Later that night Peter and Felicia as Spider-Man and the Black Cat were swinging across the city until they reached the top of the address listed on Hammerhead's piece of paper; a really old clinic building where the letters had long since broken off and the ones that remained were all failed. "...This place had been shut for decades but funny enough that a Mrs Vanessa Fisk had bought it just before the Blip; the previous owners were planning on having it scheduled to be demolished after it was declared condemned." Felicia said having looked up details about the address and Peter shook his head.
"From that knowledge and that Kingpin had his family picture framed on his desk; it seems that the whole crime lord thing is a husband and wife business..." Peter replied as they got to a door but Felicia took out a device and then planted it as she got out her phone. "Uh... What are you doing?" Peter asked as Felicia looked at him.
"Hacking and disabling any any security measures as well as having all security footage with audio sent to my phone..." Felicia answered and Peter nodded.
"Thanks... Good to know that I'm not the only one with tech brains here..." Peter said and gulped as she gave him a look and then put on a pose.
"What? You thought that you were the brains and brawn while I was just the beauty? I'm just Spider-Man's eye candy?" Felicia asked as Peter then stammered out words as she just laughed; Peter shook his head as they went in through the vents. They ended up going to an office. Felicia checked the security feed on her phone and Peter looked and saw at the parking lot there was Fisk in a hat greeting a limo that dropped off Vanessa and Richard.
"What do you know; it's Take Your Son to Work Night..." Peter joked as they looked at the office and desk which had a plague for a 'J. Harrow'; on the wall there were framed newspaper headlines about Harrow talking about his work in his clinic as a surgeon as well as a medical scientist who ran his own start up company. The most recent articles talked about him being investigated for illegal and untested operations and procedures that he was doing and ended up being disbarred before going missing. "You know; why exactly do they want their office list the papers talking about how much they failed on the wall... A cliché that never really made sense to me... If you wanted to remind yourself to motivate you then why not a scrapbook..." Peter asked as Felicia shrugged.
There were an alert on the phone as Felicia saw the Fisks entering the building so they waited to see what was going on.
"You should have told me Vanessa; this has apparently been going on for a long while and I am only now being informed?" Fisk demanded to Vanessa as they entered through the door.
"Just something little; I didn't want to distract you with something that I could easily handle myself..." Vanessa replied as Richard looked quite guilty.
"Richard has been getting into fights at school and you thought that as his father; I shouldn't know about that? That it was something little?" Fisk retorted as the eyes of Peter and Felicia widened.
"I was following your example dad! They were talking smack about you and the gangs on the playground; they needed to show respect! I was trying to be like you dad!" Richard said and Vanessa was asking him to leave this to the adults as it seemed that his son's words had actually shaken Fisk.
"Wow... Learning that he isn't a good role model; who would have thought when his entire business was crime..." Peter sarcastically remarked as Felicia looked to a computer and then started hacking into it. Peter went to watch and there were files on different experiments and patients.
Their eyes widened as the first one showed Grizzly strapped to an operating table with Harrow overlooking him saying that he would need time to heal from the bear genetics put into him as well as the organs transplanted into him. Then there was a man screaming at his table as he was being turned into a fly much to his horror. "This is like a horror movie; Kingpin has this place for Harrow to create super bad guys for him..." Peter muttered horrified.
"A real Dr Moreau and this clinic is his island... Not that you would get that reference..." Felicia replied and Peter gave her a look.
"Actually I did; I caught that movie once on TV..." Peter retorted as there was an alert on Felicia's phone as it showed guards around the halls and the Fisks entering the building. Peter and Felicia went into the vents to sneak through.
Overlooking the halls they noticed Harrow being surrounded by Trenchcoat Mafia guards as he then used his key card to give himself access to a door and then entered. They went went through the vents and then attacked the guards and Peter then webbed down Harrow.
Then the Trenchcoat Mafia guards then got out their guns and hand weapons as Peter then began dodging them and webbing them up as Felicia began dodging them as best as she could while taking hits; she then used her whip to trip them up as they were now down. Peter then had to dodge as spit was directed at him as there was the fly man who now had fly like eyes and fly wings as Peter jumped and knocked him down and there was a man with tall stilt like replacement legs that Felicia used her whip to trip.
The guards and their gunshots ended up destroying cannisters of serums and one of which Felicia managed to pick up. Soon Peter and Felicia knocked them down and faced Harrow. "Spider-Man what an excellent specimen! So much better than normal humans; I could only wish that I had made you!" Harrow grinned as Peter glared at him.
"We were in your office and saw your files; how can you sleep at night?" Peter demanded as Harrow shook his head.
"I have been born gifted in the fields of medicine and science but the normal fields I couldn't stand... Too conventional when the unconventional could create stronger beings that are much better than humans! I looked to Captain America for inspiration; a superior man much stronger than normal humans who could probably fight off most diseases or injuries! I thought that I could create more like him only better; stronger plates for your head and animal or cyber implants could help the human body evolve much better than how God intended... I managed to create serums that could increase strength or speed that I can use to improve later! Results were mixed but hey; science is all about trial and error!" Harrow grinned as they shook their heads.
