The Spectacular Spider-man

by choejhulkp9

One happenstance trip to Central City in December changed the life of one individual in a way he never imagined. You wake up one day and all of a sudden, your body changed, you gain super powers and you find yourself wondering if it was an accident or maybe it was meant to happen. Who knows but all I know is with great responsibility comes...a lot of weird crap.

2. Meeting the Arrow

Will's journey as Spider-man is in full motion as he understands his abilities and the whole superhero thing a lot better than when he started. The city is loving him and it's safer than it's ever been because of him and the Arrow. But he soon learns that all the street crime he has stopped the past few months is only the surface of the problem with some people who really want him dead. And those people acquire some…associates who have the goal of taking down Spider-man. Not to mention, he learns that the Arrow isn't too fond of heroes in his city. Kind of hypocritical if you ask me.

The Spectacular Spider-man: A very pointed conversation

October 2014-Starling City

Night had descended in Starling City as the moon was up in the sky. Things were relatively quiet on the surface, but things were never really that peaceful. On the rooftop of a building, two figures with sacks over their shoulders came running out of the roof entrance and made their way over to the edge. They were Flint Marko and Alexander O'Hirn, two career criminals who just finished robbing a jewelry store.

"Did I tell ya? One getaway jump to the next building and we're a million bucks richer." Marko said.

"This ain't no million-buck haul. Not after the Big Man takes his cut." O'Hirn told him.

"Oh, shut up and jump." Marko said as O'Hirn jumped first but a web hit him in the back and yanked him backwards, propping him upside down and dropping the bag of jewels. Then a bright red light with a weird mask shined down on Marko. "Oh, no! Not again!"

"Yup! Again." A voice said that belonged to Spider-man who was standing on a telephone pole that O'Hirn was webbed to. "What is it, Marko like the fourth time in five months?"

"Just wait until I get my hands on you, you little freak!" O'Hirn said as Spider-man webbed his mouth shut.

"Hold that thought, dear." Spider-man said as he turned off his spider signal on his belt and front flipped to the ground in front of Marko. "Ok, so Marko be honest? The Spider Signal, is it too much? It's my first night trying it out and I'm not sure if it screams out Spectacular Spider-man."

Marko swung the bag of jewels at Spider-man, but he jumped and ducked with ease, aggravating Marko more and more. Spider-man webbed O'Hirn's bag of jewels and yanked it towards him, slamming into Marko and sending him to the ground. "I mean for a guy who has a lot of experience getting thrashed by…well me, I really value your opinion." Spider-man said as he webbed up Marko.

"This isn't over, Spider-man! You hear me! I'll get out of Jail, soon!" Marko shouted as Spider-man webbed his mouth shut.

"I'll be here to stop you when you get out! Have a nice night in jail!" Spider-man shouted as he swung away just as the cops arrived to take O'Hirn and Marko into custody. As Spider-man swung through the air, his hearing picked up a distinct whizzing sound. He flipped through the air from his last swing, shot out a web line at an object and slammed it into a building. He stuck to the side of the building to see he smashed a small aerial drone. "Hello, what's this? If this happens to belong to a kid, I'm very sorry about that. Ask your parents for another."

Spider-man webbed the drone up and swung away with it, the power on the drone dying as it sent over the footage it recorded. Back in an expensive high-rise building, Hammerhead and his boss had watched the footage of Spider-man dealing with Marko and O'Hirn with ease and then destroying the drone.

"That was a live feed?" The boss asked as Hammerhead nodded. "Then I've seen enough. Summon the enforcers."

"Already on their way." Hammerhead said with a grin as he closed the laptop.

On the other side of town, The Arrow and his cohorts were dealing with criminal activity of their own. They were trying to stop a truck carrying an illegal weapons shipment from making it into the city and its buyers. The Arrow was running through some foliage along the train tracks, chasing after the truck as he unfolded his bow.

"I got them. Coming up on 52nd street, heading east!" Arrow shouted into his comms.

"Copy that or is it Roger? I never know the difference." Felicity said as she monitored everything at the bunker. "John, there's an illegal shipment of RPGs headed your way."

"Roger, I'm on it." He said, driving in a van to back up the Arrow.

"Oh, so it is roger." Felicity commented.

The Arrow jumped down from a bridge overpass and landed on the truck. He ran along the truck container, flipped onto truck and fired an explosive arrow at the winch holding the cargo container. The arrow exploded and destroyed the winch holding the container, leaving it stopped in the street while the truck drove away.

Dig stopped the van by the container and opened the container door to see the illegal weapons. "RPG's are secure, I've got eyes on." Dig said.

"Roy, we're coming to you!" The Arrow said as he dropped down to the passenger side door and punched the window out and knocked out the passenger. He flipped back on top of the truck and moved to the other side, punching out the window, grabbed the steering wheel and making a hard left turn down a street.

A red hooded figure flipped over a car and fired two arrows at the front wheel, shooting them out and having the driver hit the brakes. The figure was Roy Harper, now in his own custom-made red hood with a recurve bow, quiver, and assorted weapons. The driver tried to shoot the Arrow but missed. He got out of the truck only for Roy to trip him up and knock him out with a boot to the face. The Arrow saw the last guy get out of the truck and made a run for it into a building so he followed. The guy ran for his life through the building when an arrow zoomed past his head and shot out high-tensile strength cables in front of him, cutting off his escape. He bounced off the cables and was kicked to the ground. He turned and saw the Arrow there.

"Vincent Steelgrave…you have failed this city!" The Arrow said as he punched him in the face and knocked him out.

Oliver, Roy, and Dig returned to the bunker underneath Verdant after a night out in the city. Felicity was at her desk watching a news debate about the actions of the Arrow and Spider-man and how the city was doing and it was actually doing better than expected.

"The Arrow just took down another one of the city's most wanted, and there is no denying that the city's crime rate has plummeting in the past five months. And thanks to the actions of Spider-man, the city is doing better than it was before. The city was rebuilt and outside investment has spurred our economy. We are doing better and it's thanks to the actions of these heroes." The newscaster said as Felicity smiled.

"You're welcome." Felicity said.

"Take another one off the board." Oliver said as they walked in and he put his bow back in the case.

"We keep this up, there will only be two types of criminals left in Starling City—the ones we put away and the ones that are running scared." Dig said as Felicity walked over to the large computer screen and crossed off another bad guy from the board.

"What's that?" Oliver asked, seeing a plant on a desk and Felicity walked over to it.

"A fern. It thrives in low light. I thought since you were living here now, the place could do with a little sprucing." Felicity said.

"Did you buy me a bed?" Oliver asked.

"You were sleeping on the floor." Felicity replied as Dig and Roy exchanges glances at the notable chemistry between the two. Oliver's phone then went off with a text from Thea. "Another text from Thea."

"Where is she now?" Dig asked as Felicity handed Oliver his phone so he could look it over.

"Amalfi coast. I keep telling her to send photos." Oliver said as Roy walked to the stairs.

"I'm gonna go do a patrol, clear my head." Roy said.

"Hey." Oliver said, getting Roy to stop. "You did really good tonight."

Roy nodded and left as Felicity grabbed her jacket. "I'm gonna head out too. I have to pull an early shift in at work today, which may or may not be the most depressing thing I've ever said." Felicity said. "And I'm sorry to say that I've gotten nowhere with any leads on Spider-man."

"Nothing at all?" Oliver questioned but Felicity shook her head no.

"Nothing new and the only things we do know are what the police and media do and it's not a lot. Male, most likely around mid-20s and is most likely the same guy who stopped Helena the day she took those hostages." Felicity said.

"And do we still think he might be Mirakuru infected?" Dig suggested.

"It's still a possibility. Who knows what Slade had planned or if Spider-man managed to get his hand on the formula. I need to know. Keep digging and find what you can." Oliver said as Felicity nodded. "We still on for tomorrow tonight?"

"Of course. I am going to turn you into corporate master of the universe. Those board members are going to be begging to sell Queen Consolidated back to you and your backers." Felicity said with a smile as she left.

"I'm going to roll out, too." Dig said as he checked his watch. "Lyla has me trying to build the bassinet from hell."

"That reminds me, I got you something." Oliver said as he handed a small box to Dig. He opened the box to see a beautiful four pointed arrowhead necklace. "I figured since you and Lyla are having a girl…"

"Man, you cannot afford this." Dig said.

"I can't afford anything, which is why I made it. Arrowheads, one of the few things I can make." Oliver said as Dig smiled.

"Well, it's beautiful. Thank you." Dig told him.

"Congratulations, John. And not just on the baby. You and Lyla are happy." Oliver said as Dig nodded.

"Well, you know, you should try it some time." Dig told him.

"Last girlfriend, she's in the League of Assassins. My girlfriend before that, she shot my girlfriend before that. I'm not…not exactly a catch at the moment." Oliver said.

"Maybe Felicity will change all that." Dig told him.

"It's…it's not the right time." Oliver replied.

"Things are as good now as ever will be, Oliver. The city's safe and moving in the right direction. And you love her." Dig said. "You even told her so."

"I was trying to fool Slade." Oliver said as Dig chuckled.

"Yes. Except now the only person you're fooling is yourself. Thanks again." Dig said as he left Oliver to his thoughts.

Back with Will, he had finished up his morning class and was now slowly walking through campus to head to the café to get another cup of coffee. He finished up patrol around 1am but stayed up to look at the drone he smashed and one thing led to another and he didn't go to bed till about 4…and he had a class at 7am…it was a bad idea. Will was walking through campus, letting out a big yawn when someone came from the side and got him in a flying hug. He looked down and saw it was Aria.

"Hey, Aria." Will said as Aria looked at him and he looked exhausted.

"Geez, Will. Don't take this the wrong way but you look horrible." Aria said as Will managed a small chuckle.

"I got in at around 1 last night and I stupidly stayed up to look at some tech I got my hands on and I didn't go to bed until 4." Will then let out a loud yawn that got Aria to yawn. Damn contagious yawns.

"And your first class is at 7. Ouch." Aria said as Will nodded.

"Which is why I'm on my way to get my fourth cup of coffee in the past two hours." Will said as they walked over to the Starbucks. Aria got a soy latte while Will got a red eye with three shots of espresso.

"Will, maybe you should take it easy and get some sleep right now." Aria said, worried about him.

"I can't. I have another class in 30 minutes and I need to head to the lab afterward to finish some work for Dr. Connors." Will took a long sip of his coffee and felt it begin to wake him up.

"Will, even as a superhero you have your limits. You need some sleep." Aria said as Will smiled at her.

"I know, Aria and I appreciate your concern but I'll be fine. I've been through worse, believe me. Remember our finals week last semester. I've stayed up for 24 hours and managed to pass with flying colors." Will said.

"That was before you would go out at night and beat up bad guys. You're fighting physical exhaustion as well. Will, seriously get some rest." Aria said as Will finished his coffee and squared up with Aria.

"Aria, I'll be fine. Don't worry about me. What about you? Have you heard back from the Kingsley Company yet about a part-time job?" Will asked as Aria smiled, seeing how despite everything Will was going through he still cared more about his friends and others than himself.

"Nothing yet but I did make a good impression which is the most important thing." She said as Will nodded. "What about you? I mean, I know working with Dr. Connors is great and all but have you thought about looking back at Queen Consolidated for a job?"

"Seeing as how the company is in freefall and with no clear CEO…I'll wait a bit before sending in another application. I'm not working for Kord Enterprises, that's for sure. I have a thing against weapon design." Will said. "But I'm alright for now. My schedule's busy enough as Dr. Connor's lab assistant. I don't know how Spencer can handle working at the DA's office part-time while we're in school."

"Leave it to Spencer to tackle classes along with a part-time job. What about that tech company in Central City? Uh…Smith." Aria said as Will chuckled.

"You mean, Smythe? Maybe…but then I'd have to move and I don't know if you girls could last without me." Will joked as she chuckled.

"You're right about one thing, Will…I don't think I could imagine my life without you in it." Aria said as Will smiled.

"Well, as long as I have a say in the matter, you won't have to find out. Suck it jerks in grade, middle, and high school who said I'd never have friends." Will joked causing Aria to chuckle.

"Come on, walk me to my next class." Aria said as she hooked arms with him and they walked through campus. The triple red eye managed to keep Will up for his class but now he was dangerously close to resting his eyes for a minute only to pass out for an 8 hour nap. Dr. Connors texted saying he was going to be late so Will went to his room to grab some things and head back over. He put his backpack down and plugged his phone into the charger. He lay down on his bed as he decided to close his eyes for a minute while his phone charged.

4 Hours Later

"He's kind of cute when he's asleep. I never noticed. Probably because we've never watched him sleep. We have but it's the fell asleep with my head on my propped up hand so I look like an idiot asleep. Shh, would you two keep it down, before we wake him up."

Will grumbled and squint his eyes as he opened them to see Aria, Emily, and Spencer in his room, sitting by his desk. "Em? Aria? Spencer? What's going on? How did you get in my room?" Will asked as he sat up on his bed.

"You programed our student ID's to be able to open your door, remember? Something about being ok with your friends coming into your room in case something happened." Emily said as she, Aria, and Spencer held up their electronic Student ID cards.

"Right. Forgot about that." Will said as he rubbed his eyes when he realized something. "OH, CRAP! I OVERSLEPT! Dr. Connors is gonna kill me!"

Will jumped out of bed and grabbed his bag when Aria, Emily, and Spencer stopped him. "Will, stop. I already called Dr. Connors and told him you wouldn't make it today. He was more than understanding. You can make it up to him tomorrow." Aria said as Will calmed down a bit and leaned against his bed.

"Yeah, and seeing what Aria told us, it's a good thing you got some rest or else you'd drive yourself into the ground." Spencer said as Will smiled.

"Thanks for checking up on me. Guess I'm glad I got my support group of three, amazing, beautiful and badass ladies or I'd be in worse shape." Will said as the girls smiled.

"It seems all the work Aria and I have done with you has paid off. I remember when we first met and you never would have said something like that." Emily said as Will chuckled.

"Then you did a good job. And I think the physical change I received from my powers did a lot to boost my confidence." Will then looked at his alarm clock and saw it was 6:38pm. "Well, since I feel refreshed from that nice nap, how about we head into the city for dinner? I'm thinking, sushi at Toro's?"

"What about the city?" Spencer asked.

"I'll still go out for patrol but in the mean time I will enjoy a night out with my favorite girls. Shall we?" The girls nodded and grabbed their bags. They took a bus into the city and got a table at Toro's, one of the best places to get sushi in the city. Their spicy tuna was amazing. The four sat at a table and enjoyed some quiet time like they used to. Emily told them about Maya and that she would be visiting soon which was great and Spencer's parents were apparently visiting as well…something about the company and CEO they represent coming to Starling for something.

Will took a sip of green tea when he saw a mother and father walk in with their seven-year old son and he was wearing a Spider-man shirt, which was basically a blue shirt with a black spider symbol on it. Aria followed Will's gaze and saw him looking at the shirt and chuckled. "You should be getting royalty checks for all the Spider-man stuff that's been sold." Aria said causing Will to chuckle a bit.

"And I'd love to but I'm pretty sure there's no way for me to get money from Spider-man merchandise without revealing who Spider-man really is. Not to mention I can't exactly sue the stores for copyright infringement." Will said as he ate another spice tuna roll. "Besides, they're good but there's nothing better than the original."

"I don't know. I saw some of those Spider Plushies in a store the other day…pretty adorable. I think I found you your birthday gift." Emily said as she ate a California roll.

