It took a minute to explain to the cops that you see and were almost swallowed by a black hole, and even then they don't believe it until your Artificial Intelligence showed the security footage of it happening.
"So...a black hole stealing scientific equipment." Patty commented on the newest one this week while Barry was scanning the area to confirm what Peter said he saw. "How is it when you think you've seen it all, Central City is always like: hold my beer?"
"Yeah, it's getting a little ridiculous." Barry agreed with her. "And the readings I'm getting are confirming that it was indeed a black hole."
"Great. A black hole swallowed up Otto's arms, Electro's gear, and Scorpion's tail. I say good riddance." Patty shrugged.
"Yeah, but this might turn into another problem." Peter warned them as he approached the two. "Because if that gear ends up in the wrong hands, there's no telling the damage they can do with it."
"So we have to track it all down." Barry sighed.
Back in National City, Anjelica was messing with her goggles, which she hacked to be linked into the NCPD. She was currently in the middle of a car chase, which ended with her smashing the hood of the car, sending the masked men inside flying and shattering the windshield in the process.
"Hi there." Anjelica greeted the men as one of them had the nit so bright idea to get out of the car and aimed a gun at her. "Really? You just saw me pummel into this car, and there's no scratch on me. And you think that's gonna help?"
The man then went to take a shot, but Anjelica stopped it by grabbing the gun and then smacking the man in the face, sending him flying into the car, leaving a dent in the car.
"Whoo! I'm so sorry! I wasn't going for that hard." Anjelica apologized to the unconscious man. "I...I should just...I should just go."
Anjelica saw she did enough damage and just took off, shooting a strand of webbing to pull herself off the ground and flying off.
"Okay, that didn't go as well as I was hoping. Maybe something a little smaller." Anjelica whispered as she sat down and looked through the calls on her goggles. "Let's see...I'm not ready to help with a car crash...Oh, little girl with a call of her pet being stuck up a tree. Fluffy. Sounds like a cute Kitty."
Back in Central City, Peter and Barry were looking over the data that they collected from the black hole back at Star labs...which are feeling very empty in recent days. Almost nobody is around except the two of them, Caitlin or Frost will be out with the kids while the other was there, or the kids would be there.
Harry moved out to Blue Valley to be with Jesse, who's out there with Wally, making him unavailable for the team. Cisco left the city with Kamilla, and then a while ;after the two got married, and even have a son themselves. Ralph...same as Cisco. When Peter and Crystal were fighting Tombstone and Amunett, Ralph was working and met a girl, Sue Dearborn.
"That's a whole lot of information for us to disseminate." Peter commented on what they've seen. "I mean, nobody's ever extrapolated this much data from a black hole before."
"Then maybe we can be the first." Barry shrugged, making Peter look back unamused. "Come on, we're team Spider-Flash! We've done weirder."
Peter still looked unimpressed, no idea how to respond to this. "You do realize that we can't just create a search algorithm, even with Gideon and Karen." He then looked up to the ceiling. "Right?"
"That is correct, Mr. Parker." Gideon reported in.
"So, yeah, we're not gonna be able to track a freakin black hole." Peter sighed.
"Why are we looking for a black hole?" Caitlin's voice asked through the halls and they turned to see that she had arrived.
"Hey, how'd it go at CCU?" Peter wondered.
"I got the job." Caitlin shrugged, feeling there was no doubt she would get it, but loves it when Peter shows enthusiasm.
"That's great!" Peter said as he walked and pecked her head. "When do you start?"
"Every Tuesday, five o'clock until six." Caitlin reported to him. "So, back to the black hole?"
"Right. A black hole appeared in the middle of my labs and stole most of the gear from the Sinister Six. Luckily half of it is disabled, and nobody will be able to get it working without training." Peter stated.
"Great. The last thing is a new Sinister Six. We finally got rid of the old ones, we don't need any newer versions of your enemies roaming around." Caitlin sighed and looked to the computers. "Hi, Gideon."
"Good evening, Dr. Snow-Parker, always a pleasure to see you." Gideon greeted her.