"I imagine the first Cap would be disgusted with you and I can see why you got disbarred and this clinic shut down!" Peter snapped at him and Harrow just continued to grin.
"Luckily for me I had investors interested in funding my work underground. All of their heads got cut off but I had their money and resources that were granted to me and then Fisk found me. Years under his supervision and I got more of my work that you destroyed! I imagine the government never stopped trying to recreate Erskine's work and I managed to work outside the box and succeed without intending to create soldiers! Not that I have anything to show for it now!" Harrow snapped as they glared harder at him.
"So does your boss know that you used to work for HYDRA?" Felicia asked as Harrow laughed.
"He and his wife chooses to ignore certain details; make no mistake that they dress it all up with fancy words of making a better city for the people but however monstrous you find my creations to look; they are just as monstrous on the inside! Fisk's original empire after the Blip included trafficking and if you do anything to get on his bad side; then he shows mercy! He will act like a wounded animal if you hurt him enough; he is a wolf in sheep's clothing who isn't as virtuous or as noble intent as he wants people to think or maybe even thinks himself." Harrow said as they stared at him.
"That's probably the only smart thing you have said to us..." Peter replied and then guards came and snapped to call the alarms as Peter and Felicia then webbed them up and decided to make their retreat through the vents. They got back out and Peter said "Should we wait until Fisk leaves again..."
Felicia smirked as she put the serum cannister away and looked to him while pulling out his phone; "Let's get a safe distance away and wait for them to give us more rope to hang themselves in. I got an idea..." Felicia told him as Peter was interested.
Fisk had Richard behind him with Vanessa at his side as he was barking out orders to all the staff; "Anything that remains have it shipped out as soon as possible... If Spider-Man and the Black Cat now knows about this place then it's useless now... What a shame..." Fisk ranted out as Vanessa went into Harrow's lab and looked at Harrow with the knocked out subjects.
"Make sure to dispose of these trash so that we could have them dumped somewhere..." Vanessa ordered guards pointing to a glaring Harrow as she then left and the door closed behind some guards as gunshots were given out causing Richard to flinch.
"Vanessa... You know that I can't have you involved in my business; just you being here..." Fisk told Vanessa as she looked at him and showed him her wedding ring.
"When you married me; your business became OUR business. I will help however you can. I am with you every step of the way." Vanessa told him as he shook his head.
"Do you remember what happened on our wedding night? Why We both left in handcuffs and what I had to do? You know why it's too risky..." Wilson reminded her and then looked to Richard. "Richard; can you go stare over there while we have a little talk..." Wilson asked Richard and Richard nodded slowly as he walked over to the wall looking at the criminal guards going over everything, he flinched as he heard more gunshots and then just stood staring at the white wall...
The next morning Vanessa got up in her penthouse home as she looked to her schedule on her phone while Richard was watching TV. She got a news alert but her eyes widened as she saw the headline about security footage with audio being sent to all sorts of authorities and just about every news outlet in the city. She looked and saw that it included her arriving with her son to the clinic to meet Fisk in the parking lot and then in the halls her giving the order to have them taken care of.
There were banging on the door and then entered armed Damage Control and FBI officers; "This is private property... I demand to see a warrant..." Vanessa ranted to the officers but said warrant being shown to her made her silent.
"An accomplice to your fugitive husband and how long were you aiding and abetting him? How many statements to the police about being uninvolved and those lies..." one of the officers mocked her as she was forcibly handcuffed and read her rights and screamed to let go of Richard as he was being escorted out. "Your kid is going to be fine; sent to a foster home to fix the damage you and your husband must have done... Perhaps someone who doesn't take their kid to see their fugitive father at a criminal hideout..." then mocked the officer as Vanessa was speechless and unable to be calm.
At Peter's apartment; Peter laughed at seeing the news while working on his Spider-Man suit; putting a new liquid armoured area over parts of it to show a new armoured symbol as well as put to the knuckles and feet for extra impact. A new Advanced suit; "Wonder how Kingpin is going to take this... Not like I wasn't already on his bad side..." Peter said to himself.
At Fisk's office Fat Man's Auto Sales; Fisk was silent as he stared at the news on his phone covering his wife's arrest live and saw Richard outside the penthouse building being shown to a car and Vanessa dragged to a van forcibly as she was pleading to have a word with her son. He roared out as he then flipped his desk over as Hammerhead came in.
"Saw the news... You want me to do something?" Hammerhead asked looking quite amused as Fisk looks to him.
"Spider-Man dies by my hand tonight. New York will burn while it happens! Give the word out that I want everyone gathered and all advanced weapons together!" Fisk demands of him as Hammerhead stares him down.
"If so; I want to choose the venue and put in my own addendums to how it will play out. Something that I had been working on!" Hammerhead demands as Fisk brushes it off.
"Fine... Whatever... I don't have time to argue..." Fisk then relents as he then pounds the floor with his foot.