"I'm not that vain that I would want a toy plushie of my alter ego, Em but I appreciate the thought." Will joked as the waiter came over with the check. Everyone paid their fair share and left. The girls took a bus back to campus while Will stayed behind to go on patrol. He ducked into an empty alley and checked for any camera coverage and when he saw he was safe, he began undressing. He pulled out his suit from his backpack and stuffed his regular clothes in. He put on his red suit, mask, and blue sweater. He put on his web shooters and began swinging through the city for patrol.

He stopped several muggings, a few attempted robberies and took down another mystery crime lord racket which turned out to be a drug den…a good night. He kept swinging through the city when he heard an explosion in the distance and immediately made his way over to see what happened and saw what looked like a bomb had gone off in a restaurant.

He jumped down and landed in the street and immediately called Yuri. "Yuri, I need EMT's and police at a restaurant on 38th street, it looks like a bomb went off." Spider-man said into his phone.

"We know. Units are already on our way." Yuri said as he walked in and began helping people out of the restaurant. He hoisted up a waiter and carefully helped him out of the restaurant and sat him down on the sidewalk.

"Take it easy. Police are on their way." He said as he went back into the restaurant and quickly moved over to help some people who were pinned under some rubble from the roof. He used his enhanced strength and lifted it off of them and moved it to the side and carried them out of the burning building as the police and ambulances arrived. Spider-man carried over some injured civilians to the paramedics and placed them on gurneys to be looked at. He stuck around until he got everyone out of the restaurant safely. There were three confirmed deaths and 7 were in critical condition. After he got everyone to safety, he left. He saw the early press conference where Captain Quentin Lance disbanded the anti-Vigilante Taskforce but he didn't want to risk staying around for too long. He swung through the air and landed on a gargoyle of a tall building. He looked at it and sighed. "Yeah, Bob…it's been that kind of day." He took out his cellphone and called Yuri. "Yuri, it's me."

"Hey, thanks for getting everyone out of there." Yuri said.

"Sorry I wasn't there before. What happened? Do you know who's behind the bomb at the restaurant?" He heard some movement over the line which meant she was moving or doing something.

"Yeah except it wasn't a bomb but an RPG. We got street camera footage of it flying through the air and into the restaurant. It was fired from a rooftop across the street." Yuri told him.

"Seems kind of overkill to use an RPG. Any idea who the target was?" Spider-man was concerned if this was a one and done kind of thing but he had a gut feeling it wasn't. Whoever used an RPG to kill a target and hurt innocent bystanders is a monster.

"We're not sure but we do have an ID on the ring leader. Werner Zytle. According to a CI, we think he took over Vincent Steelgrave's crew. We found his lieutenant dead in an alley this morning. Cause of death was an overdose of Vertigo." Yuri told him.

This confused him because Vertigo hadn't been heard of since the death of the Count last year. "I thought Vertigo died out with the Count?"

"Guessing this guy is trying to bring it back and in a different way. The Vertigo Zytle uses has some kind of hallucinogenic compound added in." Yuri said.

"As if regular drugs weren't back enough. So, why blow up a restaurant?" He asked.

"Not sure. I'll keep digging on my end. I'll let you know when I found something, and then we bring him in." Yuri said.

"Definitely. Let's take this psycho down." He said as he swung away.

In a privately-owned warehouse by the docks, Hammerhead led the Enforcers in for a meet with the Big Man. They were a highly skilled mercenary group consisting of the leader Montana the southern dressed cowboy, Ox the muscle, and Fancy Dan. "Come in. The Big Man wants a word." Hammerhead led them into the room where a phone was waiting for them put on speaker. "They're here boss."

"Thank you, Hammerhead. I'll get right to the point. For the last 5 months, a pest has plagued my city and my operations. At first, I could hardly credit the reports." Big Man said.

"Thought the boys were trying to stiff us. Had to get a little…rough to make sure they were sincere." Hammerhead added.

"Establishing patterns of movements took several months but I now have confirmation that Spider-man is real and needs to be dealt with." The Big Man said as Hammerhead handed Montana a dossier on what they had of the bug including pictures of his appearance.

"And you want the Enforcers to stop this here Spider?" He asked.

"No, Montana…I want you to squash it." The Big Man told him.

Line Break xxxxx

At Starling General, Captain Lance was lying in a medical bed after his little heart scare. He was stable for now and just needed some rest along with a steady schedule of medication. May Detmer was working and heard Captain Lance was admitted to the hospital so she took charge of his care. Quentin opened his eyes and saw a familiar looking woman going over his charts and his IV fluid.

"Ugh…" Quentin groaned in discomfort as May saw he was awake.

"Captain Lance, how are you feeling?" She asked.

"Like my heart's about to burst out of my chest." Quentin said.

"Well, that won't happen so you have nothing to worry about but you'll need to take it easy. Your heart's been through a lot and with some medicine you'll be fine." May said as Quentin looked at her.

"Do I know you? You look familiar." He said as May smiled.

"My name is May Detmer. You met me, my son and his friends about 5 months ago the night of the siege. My son helped you with your radios." May said as Quentin remembered and recognized her.

"Right. The kid who survived a building collapse and hacked into a military radio frequency. How's he doing?" Quentin wondered.

"He's doing fine. He's back at school and working with one of his professors on a special biological project." May said as Quentin smiled.

"Good for him. If he wants a job, tell him the SCPD could use a kid with his skills in our tech division. He'd make our jobs a lot easier." Quentin suggested.

"I'll let him know. Now get some rest and try to avoid anything stressful. You're a police captain, now Mr. Lance, no need for you to risk your life in the field." May said.

"Quentin, please." Quentin said as May nodded when they heard knocking by the door and saw Laurel standing there.

"I'll let you two talk. Just rest up." May said as she walked up to Laurel. "Make sure he takes it easy."

"I will. Thank you, Mrs. Detmer." Laurel said as May left to the give the father and daughter some privacy.

"I got to warn you, she told me to avoid anything stressful or getting yelled at." Quentin said.

"Well, it's a good thing you don't care about your doctor's instructions, then, since you're still going out in the field." Laurel said. "Do you know what an advance healthcare directive is? It's what they ask for when you're going to die, dad. The night Sara left, the night you collapsed, the E.R. doctor asked me if you had one."

Laurel walked over and sat down next to him. "I'm sorry, Laurel, I really am. I'm sorry, sweetheart." Quentin said to her.

"Then why do you keep pushing yourself like this?" She asked as Quentin took a deep breath.

"I don't know how. I've been a cop since before you and your sister were born. It's all I know. If I'm not a cop…what am I?" He asked.

Laurel reached over and held his hand. "You're my father…and I need you." She said as he held her hand.

Will was in the science lab the next day having finished his classes for the day. Dr. Connors had class at the moment and Will was using his rare free time to look over the pieces and parts of the drone he smashed two days ago. He was still working on who built the thing but it was a very advance piece of hardware. All the material, circuits and programming on the drone were state of the art. He heard the door open and saw Emily walk in.

"Hey, Em." Will waved as he put down his tools he was using to take apart and inspect the drone. Emily walked over and saw Will's workstation was littered with machine parts and he hooked up his laptop to the drone's hard drive and was running a decoding program. "What brought you by?"

"I was in the neighborhood. Just wanted to see how you were doing after last night." Emily said, referring to the deaths at the restaurant.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Will took a deep breath. He's seen some bad things in the last 5 months but never anything like at the restaurant. "Doing this, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Now, I'm more motivated to catch the bad guy behind all this."

"And where are you on that?" Emily asked.

"Yuri's digging up some leads. When she gives me something to go on, I'll web this guy's butt upside down from a flagpole." Will said as he smiled at Emily. "But thanks for coming to check up on me. I wouldn't be able to do this without my support group."

"Then it's a good think you won't have to find out." Emily said as she looked at all the tech at his table. "What is all that?"

"That's what I'm trying to figure out. When I got back from my patrol two days ago, this drone was following me." Will said.

"Following you? You mean someone was piloting that drone to track down Spider-man?" Emily asked as Will nodded.

"Yup, and whoever they are they have some seriously deep pockets. I mean, this thing is a military grade level aerial drone. Lightweight polymer metals, twin lithium-ion composite batteries which are more powerful and last longer than anything else on the market, sophisticated servo-motors, and a powerhouse circuit board, camera and programing. I've been decoding the data on the drone and I should have an idea on who made this thing in a few minutes." Will said.

"Who would send a drone to follow you…sorry, Spider-man?" Emily asked, thinking something seriously bad was going to happen.

"That's the $31,500 question." Will said as Emily looked at him. "That's the estimated value of this drone."

"Oh." Emily replied as they saw Will's computer finish decoding the drone's encrypted hard drive.

"Now, let's see who you belong to." Will searched through the files on the hard drive and saw the recordings of him in action, swinging through the city and then him taking down Marco and O'Hirn and ended when he webbed the drone and smashed it. He checked its GPS and it was shut down when he destroyed the drone but the video was transmitted somewhere before it was shut down. He tried to figure out where but when he ping the device the drone sent the video to, he got nothing back which meant it was shut off or destroyed. He then began checking the rest of the hard drive and data and found out where the drone came from. "Well…I wasn't expecting that."

"What's wrong?" Emily asked.

"The drone was made by Smythe Industries." Will said.

"That huge tech company in Central City?" Emily asked as Will nodded. "Why would they send a drone to follow you?"

"I'm not sure they did. Whoever was using this drone might have bought it or has some serious stake in Smythe Industries. I mean, this thing isn't available for open sale yet." Will said. "Something tells me I pissed off the wrong person and it might be the crime boss whose rackets Yuri and I have been shutting down the past month."

"So, what now?" Emily asked.

"Now, I keep a closer eye out for any more of these things following me. I need to make sure whoever is spying on me doesn't know that Will Detmer could be Spider-man. I promised myself when I started this that I wouldn't put you girls or my mother in danger and I meant that. If they have a problem with me, fine. But they leave my friends alone." Will said as Emily smiled.

"If anyone can do it, it's you, Spider-man." Emily said as she looked at the drone parts. "What are you going to do with all that?"

"I'm thinking about building some new web shooters or maybe use the parts for my own gadgets. Aria showed me some sketches and little drawings she did of little gadgets she thinks I should make. Granted, they were nowhere near scientifically accurate but they did give me some ideas and cool names. Scrounging for parts has been a hassle but this just made it a lot easier." Will said, causing Emily to chuckle. "But I think I'll make something else first."

They heard the door open as Will quickly closed his laptop. Dr. Connors walked into the lab and saw Will talking to Emily Fields. "Will, sorry I didn't know you had company." Dr. Connors said.

"It's all right, Dr. Connors. I just came by to say hi to Will. I'll leave you two geniuses to get back to your work." Emily said as she grabbed her bag and got up to leave.

"I'll see you at dinner, Em." Will said as she nodded and left. "Sorry, Dr. Connors."

"No, no problem at all. So, are we ready for our first field test?" Dr. Connors asked as Will nodded and they went to the lab and began setting up their first field test for the DNA Recombinator. They had success in their simulations but now would be the first actual test. Dr. Connors began powering up the DNA Recombinator as Will moved their test subject into place…a lab rat named Pinky. Pinky was a rat that had a very small tumor developing in his body and so the test was going to see if the Recombinator was able to reverse and even heal Pinky's body and cure the tumor. Will placed his cage onto the podium and placed a small cheese cube in his feeding bowl as Pinky happily crawled over and began eating it.

"Hang on, buddy." Will walked over to Dr. Connors and loaded an RNA vial with a clean genetic sample into the Recombinator. He plugged in some wires and adjusted the Recombinator as Dr. Connors synched up the computers for the test to monitor Pinky's vitals, body mass and his genetics. "All set, Dr. Connors."

"Then let's begin." Dr. Connors put on some tinted safety goggles as Will walked over to his side and did the same. Dr. Connors pressed a few buttons as the mechanism and arm the Recombinator was hooked up to moved it into position and was aimed at Pinky's cage. Will pressed a button and the Recombinator powered up and began turning the RNA vial into green energy and made a distinct humming noise. Dr. Connors pressed the enter key on the keyboard and the Recombinator fired a beam of green energy at the cage and at Pinky. The beam of energy was bright that the safety goggles were necessary. Will monitored Pinky's vitals and saw they improved a bit and his body scans were doing well. His genetics improved as it seemed the Recombinator was working. The beam fired for about 10 more seconds and then stopped, the RNA vial was empty and Recombinator powered down.

"Wow, that was bright." Will said as he took his goggles off and looked at Pinky's vitals.

"How are his vitals?" Dr. Connor asked as Will looked them over and they looked great.

"Great. Better than before. And his body scans show the tumor decreased in size by 50%." Will said, excited that this might actually work. "Dr. Connors, I think it might have worked."

"Maybe. Let's monitor Pinky for a few more days. If it really did work, then the tumor should be gone soon…but this is a great first step." Dr. Connors said.

"A great first step? How about an awesome first step, Doc. I mean, if this test is successful, you might be close to curing cancer and a whole laundry list of other diseases and genetic disorders. This is ground-breaking, revolutionary stuff. Nobel prize winning revolutionary." Will was excited this was an actual possibility…a literal history in the making but saw Dr. Connors was deep in thought. "Let's not celebrate the small win here, Dr. Connors."

"No, Will you're right. This is an incredible first step to helping a lot of people…and I think it might be something that can open a path to another use for the Recombinator." Dr. Connors said as Will was confused.

"What do you mean, Dr. Connors?" Will asked as Dr. Connors looked at him and handed him a folder labeled Cross-Species Genetics. "Cross-species genetics? You're serious about this?"

Connors nodded as Will began reading some of his research. "Human beings are limited in what our bodies can do and to arrive at where we are now took years of evolution. The next phase in medicine might rely on the animal kingdom." Dr. Connors said.

"Cross-species genetics. Harvesting and splicing certain genes of animals and implanting them into humans. Dr. Connors this is both interesting and frightening as well." Will said as he realized what Dr. Connors planned to do. "You want to try and harvest the gene that let's certain reptiles regrow limbs after amputations."

"Yes. If we can pass on an animal's unique genetic trait to our own human genome, then we can skip hundreds of years of human evolution in seconds. We can literally make mankind better." Dr. Connors said, excited about the potential but Will was beyond worried.

"Dr. Connors, I agree with you to a point but we're nowhere near ready to test that. We just started on genetic sequencing and now you want to add in genetic splicing?" Will told him as Dr. Connors gave him a look. "Look, I can't even begin to understand what this could mean to you and I will help you however I can but I think we need to take this one step at a time and go at a slow pace…like glacial slow. Cross-species aren't impossible but crossing animal genetics with the human genomes is approaching Dr. Moreau levels of scary. We need to be careful."

Dr. Connors heard what Will had to say and noted that Will was right. "Of course. You're right, I just got a little ahead of myself." Dr. Connors sighed as Will noted he looked defeated…this was really important to him.

"Don't worry, Dr. Connors…we took a huge step today. In a month, your work here could be the launching point for an actual test in curing genetic diseases and who knows what other kinds of new medical therapies. Once we conquer that and I know we can…we can move into your idea. And I'll help however I can." Will said as Dr. Connors smiled and pat Will on the shoulder.

"And I'm happy to have you here with me, Will. We're gonna change the world." Dr. Connors said as Will smiled back.

"I know we will." He replied as he powered down the system. "Why don't you go out and celebrate with your wife and your son, Billy. We have a lot to celebrate today. I'll clean up here."

"Thank you, Will." Dr. Connors put his lab coat away and left leaving Will to clean up and put everything back. He put Pinky's cage on the table and gave him some extra food and a full bottle of water. "Rest up, little guy. We did a big thing today."

Will put the rest of the equipment away and went back to his workstation to begin working on the special project he had in mind for the girls. He got to work on the basic schematics of the project when his burner phone went off from a call from Yuri. "Yuri, what do you have?"

