Chapter 7

"Pull!" a man shouted.

"I'm doing my best!" the Imp snapped back, pulling hard on a rope as she floated in the air while her thrusters were on high.

The large piece of rubble finally shifted and the rescue workers quickly retrieved the people underneath, whether they were dead or just unconscious she didn't want to know. The workers got the last person out and allowed Imp to drop the rubble. Not far from her Spider-Man was using his webs to strengthen the supports on a building until something better could be put in place.

It was the day after the invasion and rescue workers, police, paramedics and uninjured normal people were working hard to rescue people still trapped and secure the most unstable and damaged parts of the city. As soon as they could get away from their overprotective guardians Spider-Man and Imp joined in the effort which was gladly received, even those who didn't like them put aside their hatred in order to help people and the usual villains were gracious enough to take the day off and leave them alone to fix the city.

Spider-Man and the Imp weren't in their usual costumes but that was for good reason, their costumes had been badly damaged during the fight and Spider-Man's spandex was hardly good for repair work anyway.

Spider-Man was dressed in an outfit Jack had made for him not long after getting into the hero business but he didn't wear it as his spandex suit allowed him to pull off it acrobatics better and was less heavy, but he wore it now because right now it was better than his torn up spandex suit, he wore a hoody that was designed similar to his Spidey suit with a black area on the front and black and large white spiders on both areas, black skinny jeans, kneepads, red converse boots, black fingerless boots, a red face mask with a black web design, and a pair of large goggles to cover his eyes.

The Imp's costume was different from her usual one, her body was a dark-blue one-piece with the legs tucking into her boots but with short sleeves, a black sleeveless jacket, black scarf covering the lower part of her face, and bandages wrapped around both arms to the fingers, her boots were different as they had been banged up pretty badly as we, her goggles had also been replaces as they had been covered in deep scratches and one lens had been completely cracked. She had a black satchel at her side that contained her bombs as she didn't have her regular jacket, the jacket was actually fine but it hadn't seemed appropriate, the bombs she carried weren't her usual ones either, they bombs that released stuff like safety foam, bombs that she could use if she encountered fires or dangerous areas, the satchel also had a first aid kit for when she came across the injured before the rescue workers or medics.

Imp put her hands on her knees and panted, pulling up that piece of rubble had been a strain, but she quickly got over it as she was called over to help the rescue workers again.

Spider-Man was fairing better than the Imp due to his superior strength but she had the advantage of reaching some places he had trouble reaching and could go into more fragile areas because of being able to float. As he worked Spider-Man chatted with one of the workers he was helping.

"I like you're new look." The worker complimented.

"Thanks, but don't get used to it, my other suit was just too torn up."

"Shame, this one looks better than spandex."

"So I've been told, especially by Imp."

"Hey, you two are doing us a huge favour by helping out."

"Even if we weren't heroes we'd still help out. Besides, people need our help."

"That's a nice attitude. I can't see why so many people think you two are bad guys."

Spider-Man shrugged. "Can't be helped."

He finished webbing the supports for the building they were in.

"Okay, these webs have been made to last longer than usual so they should last until some proper repairs can be done." He said.

"That's good. I'll radio that in." The man said.

Spider-Man nodded and ran out of the building and to the next one that looked heavily damaged to look for people and check how just how damaged it was on the inside.

"I want to know who they are and I want to know their potential!" Fury told the Avengers, minus Thor who was back on Asgard.

On the screen in front of them was two separate pictures of two people, the Imp and Spider-Man. Spider-Man's picture was a close up of him swinging through the city and Imp's was of her in the air with some small bombs held between her fingers.

"Why? Last I checked they've been doing good." Tony said.

"Recent reports show them helping out during the invasion and they have helping rescue workers with cleaning up the city." Natasha agreed.

"Look, if it were up to me I would happily leave them alone unless they did something wrong but the higher ups have ordered that we bring them in for questioning to make sure they are not a threat." Fury said.

"Are these the same higher ups that ordered the city blown up?" Tony was cynical.

"They only did what they believed right in order to stop the invasion."

Tony scoffed while the over Avengers didn't looked convince.

Fury sighed. "Look, we have two options. Either we try to bring them in as peacefully as we can or they send out a team to bring them in by force."

The Avengers didn't look happy at the limited options.

"How long do we have?" Steve finally asked.

"I managed to convince them to give you two months, any later and they will be brought in by force."

"How are we going to convince Spider-Man and the Imp to not only come with us to SHIELD but give up their identities?" Steve asked.

"It won't be easy." Natasha said. "They most likely wear masks because they have people to protect, and they have a lot of enemies who would love to get back at them through people they care about, so they will do a lot to protect their identities."

"How about we try to find out who they are first and then approach them in civilian mode?" Tony suggested.

"But we hardly have any evidence on them." Clint pointed out. "We know their height, relative age range, Spider-Man's hair, eye colour and blood type from some of his blood that was found, the Imp's hair is always on display but it could easily be a wig or a dye job and he uses a voice changer."

"Well, we just haven't been working hard enough, we need to start piecing together information and making connections." Tony said.