Back with another chapter. Nothing to really talk about this time, so enjoy.

First Stop: Japan.

Once Peter had gotten his bleeding nose under control, both him and Flash watched from the railing of the cruise ship the docks they were stopping at. Peter got an alert on his phone, saying this was the first stop in the tournament. He grabbed his armor bag and slung it on his back as the both of them got ready to disembark the ship.

"Still shaken up about that whole fight. Who was that woman?" Flash asked.

"I don't know, and I don't really care. It's gonna be a different story next time."

"No offense Pete, but she kicked your ass. Like fully."

Peter rolled his eyes at Flash's comment. "Yeah, whatever. I'm gonna check into a hotel, I'll see you another time Flash."

"Wait. You're participating in the S.I.N tournament, right?" Flash asked as his eyes lit up.

"Maybe. What about it?"

"I'm supposed to be covering the tournament for the Daily Bugle. Maybe we both can stick together. You fight, I cover it. What do you say?"

"I say you better call jolly old triple J and tell him he can stick this story up his incentive ass." Peter said harshly. It wasn't no secret he despised J. Jonah Jameson, especially during his teenage years when Aunt May was in the hospital and he needed money, bad. "I'm sorry Flash, but he's gonna underpay you what the story is really worth."

"C'mon Pete. I need-"

"I'm not sticking with you, end of discussion." Peter said. He started to walk towards the nearest hotel from the docks. Once he checked in, he put his armor bag down on his bed and pulled out his laptop. He needed to do some dark web research on S.I.N, and figure out exactly who that Juri woman was.

2 hours later.

"Alright. Mystery woman Juri Han is no longer a mystery." Peter said to himself. He put his computer on the desk in the hotel, and would've called it a night if he didn't get an alert from his phone. It was telling him his first fight was taking place in a temple in Japan. In the Kento area. Luckily, Peter was in that said area. He closed up his jacket, put on his mask, and swung out of his hotel room's window towards the temple.

Abandoned Temple.

"Abandoned, check. Ominous, check. Wishing I was back home in my bed, hell yes." Peter told himself. He looked around for a bit, and saw in the distant hills a figure. He couldn't tell who it was, but it was a definite womanly figure. The figure noticed Peter in the temple, and immediately started to leave. Peter found this weird, but immediately was alerted by his Spider sense that danger was close. He turned around quickly to see a guy with a claw glove and a mask on. Along with his pants and shoes, he guessed the guy was some sort of authentic Spanish.

"Hmm. And what do we have here? A lone spider, waiting for his next prey?" The guy asked.

"About as much as you're waiting for your next manicure." Peter quipped. "Seriously, your nails are outta control."

The guy didn't seem phased by Peter's quip. "Hard to take advice from someone who refuses to show their beauty…or hideousness."

"Look buddy, unless you're my first opponent in this tournament, I'm leaving."

"So be it." The guy said as he put on his mask. "Let us dance."

"Whacko number one, beat down coming right up.

Over Seas, Airborne.

"Don't you think you're being a bit paranoid Rogue?" Wrench asked. The both of them were currently on a X-Jet towards the first fighting location Peter had to go to, Japan.

"Paranoid? He literally crashed a whole Helicarrier into New York, and was lucky fenough to leave with just a cut." Rogue stated as she continued to fly the jet.

"Well technically, I crashed it by overloading the engines, but…" Wrench turned to see Rogue shooting daggers at his direction. It didn't help that she still decided to go with the whole goth look still, so it looked as if she was a second away from killing him.

"but…nevermind…" Wrench said. He leaned back into his seat and looked out the window.

"So how exactly did you convince the professor to let you take the jet?"

Rogue stayed quiet at Wrench's question, showing to Wrench she did everything but ask the professor.

"Oh this just gets better and better…"

"Would you just cut me at least a little bit of slack? We're going to keep a eye on Peter and make sure he doesn't get himself killed, that's all."

"Rogue he destroyed both a corrupt military general and his army, and a whole terrorist organization. I think he can handle a simple fighting tournament." Wrench stated.

Temple

"Ok…so the claw wasn't just for show..." The mystery man had clawed up the front of Peter's jacket and left some small tears on his mask. A stamina battle wasn't gonna work for this guy, Peter knew he had to fight back to advance. Otherwise it was gonna makes the whole mission even harder.

"Your fighting is about as graceful as a dead rat." The masked man said.

"Hey, Edward fingernails, you wanna shut it?" Peter said as he charged him. He was going for a tackle, but the man sidestepped out of the way, causing Peter to stumble and almost fall onto the ground.

"For your information, it's Vega."

"And for your information, you need a manicure." Peter turned around and swung at Vega, able to hit him in the stomach. Vega kneeled over, then quickly sweeped Peter off his feet by kicking behind his feet. Now on his back, Peter saw Vega standing over his body and getting ready to slice him again. Peter dodged the claw hand again, but was punched by the other hand. He brought his feet together and kicking Vega off of him and shot a web at his face. Vega recoiled as he struggled to get the webbing off.

"Hope this isn't against the rules. As if ima follow them."

Peter then proceeded to unless a fury of punches to Vega's body, mostly focusing on his chest. He had to make sure to pull each one back a bit, as it was fully possible to kill him if he used all his force. After the rapid strikes, Vega got another slash at Peter's mask, breaking one of the visors and revealing his eye. Vega's shortness of breath was apparent, as he stumbled away from Peter, breathing heavily.

"I…won't forget…your eye." Vega said.

"Oh shut up already." Peter said as he ran towards Vega and dropkicked him. Vega fell to the ground, knocked out.

"And the crowd goes wild!" Peter yelled to himself. He then mocked a cheering crowd before the moment passed him.