"Hey, I think I know what Zytle's next move is. Thanks to you and the Vigilante, the main crime bosses in the city are down to three minus the mystery one we've been dealing with. I think he plans to take them out. We got CCTV footage of the same van from the attack at the restaurant on the way to Rocket's arena where those three bad guys are. I think he plans to take them out." Yuri told him.

"Taking out three criminals in a stadium of thousands won't be easy." Will told her.

"If this guy used an RPG in a restaurant, something tells me he'll have something bigger for a stadium and doesn't care about collateral damage. I've already got units mobilizing." Yuri said.

"All right. I'm on my way." Will said as he put his equipment away and locked it in his desk. He grabbed his gear and made his way behind the building and quickly got changed into his Spider-man suit and began swinging through the city. He swung from a building and landed on an adjacent one and began running up the side. As soon as he reached the roof, he jumped up and grabbed the ledge with a web and banked at a 90-degree angle and zoomed over the roof of the building and did a nose dive to pick up speed. He shot a web line and swung low to the ground and at the apex height of his swing, he shot into the air with a spin before web zipping forward. He kept swinging through the city and was making his way to Rocket's arena. He swung past a building when a stealth black colored modified Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter flew around the building and began chasing after Spider-man. Inside the helicopter was Montana, Ox, and Fancy Dan in black tactical clothing.

"Target sighted. Boys, let's squash us a bug." Montana said as the targeting computer began to lock onto Spider-man heat signature. "This is without a doubt the strangest assignment the Big Man's ever sent our way, but it'll be a memorable one. Target locked…fire."

Montana fired a missile straight towards Spider-man. Spider-man swung through the air when his spider sense went off big time. He turned around and saw a missile heading straight for him, so he let go of his web line and nose dived straight to the ground. He turned his head and saw the missile follow him down…it must be locked onto him. He shot a web and swung low to the street as he saw the missile swerve up from the street and close in on him, so he shot a web line at a nearby mail drop box from the sidewalk and pulled it to him. He pulled the mailbox close to him and kicked off it to gain some distance just in time as the missile destroyed the mailbox and the explosion knocked him through the air.

"ARGH!" Spider-man flew through the air and hit the side of a building. He fell to the ground but managed to grab onto the side of the building and saved himself. "Whoa, where did that thing come from?"

He heard the distinct sound of whirring and looked up to see an attack helicopter hovering in the air with a spotlight shining down on him. "Oh. That's where." His spider sense went off again when he saw the minigun attached underneath the cockpit spin up. He began backflipping up the side of the building to avoid a hail of bullets that ripped up the glass, metal, and concrete of the building. Spider-man kept back flipping up the building and managed to avoid the hail of bullets and then jumped and flipped over the helicopter and dived to the ground. He began swinging through the city as the helicopter followed him. "What the hell did I do to piss off the US Army?"

Spider-man flipped from a web swing and web zipped to the side to avoid another flurry of bullets and spun through the air before swinging onto a building and running on the side. The helicopter kept chasing him and fired more bullets at him but kept missing. Spider-man shot a line at the side of the building and sharply banked around the corner. The helicopter managed to serve around the building and kept chasing after him.

"This is so not what I need right now." Spider-man said as he tried to gain some distance.

"Well it seems like the bug has some moves. Too bad for him so do I." Montana said as he pressed the trigger and fired the remaining minigun ammo at Spider-man causing him to web zip up into the air. Montana then pressed a button on his dashboard and fired a missile. The missile head broke apart to reveal a large green net.

"Oh, crap!" Spider-man was ensnared in the net and began falling to the ground. He managed to wiggle his body and get his hand free to shoot a web line at a nearby satellite dish and stopped himself before going splat. It slowed his descent, but his weight caused the satellite dish to break off and he plummeted to the ground. He shot another web line and managed to swing and landed face first on the rooftop of a building. "Ugh, now I know the pain of every bad guy I've beaten the snot out of."

He ripped off the net as the helicopter hovered above him. "Ox, Fancy Dan, you're up." Montana said as they rappelled down with Ox behind Spider-man. Fancy Dan swung from his rope with a flying kick towards Spider-man. He kicked him into Ox who then trapped him into a bear hug. Ox smiled down at him which caused Spider-man to gag.

"Ugh, if you wanted a breath mint all you had to do was ask. Or better yet, corner drug store." Spider-man said as he got one hand free and webbed his mustache. He pulled hard and yanked his mustache clean off, causing Ox to let him go and shout in pain as he grabbed his face. Fancy Dan unfolded some kind of pike/spear weapon and charged so Spider-man back flipped over and shot some webs which Fancy Dan sliced with his spear. He shot some more webs which Fancy Dan sliced up. He kept slicing and dodging the webs, showing some impressive athleticism and agility. Fancy Dan swung his spear and threw out some punches but Spider-man's spider sense and agility evened the playing field. He ducked, dodged and threw out some of his own punches but it seemed even. Fancy Dan threw out a spin kick which Spider-man ducked, and then back flipped to avoid a spear to the legs. He landed as his spider sense went off again and saw Ox behind him with a large mallet.

Spider-man webbed his arms in place but he managed to rip them off which showed some impressive strength because the webbing had the same tensile strength as steel. "Oh. That's not good." Spider-man said as Ox slammed his mallet down, but he jumped over it which was a mistake because Ox saw this coming and grab his left ankle. He spun him around and threw him across the roof. Spider-man groaned a bit as he got back to his feet with Ox and Fancy Dan in front and Montana in the chopper above him. He took a few steps back as Montana shined the spotlight down on him.

"Ah, ah, ah. Boys need a workout. Now, no turning tail." Montana said over the speaker.

"Seriously, who are you guys and what did I do to piss you off? Or do you just have a thing against arachnids?" Spider-man questioned as Fancy Dan charged. He spun his spear and attacked but wasn't fast enough. Spider-man back flipped away as Fancy Dan threw his spear but Spider-man ducked and grabbed it with a web. Fancy Dan charged forward with a flying kick but Spider-man jumped over and webbed him up. He shot a web line and began spinning Fancy Dan around more and more until he threw him onto the roof and webbed him there. Ox came up behind Spider-man and got him in another bear hug. "You should never really do the same move twice…because this spider has some serious venom!'

Spider-man released a body wide venom blast which shocked Ox like he was struck by a man-sized Taser. Spider-man broke free, punched him in the face, in the gut, and then a tornado kick to the face as Ox fell to the ground and Spider-man fired three shots of Impact Webbing to keep him there. "Now that the hatchlings are dealt with…time to deal with big bird." Spider-man looked up at the helicopter and got an idea. He grabbed the spear and began running as Montana fired some rockets but they all missed.

"Son, you're making the Enforcers look bad. I can't have that." Montana said as Spider-man jumped off the building and he followed him in the helicopter.

"Well, we can't always get what we want." Spider-man said as he dove towards the ground and shot two web lines at two different buildings. The webbing began to stretch to a point until the tension launched him back into the air like a slingshot. He zoomed up and over the helicopter and threw the web covered spear at the rear rotor. The spear chewed up the metal rotor and the webbing gummed it up to it stopped spinning. The helicopter began to fall to the ground as Montana tried to get the rotor back up and running but the webbing was keeping it from moving.

"AH, geez! You got this! You got this! You got this! You got this!" Spider-man fired a volley of web blasts towards the ground near some buildings to create a large web net and then began shooting web lines up high and attached them to the helicopter to keep it from crashing down. He kept firing until he ran out of web fluid and the helicopter landed safety in the web net without crashing on any innocent bystanders. Spider-man landed on the helicopter in a crouch as nearby civilians took out their phones to take pictures of Spider-man webbing a helicopter up from the ground and saving people.

"Whew…ok, that was a close one." Spider-man then pulled out his cellphone. "Yuri, send some police to Madison Avenue and the rooftop of the Parker Building. I left some presents webbed there…and tell them to bring a large crane."

Spider-man replaced his web cartridges and got back to swinging towards Rocket's Arena, missing the cockpit of the helicopter open and Montana slip away into the crowd.

Spider-man kept swinging and spotted the arena in the distance so he web zipped to the roof of a building and point launched off it to gain some speed. He spun through the air and landed on a rooftop across from Rocket's Arena. He saw some movement and narrowed his eyes as his vision zoomed in to see the Arrow fighting Zytle and the Canary fighting some other guy. He shot two lines at the roof and backed up, building tension in the webs before picking his feet up and shooting out into the air like from a slingshot. He flew through the air with the wind rustling through his sweatshirt as he fired a web line and pulled him closer to the fighting. He looked and saw the Canary take down her guy and the Arrow spin kicked Zytle to the ground before looking at her. He saw Zytle get back up so he aimed his web shooter and fired a glob of impact webbing which hit Zytle and stuck him to a radiator. The Canary and Arrow turned to see Spider-man landed next to them in a crouch.

"Whew. I think I'd give myself a ten out of ten for that landing." Spider-man then flipped over them and landed on top of the radiator Zytle was webbed to. "What do you think, crazy mustache man? Ten out of ten? I think I got those points for style but I'm open to hear what other people have to say."

"Lock me up and throw away the key, it doesn't matter. There will always be a Vertigo, always someone to pick up the mantle. You have given it the power. Don't you see? Don't you—MMFT!" Zytle was cut off as Spider-man webbed his mouth.

"Ok, that's enough out of you crazy pants." Spider-man then grabbed Zytle's head and smacked it against the radiator and knocked him out. "Normally, I'm someone who's against excessive brutality but I think in this case it was warranted. So, Emerald Elf, Scary lady in black, what did you think about my landing? Ten out of ten, right?"

He looked and saw they weren't amused. "Nine out of ten?" He asked.

The Arrow then quickly put an arrow on his bow's drawstring and aimed directly at him. "Whoa, what's with the hostility? I thought rule number three of the Superhero/Vigilante rule book is you don't point sharp objects at other heroes?" Spider-man held his hand up. "Or it could be rule number six? A lot of the rules tend to blur together."

"You think this is game?" The Arrow asked.

"No but you clearly must not know a lot about me because making funny one-liners, quips and generally funny behavior is my default personality." He replied as he saw the Arrow wasn't amused. "You're not a very cheery individual are you?"

"Not to other vigilantes in my city." Arrow said. "Who are you?"

"First name Spider, last name Man but you can call me web head, you can call me spectacular, amazing, just don't call me late for dinner. You get it?" Spider-man joked as held out his hand for a handshake but the Arrow and Canary weren't amused. "Not a shaker, are you a hugger?"

"What are you doing in my city?" the Arrow wanted answers.

"I think what I just did is kind of self-explanatory. And it's kind of implied with the whole superhero thing. You know save the city, rescue kittens in trees, help old ladies cross the street and all that stuff. I do the same thing you do…just with less pointy objects and a bit more personality." Spider-man replied.

"I want you off the streets. This city doesn't need another vigilante." The Arrow warned him.

"Oh, I see where you're mistaken. You see, it's not vigilante but superhero. You know super meaning I have super powers and hero, well…being a hero. And it sounds like to me that you're just jealous that I can do what you do only better. And the people of this city love me even more." Spider-man said as his spider sense went off and jumped into the air to avoid being shot with a wire restraint trick arrow. "You know, violence isn't always the answer!"

Spider-man flipped through the air and webbed the Arrow's hands to his bow, preventing him from firing another shot. He landed in a crouch behind them and sighed. "Geez, I extend a polite hand of friendship and you try and skewer me. I think that says a lot about your personality and I think you need some help, maybe someone to talk to seeing as how therapy is kind of not an option. Well, hopefully you get some help whether it be scary lady in black or someone else because this is not how you treat superheroes. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to make sure crazy pants over there didn't leave a surprise in the stadium. Catch you later." Spider-man then shot a web line and zipped to the arena.

"I hate him." The Arrow said as the Canary worked on cutting off the webbing. Spider-man made his way into the arena and crawled along the walls and ceiling and saw the red arrow guy he's heard about next to a large bomb of C4 that had been frozen.

He shot a web line at the ceiling and lowered himself upside down to do his signature upside down spider perch. "Nicely done, Red Arrow. A bombsicle. I've always wondered what type of flavor they'd come in and it's nice to know it's be C4 flavored." He said as the Red Arrow looked at him. "I'm guessing the crazy Vertigo guy left this behind but don't worry, he's all webbed up. This will be a nice explosive present for the police."

He looked and saw the Red Arrow wasn't amused. "Seriously, do all you guys in hoods have no sense of humor?" Spider-man sighed and decided to get out of here. "Well, seeing as how this situation is wrapping itself quite nicely my work is done here. I wouldn't stick around too long as the police are probably here right now. And tell your boss to find himself a sense of humor. Or at least not to shoot an arrow at me next time."

He crawled back up to the ceiling and made his way out of the arena. He landed on the building across from the arena and saw the police, ESU and bomb squad arrive at the arena to take Zytle and his cohorts into custody. His phone rang and he saw it was Yuri. "Hello, Detective. Is crazy pants Zytle safely in custody?"

"He is along with his friends and the bomb squad just finished their job. Nicely done tonight." She said to him.

"As much as I would love to take credit for all of this, the Arrow helped as well. He was already fighting Zytle and his red hood sidekick stopped the bomb from going off. I webbed him up but I got here a little late." He told her.

"Would that be because of the helicopter hanging above the street that will take a while to take down safely?" Yuri asked.

"Yup. The weirdest thing. Three guys attacked me when I was on my way to the arena." Spider-man said.

"Three? We only arrested two. Fancy Dan and Ox, known mercenaries wanted for a laundry list of crimes. Their leader left before uniforms arrived but we put out an APB." Yuri said. "Why would they go after you?"

"Who knows but something tells me it might have to do with that crime boss we've been screwing with." He said.

"All right. I'll look into and keep you posted. Good job tonight and get some rest." She said.

"Jobs not over yet but thanks." Spider-man then web swung away and went through the city to do a patrol.

Line Break xxxxx

The next day, Will was feeling good as he had stopped Zytle, was back to a fairly regular sleep schedule for him and he got an A on his engineering project so things were looking up. He was hanging out with Aria, Spencer, and Emily in the library helping the girls with their geology homework. At SCU, you had to take some basic science classes as a requirement and taking the geology lab Will suggested was easier than the physic lab option. Granted, they'd have to take a physics lab next semester but Will guaranteed them it wouldn't be as hard as the one this sememster.

"Ok, so Sedimentary rocks is one of the three main rock groups and has three different types as well. It's Clastic, Organic and Indigenous?" Emily asked as Will shook his head no.

"No. It's clastic, organic, and chemical. Clastic is formed from mechanical weathering debris like sandstone and shale. Chemical is formed when dissolved material form together like flint, limestone and iron ore, and organic is pretty self-explanatory being it's formed from the accumulation of plant or animal debris. That would be coal and dolomites." Will explained as Emily sighed and dropped her head into her textbook in exhaustion as he rubbed her back. "It's ok, Em. This stuff takes some getting used to but after a while it becomes common sense."

"Yeah for someone who can recite Pi to 100 digits." Emily said, her face buried in her text book.

"I can't recite Pi to 100 digits." Will told her.

"Yeah, more like 150 digits." Spencer said as she filled out her workbook. She was getting it better than Aria and Emily.

"Not helping, Spencer. Relax, Emily. A little more tutoring and you'll be fine for your test next week. Believe me, this lab was the easiest one this semester." Will said. "And lucky for you, you've got me."

"I'll take your word for it when I pass." Emily said as she looked up and saw Aria busy drawing something in her notebook and it didn't seem to be geology. "Aria, what are you doing?"

"Just doing some designing." Aria said.

"Oh, did you hear back from Kingsley Limited?" Will asked.