"Same here, Gideon." Caitlin said with a smile. "Can you start to decode the data stream, see if there are any anomalies that can help us determine on where the hole might appear?"
"Already on it." Gideon promised and showed she already started while the two boys were talking."
"Thanks, Gideon." Caitlin said with a smile, almost like she was talking to a child. "So, listen, I think there's something we need to talk about the job."
"Sure. We can't do nothing until we hear back from Gideon." Peter shrugged as they all began to leave.
"Where are the kids?" Caitlin wondered.
"They took over parole for me today." Peter shrugged, wanting to get back to his company to see if Ollie was still around. "So, what's up?"
National city, Anjelica was floating downward and was carrying the animal down to its owner, trying not to mess with it.
Man, does she wish she had bulletproof skin, considering that she's dealing with not a Kitty, but a snake!
"Here you go, little girl." Anjelica said as she handed the snake to the little girl who allowed the snake to hug her. "Glad I could help." She shuttered as she then shot two webs at two lights and launched herself into the air. Once she was far enough away, she stopped on a roof and immediately freaked out and shook her hands, almost like she was shaking off spiders. "Who the hell names a snake Mittens?!"
Kara had just woken up from her...nap and saw that Peter was still asleep. Seems she - the nap! - took a lot out of him. She got up and saw it was an hour past school, meaning Angel should be home by now. She got up and quickly put on a shirt, no idea if it's hers or not, and walked down the halls to see nobody was home.
"Anjelica?" Kara called, wondering where she was.
But she knows that if she's out, she's probably out volunteering at the soup kitchen or something as she would usually do after school. Her only real friends are really just Tina and Tommy when wither she visited them in CC or they visited her in NC, and Roberta wasn't a troublemaker so she wouldn't be in anything terrible.
Walking down to the kitchen, she quickly got herself something to eat, and turned on the news, wondering what's happened on her day off.
"...there have been a number of dazzling display of heroics by the newest crime fighter who mysteriously showed up on the scene." The news reported and Kara immediately stopped and turned to face the screen and saw Anjelica in her superhero suit and immediately dropped her bowl of ice cream.
"Peter!" Kara cried, waking Peter up and he quickly made his way down the stairs, tripping on the last few.
"What? What's wrong?" Peter asked, facing his wife as she stayed focused on the tv.
Kara then pointed to the screen and looked back at him as Peter looked to see what was happening.
"People are questioning 'who is this new hero?' And if there's any connection between her and our crime fighting Iron-Spider and Supergirl with her chosen name 'Super-Arachnid'."
"Oh, boy..." Peter sighed, seeing she was in deep trouble if Kara caught her.
"Could this possibly be the daughter of the two heroes? And if so, does that mean that our crime fighting duo are in a relationship, or is she a experiment in order to combine their powers?"
Back in Central City, Frost was having a talk with Patty in Jitters. It was noon, so it was usually a little crowded, but today it seemed to be a slow day as nobody was around except for a few people.
"I mean, I don't get what is wrong with the kid." Frost sighed, talking to Patty about Aster. "He doesn't talk to me about anything, and when he does, he gets annoyed by me trying to help."
"Well, how exactly does he act?" Patty wondered.
"When I asked him how his day was, which is a common thing for Caitlin to ask her trouble makers, he says 'why do you care?' So I asked Caitlin, what's up with that? And it ends with he might've picked up your sarcasm."
Patty rolled her eyes at that and took a sip of her coffee. "Does he sometimes come home looking like he's been pushed around?"
"What?" Frost asked, not following. "I mean, sometimes we see him come in and looking like he was pushed around or roughed up, but he said it was just some roughhousing from P.E."
Patty looked sorry as she would thing these geniuses could tell it from a mile away. "Well, there you are. I think your son's being bullied."
"Bullied?" Frost asked in shock. "No. There's no way. If he was being bullied, he would tell me."
"Why do you think that?" Patty wondered, not seeing why he would.
"I would make them stop. I mean, Tommy and Tina were never bullied." Frost stated, feeling they did a good job scaring off bullies for them.
"Tommy and Tina skipped several grades, they were ten when they went into college." Patty reminded her. "They skipped the bully grades."