"Man…I need better hobbies..." Just at that moment, Peter's spider senses started blaring, but was too late to stop the prick on his neck. He found the source and pulled to see it was a dart, most likely a tranquilizer.

"Well shit…" Peter thought. He tried to fight it off, but it was more than his body could handle. As he stumbled to the floor, he felt the embrace of someone over him. They leaned into his ear.

"Don't fight it…" Peter recognized the voice. It was the same woman that tried to kill him on the cruise ship. Juri Han.

"Juri…"

"You remember the one that nearly killed you? I'm flattered." Juri said with a sadistic smile. "But for right now, I need you to be unconscious."

"Wha-" Peter stuttered. After a few more seconds of trying to fight the tranquilizer, he was rendered unconscious. Juri turned him over onto his back and stared at him. She leaned in closer to his face and lifted his mask high enough to see his face without ripping the mask off.

"Hmm." Juri thought to herself. "Definitely the same guy from the ship. And a bit of a cutie too." She smiled as she pulled his mask back down and lifted him up on her shoulder. She noticed that his phone had fallen out of his pocket, onto the floor. Not wanting to bring any unnecessary attention, she smashed the phone with a stomp from her heel.

"And to think you were going easy on me on the ship. Oh, we're gonna have some real fun…"

Abandoned Temple, 2 hours later.

"I don't understand. His phone's location was here when we were in the Jet." Wrench stated. Both Rogue and Wrench were looking around for Peter. They saw bloodstains, but hoped it didn't mean what they feared. After a few more minutes of searching, Rogue found something.

"Wrench…" Rogue said, she kneeled down and picked up a dart that was on the ground. She turned around and saw Wrench's mask expressed two exclamation marks.

"Kidnapped?" Wrench asked.

"Happened to me before…unfortunately. So it's possible." Rogue said. "Anything else around?"

Wrench did a quick scan of the area and saw Peter's smashed phone. He kneeled over it and searched through the broken phone. He started panicking, seeing nothing that could be salvaged.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK!" Wrench yelled.

"Wrench, calm the fuck down." Rogue said.

"Calm down?" Wrench got up from the floor. "He's fucking Spider-Man, and he got kidnapped. We gotta find him."

"Not so fast..." A British woman said. Wrench and Rogue both turned to see a woman wearing a green leotard and beret, a Chinese lady wearing some type of dress with leggings and boots, and a guy with a extreme flattop and military outfit.

"Just exactly what are you two doing here?" The British lady asked. Wrench and Rogue looked at each, as if they both waited for the other to speak. After a few seconds of silence, the Chinese lady spoke up.

"Excuse my partner Cammy. She's a bit…abrasive." Cammy shot daggers at her partners direction, but let her continue. "I'm Chun-Li and this is Guile."

"Wrench. My friend here is Rogue." Wrench said. "Let's clear this up real quick, no we didn't cause the scene here, but we're looking for someone who could've been involved."

"And who would that be?" Guile asked, folding his arms.

"Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man of course." Wrench said gleefully. He saw Rogue look at him in disappointment, while he had a huge grin under his mask. "Sorry, just always wanted to say that." He turned back to the trio and saw that Chun-Li was on the verge of geeking out.

"Wait, wait, wait…you guys know Spider-Man? THE Spider-Man?"

"Chun-Li, they could obviously be lying..." Cammy said.

"Plus Spider-Man has no reason to be all the way in Japan." Guile added.

"We're…working with him. We got a lead that the S.I.N tournament was a front for something, but we don't know what yet." Rogue said. Cammy and Guile looked at each other.

"So they found the leak too…" Guile said.

"Hold on…there was a mass leak of info?" Wrench asked. "Thought it was from files from Talon. Before they were destroyed."

"We were on a lead following Talon. Apparently they were working with S.I.N on some project. A new type of soldier, or something like that." Chun-Li said. Both surprised, Rogue and Wrench looked at each other.

"That means there could still be some remnants of Talon still active." Wrench said

"Meaning they could still be trying to carry out Strykers plan..." Rogue said. "We need to find Spider-Man. He's been trying to prevent whatever it is their planning for almost a year now."

"Of course!" Chun-Li said enthusiastically. She was quickly grabbed by both Cammy and Guile.

"Are you out of your mind Chun-Li? You want to risk our mission just to get a autograph?" Cammy asked.

"Agreed. It's very unlike you Chun-Li." Guile added.

"Look I know it seems I'm just going with my gut, but they seem to know their knowledge on Talon and S.I.N. If they're really working with Spider-Man, that means they also helped cripple Talon. They're the best allies we could ask for right now." Chun-Li said. Cammy looked back at Wrench and Rogue, then turned back to Chun-Li.

"Are you sure? They don't exactly look…like professionals."

"Trust me Cammy. If they're lying, we can arrest them." Cammy was put at ease with Chun-Li's conviction, as was Guile. They turned around back to Wrench and Rogue.

"We've decided that the five of us can work together to stop whatever S.I.N is planning, and get your friend back." Chun-Li said. "Any objections?"

The moment of silence signified to Chun-Li that they were all good. "Excellent. We'll start with the cruise ship the fighters came in to Japan with and we'll go from there." As she said that, her group left towards the docks, leaving Wrench and Rogue.

"Well…plan now is?" Rogue asked.

Wrench simply fixed his hoodie as two X's popped up on his mask.

"We save Spider-Man. Then we save the world again."

And there's the end of this chapter, and the official start of my semi-comeback to writing. Mostly just been focusing on work and school lately, even though work acting stupid stupid. But besides that I hope you all enjoyed, and until next time.