"Nope, this is for our wall crawling superhero." Aria said as she showed them what she was drawing, and they were concepts for more Spider-man suits complete with color palettes, symbol alterations and masks. "They're a work in progress but after making the first one, I kind of got inspired."

"Wow, these are good." Will said as he looked over the sketch of a menacing suit with a red and black color palette. Most of the suit was red with a black upper shoulder area and mask. The eyes were slit in a menacing way and the symbol was much larger. (1)

"They're definitely different than what Will's wearing now." Spencer said as she looked at a one that was all black except for a white spider symbol and eye holes in the mask. (2)

"This one seems interesting." Emily looked at one that was beyond creepy. The suit was mainly a dark blue with red on the face, arms, and chest. The red popped against the dark blue and gave the suit an even more menacing look than the other suits. The red on the mask resembled a skull/demon motif and the red on the arms trailed down to his forearms and resulted in forearm spikes. The symbol on the chest was some kind of spider/skull. (3)

"That one I'm practically proud of along with these two." Aria said as she flipped the page to show two more suits. One was a black and white suit that seemed very futuristic and sleek. A black spider symbol bled out into the rest of the suit to create patterns and the black eyes holes on the white mask gave it an interesting look. (4)

The other suit was a twist on the suit he wore now in the sense that it was his classic red and blue colors. He had red boots, blue pants, and a red and blue mixture for the top with a small black spider symbol on the front but Aria added in a web pattern on the red parts of the suit. (5)

"Wow, Aria you outdid yourself. If your writer career doesn't take off, you'll definitely have a future in fashion and costume design." Will said as Aria smiled.

"Thank you. It's easy when you have an excellent canvas." Aria said. "It's the dream of any budding fashion designer to make costumes for a superhero."

"Oh, do you have to call it a costume…it makes me seem like a child. I prefer uniform." Will commented.

"Uniform kind of implies that your suit is one of many. Costume works better." Spencer told him.

"Wow, thanks Spencer." Will joked as the friends shared a chuckle. "But these designs are amazing Aria. Maybe if we find some more material, we can make one."

"And I'm waiting for the opportunity. I don't know what it is but sewing your first suit felt…amazing. And seeing the photos and videos of you kicking butt and all the Spider-man merchandise that came up…makes me feel proud." She said.

"Well, you should be. All of that merchandise only came out after your new suit. I don't think anyone took me seriously in the sweats I wore." Will joked. "And it'll be nice to switch it up because washing the suit every two days is getting to be annoying."

"Every two days?" Spencer asked.

"I fight crime every night that involves me swinging from buildings and kicking the butt out of bad guys. I get sweaty." Will joked causing them to laugh. Spencer's phone went off with a text as she looked at it and sighed. "Everything ok, Spencer?"

"Yeah, my parents arrived at their hotel and unfortunately Melissa is here with them with her new fiancé." Spencer grimaced, not happy that she would have to meet her.

"Oh. Is this the fiancé who was going to be a doctor or the fiancé who was going to be a professor? I've lost track of the times you said she's been engaged." Will said.

"The professor and your right to lose track. Melissa goes through fiancés like their bags." Spencer told them.

"I take it things still aren't great between you and her?" Emily asked.

"Things have never been great between us. Especially after her and Wren." Spencer said.

"British doctor guy who…I want to say kissed you and your sister found out?" Will asked as Spencer nodded. "That guy was a total tool. You both could do better than him and you have since you're with Moby."

"It's Toby, Will. But thanks. Melissa still holds that over me when it wasn't even my fault, like I'm the first person to ever fall for Downtown grabby." Spencer said.

"It just says a lot about how much of a dick this guy was that he wanted to hook up with his future sister-in-law while he was engaged to his future wife. He must be a special kind of jackass and douche to cheat on her with you." Will said as Spencer, Aria, and Emily looked at him. "Not that there's anything wrong with you, Spencer. I mean, you're a lovely woman and any guy would be lucky to have you and Toby is. And I'm going to stop talking right now to prevent myself from saying anything else stupid."

Spencer, Emily, and Aria chuckled at Will being flustered and talking himself into a corner. He may be a superhero but that's one thing that never changed. "So, why are your parents here in Starling? I thought they worked in Pennsylvania?" Aria asked.

"They do but their work brought them here and they're…considering that they might have to move here for it." Spencer said.

"Really? That's great. That's great, right?" Will asked as Spencer shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't know. I love them, I do but I went to school here to kind of get away for a bit." Spencer told them. "Everything with them is perfection and goal orientated."

"Yeah, wonder where you got it from." Emily whispered a bit causing Will to snort in laughter.

"Please, you think I might be bad but my parents are worse." Spencer said. "Everything I've ever done has always been compared to Melissa and she set a pretty high standard. Can you imagine how hard it was growing up to have your parents expect the best out of you every day and compare you to your sister?"

"Only child. Sorry." Emily said as Will nodded.

"I was the older sibling and my parents didn't set crazy high standards." Aria said.

"Well, I know they'd be proud of you Spencer. Maybe you should bring them by and we can do some butt kissing and help you with your parents." Will suggested.

"Not tonight. I have to go with them to some kind of function. Apparently, they'll be at the Queen Consolidated building and my dad thinks that having his entire family there will be a good statement. You can meet them on a night I can prepare because I want to keep my family life away from you guys as much as possible and I definitely need to prepare my parents for you, Will." Spencer said.

"What's wrong with me? I'm likeable. You heard Emily before, I inspired those Spider Plushies and they're downright adorable." Will told her.

"But my parents' wouldn't really like the joke-making you. On paper, you're great and super smart, someone they'd like but in person…" Spencer tried to figure out the right way to word this.

"You might be a bit much." Aria helped.

"Exactly." Spencer said.

"Wow, ok fine. When you're ready for them to meet us, I promise I'll revert back to old nerd Will for you. Spent years being that guy and now I have to go back to him. Only for you, Spencer." Will told her.

"And I appreciate it. I just to make sure you guys have a first good impression because the one they had of Toby wasn't the best." Spencer said.

"Do they still think you're not seeing him?" Emily asked.

"Yeah. They just don't get him like I do. I hate having to sneak around to see him." Spencer said.

"When was the last time you saw him?" Aria asked.

"The long weekend we had for Labor day last month. The distance thing is getting harder on us." Spencer said.

"Well, maybe you should take another three day weekend this month and go see him or have him come here? You could take a day off from the DA's office and go surprise him, keep the romance alive. Or better yet, why don't you invite him down for that massive Halloween costume party at the end of the month? Nothing says romance like Halloween and couples costumes…or so I'm told." Will suggested.

"That's a good idea." Spencer said as Will smiled.

"Not bad for a guy who's never had a girlfriend." Will pat himself on the back when he realized what he said out loud. "And I'm realizing that's not something to be proud of."

"Oh, it's ok Will." Aria said.

"I still can't believe you've never had a girlfriend. No one really every gave you a shot?" Spencer asked as Will shook his head no.

"Remember, this is before you girls met me. This is the lanky, nerdy Will Detmer who was shoved into his locker so many times that it likely gave him PTSD." Will shivered as he remembered all the times he was shoved into his locker, the bullies knocking his books away, and all the other things he'd probably need a therapist to help with. "It's not for a lack of trying but lady lucky never was on my side before I got my powers. High school girls aren't attracted to the science nerd thing."

"The whole Thea Queen Homecoming thing?" Emily asked as Will nodded and she rubbed his back.

"What thing?" Spencer asked, having no idea what she meant.

"It was at my sophomore homecoming dance when I was at Starling Academy. I had just helped Thea Queen pass a massive biology test that kept her from flunking out." Will said.

"Thea Queen as in Oliver Queen's little sister?" Spencer asked as Will nodded.

"Yup. And I guess out of thanks or pity, she asked if I was going to Homecoming. Being the naïve and impressionable boy, I said no and asked if she wanted to go with me and she said yes in that moment." Will said. "I got all dressed up and picked her up for the dance…we got there and spoke for about five minutes before she left to go talk to her friends. And that was the last time I saw her that night."

"She ditched you?" Spencer hated this girl already.

"Yup. After that, she acted like that night never happened because I guess she didn't care. It was massively embarrassing on my part." Will said as Emily rubbed his back and Aria held his hand. "But hey…life has a funny way of working out. Here I am with three beautiful women, new handsome body, superpowers, and Thea was arrested for drug use and it kind of torpedoed her chance at college and she's god knows where. I guess a life of piggybacking off of other people has a way of catching up to you and in the end…you're left with next to nothing."

"Karmic payback for what she did, and she deserves it." Spencer said.

"She didn't really do anything, Spencer. It was the fault on my part." Will said.

"And on hers. She said yes to going to a dance with you and then she ditched you." Aria said. "If I ever see this girl, I'll slap her across the face."

"Guys, it's ok. I'm fine, I've moved past it. Let's get back to studying." Will said as they refocused on studying for the test. Even though Will said he was fine, the girls weren't convinced.

Will helped Emily and Aria study for their Geology lab test and then helped Spencer with studying for Latin. They got some dinner and Will used some extra time to work on the special project when he got a text from Yuri saying to meet her on the roof of the precinct, so he quickly got changed and went to see her.

He swung through the city and saw Yuri standing on the roof with a file in her hand. He swung through the air and landed on the rooftop railing. "You called, Detective?" He asked.

"Thanks for coming. Got a weird one I think you might need to handle." Yuri handed him the file and he opened it to see the photos of two dead people with arrows in their chests. "We've got another archer in town."

"A copycat archer? Like Merlyn?" He asked.

"I don't think so, my gut thinks this might be a mercenary or someone in town looking for the Arrow." Yuri told him.

"And your gut is rarely wrong." Spider-man commented. "Just when I was getting used to the idea of a green clad archer, we have a new one."

"He's racked up two bodies within the past two days. First victim was John Burke, a corporate Financier from Qurac. Second victim was a few hours ago at an abandoned warehouse on the corner of Third and Lemire. Construction foreman Tim Kauffman." Yuri told him as he looked over the files and photos.

"Wow, this guy must be good to shoot an arrow through three sheets of glass and still hit his target." He said. "Anything tying the victims together?"

"Not yet. We're still looking into it and the only thing we have is a few phone calls that show they knew each other and were in constant communication together." Yuri said.

"One's a financier and the other is a construction foreman, so they might have been working on something." He said when Yuri's radio went off.

"Attention all units, code 510 and 217 reported. Two speeding vehicles, one sedan, one motorcycle with motorcyclist attempting to kill sedan driver. Motorcyclist is wearing a black jacket and reports indicate he is carrying a quiver and bow. Suspect last seen on Codero Boulevard. All available units mobilize." The Police operator reported.

"And I think he has a third target." Spider-man front flipped off the building and began swinging to Codero Boulevard.

He flipped through the air from a web swing and heard a car crash coming from four blocks away so he quickly made his way over there. He swung up and ran across a rooftop before jumping off and swinging down and seeing a sedan crashed into a parked SUV. He swung down to the ground and saw an arrow in the tire. He quickly ripped off the passenger door and pulled the victim out of the car as police cars showed up. He got out of there as the police called an ambulance and he was taken to Starling General to be looked over.

Yuri was the detective on his case. The victim was Eldritch Kelso, a businessman from Qurac who had just flown in to Starling City. That was two victims with ties to Qurac and Yuri began to think that the three were connected in another way besides being attacked by the crazed archer but Kelso wouldn't say anything and refused to give a statement or help with the investigation. He was definitely hiding something, so Will decided to do some spider sleuthing and see if he could find out the truth. He was at Starling General and was stealthily crawling on the side of the building to make his way to Kelso's room. He was under guard by the police but Yuri was able to tell him what room he was in and luckily, it was a room with a window. He slowly crawled on the side of the hospital and steered clear of open windows so he couldn't be see. You'd be surprised at how invisible you can be when you're in plain sight.

He crawled on the side of the building until he made it to Kelso's window. He peak his head in and saw Kelso lying in bed with cuts, bruises and a broken arm. He then saw ADA Laurel Lance walk into the room. He recognized her from the night of the siege and the times he went to visit Spencer at the DA's office in the summer. He heard her talking about his accident and she was here from the DA's office.

"Let's start with the obvious. Why would someone want to kill you?" She asked.

"I have no idea. This whole thing…it's—it's insane." He replied.

"Not a very good liar, are you?" Will thought as he watched from the outside.

"Mr. Kelso, despite what you may have heard homicides at the hands of a stranger are incredibly rare. Imagine how rare homicides by bow and arrow are." Laurel said.

"Yeah, the guy was a sicko." Kelso told her.

"And you're a liar." Laurel told him.

"I'm the victim here." He said.

"You're also a witness—my witness. And you better give me something useful, otherwise you're going to be facing an obstruction charge." Laurel warned him.

"You know, I think I want to talk to your boss, because you can't treat people like this." Kelso told her.

"Oh, really you want to talk to my boss?" Laurel asked as she grabbed his broken arm and smacked it against the bed railing hard, causing him to shout in pain. "How's your arm feeling?"

"What are you doing?" Kelso cried in pain as Laurel twisted his arm.

"John Burke and Tim Kauffman, they were also shot dead with arrows. And they're too dead to tell me why." She said as he couldn't tell her so she slammed his arm again. "Burke and Kauffman! What do the two of them have to do with you?!"

"We were all working on a deal! But nobody was supposed to know about it." Kelso spurted out as Laurel let his arm go and he cradled it.

"Wow…note to self to never get on her bad side." Will thought.

"What kind of deal?" She asked.

"To build an oil pipe line. For Amertek. It's—"Will's spider sense went off as he pulled his head back just in time to avoid an arrow. The arrow smashed through the glass and hit Kelso in the heart, killing him. Will looked and enhanced his vision on a building across the street and saw a man in a black hood with a creepy reptile-ish facemask with a bow and quiver on his back. His spider sense went off again as he quickly back flipped up the wall and then side flipped to avoid three arrows that plunged into the side of the hospital. He looked back and saw the archer was gone. Laurel ran up to the window and got a look at the archer before he left but also saw Spider-man on the side of the building.

"Whew, that was close." Spider-man said as he looked at Laurel. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." She said as he peeked into the room and saw Kelso was dead.

"Don't worry. I'll get the guy." He said as he swung away to try and stop the archer, but he was gone so he called Yuri to let her know what he figured out.

He swung through the city and landed on the roof next to his gargoyle friend Bob. "Hey, Bob. How's it going?" He asked the gargoyle as it he was an actual person. "Oh, I'm fine. Just taking down a crazy archer who's killed three people already and tried to skewer me. Just another day in the life of Spider-man."

He sat down on the edge of the roof and pulled out his phone to call Yuri. "Hey, I figured you'd call. Looks like our archer got his third target." Yuri said.

"Yup. I was there. He even tried to take me out but too bad for him I'm too good. I think I got something that might give us a lead on why this guy's doing this. Are you at your desk?" He asked.

"At the moment." She replied.

"Good. I did some spider sleuthing at the hospital and overheard a conversation Kelso had with ADA Laurel Lance. Just FYI, I would not recommend pissing her off." He said as he remembered what she did to Kelso's broken arm. "Kelso said that he and the two victims were working on some kind of deal to build an oil pipeline for Amertek."

"Amertek. As in Amertek Industries, that large technology/energy company owned by Henry Irons?" Yuri asked.

"That's it. There's only one Amertek company. And judging by how both Kelso and John Burke have ties to Qurac, something tells me the pipeline is going to be built there. And after everything we've seen, someone wants this archer to stop it." He told her.

"Did he mention anything about any other members of the deal?" Yuri asked.

"No, nothing. He was killed before he could finish. You have their financials so can you see if they were paid by Amertek?" He asked as he heard Yuri type away.

"Yeah, they were and they are some large amounts. One million to Kelso, one million to Burke, two million to Kauffman." Yuri said.

