CHAPTER SIX
X-23 OR 24-A
NYC
Just because he was now going to a prestigious institute/home for Mutants which he was now a part of, and was thinking about telling the others that he was Spider-Man, he always worried about his secret hurting those around him, but these X-Men, yes some of them were young, that didn't mean they could take care of themselves, they were Mutants and they were using their powers for good. At the moment, Peter was leaned against a wall contemplating all of this in his Spider-Man suit, why was he in his suit, because he and Laura went out to handle another trafficking ring, this one was drugs 'Thankfully' and Laura wanted to have her go at them.
"Uh? Talon, you need any help in there?"
"GRRR!"
"Okay, I'll…I'll just stay here then"
He could hear the screams of those men, men who sold to children, black communities, anywhere they could make a profit from their poisons and tonight, they were ending, a man was sent flying out of the room and hit his face on the wall next to the friendly neighborhood hero. The man tried standing up…
POMP
…until he was knocked back down from a flick from Spidey, putting him back out, Spidey went back to leaning with his arms crossed against his chest before suddenly saying out loud
"So what do you think?"
A man walks up the stairs clad from head to toe in a Red Devil Suit that only has space for his mouth walked into the hallway, holding two coffees for him and his friend, handing one of them to him, Spidey takes it
"I knew she was good, but having her do her thing, Damn" Daredevil says before taking a sip from his coffee "What about you kid, how's life in a Mansion full of people like you?"
"Not bad, haven't told em about this (he motions to his Spider-Suit) yet"
"Do you want to?"
"It was either that or make a new persona for myself, and I'm still not even fully used to…
BAM!
The sound of a gun going off and worse for Daredevil, it sounded like it had impacted flesh and bone, he grabbed his Billy-Clubs and got ready to go in there and help the young former assassin until, another was sent flying out the room, Spidey finally called out
"You sure you don't need help, I mean it's not hassle don't take it the wrong way I believe in you completely and it…"
"Spider-Man, I get it, but don't worry, I'm fine, except my uniform may have a hole"
"It's a Bra-Top Talon!" Spidey yells back
"I refuse to take costume advice from a boy wearing a red and black spandex suit"
"The old one was awesome and this one is even better"
A/U: Remember Peter is wearing Kaine's Scarlet Spider suit
Peter said to her as he hears her growl
"Still not…taking advice [grunts] from you!"
The two men just stayed there for a while longer just sipping on their coffee as they wait for her to be done dismantling these losers, they wanted to go in, but Laura 'appealing' to Peter, suggested otherwise
"So how're things with you and that hot lady from Greece?" Peter asks, trying to pass the awkward silence somehow
"We're going steady, really good relationship" Matt answers, the sound of happiness in his voice made Peter think to tease
He starts poking Murdock in the arm "You gonna put a ring on her finger?" Pete grins under his mask
Matt scoff and asks in return "When are you gonna ask out the Claw Girl?" and just like that, Peter shut up with a huge blush on his face and his heart rate picking up
"Judging by how fast your heart is beating I'd say…"
"The two of you can come in, there are no longer scary men for you to cower before!" Laura yells from the other room an obvious smirk on her face
"Did she just make a joke?" Spider questions
"I think you're rubbing off on her" Matt declares
"Thanks Man"
"Not a compliment"
The two enter the room to see all 11 guys completely dismantled, all of them were on their floor, one guy was missing an arm, another a leg, a lot of them had gash marks around their chests, not severed limbs and even their eyes, it was a very violent scene but they all were alive, she didn't kill anyone, Spider-Man raised a hand to say something but Daredevil just put that hand down for him, shaking his head to tell him no. Spider-Man faced back to his partner Talon as she raised her shoulders, he knew this was the best he was getting, maybe they would get better at toning down the violence later, but hey, this was a really good step for her. Daredevil walked towards her, standing right in her face, him towering over the raven haired girl
"You didn't kill them?"
"I do not want to take lives anymore" was her only response
"And by what the picture you've painted her says, you're getting closer to that goal, keep going and you'll find your way"
"Good advice"
Peter was left in the background examining the area and what these guys were protecting, there was a door that had remained unbroken, and he wasn't sure what it was, but his Spider-Sense was telling him to go inside, so thinking about it, he kicks the door down to reveal a dark room, but the dark wasn't a problem to any of them, seriously two could see in the dark and one couldn't see at all
"Wait, what're these?" Peter asked as he pointed at something on the wall
Peter pulled out a map of the area, it seemed to have multiple locations of properties owned by Wilson Fisk, they could guess that these must be some of his strongholds across Manhattan, some of them Peter recognized as places of public welfare.
