What? Another chapter? Is the author trying to apologize for totally abandoning this thing for months? Yes. Yes I am.
The following morning, Luke woke up and headed over to the main room of the underground S.H.I.E.L.D. facility under their old high school. As he entered the large derelict briefing room they'd been using, he noticed that Spider-man had fallen asleep there looking over all the intelligence they had on the Kunlun mountains where Iron Fist was being held prisoner.
"Wakey wakey Pete, time to get to work." Luke nudged the sleeping hero, hoping he had a plan to rescue the last member of their team.
"Wha? Oh hey Luke." Peter looked up groggily, yawning and stretching his arms.
"I think we're ready to go get Danny, you find out anything good?"
"Well we know he's somewhere in Kunlun, but we have no idea who's keeping him there. Probably Scorpion, but I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't alone, chances are he's got an army."
"Makes sense, we don't really have a lot of Intel on that place, we're practically flying blind."
"Well Ava has her powers back, so at least we got that going for us."
"Damn straight." Peter and Luke turned around to see Ava had woken up. She was standing there wearing white camo cargo pants, white boots, and what looked like her old electric claw gloves only with more armor to protect her forearms. A thick white jacket adorned her torso, her signature gray tiger stripes adorning it, providing protection and warmth. "Figured I could use some new gear, but I gotta say I was feeling a little nostalgic."
"Aww look at us, we're getting the band back together!" Spidey exclaimed, clearly excited to see Tiger was feeling better and back to normal.
"I guess it's now or never, and we've waited long enough. I'm headed to the Quinjet to make sure it's good for the flight." Luke left for the hanger.
Ava turned to follow him. "I'll give you a hand Cage, the faster we do this the faster we can get to Iron Fist."
Guess I'll go with them too, I guess I've learned as much as I can from these files, which isn't a lot. Still, I should thank them for taking care of Kraven, didn't expect him to be that strong. Still, it's good that we got Ava her amulet.
Spider-man walked over to the hanger and boarded the Quinjet, Luke was in the cockpit running pre-flight diagnostics, and Ava was already buckled in. Spider-man took his seat right behind Power Man.
"We're all set Spidey, should be a smooth flight." Luke informed the web head.
"Sounds good, let's blow this taco stand." The rumble of the engines filled the room, and the Quinjet rose out of the ground and sped off for China.
About fifteen minutes since launch, Spider-man decided to break the silence.
"Hey guys? I just wanted to thank you guys for finishing off Kraven after he took me out. Sorry for making that more difficult." Spider-man apologized, ashamed that he let his guard down and got choked out by Kraven.
"What are you talking about?" Ava was very confused, Spider-man had gotten up shortly after Kraven's grip loosened and proceeded to beat the snot out of the Russian villain.
"Dude you kicked his butt, we totally thought you were out and then you just started wailing on him." Luke was also wondering what Spider-man was thinking, did he not remember the fight?
"I did? I thought he knocked me out shortly after he grabbed my neck, which sucked by the way." Now all three of them were confused. "Maybe my spider-sense was reacting for me? It's always been subconscious, but never like this…"
"Can it do that?" Ava had never thought that one of his most signature and unique abilities had a further degree of use.
"I don't know, weird." Spider-man looked out the window, pondering this new development. The symbiote receded from his face so he could see his reflection in the window, it had been so long since he'd been able to breathe himself, and not through the ooze that had attached itself to his costume.
Well it's a pretty long flight, might as well get some rest. Naps are good…
Spider sense! Oh crap!
Spider-man was awoken by the familiar buzzing feeling in the back of his skull, and the lights of the Quinjet were flashing red inside, and it was spiraling out of control to the snow covered mountains below.
Ava! Luke! No good, they're out cold, gotta get them out of here!
Spider-man ripped the seat belt off of him and jumped forward to the eject buttons on the console. On cue, the seats of his teammates shot out through the roof and began to parachute below.
Okay, that solves that, now I need to get out of this thing before I become a spider shaped stain on the side of that mountain.
Kicking the door of the Quinjet off, he jumped out into the frozen sky. Using a web parachute, the wind slowly drifted the teen hero down into the heavily wooded area at the base of the Kunlun Mountains.
As he touched down, Spider-man realized he was far from his friends. The smoke from the wreckage could be seen in the distance but that would be no help to him.
I need to get to higher ground, but still, these trees are gonna make it hard to spot them. Ava why did you have to wear white?