"Wow that is a lot of money. Did it come from Amertek?" He asked.

"I'm not sure. The money comes from some company in Qurac but there's not a lot of information here. I could find that out but it'll take some time." Yuri said.

"That's time we might not have. If our assassin went through the trouble to kill all three people involved with the deal then my gut says he might go after the guy who organized all those payments and it's someone at Amertek. The only problem is that Amertek likely has dozens of high executives up to the CEO who could have organized the deal." He said.

"All right, then we'll take it one step at a time. I can't organize uniformed officers to watch over all Amertek board members and executives without arising suspicions that I'm working with you and I can't ask for a deeper big into their financials without probable cause and a warrant. For now, keep an eye on the high ups of Amertek, they're most likely responsible and the only ones with money and pull to get this kind of deal struck." Yuri said as she did some digging on her computer for anything Amertek related and got a notice the police received yesterday that a charity function being held at Queen Consolidated by Ray Palmer. Extra uniforms were going to be at the building because of the high profile people there and some were from Amertek. "And I think I got you something. There's a charity function tonight and a lot of people there are high big wigs from Amertek. While this goes against what I would normally ask of you, maybe you could get one of them alone for information."

"That's the only plan we have. Where's the function?" He asked.

"The Queen Consolidated building. It's hosting a charity function by Dr. Ray Palmer of Palmer Technologies." Yuri said as something in Will's head clicked when he heard that. Spencer was out with her parents tonight at an event at Queen Consolidated…it must be this. "I can't make a move without probable cause so this is up to you."

"I'm on it Yuri." He hung up and quickly dialed Spencer. "Come on, come on, pick up."

He heard the dial tone but got Spencer's voicemail. "Dammit!" He jumped off the building and began swinging through the city with one hand while he called Aria. He waited a few seconds and she picked up. "Aria, it's me. Is there any chance Spencer came back because her parents decided to not go to the function?"

"No, she still out with her parents. What's wrong?" She asked.

"I just did some spider cop work and it turns out the archer assassin is trying to stop some kind of oil deal with Amertek. The function Spencer's at tonight has most of the board members there. I'm heading there now but call her and text her to get out of there anyway she can. This guy is dangerous." He said as he flipped over a building and swung away.

"I'm on it. Be careful." Aria told him.

"Always." He replied as he ended the call and swung as fast as he could to Queen Consolidated.

At the Queen Consolidated building, executives, businessmen, city officials and high-powered people of Starling City were in the Queen Consolidated building for Ray Palmer's Star City Pledge charity benefit. They were at the Queen Consolidated building because Ray Palmer and Palmer Tech bought Queen Consolidated and he was now the CEO. Spencer was there, dressed in her best-looking professional dress with her family because her father and mother were attorneys for Palmer Tech and they were in the city to assist in the acquisition of Queen Consolidated and Dr. Palmer's future plans for the company.

Fancy tables, center pieces, waiters, and caterers filled the floor of Queen Consolidated as Spencer sipped some champagne. She did her best to make nice with her sister and not screw things up for her parents who proudly showed off their daughters to their co-workers and anyone else. She was honestly wishing she had Aria and Emily come or convinced her parents to let her bring Will as her pretend date and was unaware they were calling her because her phone was on silent and was in her clutch.

Dr. Palmer then walked into the room with his security guard right beside him as he greeted some of his guests including Spencer's parents. "Ladies and Gentlemen—Dr. Ray Palmer." He was introduced as everyone clapped and he stood at a podium.

"Thank you. Thank you all for all coming out tonight. Given all that has befallen this city, it's easy for us to lose hope—to hide in our castles and be thankful that our ledgers are in the black, but we, the city's most affluent businessmen and women hold its future in our hands. Tonight, I'm making a pledge. I will give away half of my net worth to the benefit of our home." Ray said as people thought he was insane and couldn't believe it. He then pulled out a dollar from his pocket. "And this will be my salary for the year. So tonight, I invite you all to join me in this investment. Not just with your money, but with your ingenuity, and most importantly, your time. The city is my home, but it's yours, too. So, help make Star City our future."

Everyone clapped in applause from Ray's speech when all of a sudden, the window next to him exploded into pieces as something smashed through. Everyone ran away or hugged the walls and stayed down as the figure was the archer assassin who had been on a killing spree and he was here for his final target. Tom Weston, a board member of Amertek saw the archer and began running but the assassin fire a rope arrow at his legs, tripping him up and kept him from leaving. The assassin pulled Weston closer to kill him when he felt something hit his leg and trip him up. Everyone looked and saw Spider-man clung to a window adjacent to the broken one.

"Uh, excuse me. Can I come through this way or do I have to break my own window?" He asked as he jumped into the room as Tom Weston undid the rope and ran away. "Oh, something tells me that whoever paid you is gonna want their money back."

The assassin fired an arrow, but Spider-man jumped onto his back to avoid the arrow and then did a kick up back to his feet. Spider-man closed the distance and threw out some punches and kicks as the assassin fought back showing a great degree of skill. He pulled out an arrow from his quiver and tried to stab Spider-man, but he ducked and dodged all his attacks. Spider-man blocked his bow and kicked out his leg, sending him to his knees and then threw him across the ground. The assassin got back up and swung his bow, but Spider-man ducked and did a back-hand spring to avoid an arrow to the leg and then hit the assassin with a right cross and then kick to the chest. The assassin swung his bow again, but Spider-man dodged, kicked him back and then did a flying scissor legs takedown. The assassin hit the ground hard and quickly threw out a low sweep kick, but Spider-man propped himself up on one arm and swung his body to hit the assassin in the head with a full body round house kick or a Martelo de Negativa, showing off some excellent finesse, skill, and athleticism.

Spencer was with her family, crouched on the ground as they watched Spider-man deal with the assassin and she was worried that he would get hurt but saw that it was the assassin who needed help. Ray Palmer also watched with intrigue at the fight and unknown to the group, the Arrow and his red hooded sidekick were there watching the fight as well. The Assassin got back up and tried to stab Spider-man, but he twisted his wrist forcing him to drop the arrow, kicked him back and then did a jump spin hook kick, using his whole body's momentum and hit him across the face with both feet and sent the assassin flying onto his back. Spider-man landed in a crouch as the Assassin quickly got back up, fired a rope arrow at the ceiling and jumped out the window to make his escape. Spider-man followed suit, jumping out the window and shooting a web line at the building so he swung down and into the room the assassin broke into a few floors down.

He looked around and didn't see the assassin anywhere, so he carefully walked through the room to find him. His ears, eyes, and spider sense all ready and able. He heard some movement in another room so he quickly moved over there. He made his way through the floor and saw moving boxes and furniture around which meant the floor was empty and either in the process of being cleared out or being renovated. He made his way over to the elevators and turned around to see the assassin aiming an arrow at him. "So, you're Spider-man? I'd thought you be taller." The assassin said.

"Normally I'd be offended but considering it's coming out of the mouth of an assassin I'm not." He replied.

"You remind me of someone I worked with once. He thought he was better than me too." The assassin said.

"There's only one Spider-man. It's over. Give up now and make it easy for the police." Spider-man warned him.

"We both know that's not gonna happen." The assassin fired his arrow but Spider-man ducked and shot his impact webbing at him, sticking him to the wall and encasing him in webbing so he couldn't move or get free.

"And that's…why they call me quick-draw Spider-man." He said as he held up his hand like a gun and blew on his fingers. "Guess on top of being a killer you're not very bright."

[Gun click] Spider-man turned to see Laurel Lance standing in the hallway with a gun pointed at him. "Miss, please put down the gun." Spider-man said when he heard movement and saw the Arrow come from the hallway.

"You don't want to do this." He told her.

"Yes I do." She said, very angry and upset about something. Will could see it in her eyes.

"Killing him won't bring her back." The Arrow told her.

"I know it won't bring her back, she's dead!" She shouted as she aimed the gun at the assassin. "At least with this he will be too."

"Geez, what did you do to piss her off." Spider-man said to the assassin as he was ready to web the gun the second he had the chance.

"I have stood right where you are right now, where you're so confused with rage you can hardly breathe and you think that taking revenge will make it better but Laurel, revenge only makes it worse." He told her.

"No, he murdered Sara!" She said.

"Who's Sara?" the Assassin asked.

"My sister, you son of a bitch! Two nights ago you put an arrow in her chest!" She shouted.

"Two nights ago I was drunk in Bludhaven." He told them.

"You're lying." She said.

"I'm proud of my work. I wouldn't deny it." He said.

"Even with a gun in your face?" Laurel asked.

"Laurel, you need to stop and listen to him." The Arrow said to her.

"No. No, he killed my sister." She said.

"Laurel, Sara wouldn't want this." He said.

"Don't you dare tell me that this isn't what Sara would have wanted! Don't you tell me to think of her, because I am thinking of her!" she shouted as she was about to pull the trigger when Spider-man webbed the gun and yanked it upward, sticking it to the ceiling.

"Whew, that was close." Spider-man said as he heard police sirens outside the building. "Go, get her out of here."

The Arrow took Laurel by the arm and escorted her out of the building leaving Spider-man and the assassin. "Don't think I did it for you, because I didn't and to help you believe that, you won't like how I'm going to get you down to the police." He said with a smirk under his mask.

Yuri and the SCPD were called to the Queen Consolidated building after multiple calls about a masked hooded archer attacking the charity benefit and Spider-man arriving to stop them. Yuri organized the police and ESU teams when they heard screaming and looked up to see something falling towards them. It was falling at a rapid pace when it stopped about 20 feet above them and hung in the air. Yuri and the police got a good look and saw it was man in a black hoodie, mask, with a quiver on his back and he was webbed up and hanging above the sidewalk. They saw Spider-man swing down and stick to the side of the building.

"Here's the guy you're looking for officers. All tied up and wrapped for you guys. Just be sure to place a towel in the police car, I think he might have had an accident on the way down. Good night." Spider-man saluted them and swung away.

"I'll kill you, Spider-man! You hear me?!" He shouted as his mouth was webbed shut.

"Yup and my ears are still bleeding!" Spider-man shouted as he swung away and Yuri organized some police to get him down.

Spencer was with the rest of the people who were at the charity benefit outside of Queen Consolidated so the police could do their thing with the crime scene and interview all witnesses about the event. Her parents were speaking with the police while her sister was getting comforted by her fiancé. Spencer was on her phone, looking at all the missed calls and texts she got from Will and Aria probably to tell her about what happened tonight. She then got a new text that read meet me in the alley one block down.

Spencer told her parents she had to take a call, so she discreetly left the crowd of people and police and made her exit. She casually walked down the street and turned into the empty alley where she saw Will stuck to the wall in his suit. She walked over as he lifted his mask up so she could see his face.

"Hey, are you ok?" He asked as Spencer smiled.

"Yeah, I'm fine. A little shaken but I'm fine. I've gotten use to this sort of thing since knowing you." Spencer said as Will nodded.

"I'm glad you're safe. Sorry to ruin your night out with your parents." Will said.

"Please, if anything you saved it. My dad was going on about our old accomplishments in grade school. Thank god there was an open bar." Spencer said as Will chuckled.

"Well, if they'll let you leave now, I'll call in a pizza at Mario's and we can all meet up at my room for a late-night snack." Will said as Spencer smiled.

"You had me at Mario's." Spencer said as Will remembered what happened with Laurel.

"Spencer one last thing, you know Laurel Lance pretty well, right?" He asked.

"Yeah. I've been working with her the past few months. We've gotten fairly close." Spencer said.

"She has a sister, right?" He asked as Spencer nodded.

"Yeah, a younger sister. Sara, I think. We met her briefly the night of the siege. Why?" Spencer asked.

"Well, I saw Laurel tonight. I stopped the assassin and had him all webbed up when she showed up with a gun pointed right at him. She said something about how he killed her sister Sara." Will said.

"Her sister's dead? Oh my god. How come there wasn't anything in the paper?" Spencer asked.

"Laurel said that her sister died from arrows and in this town, arrow aren't exactly a mugging gone wrong. She must have been involved with the Arrow or something like that." Will said as he began to think a bit about some recent events and the woman in black. "There's a lot of unexplained things going on."

"You ok?" She asked.

"I'm fine, just thinking. You want a lift back?" He asked as Spencer shook her head no.

"And a heart attack? No. I'll get a lift back with my parents. And remember, veggie topping but no olives." Spencer told him.

"Roger that. See you at campus." He said as he put his mask back on and swung away.

Line Break xxxxx

The sun was shining bright in Starling city the next day as things seemed ordinary. A black Cadillac Escalade drove through the city until it came to a stop at a warehouse for Smythe Industries that had publicly been closed for a few years but was actually a secret location where Spencer Smythe held his secret…somewhat illegal and dangerous projects. The car stopped as the driver got out and opened the passenger door and Spencer Smythe got out of the car. He was an older white male in a nice business suit and despite his age, he was one of the world's most renowned minds on robotics. The Driver went to the trunk of the car and pulled out a special electric wheelchair as Spencer helped his son Alistair out of the car. Alistair Alphonso Smythe was the son of Spencer Smythe and heir to Smythe Industries. Attached to Alistair's wrist via a handcuff was a large black briefcase.

Spencer nodded to his guard who pulled out his phone and made a call and within five minutes, a large cargo truck drove up to the warehouse. Spencer walked by his son side in his specialized wheelchair to the warehouse and moved apart an old metal plate to reveal a high-tech palm scanner. Spencer scanned his palm and the doors to the warehouse opened so the cargo truck could drive in. Spencer and Alistair walked in to see their associates waiting for them. And their associates were Hammerhead and Roderick Kingsley. Rodrick Kingsley was a tall African American male in a fancy thousand dollar suit and carried an aura of superiority with him when he walked. He owned a million dollar Media Empire but what the public doesn't know is that he got that empire through funding illegal criminal organizations such as the Big Man and the cartels along with weapons companies that have…less than stellar reputations. He was dirty as dirty could get and with Spider-man running around, his money was taking a hit just like the Big Man. And with the Enforcers failure, it was time to bring in the big guns.

"You're late." Hammerhead said as Alistair glared at him.

"I'd be careful how you talk to my father. We're taking a big risk in even being here during the day to help you take care of your spider problem for Mr. Lincoln." Alistair said.

"Shut it, kid. We don't use the L-word. Call him the Big Man or we're gonna have problems." Hammerhead said as Rodrick became the mediator to calm the situation before it escalated.

"Easy gentlemen, there's no need to escalate a frivolous little misunderstanding. We're all here with a common goal and to deal with a nuisance." Kingsley said.

"The Spider-man is no nuisance of ours." Alistair said.

"Enough, Alistair." Spencer said to his son.

"The bug's been screwing with the Big Man's income which means he doesn't get to make any more…donations to your more interesting projects. We take him out, everything goes back to the way it was." Hammerhead said. "Did you bring the suit?"

Hammerhead looked at the briefcase attached to Alistair's wrist. "If you mean our advanced all-terrain combat bio-suit then yes. Be careful and discrete how you use it, we don't need any kind of inquiries as to how that suit was made." Alistair told him.

"Yeah, yeah. Montana!" Hammerhead shouted as Spencer un-locked the briefcase and handed it to him. Montana of the Enforcers then walked over as Hammerhead handed him the case. "Put on the suit. You still owe the Big Man a superhero's corpse."

Montana took the briefcase and opened it to see a red and yellow colored suit with special gauntlets and a mask. "This ought to level the playing field a bit." Montana said with a smirk.

"It won't level the playing field…it'll destroy it." Spencer Smythe told him.

"Even better." Montana replied. "So, how do we draw out the bug?"

"How do you draw out any insect? You use bait." Hammerhead said.