Frost had to stop and think about it and realized that because of Peter's great power, great responsibility speech he gave them, the kids never really stood up against bullies and took the high road.
"I don't think this is it, but I might have to talk it over with Peter." Frost stated, wondering if that's actually the case.
"Glad I could help." Patty shrugged as she went to take a sip of her drink when the whole entire building began to shake. "What the hell? Earthquake?"
Frost seemed to think it was something bigger, because when isn't it something bigger in this city? And looked over to the door which just exploded and when Frost went to shield herself from the glass, it didn't even get to touch them before it got sucked into a black hole just forming.
Everything began to slowly get sucked in, followed by the people who were inside. But before they could go several feet, strands of webbing came down and saved them before pulling them out, leaving Frost and Patty.
Frost grabbed onto Patty to keep her from getting sucked in, which didn't last long when the table and chairs started to get pulled in and they were tackled and saved by Spinneret and Winter-Spider.
The two held onto their aunt's and used their powers to stick to the floor of Jitters and kept them safe, as seconds later the black hole closed down.
The four of them looked up and sighed in relief.
"Nice save, kids." Frost congratulated the kids. "You cut it a little close, though."
"Sorry. We were just passing by when we saw the portal open." Tommy apologized.
"Yeah, and what was with the black hole altogether?" Tina wondered.
"Ask your father." Patty sighed.
The four of them returned to Star labs where Caitlin, Peter, Dawn, and Barry were waiting for them.
"How you feeling?" Barry asked as he engulfed his wife into a hug.
"Like I should be dead." Patty sighed.
"Well, let's be thankful you're not." Peter said, happy she was safe before getting to the problem. "Okay, we need to deal with this black hole. It's getting larger. Next time it comes, it could be a singularity 2.0, I'll call Frankie and Miles, tell them that we might need their help."
"You sure that's a good idea?" Caitlin whispered to him. "I mean, they haven't really been the same since they broke up."
"Come on, I know how it feels to work with an ex, and I know they'll put their differences aside to save the city." Peter promised her.
"Wait, when did you work with an ex?" Caitlin suddenly asked, not knowing who he's ever dated and worked with.
Peter sees he walked himself into a corner and just decided to admit it. "Remember Liam Tang?"
"From engineering? Yeah." Caitlin remembered their brief encounter at Parker Industries.
"We...went out once. Back when we were in college." Peter admitted, getting looks from Frost and Caitlin. "We got along, but...her career took off, and I had to keep time free for Spider-Man, so it didn't go past coffee."
"Hm." Caitlin muttered, wondering why he never mentioned her before.
"It was a long time ago! It was one date, trust me, if I went over every date I had, every coffee date, we'd be up to the time Otto dated Anna Marie Marconi when he had control of my body." Peter stated to her. That was a Post-Crisis problem. "Let's get back to the real issue here. We need to figure out why this black hole decided to go from a scientific advancement company to a coffee shop."
"Gideon, did you find anything?" Tommy asked the ceiling.
"Indeed, I believe I have, Mr. Tommy." Gideon said as she activated the screens. "After going through the list of people who have ever visited Parker Industries who should be watched, and did one with anybody frequently visiting Jitters, and I believe I discovered who might be behind it: Meet Chester P. Runk."
The screens then showed a young man wearing glasses standing over a device that looks like it was built from scratch.
"Hey, what up, party people?" Chester asked on a live chat stream. "Welcome to a world where all are welcome and anything, including the scientifically impossible, can and probably will happen."
Healthyskeptic45: This guy is totes a #madscientist.
"This is your boy chug-chug-chug-Chester!"
"I like him." Dawn admitted with a laugh.
"With knowledge from the bleeding edge of physics and beyond! Behind! Beyond!" Chester continued with a chuckle. "I've been working on that echo."
DerekIsAwesome6676: That was a solid echo
Danika_Heart: I love this guy's energy!
"I just got the newest parts I needed from the coolest company in the city, run by the closest guy. Parker Industries!" Chester said as he showed where the newest package he's received. "And yes, as usual, I am fueled by some.." he took a sip from a coffee cup from jitters. "Damn fine cup from everyone's favorite beanery."