"These must be locations that The Kingpin uses for his criminal purposes, gunrunning, drugs, human trafficking, weapons" Laura deadpanned "If these are locations of his strongholds, then they will have to be of close proximity to somewhere he could reach with little delay"
"Yeah we can figure out the location later, because Laura and I don't have much time left before I have Danger Room training for the first time" Peter tells Daredevil as he grabs Laura and the jumps out the window "See you another time man, tell your Girlfriend I said Hi!"
Spider-Man while in midair fires a web line swinging while holding Laura by the waist, he blushed madly behind the mask as her breasts pressed against the sides of his chest, he stops and the two of them barrel roll on the roof of a building and land perfectly. Peter turns around to watch as Daredevil moves through the city, a blinded man moving better than people with regular vision and all he could say was
"So Cool"
He grabs Talon and the two get back to swinging. While for Daredevil, as the man without fear maneuvers through the city as if he were a trained acrobat, he performs an aerial cartwheel onto an air conditioning duct and turns around, his Radar Pulse Detecting Spider-Man swinging through the city a mile away
"Still Cool"
And like that, the two men, the two friends, two vigilantes of New York City who respect each other mutually and respect each other.
WESTCHESTER
Peter and Laura both snuck into the Xavier Institute Compound, being careful not to trip the defenses, they didn't log into the system when they left, so they couldn't log in a sudden entry and as they reached Laura's balcony, she hopped on Peter's back as he silently crawled up the wall of the building to her room. Peter sat on her porch watching her enter her room, he smiled at her as she entered her room
"So are you going to get ready for your training in 3hrs or are you gonna keep ogling at me"
Her statement making Peter blush madly as he tried thinking of an excuse, he rubbed the back of his neck which Laura had established meant that he was either nervous or over thinking something, she just chuckled to herself as she smiled at him
"Get going you already idiot"
"Can I get a kiss goodnight?"
Now it was time for Laura to blush madly as she didn't expect him to come at her with such a blatant request for a kiss, that caught her completely off guard which is something that Peter noticed, smiling under the mask "Good night my astonishing Talon" he says as he falls backwards from her balcony, shooting a web line, he swings across the Mansion, passing by Bobby Drake's room and seeing that he sleeps with a face mask and cucumber slices on his eyes
"Makes sense for him honestly" Peter thought to himself as he continued swinging, finally reaching his room, which was next to Kitty and Rogues, passing it he also noticed that for some deluded reason, Kitty slept with headphones on and her alarm was the loudest music in the entire Mansion 'Poor Rogue' was all that could be said as Peter finally crawled into his room.
He walks up to the ceiling, he begins taking off his costume, dropping it down to the floor as he thinks to himself 'Can I get a kiss goodnight? Ugh why'd I say that? Mouth how could you betray me like this?' Peter's thoughts exploded as he was confused and yelling at himself for so blatantly trying to flirt with Laura. What was he thinking? She was way out of his league and he didn't like her like that, did he? Did she like him?
His thoughts were all over the place as he paced on the ceiling and unto the floors of his room in the X-Mansion, walking up and down, literally, thinking about Laura, was he, did he have a crush on her? No way, he was just getting over Gwen, his brain was already panicking at the thought, there was no way he was already having a crush on this girl, RIGHT?
MEANWHILE ELSEWHERE
OSCORP, The Company that was built by the now deceased Norman Osborn, aka The Green Goblin, the public was unaware of this, and the only ones who knew of this, were Harry Osborn, his son, whom although never truly admitted it, knew his father wasn't a good man, but becoming the Goblin was just going over the line, all the people he killed, all the lives and families he ruined, Harry was brought to a state of not only hating his father for what he had become, but also knowing that his best friend was Spider-Man, didn't help as much, but also, he knew that Norman killed himself that day and Peter didn't do it, didn't make the hurt capsize though.
Harry was walking to his Penthouse at the top of a building owned by his father, now that he was running Oscorp, he needed to be thought, he had to deal with a new competitor trying to buy up Oscorp Properties and he couldn't have that. He knew who the man was and he knew he needed to be stopped, but he wasn't like them, he wasn't like him.