With Will, he was in the library at a computer terminal doing some research on Sara Lance. He couldn't get what happened last night out of his head so the scientific part of him got curious and he decided to do a little research. He dug up some old articles online about when Sara Lance was presumed dead 7 years ago when she got on the Queen's Gambit only to show up in Star City alive back in February. Seven years she's been gone and all of a sudden she came back and now, according to Laurel she's been killed by arrows and not even a mention in the newspapers or obituaries. Either someone did their best to make sure it wasn't made public or Sara was involved with something really bad. He brought up an old picture of Sara and she did share a resemblance to the woman in black, the Canary. You just put her in a black leather corset, leather jacket, and mask and it's her. If Sara was the Canary, maybe that's why she was killed but by who? And the way Laurel and the Arrow spoke last night, it seemed the two knew each other fairly well and the Arrow knew Sara as well and that led Will to one person…Oliver Queen. He went missing the same time she did and when he came back, the Arrow showed up in Starling. Granted, he was suspected of being him but the police dropped the charges but still…could there be something there?

"Will?" He heard someone say he name so he turned and saw it was Aria.

"Aria, hey. How did you know I was here?" He asked.

"Well, seeing as how you weren't in your room or at the lab, this is the most likely place you'd be. I just know you too well." Aria said as she walked over and saw he was on the computer doing research on Sara Lance and Oliver Queen. "What are you doing?"

"Just a little research on my part for something I encountered. What's up?" He asked as he attached everything to a document and sent it to his email for his own personal study.

"I need your help to move some splotches of cloth from the art building. One of the teachers threw out some clothes in the recycling and I need your help to get them." Aria said.

"Sure thing. What for?" He asked.

"For your new suits…and for my Halloween costume." Aria said.

"Aria, Halloween is about three weeks away." He told her.

"And it'll take that long to make sure my costume is perfect for the party. What about you? What are you going as?" Aria asked.

"I'm not sure yet considering we all agreed on a pretty broad topic. All of us going as a character from a movie which leaves us millions of choices. I want it to be right." Will said as Aria chuckled.

"Well, if you're having trouble maybe we could go as a pair for our costumes?" Aria suggested as Will smirked.

"I'd be up for that, Aria. Who do you plan to go as?" He asked as Aria sat down on his desk close to him.

"That would be either Morticia Addams from the Addams Family or Daisy from the Great Gatsby." Aria said as Will though for a moment.

"Definitely go with Daisy. No disrespect to the Addams family but dead isn't that nice. Besides, I think you'd be great in the old school flapper dress." Will suggested as Aria smiled.

"All right, Daisy it is which means you'll be my Gatsby." She said as Will chuckled a bit and cleared his throat.

"Of course, Mrs. Buchanan. Thankfully our relationship is nowhere near dysfunctional as theirs. Though finding a costume is going to be interesting as it's more of trying to get a really fancy suit." Will said.

"We'll think of something, come on." Aria said as Will grabbed his backpack and they walked out of the library when Will's spider sense went off and he quickly crouched down, pretending to tie his shoe which saved him from a football to the head. "Ugh, you'd think those idiots would leave you alone by now."

The idiots she was referring to were Eugene Flash Thompson and Alison DiLaurentis, the school's it couple and biggest pair of bullies and jerks on the entire campus. Flash was captain of the SCU football team and leader of Gamma Tau Fraternity while Alison was head Cheerleader and head of the Theta Pi Sorority. Honestly the two were like a cliché out of an old college movie from the 80s. Both Flash and Alison had their little enclave of mindless drones that followed and agreed with them on everything, but it wasn't as large as it was last year. Will's guess was that those people finally matured and grew up and realized that life in college is not the same as life in high school. Still, that didn't stop Flash or Alison from trying to screw up Will's life on a regular basis. Flash and his gang tried to screw with him every chance they got and Alison made her mean, snide comments and spread rumors but Will rarely focused on that anymore since he had more important things to deal with like protecting the city. (6)

"Stay the hell still, Detmer and take your beating like a man!" Flash shouted as he grabbed a football from another teammate and threw it at Will who raised his backpack to block it.

"Just leave him alone, Flash!" Aria shouted as Will stood up.

"Oh, isn't that cute. The little nerd's groupie is protecting him because he can't defend himself." Alison mocked as her drones chuckled along. "Even though puberty finally decided to go right with him, guess he hasn't changed at all."

"Come on, Aria. Let's get out of here." He said as they kept walking. Will's spider sense went off again but decided not to do anything and let the football hit him in the back of his head and he hit the ground pretending like it actually hurt.

"Bulls eye!" Flash shouted as his teammates high-fived him and he and Alison walked away with their group. "See you later, Detmer!"

"Are they gone?" Will asked as Aria nodded so he stood up and wiped the dirt off his clothes. "Ugh, finally. Let's go before Mr. and Mrs. Future-lower-middle-class people with regrets come back."

"Why did you put up with that, Will? Fight back and tell Flash off." Aria told him.

"Aria, I've dealt with people like Flash my entire life and honestly, it wouldn't be worth it. I've gotten through more than my fair share of bullies and I'm fine with just pushing past it. Besides, I've got more important things to worry about." Will said as Aria looked at him.

"Like what?" she asked.

"Well, for starters, making sure you get your materials for your Halloween costume." Will joked as they walked through the main quad and over to the art's building.

"I'm serious, Will. You have super powers now and you could easily tear Flash to pieces. Or better yet, join the football team and leave him in the dust in front of his whole team?" Aria suggested as Will chuckled.

"While I would have loved to do something like that in high school, I'm too busy as it is and it's not like me. I wouldn't do something like that to someone…even to Flash." Will said as Aria looked at him.

"Even after all the crap he and his goons have given you? And Alison as well?" Aria said.

"I know and believe me there is a small part of myself that would love nothing more than to string Flash up the football goal post by his underwear in a massive wedgie or slip some of my webbing into Alison's shampoo so she gets stuck…but then I'd be just like them. And I'm not. I'm Will Detmer, lovable science nerd who got bit by a spider and became a superhero and is best friends with Aria Montgomery who is well on her way to becoming the next biggest fashion designer or writer." Will said with a smile as Aria smiled back.

"And she is glad to have met you." Aria said as she moved some hair behind her right ear. "My god, I can't believe there was a time when Emily and I almost became friends with Alison. This was before we met you, by the way. It was at our freshman orientation program."

"Well, I'm glad to have saved you from a life of being Alison's little minion. And I'm glad to have met you, Emily, and Spencer as well. I can't imagine my life now any different…and I don't think I'd be able to get through this whole Spider-man thing without you girls." He said with a smile as Aria smiled back and hugged him, kissing him on the cheek.

"Emily was right; we did do a good job with you." She said, causing him to chuckle.

"It's not that hard when you speak the truth." He replied as they made it to the art building. They walked through the building and over to the recycling room where all the art material was recycled or donated and saw the fabrics bin was filled to the brim that it was spilling over. "Well, this could take a while."

Will and Aria began sorting through the literal mound of rolls, blotches, and piles of clothing and fabric in the large dumpster-like recycling bin. They were looking for anything that Aria could use for her costume along with anything she could use to make Will's along with his new suits. Aria was sitting on the ground going through her pile as Will managed to use his enhanced strength and lifted a lot out of the dumpster and onto the ground to make it easier for her while he jumped in there and began sorting through stuff. Aria looked at some dark blue fabric someone must have used for a sewing project and it looked like some good stuff she could use so she set it aside.

"Aria, how's this?" She looked as Will stood up in the recycle bin and held light green fabric. She got up and walked over and touched the fabric it was perfect for her costume.

"Perfect. Is there any more?" She asked as he handed it to her and dove back down. She looked it over and began to think in her mind how she would go about sewing it up when she heard him struggle followed by a loud bang.

"OW!" Will shouted as Aria jumped onto the side of the recycle bin, pulled herself up and looked in to see Will rubbing his head.

"Are you ok?" She asked as he looked at her and nodded.

"Yeah, pulled to hard and hit my head." He said as she chuckled. "But it wasn't for nothing. How's this?"

He held up a large roll of the fabric, enough for her costume. "Perfect." She said as she took it and looked it over. "I've got enough for my dress, and I snagged some excellent material from my head piece. Plus, I've got some stuff for making your new suits."

"Nice. And thank god we found a recycled black jacket that's my size in the recycle bin." Will said.

"It'll be perfect once I do a little fixing to the holes." Aria said as she took a bag and filled it up with the fabric she took. "Now we have to clean up."

Will looked at the large pile of fabrics on the ground that she looked through. "You mean I have to clean up?" Will asked as she nodded. "All right, I'll do it."

"Thank you." She said with a smile as Will sighed and got to work putting the fabrics back in the recycle bin. They met up with Emily and Spencer for dinner at the dining hall. Emily had some news as her girlfriend Maya would be visiting for the Halloween party as was Toby for Spencer. Speaking of Spencer, she told Will that she noticed Laurel was tenser and in a much more grim mood lately adding to Will's theory that he was right and that Sara Lance was the Canary. But as to who wanted her dead was another question along with should he go tell Captain Lance. Granted, it wasn't going to be an easy conversation. It's not like he could go up and say hi and that his youngest daughter died because he has a theory that she's the Canary. That conversation's likely to get him shot or thrown in jail so he'd have to think of another way.

After dinner, he hung out with Aria, Spencer, and Emily in their room as he had to help carry all the fabric and helped her organize everything. Emily and Spencer were hush-hush on what their costumes were going to be and kept Will from finding out. Afterward, he got suited up and went out on patrol to stop some bad guys and think about what and if he should tell Captain Lance.

He swung from a building to building when he heard an alarm go off and saw two robbers run out of a bank, get in a car and drive away. "Heh, talk about crooks with bad timing." He said as he swung after them.

Inside the car were Marko and O'Hirn. "Good, he's following us. Now, not too fast. If he doesn't follow us, no pay day." Marko said.

"I don't care about pay day, I want payback!" O'Hirn drove the car over to the nearby garbage processing plant. He drove them inside and they got out with guns and crowbars, looking at the front entrance and ready for any cops.

Spider-man flipped through the air from a web swing and landed on the roof, seeing O'Hirn and Marko through the warehouse skylight windows. "Oh, these two again. Well, at least their predictable." He said as he made his move, opening the skylight and crawling along the ceiling. He then landed on a garbage truck, webbed Marko from behind and yanked him towards him and put his arms behind him in an arm lock. "Oh, Marko. How many times do I have to kick your butt before you wise up?"

He let Marko go and ducked under a crowbar swing and kicked him in the face and back flipped onto the ground. "And where is your charming partner O'Hirn?" Spider-man asked as he then flipped forward to avoid a crowbar from him. He kicked Marko in the chest and knocked him back before webbing O'Hirn's legs and hands and throwing him to the ground. "Seriously you two, we have got to stop meeting like this. People are starting to talk."

He flipped through the air and webbed Marko to the roof of their getaway car. "Mostly about what doofs you guys are." He said when his spider sense went off and he heard some kind of weird pitched sound. He was then blasted by some kind of green-colored shockwave and smacked into a garbage truck. He fell to the ground and groaned in pain because that blast hurt more than anything he's been hit with so far.

"I reckon that came as a bit of a shocker, eh bug?" He heard as he looked up to see his attacker was wearing some kind of red and yellow combat suit made up of a weird fabric. The suit had a specialized technical belt with advanced technology but did recognize the large piece in the middle as a power regulator and judging by the size it was very powerful. The attacker had weird gauntlets on his wrists and was wearing a mask with a visor on the eyes. "Well, good. So will this."

The attacker raised his gauntlet as it charged up and fired a green shockwave but Spider-man quickly jumped high into the air and stuck to a ceiling rafter in time to save his butt and to see the damage that gauntlet could do. It fired a shockwave so powerful it blasted through the garbage truck, and then the one behind it. The attacker then readjusted his aim so Will quickly began jumping around the ceiling to avoid being hit. He jumped from rafter to rafter, shot a web line and swung away. "Hold still, son so I can put you out of your misery!"

Spider-man dodged another blast and landed on a rafter. "How about you put me out of my mystery? Who are you?" He asked.

"Call me…well, how's about Shocker?!" He shouted as he fired another blast but Spider-man jumped out of the way, grabbed onto a rafter, swung around and straight towards Shocker.

"How's about toast?!" Spider-man shouted as he swung from the rafter to hit Shocker with a double kick but once he made contact with the suit the belt glowed and a shockwave blasted out from the belt and knocked him back. Spider-man flew back and skid across the ground. "Ok, that didn't go as planned."

"Either you got less kick than a three-legged mule, or this here suit does more than protect me from my own powers. I guess clothes do make the man." Shocker said as he walked over, picked up Spider-man and blasted him again, sending him flying through the air and into a pile of garbage. Shocker walked towards Spider-man to finish the job when the sound of a truck going full speed was heard and he quickly moved out of the way as O'Hirn had gotten free, commandeered a garbage truck and was driving full speed to run Spider-man over.

Spider-man pushed some garbage off him and saw the truck driving straight at him so he shot a web line to the ceiling and pulled himself up to avoid being run over. O'Hirn crashed the truck into the garbage pile, thinking he had run over Spider-man. "Did I get him? Tell me I got him." O'Hirn said as he got out of the truck.

"All you got is on my nerves!" Shocker shouted as he blasted O'Hirn away. "Stay out of this, boy. The grown-ups were talking."

Spider-man dropped from the ceiling and put Shocker in a rear-naked choke. "Don't be too mad at O'Hirn. He just gets too cranky without his naaaaaaaaap." Shocker vibrated his suit until Spider-man was knocked off. Spider-man hit the ground and did a leg sweep followed by a scissor throw and knocked Shocker to the ground. "Not bad. You could hire yourself out as a kitty ride."

"Thanks." Shocker fired another blast but he was able to dodge it in time and back flipped through the air and landed on a garbage truck. "But I already got a job I love."

Shocker fired volley after volley of shockwave blasts but Spider-man was too quick and agile to get hit. Despite thinking that the closed off area would be an disadvantage to the hero, it was actually his saving grace because it gave Spider-man plenty of beams to jump off of, walls to run along, and space to shoot his webs and evade. Spider-man kept swinging and jumping from beam to beam as Shocker kept blasting at him, not giving him any time to catch his breath.

"Geez this guy is as relentless as Flash is stupid." He said to himself as he quickly jumped from a ceiling rafter and flipped over to another high beam before web zipping to the side to avoid another blast. "And I can't exactly get close enough to him."

He jumped through the air and fired some impact webbing at Shocker but he blew them to pieces before firing another blast which made him web zip to the ground. He fired web line at Shocker but heard a click as his web shooters were empty. "And that's not good." He said he quickly jumped through the air to avoid shockwave blast from Shocker but it was a trap and was hit with another blast mid-jump and knocked through the air and into the garbage press.

Spider-man fell into the press container and was stuck under some garbage as Shocker fired a small blast at the control panel and it turned on. The garbage press came to life and began to squeeze all the garbage together. Spider-man struggled to get free but was stuck under so much garbage when he saw an open refrigerator. "Oh, this is going to be cramped." He said as he managed to maneuver his way so he fell into the fridge.

Shocker watched as he saw the press do its job and kill Spider-man. "That ought to satisfy the Big Man." Shocker then touched his ear piece under his mask. "Extraction."

"Hey, what about me?" Marko shouted, stuck to the hood of the getaway car.

"Normally I'd leave you for the cops but I'm in too good a mood." Shocker then fired a blast and freed Marko, blasting him to the ground. A helicopter soon arrived and lowered down a ladder as Shocker climbed up and was whisked away.

"Is he dead?" O'Hirn asked Marko.

"Yeah, he's squashed now let's go!" Marko shouted as they left before the cops showed up.