J-MONEY: Bet that's like his 6th cup today
"Poured, of course, to perfection by s certain special someone." Chester said in a cheeky tone, meaning he's talking about some crush.
WookieLover77: YOU ASK NATALIE OUT YET?!
"Uh, no, WookieLover77, I didn't ask Natalie out yet, but I got my punch card. Three more Vibe-achinos and I'm making my move, baby!" Chester said as he revealed a card that revealed the superheroes of the city that have been given their own drinks.
Including Spinneret and Winter-Spider: Spinneret-Smoothie and Winter-Slurp.
Gideon then fast forwards the video and skips ahead.
"Not getting the evil scientist vibe off from our boy here." Frost admitted.
Peter then watched at what Chester was building and was shocked. "Wait, is he building what I think he's building."
"Behold, believers: a gravitational wave emitter powered by a modulated neutrino charger. In other words. Time to call some aliens!" Chester stated in a cheery tone again.
"He built this in his garage?" Barry was shocked to see.
"Out of a Parker Industries tech." Peter was shocked to see when Chester turned on the machine.
"Uh...oh. That's not supposed to happen." Chester said when suddenly the same black hole that they've been chasing appeared above his device. He then went and touched it, causing the video to glitch and freeze.
"He created a black hole. On accident!" Tommy said in shock.
"What happened to Chester?" Caitlin was more worried about.
"TMTs brought him to the ER, where he is shown to have been catatonic since arrival." Gideon reported in.
"I'll go see if I can get anything out of Chester, get an outside point of view." Caitlin offered as she walked off.
"Yeah, go ahead." Peter agreed and let her to go. "But stay safe. We don't need you getting pulled into a black hole."
"Got it." Caitlin promised.
"And we should be working on something that can shut down the black hole." Barry informed them.
"Great." Tommy sighed.
Back in National City, Anjelica was hanging off the top of a flagpole, holding it with one hand and both of her feet holding onto it as well.
"Well, I'd say that this was a successful day." Anjelica decides to turn it in for the night when her senses warned we someone was trying to sneak up on her.
"Yep. Looks that way." The all too familiar voice of her mother called as Anjelica turned around and was shocked to see Kara was floating, her arms crossed, and her face looking just as much crossed. "You've had a busy day, young lady."
Anjelica smiled and chuckled nervously and started to play with her fingers as she tried to back away when Peter dropped down and crossed his own arms.
"Hi, honey. Your mom's in a bit of a mood." Peter warned his daughter.
"Thanks for the heads up, dad." Anjelica whispered to him and saw she was in deep trouble.
Across the world, in a secret headquarters, three individuals were figuring out their next move.
"Trapster failed to secure us our specimens." A woman in all back informed the one washing a spherical device. "That's what we get for testing the mission to that idiot subordinate."
"We've got a new problem." A third stated, wearing an all dark blue suit and long red hair as she walked in. "Seems there's a new hero in town. Daughter of Iron-Spider and Supergirl."
The seemed to be leader raised her head at hearing that and then took her shield and tossed it across the room, embedding it into the wall, where it revealed to show a black and red striped shield with a skull insignia on the center.
"There is no problem. Their daughter just might help us." She stated as she walked over and pulled the shield out of the wall.
Siobhan Smythe was in her cell and was thinking about what she saw. This new Super-Arachnid seemed to be taking inspiration from both Supergirl and Iron-Spider. She couldn't possibly be their child, could she?
Before she had time to consider the options, the side of her cell's wall exploded, sending several hundred mass of rubble everywhere.
When she opened her eyes, she was shocked to see a mechanical suit with a bunch of mechanical gear and weapons.
"Who the hell are you?" Siobhan asked.
"Siobhan Smythe." The man greeted her and blasted the guard. "My name's Tucker Ford. But you can call me Biogeneral. I'm here to see if you want vengeance on Supergirl."
"Why?" She asked.
"Because I want to have vengeance on Iron-Spider. How about we go against their new daughter?" Tucker asked.