am going to kill you." He rushes Tombstone with a kukri he pulls from his side and slashes at him repeatedly. Lincoln skillfully dodges the attacks. He grabs the would-be assassin by the wrist, twists the blade out of his hand and throws him against the bookshelf.
"Better men than you have tried son."
"Oh I assure you Mr. Lincoln, you've never seen anything like me." Just then a strong gust of air fills the room. The man's entire body begins to spin rapidly as he moves toward Tombstone, delivering a devastating series of blows on him. The regularly weak punches are increased to deadly levels due to the velocity of the assassin. He then reaches into his pockets grabbing a handful of throwing blades, catching the former philanthropist by surprise. Moments later Tombstone crashes through his office window onto the street, several blades in his chest.
Two weeks later Captain Stacy and his men are setting up at the embassy as president Fakkadi and his guards exit the building to the waiting limo. "Greetings president Fakkadi, I'm Captain George Stacy, these are officers Dewolf and Carter, they'll be…" just then Hayashi steps forward and shakes Fakkadi's hand.
"Captain Hayashi at your service sir, you'll be happy to know we have secured the motorcade route and anticipate little trouble."
"I thank you but I was hoping to speak privately with Captain Stacy." Fakkadi says as he gestures his guards to leave momentarily. One guard is hesitant. "It's alright M'tave." The guard then leaves. "Now Captain, the matter we discussed."
"Don't worry Mr. President, we're all set. We've taken all the necessary steps. You're in good hands."
"Dad, are we all set? Oh, President Fakkadi, hello." Gwen says as she runs toward her father.
"Ah this is your daughter I presume?"
"Yes this is Gwen, she'll be accompanying us on the trip."
"Good to have you aboard young lady."
Downtown Peter is waiting along the route with Norah Winter's in the crowd as they await the motorcade. "This is so exciting Peter. My first story covering a foreign diplomat, I am so stoked." Norah says jumping excitedly. Just then Hobie Brown walks up and greets Peter.
"Hey Peter what's up?"
"Hey, Hobie how's it going?"
"Pretty good, who's this?"
"Oh yeah, this is Norah Winters. She works for the Bugle, we're working together on the Fakkadi story." Norah shakes Hobie's hand as the two begin to talk. Her phone then rings.
"Norah Winters here. Understood." She then hangs up the phone abruptly. "Listen Peter something just came up. I should be back before Fakkadi gives his speech. Make sure you get some awesome pics for the article." She runs off leaving the two to talk.
"So Hobie have you heard from MJ? I haven't been able to get in touch with her."
"Didn't you know? She got a job working at F.E.A.S.T. Mindy's working there too. The two of them are going to be on stage when Martin Li greets Fakkadi at the F.E.A.S.T. center. Didn't your aunt tell you?"
"It must have slipped my mind. I've been so busy lately, what with the clones and gangs. Plus we've got to be on alert during the whole motorcade route. By the way, where's Frogman and the kids?"
"He's got them set up along the route somewhere. If anything goes wrong we just give the signal and they're all over it."
"Good to know. Hey here they come." They observe as the motorcade approaches. Many of the people begin clapping as the cars pass. Others hold up protest signs and yell. The day proceeds without much excitement as Peter manages to capture a lot of good shots as Hobie and the others make good on keeping their eyes peeled for danger. Peter takes another shot as the motorcade arrives at the F.E.A.S.T. center. As the security force moves out of the vehicle, Fakkadi emerges and steps toward the stairs and greets a waiting Li and his staff, Aunt May included. Peter then notices that MJ is not present on stage, neither is Mindy. Just as he snaps a shot of Li he catches a glare out of the corner of his eye. He looks over at an adjacent building and on the roof he sees the glint of a sniper's scope.
"Guys I've got something, looks like a sniper on the roof opposite the center." Peter informs over the headsets Frogman made for the team. "I can take him out without alerting anyone." He moves away from the crowd where he switches into his costume and, as Spider-man swings up behind the sniper who is in the prone position still aimed at his target. Spidey fires a web net on top of him and pulls the gun away. "Hey buddy you could put your eye out with that thing." He gets no response from the man dressed in black and grabs him from the roof. "What? A…"
"A dummy, yes you are." A man in green body armor and a rounded out helmet with a slit visor says behind the web-slinger.
"Hey your one of those guys from that band in the 80's I'm too young to remember." Spidey says mockingly.
"The name's Whirlwind web-slinger, and you're about to pay for what you did to my little sister."
"What are you talking about?" Spider-man asks.
"Didn't expect you to remember, doesn't matter though, I'm doing this for her." Whirlwind begins to spin his body and quickly overtakes Spider-man, his punches hitting faster than the hero can react.
"This seems oddly familiar." Spidey jumps back and fires web balls at the living tornado, only for the projectiles to be spun around inside the air current and thrown back faster than they were fired. "Okay bad idea, bad idea." He says as he dodges the returning fire. He then fires a stream of webbing at Whirlwind, this time the webbing wraps around him, encasing him in a cocoon which falls over on the roof. "Okay pal settle down and we'll work this out."
The cocoon starts to rumble and Whirlwind bursts out in a furious windstorm. Just then Michael appears. "I thought you might need some help. Also I was getting sick of Frogman and my brother arguing."
"We'll finish this another time Spider. I'm not done with you yet." He flies off with his tornado powers and quickly disappears.
"Thanks for the assist." Spider-man says as Michael gives a silent nod. They look down as Fakkadi and his entourage prepare to depart. "Alright, let's stick close, something tells me this is only going to get worse."