The pressed finished its job and spat out the squished square of garbage onto the conveyor belt. Some grunting could be heard before the thing exploded outward from the inside and half of it was sent flying away from Spider-man pushing himself free from the fridge that saved his life. "Whew, talk about your tight spaces but I'm alive. A little sore but alive." Spider-man said as he stretched a bit. He then moved his arm to his face and took a sniff. "Egh…downside is I'm gonna smell like garbage. No, this smell gives garbage a bad name. This night sucks."

He took out his cellphone and called Aria. "Aria, it's me. Yeah, I don't suppose you made an extra body suit for me?" He asked.

"No. Just the one. Why?" She asked.

"No reason. And on a completely different subject, would it be too much to ask you to head to the store and get me some hydrogen peroxide and baking soda?" Will questioned.

"Will, what happened?" Aria was concerned.

"I had a run in with Marko and O'Hirn and it got…messy." Will told her.

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The next morning, Will wasn't in a great mood. O'Hirn and Marko got away, he got thrashed around by a dude in some kind of weird battle suit and to top it off he smelt like a dumpster on a hot day in July. He took the peroxide and baking soda Aria bought and mixed it with soap and bathed himself for hours to try and get rid of the smell. It mostly worked but there was still a lingering odor that was then covered up with a whole lot of perfume and cologne that Will was worried he'd explode if he was too close to an open flame. He did get a lot of weird looks from people because he smelled like the perfume section of a clothing store, but he was use to it. The problem was his suit. He got a new sweatshirt and Aria was stitching on a new black spider symbol, but the red body suit still smelled.

He walked out of his science lab with a sigh on his face as his classmates quickly walked away from him and his pungent odor of perfume, cologne, and whatever bad smell he had. "Hey, Will." Spencer walked up to him and got a whiff of his smell but did her best to hold her composure. "How's it going?"

"It's fine, Spencer. No need to pretend you can't smell me." Will said as Spencer nodded and held her nose.

"I take it you've had a rough day?" Spencer asked as her voice a bit nasally due to her holding her nose.

"You have no idea. It's like I'm back in middle school and the bullies threw me into the dumpster behind the school. It took a week for the smell to go away." Will remembered the week everyone made fun of him and avoided him because of his smell. "Thank god that peroxide solution got rid of most of it. Another shower with that stuff and I should be fine tonight."

"I still don't get what happened in the first place. You said some dude in a suit was waiting for you?" Spencer asked as they walked out of the science building and through campus.

"Definitely. O'Hirn and Marko just happened to be there and lured me to that garbage treatment plant where Shocker turned up. I may not have been at this for a while but I know staged when I see it." Will said.

"Then the serious and disconcerting question is who is he and why would someone send him after you? I mean, compared to the muggers and street criminals you take down on a daily basis this guy sounds completely different. Even when you take on the Cartels, they've never done something like this." Spencer said.

"Looks like they're stepping up their game, but it has to be someone with some serious money to build a suit like that. I mean, the technology to build a suit that can not only create and project sonic shockwaves that powerful but also devise a suit that protects the user is next level engineering." Will said as something connected in his mind. "Kind of the like the people who would commission a highly advanced drone to follow me."

"You think Shocker and the drone came from the same place?" Spencer asked.

"I'm starting to believe that in this line of work there is no such thing as coincidence." Will said.

Will had another class that day and after it was over, he went straight back to his dorm and took another shower with the peroxide solution. It finally got rid of the smell on his person which just left the suit which he washed with the peroxide solution as well. He put his suit and the new sweatshirt Aria stitched him in his backpack and went out into the city on foot as Will Detmer because he wanted to go pick up some things at the electronic store for the gadgets he was developing or as Aria dubbed them…Spider-Tech. He walked up to the Red, White, & Blue Electronics store to pick up some stuff but when he tried to open the door it was locked. He looked and saw Mr. Patel finish closing up.

"Excuse me, Mr. Patel; I need to get some stuff." Will said.

"Sorry, store's closed." Mr. Patel said in an anxious manner as Will looked at the sign and saw the store didn't close for another two hours.

"You don't close for another two hours." Will told him.

"Sign's wrong. We're closed now go away!" Mr. Patel shouted as he pulled the blind down in Will's face.

"Hmmm." Will thought to himself as something seemed fishy.

In the back alley behind the store, O'Hirn and Marko were moving some heavy duty electronics such as TV's and stereo systems into the back of a truck from robbing the electronics store.

"Come on, we better hurry. We got to cash in fast. Once the news Hammerhead spread that Spider-man's croaked, it'll be open season for every hood in the city." Marko said as he and O'Hirn lugged a heavy TV to the back of a truck.

"Ugh, I still can't believe I didn't cash in his chips myself." O'Hirn then stopped to take a few sniffs. "Something stinks."

"Oh, still?!" They heard as Spider-man was in the back of the truck. "I washed this suit five times!"

"You!" O'Hirn shouted as Spider-man webbed their hands to the TV. He then jumped out of the truck and landed on the TV they were carrying and webbed their hands and bodies to the TV while webbing their feet together so they couldn't run.

"And now that you troglodytes have deduced that the rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated…" Spider-man stopped as O'Hirn and Marko looked at him funny. "I'm not dead. Never mind, just tell Shocker I want a rematch. You can call the cops now."

Spider-man swung away as Mr. Patel ran inside to call the cops. "I really, really hate that guy." O'Hirn said.

"This is really, really getting heavy." Marko said as they both fell to the ground.

Spider-man swung through the city and stopped 4 attempted car jackings, 6 store robberies, one very dangerous attempted bank robbery, 2 attempted kidnappings and a crazy idiot in a speeding car. The news had spread to all the criminals in the city that whatever Hammerhead said about Spider-man's death was wrong. Speaking of which, who the hell is Hammerhead and why did he name himself after a shark?

Spider-man swung through the air and landed on the side of a building as he felt his phone go off and saw it was Yuri. "Hey, Yuri."

"Good, I'm glad you picked up. Word on the street is that you were dead." Yuri said to him.

"Well, I'm glad to tell you that those words were lies. And I have an idea on who spread them. I just stopped Marko and O'Hirn yet again and they mentioned someone called Hammerhead." He said as he heard Yuri sigh. "And I'm guessing by your sigh that it's not someone with an affinity for sharks."

"No. Hammerhead is a lot worse. He's a long standing scumbag who used to be a head enforcer for the Maggia when they were around. He managed to avoid a prison sentence on a technicality and ever since, we've gotten word that he's gone to work for some new boss in the city and it's not the usual Bertinelli, Bratva, or cartels." Yuri said as something clicked in Will's head.

"You think he went to work for the mysterious crime boss we've been going after for the past month." He said.

"Great minds think alike. It lines up with Hammerheads style and this new boss is someone we still don't have a proper ID on and the only things we do know is that he seems to have an entire legion of street enforcers at his disposal. That was Hammerhead specialty in the Maggia along with killing people with his metal-plated forehead." Yuri said.

"Oh, now I get why he's called Hammerhead." He said. "Maybe this can help. When I took down Marko and O'Hirn they said that it was Hammerhead who spread the news I was dead and I think he's the one who hired Shocker to try and kill me."

"Shocker?" Yuri asked.

"It's a long story but the short version is that Hammerhead hired a guy in a high-tech vibration suit to try and take me down." He told her.

"Ok…that's a first. I'll do some digging and see if I can find any leads on who could be funding Hammerhead and where he got that tech. In the meantime, I've got another suspected warehouse you can hit and proudly announce to Hammerhead that you're not dead." Yuri suggested.

"I'm all for screwing with the bad guys. Let her rip, Detective." He replied.

"It's a warehouse on the corner of Theebs and Adams. It's an old chemical plant that used to belong to Queen Consolidated." Yuri told him.

"Roger that. I'll check it out." He said as he shot a web line and swung away.

He swung through the city and landed on the side of a tall building across the street from the warehouse. He zoomed his vision on the rooftop of the warehouse and saw four guys walking around with sniper rifles and assault rifles. "Yeah, that's not suspicious at all." He then crouched on the side of the building before he launched himself forward in a massive leap and did a backflip through the air. He soared through the air and fired four shots of impact webbing that hit all the look outs with direct shots. The impact webbing webbed them to the ground and encased them in web cocoons so they couldn't reach their phones or walkie talkies for help.

"Not to toot my own horn but I'm getting better and better with that." He said to himself and he walked over to window ceiling entrance and pried it open. "And now without further ado…"

He jumped down and landed on a ceiling rafter to see about 60 men all over the warehouse, some on guard duty while others were lounging about. "About 60 idiots whose butts I have to kick."

He did a quick look around the entire warehouse and saw what looked like a giant printing press and it was churning out money like MTV churns out mind-numbing reality TV shows. The chemical vats, molds, and substantial presence meant he stumbled upon this mysterious boss's forgery operation. Time to shut them down.

He looked around and took note of the positions of the men on over watch with snipers and machine guns. There were ten men in total with snipers and about a dozen walking around with assault rifles. He'd have to take out the snipers first to make this easier. He saw a sniper directly below him so he shot a web at the thug's gun and yanked it quickly, hitting the guy under the chin and knocking him out. He shot another web line at the thug and then threw him up to the ceiling and webbed him there. He moved to another rafter and did another silent takedown, webbing a sniper and encasing him in a web cocoon and stuck him to the wall.

He saw two snipers together on a railing so he aimed his web shooters and fired two globs of impact webbing, webbing them up and sticking them to the railing. He jumped over to another rafter above another sniper and shot a small venom blast that caused the sniper's body to seize up and freeze. He fired a web line and pulled him before encasing him in a web cocoon and sticking him to the ceiling. He did the same thing for the last five snipers and about two thugs with machine guns. He reloaded his web shooters with fresh cartridges and decided to take out the rest. He saw a group of ten thugs by a poker table and got an idea to make his entrance.

The goons working for Hammerhead sat at the table playing a round of poker when all of a sudden Spider-man dropped down onto the table in a crouch. "Hey, guys mind if I play a hand?! I'm not great with poker but I'm totally willing to learn!" He said as shot two web lines in the faces of two goons and yanked down hard, causing them to smack their faces onto the table and then back flipped through the air and shot two web lines at the backs of two different goons. When he landed, he pulled on the web lines and threw the two goons into a group of 5, sending them all to the ground and fired a glob of impact webbing that stuck them all together like a giant gumball.

"It's Spider-man!" One of the goons shouted as they all grabbed their knives, baseball bats, crowbars and assorted blunt objects.

"Really? Where?! Oh, I just get so nervous when I meet a celebrity!" Spider-man shouted as he punched the goon into the air with an uppercut. He jumped and kicked the guy through the air before firing a web line and doing a swing kick through a group of goons and knocked them over like bowling pins. He fired more webs and stuck some of them to the ground before ducking under a baseball bat to the head and spin kicked the goon in the face. He flipped through the air and landed on a goon's chest before jumping off and firing web bullets at some goons, knocking them back. He fired a web line at a large stack of shelves and pulled, causing it topple over some bad guys and trap them. He quickly back flipped to avoid a bullet and fired a web line at the gun and yanked it away before spinning it through the air and hitting a guy in the face with it.

He slid between a guy's legs and kicked him in the back into a group of goons, punched some more goons in the face, flipped over a goon, webbed his face and slammed him down onto the ground before he back-flipped and kicked a goon in chin and knocked him on his ass. He did another back flip and webbed an electrical panel, yanked it free and threw it at a group of goons giving them all a mild electric shock. He then kicked them all over the place and knocked them out with spin kicks, jumping spin kicks, spinning hook kicks and tornado kicks.

"I've been wondering what kind of benefits does working for the bad guys give you? Paid lunches, extra vacation days, bond seminars?!" he shouted as a very large tank-like fellow that could give O'Hirn a run for his money attempted to tackle Spider-man so he jumped over him. He fired a web line at the tank's face as the tank pulled back and pulled Spider-man to him. Spider-man used that momentum and punched the tank in the gut, did a double fist upper-cut and then stomped on his chest. He flipped off the tank's body and threw out two punches to his side and hit two goons in the face before webbing the tank to the ground and shooting another web line at a goon. He pulled him closer and back flip kicked him in the face. Spider-man did another back flip and web threw a barrel at a goon before firing a venom blast at the last group of thugs, rendering them unable to move.

"And done. I'd give myself a ten out of ten for that one." Spider-man said to himself as he pat himself on the back and then webbed up all the goons together. "Yuri, it looks like the warehouse was the home base for some kind of money forging operation. There's plenty of evidence here for a slam dunk case and plenty of idiots who might want to give you some useful information for a lighter sentence."

"We've just got reports of gunshots at that location so we're on our way. Nicely done. Glad to have you back." Yuri said.

"Oh, you do care about me. I knew I could weaken that hard and crusty exterior you put up. So maybe we can get matching T-shirts now?" He said and heard Yuri sigh.

"I'm hanging up now." She said as she ended the call.

"Come on, Yuri. It'll be fun. Yuri? Yuri? Hello?" Spider-man called out.

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The next morning, Will took another shower with the peroxide/soap solution just to make sure the smell was gone, and it finally was. His suit still stunk a bit, but he was washing it again so hopefully it would be fine after that. Here was hoping. Will was currently in Dr. Connors lab going over some the data on Pinky and seeing how he was doing along with triple checking the data for the next serious of tests. His attention was brought away from the tests he was running because the scans and blood samples on Pinky were finished. Will looked them over and blinked a few times to make sure his eyes weren't screwing with him before he tripled checked the data.

"Oh my god…it's worked." Will was beyond thrilled to see the data. He heard the door open and saw Dr. Connors walk in. "Dr. Connors, look at this! The Recombinator worked on Pinky. The Tumor's gone!"

"What?" Dr. Connors ran over and looked over the data of Pinky's latest scan and it showed that the tumor was completely gone. Pinky was now 100% healthy, even more so for a typical rat his age. "We did it. We actually did it."

"I never doubted us for a second. We actually did it." Will and Dr. Connors hugged each other to congratulate a job well done and a monumental first step in all their research. "I knew we could do it."

"After all these years, it's still so hard to believe." Dr. Connors was a bit shaken and wasn't sure what to do next. He had worked for decades on this research and to see it work in front of his eyes was jarring.

"We did it, Dr. Connors. We actually fully healed and reversed a tumor. This is incredible." Will said.

"You're right. And now we can move onto cancerous tumor treatment. If this works like it did with Pinky…then we'll have a viable cure for Cancer." Dr. Connors said as Will smiled.

"I know it will work, Dr. Connors. This past year has done a lot to show me that nothing's impossible and this right here is one example of it. We're closer than ever before." Will said. "And you'll have me by your side to help however I can."

"And I'd proud to have you with me, Will. Now, shall we get started on the preliminary tests?" Dr. Connors asked as Will nodded and the two got to work on simulations for cancerous tumor treatments. It would take some tests but if they got that right, they'd have a viable cancer treatment that wouldn't just control it or send it into remission but actually cure it.

The two spent hours working on new samples for various cancer strains and additives to the RNA vial. Adding in new recombinant DNA samples, removing certain protein strains and even adjusting myosin levels for the new treatment was a lot of strenuous work but Will worked best when he was pushed harder and compared to fighting Shocker, this was a piece of cake. Around 8 o'clock, Dr. Connors and Will were on their 50th RNA sample adjustment for the cancer treatment. Will was adjusting the protein levels in the new sample when he saw Dr. Connors fighting the urge to fall asleep.

"Dr. Connors!" Will shouted as Dr. Connors jumped in his chair. "Maybe we should call it a night?"

"No, I'm fine." He said as he wiped his eyes and shook his head to wake himself up. "We can keep going."

"We've done a lot today. We've already got a steady RNA strain and now we're just adjusting it for the Recombinator. We can do that tomorrow. Something tells me that your wife would appreciate that and I know her well enough to not upset her." Will joked causing Dr. Connors to laugh.

"Yes, Martha can be like that." Dr. Connors said.

"You can head home. I'll clean and lock up and see you tomorrow." Will said as Dr. Connors nodded.

"Good idea." Dr. Connors got up and placed his lab coat on the coat rack and grabbed his bag. He looked back and saw Will saving all the data they had worked on and powered down the equipment. "Will."

"Yeah, Dr. Connors?" He asked.

"I don't know if I said it enough but I'm glad to have you here working with me." Dr. Connors said as Will smiled.

"Please, the honor's mine Dr. Connors. Out of all my professors here, you're the one that gets me the most and helped me foster my talents in science." He said.

"Your talents didn't need any more fostering, Will. Your mind is already brilliant and our work here is enough proof to anyone." Dr. Connors replied as Will smiled.

"I still have trouble believing any of this is real." He said as Dr. Connors raised an eyebrow.

"What do you mean?" Dr. Connors asked.

"Well, back in middle school a lot of my classmates didn't peg me more than anything than a nerd and yet here I am working with one of the country's greatest scientific minds on a new scientific method for curing cancer." Will said while thinking, and gaining super powers and being a superhero. "Life has a funny way of working out."

"That is one of the universal truths that not even science can explain. You've got a big future, Will…don't ever doubt that." Dr. Connors said as Will nodded.

"Just one question…will I get a mention when you accept your Nobel for this?" Will joked causing Dr. Connors to chuckle.

"You'll get more than a mention. Goodnight, Will." Dr. Connors bid him a goodbye.

"Goodnight, Dr. Connors." Will saw him leave and got to cleaning up. He put away the Recombinator and all their research in secure files and drawers. He grabbed one more large vial of web fluid and made his way back to his dorm room to grab his suit. He swiped his ID to unlock the door and walked in to see Aria and Emily in his room using his science tools for making something. "You know, I adjusted your ID's, so they open my door but I'm pretty sure I said to let me know."

"We did. We sent you a text." Emily said as Will took out his phone and saw they did send him a text about two hours ago.

"Huh, how about that?" Will said to himself as he put his backpack down and placed his new container of web fluid on his desk. "So, what brings you ladies to my one-man bachelor pad and hijacking all my tools?"

"Bachelor pad? Have you had a girl in here since we last spoke?" Aria asked as Will chuckled.

"You know me better than that, Aria. I've never had a girlfriend." Will said as he realized what he said. "I really need to stop saying that out loud."

"We're here to use your science tools for our costumes and I'm currently working on one of your new ones." Aria said.

"Oh. I thought you made the one I'm wearing now without my tools." He said.

"I did but I also used the stuff I had at my internship at Kingsley so here I use what I have and right now that means your stuff, which by the way, your soldering iron is way better than a hot glue gun." Aria said as she was using his soldering iron to stick some gems on a dress.

"Fair enough." Will said as he walked over and sat down at his desk and turned on his laptop. When he turned on his laptop, he was immediately met with his desktop background image which was a selfie of him and the girls at the dining hall. Aria had taken the selfie, so her face was closer to the camera. She was smiling while Spencer and Will were in mid-chew when the photo was taken, and Emily shielded her face with her hand to not have the photo taken. It was a funny moment and he liked it. It reminded him of the good old days and was also a reminder of three of the four reasons he fought to protect the city. His mother was one of them, Aria, Spencer, and Emily were the last three.

"Oh, that's a cute photo." Aria said as she got up behind him and looked at his desktop background.

"Not really." Emily said.

"That's because you were shielding your face." Aria told her.

"I don't know what you're so embarrassed about, Emily. You're very photogenic." Will added.

"Yup. You'd make one hell of a model if you wanted to." Aria said causing Emily to chuckle.

"Thanks, you two, but I'm fine with swimming." Emily said.

"Are you sure? I think Maya would be more than ok with it." Will said when his phone went off and he saw it was Spencer. "We'll come back to this later."

"No, we won't." Emily told him as Will chuckled and answered.

"Hey, Spence." Will greeted.

"Will, are you near a TV because turn it on to the local news." She said as Will turned on the TV in his room to the local news and saw the news reporter covering small tremors throughout the city. "I'm at the DA's office and everyone's going crazy about these tremors. They think it's another earthquake."

"It's not an earthquake. It's got to be Shocker. Spence, does the DA's office have any info of the epicenters?" Will asked.

"Yeah. We do." She said as Will brought up a map of the city. Emily and Aria watched as Will got to work.

"Read them to me." He said.

"24th and Broadway…54th and Madison…Oak and Adams street." Spencer read them as Will marked the courses on the map of the city and saw that all the epicenters for the quakes were equally spaced out in a straight line.

"That doesn't look like an earthquake." Emily said.

"It's because it's not. The epicenters and equally spaced out and heading in a straight line uptown. It's Shocker's trail of breadcrumbs for me. And I think I can find out where his next stop will be." Will said as he used the same pattern and Shocker would likely be at Greg's and Marc's next. "Thanks, Spencer. Stay there until you get word that it's safe."

"I will but what about you?" she asked as Will got up and pulled his suit out of his backpack.

"I'll be fine." He told her as he took off his shirt. "Time to go to work."

"Will, Shocker nearly killed you last time." Aria was worried for his safety. Shocker was different compared to the regular criminals he dealt with.

"I'll be fine, Aria. He got me by surprise that's all. I'll be ready." He said as he took off his pants and quickly put on his body suit.

"How can you stop him? You said that last time you couldn't even get close." Emily was worried as well that he could get killed but that didn't deter him as he put on his web shooters and slipped on his sweatshirt.

"I'll think of something. Don't worry, Spider-man's got this." He said as he slipped on his mask and jumped out his window and web swung away.

"Please be safe." Aria said as they watched him swing away.

Spider-man web swung through the city until he got to Greg's and Marc's street and stopped at an old rundown theater that was on schedule to be demolished. One of Hammerhead's street enforcers was on the sidewalk watching as he saw Spider-man swing through the air and land on the roof of the old theater.

"He's here." He spoke into a walkie talkie.

Spider-man got in through the old ceiling and lowered himself upside via his web into the old theater. "Here Shocky, Shocky, Shocky!" Spider-man called out as he hung upside in his signature spider perch. His spider sense went off as he quickly flipped through the air to avoid a shockwave and landed on the second-floor balcony to see Shocker step out from the stage.

"I really thought I ended you, old son but you've got more lives than a bag of cats. Still, I reckon we can remedy that situation." Shocker said as he fired another blast, but Spider-man jumped out of the way. Shocker's blast blew apart the balcony as he fired another blast, but Spider-man web zipped to avoid it. He web threw some old chairs at Shocker who blasted them to pieces.

"If you fight like this, I don't think you can remedy any situation." Spider-man said as he flipped through the air to avoid another barrage of sonic blasts. He backflipped four times in a row to avoid another blast and jumped into the air and stuck to an old support pillar. "And seriously? Bag full of cats? What was the saying to stubborn to die not hip enough for you?"

He swung through the air to avoid another series of sonic blasts as he fired some webbing which Shocker blew apart. "I admire your spunk son. Not enough to let you go, of course, that'd be bad for business." Shocker said as he fired more blasts, but Spider-man kept dodging. He flipped through the air and landed on the second-floor balcony and ran alongside it as Shocker fired a continuous shockwave that blasted it to pieces. He fired a web line and swung through the air and stuck to the ceiling.

"Whose business?! Who do you really work for?!" Spider-man shouted.

"Can't tell you the who." Shocker replied.

"Then tell me the why? What did your friendly Spectacular Spider-man ever do to you?" He asked.

"Oh, it' ain't nothing personal, Hoss. Simple truth is if a man's a man, he honors his responsibilities and you're one of mine." Shocker fired another blast, but Spider-man web swung over him and landed on a support pillar. He fired a web blast at Shocker's face to distract him and fired a web at the chandelier and yanked it down. It fell through the air and landed on Shocker, but his suit's defense mechanism released a shockwave that destroyed it.

Shocker growled at him and fired another blast, but Spider-man flipped through the air and landed on the wall. He looked and saw the damage Shocker had done to the support pillar and got an idea. "Well, the building is condemned, and it would save the city on destruction fees." He said to himself as he fired a web at the stage's curtain and pulled it on top of Shocker who blasted it apart in anger.

"You know it really ain't wise to make a dangerous man look foolish!" Shocker shouted as he fired a blast at Spider-man, but he jumped out of the way.

"You don't need my help for that! And it's part of my charm!" Spider-man shouted he flipped through the air. "Besides, have you looked in a mirror lately?! I know babies with a better sense of style than you. And as someone who had the worst style that's saying something."

Shocker fired another series of blasts, but he kept missing and was blasting apart more pillars and the walls of the theater. "Not to mention how incompetent you are. I mean, you've had more shots at me than Marco and O'Hirn." He said as he backflipped and avoided another blast which decimated a support pillar. "And that is just sad."

"Them boys are punks. This is my profession!" Shocker shouted as he fired a dual blast at Spider-man, but he swung away and avoided it.

"Oh, you do this for a living? With that accent I was thinking rodeo clown!" Spider-man shouted, using a bad southern accent on that past sentence.

"Don't you mock me, boy!" Shocker shouted as he fired another blast and Spider-man swung down and landed on a support pillar.

"I mock. I'm a mocker." Spider-man shouted as Shocker fired a blast at the support pillar Spider-man was on. Spider-man was clinging to the pillar as Shocker's blast sent the part he was clinging to clean off and through the air. "Also, a puller, a tugger, and a yanker."

He fired two web lines at two support pillars and using the momentum Shocker's blast gave him, he pulled the pillars clean apart as that was the straw that broke that camels back and every other support pillar in theater began to break like a line of dominos. The entire building shook violently as large chunks of the ceiling came down along with the walls and everything else. Shocker ran for the exit but was cut off as he saw the roof coming down on him. He raised his suit's shockwave defense, but the piling force of the crumbling ceiling was too much, and it gave way burying Shocker underneath a lot of rubble.

Spider-man stood off to the side at the now completely destroyed theater with Shocker unconscious and out of commission. "And that is what they call bringing down the house." Spider-man said as he took a dramatic bow.

The street enforcer stayed on the street and saw Spider-man hang up Shocker by a street light and strip him of his suit for the police. Once he saw that, he immediately called Hammerhead to let him know. Hammerhead was with the Smythe's at the secret research lab because the Big Man wanted him to touch base with them about Spider-man.

"Right, got it." Hammerhead hung up and looked at Spencer and Alistair. "You two owe my boss some answers. The bug is still alive, and he just took out Montana. So much for your next generation battle suit."

"Our battle suit was perfection. If the fault lays anywhere it's on your man Montana. Clearly, he wasn't as ready to take on Spider-man because if he was then he never would have been captured." Alistair told him.

"Or maybe your old man is losing his touch? It was a simple task and even he couldn't do that." Hammerhead said.

"Or maybe your so-called Enforcers aren't as tough as you think they are? Our technology is the best in the world and the fault doesn't lie with us but with the men you see fit to use them." Alistair told him.

"Calm yourself, Alistair." Spencer Smythe said to his son.

"The Big Man still wants Spider-man dealt with and so far, he ain't impressed with the service you two've been providing." Hammerhead said. "If he doesn't get his money's worth, then we might find someone who can."

"Calm yourself, Hammerhead. I've anticipated for any situation and thanks to the information our little reconnaissance drone recorded, we've gotten insight into the Spider-man and his abilities. With a little tinkering to a military project, I've designed something I believe your Big Man will be most happy with and can take down Spider-man." Spencer said as he took out a tablet and pressed a few buttons. The floor split apart to reveal a large metal trap door and then a metal podium rose to unveil the weapon. "I give you the Spider Slayer Mark 1, codename: Black Widow."

On the podium was a highly advanced large 8-legged spider drone. It was around the size of a tank and colored black and red. It had high-powered piston legs for increased mobility and dexterity, six hover jets underneath the body of the spider for flight, a 225-degree field of vision thanks to highly advanced cameras and lenses placed on the face, a hardened tensile steel/titanium outer shell with multiple onboard weapons and equipment made especially for dealing with Spider-man. (7)

"A simple wall crawling vigilante will be unable to stop the might of the Black Widow and due to careful analysis from our reconnaissance drone she is equipped with the perfect countermeasures to bring the wall crawler down." Spencer Smythe said. "A few more weeks of adjustments and last-minute tinkering and the Black Widow will bring you your Spider-man on a silver platter."

"Excellent." Hammerhead said with a smirk.

End of Chapter 2

1). Kain Parker's red and black Scarlet Spider suit

2). The Black Suit

3). Spider-man 2099 blue and red suit

4). Spider-man Future Foundation suit

5). Ben Reilly's Spider-man Suit

6). Flash Thompson from Sam Raimi's Spider-man 1 and Alison DiLaurentis from PLL.

7). Black Widow Spider Slayer from Spider-man the animated series.

I hoped you guys like this chapter. It just took up the first two episodes of Season 3 and I thought that's how someone like Will would interact with Team Arrow in those situations. He'd show up to stop Vertigo and Komodo while not aware of everything going on with them except from the things he hears like Laurel mentioning Sara's death. Will could piece together that information himself. He's kind of aware of Hammerhead and faced his first supervillain in Shocker. He'll only face more as time goes on. And we've got some more information in his past with Thea and it's not the best. It'll be interesting to see them interact again after all these years. Will's research and relationship with Dr. Connors will continue to grow. I kind of like the relationship in Spider-man the Animate Series between Dr. Connors and Peter as they got very close and he even asked Dr. Connors to give Mary Jane away at their wedding. With his dad dead, Will kind of looks at Dr. Connors in a fatherly like manner. Their research will continue and the seeds have been placed for the Lizard.

Next chapter, Will's suspicion on Sara's death is only fueled by Laurel's behavior and the fact he saves her from getting the crap kicked out of her. He learns that Malcolm Meryln is alive and then a weird cyber-terrorist group attacks the city which lets Will flex his tech skills and impress Captain Lance. Until then.

Also, for the pairing, I've narrowed it down to between WillxAria or WillxEmily. Spencer I'll stick with her boyfriend Toby because I think they're better as friends. So, please let me know what you think because it could really go either way with either of them. Also, with Will's spider suits, I'm kind of leaning towards the Ben Reily Spider-man suit as his regular suit. He'll get an eventual upgrade from STAR Labs when he eventually meets them but that's way off. He makes do with what Aria makes him and Ben Reily's Spider-man suit seems like a natural progression from his Scarlet Spider suit. But let me know what you think and what kind of technical suits and gadgets he should make.

William Alexander Detmer-Age 19: Birthday, October 8th, 1994

Moniker: The Spectacular Spider-man

Appearance: Tyler Posey

Uniform: Ben Reilly's Scarlet Spider suit. Mark 1 Web Shooters.

Skills: Genius intellect with 250 IQ, Super human strength, Super human speed, Super human reflexes, Super human agility and balance, Super senses, accelerated healing factor, wall-crawling/adhesive stick, Spider-Sense, Night Vision, and enhanced range vision, Bio-Electrokinesis/Venom strike-blast

Disclaimer: I don't own Spider-man, Arrow or any above mentioned products. All rights belong to their respective owners, I'm just a big fan.

Don't worry, there will be more updates this month as a Holiday gift for all my readers. Sorry for the delay but a computer crash and hard drive problems screw you over. Keep watch for updates to some of my others stories and enjoy the holidays. Spend time with family and loved ones, remember the people we've lost this year and aid those who aren't as lucky as us. Happy Holidays and be safe!