Harry looked at a photo of his best friends, Gwen, MJ, Peter and himself, the three dumbest geniuses ever and the badass party girl and future supermodel. He missed those days, now he and MJ were dating and Peter was possibly going out with a hot goth girl whom he'd never met and would like to meet. She seemed to really make his best friend happy and he liked when his friends were happy, especially since Gwen.
Mary Jane walked out of the pantry, she was wearing nothing but a red lace bra and panties, her sultry body on full display for the young Osborn, he sure wasn't complaining, rubbing the sand outta her eyes
"Harry?"
"Yeah babe"
He answered her while working on his computer, he was really trying to control himself and not jump at her, he was Really trying not to jump at her. She walked towards him, her freckled tits had a certain bounce to them, man, puberty really hit her with that good shit. Stop it Harry! But Why though? Was what his inner voice said to him as she approached him and sat on his laps,
"Burning the early morning Oil?" MJ asked her boyfriend "Seriously, you've been doing this ever since you got this new cure for yourself"
Harry didn't like her worrying about him, but it was what all good girlfriends did, they took care of their man and made sure they were okay. And Harry, he was okay, his cure worked, it was fighting back against his disease right now and he had never felt better, he was stronger, healthier, he felt better than he had ever felt in his entire life.
"How about you come back to bed, I can actually stay with you to make sure you sleep well" she said biting her lip
"Wow red, are you going where I think you're going?" Harry asked in a flirtatious tone
She leaned closer to his ear "Where do you think I'm going?" Harry smiled and picked her off her feet, carrying her away as the two went to do their private stuff while MJ chuckled softly.
But unknown to the love birds, as the two had left the room, a figure snuck into their Penthouse, a feminine figure in an all-black leather cat burglar suit and a black domino mask, she had shinning silver hair and sparkling green eyes. The Cat Woman dropped down from her vantage point, landing safely and quietly on the floor 'Cats always land on their feet' she moves towards the computer, since Harry had forgotten to close it, the thief had an easier time breaking into it and she began downloading files on everything concerning 24-A, she then left the computer on as to not leave any trace of herself behind, unknown to her that she dropped something as she quietly made her way out the way she came in.
06:00AM
Laura awoke because of the light, she was really starting to sleep in late, ever since Peter arrived she had felt more normal, in a sense, she currently had bed head, which was an apparent normal phenomenon that happened to people, she walked out of her room still in her PJs headed downstairs to the Kitchen, where everybody was joined together for breakfast. Consisting of Storm's cooking, Bacon, Eggs, Pancakes, Wheat cakes thanks to Peter, (the smell of them made her smile) she sat down next to Ms. Munroe, she and her had formed a real connection with her, as well as Jubilee.
She sat down on the chair next to Jubilee, but also next to Sunspot, Iceman and Magma were arguing about something on the other side of the table, she wasn't sure what, she didn't really care either, Tabitha Smith was listening to music while on the table.
"Laura, good to have you here with us" Charles said to the young girl
Laura nodded to the Professor, with Logan coming down to meet the group, he was already with a beer in hand, which was normal for him in the morning, he sat down with that drink, pouring it in a mug for himself with a smile.
"Mornin' Chuck, Smile, Red"
The Canadian Mutant sat down on his seat next to Ororo, and when then Laura noticed something, that out of everybody, Peter wasn't here, she was eating her bacon, eggs, toast and hot sauce. She always liked her foods spicy, the facility she grew up in always kept foods stale so she would never enjoy it, prioritizing nutrition over actual taste.
While eating Breakfast, Laura noticed something, that Peter wasn't here, which was strange, his powers included a hyper active metabolism, which meant he would have to consume more food than any of them, so him not being here was strange, and so was Mr. McCoy, so she had to ask them about it. But before she could answer that, Peter came up to the table, still in his Pajamas pants like everybody else in the morning, taking in some of the massive amounts of food.
AFTER BREAKFAST
Peter was getting ready for his first day of Danger Room training, this was a simple exercise, just make it for as far as he can without getting hurt. He was wearing the dark blue and Orange Uniform, it was a little bit tighter than his regular Uniform but he wasn't complaining, he swung around in a skin tight red and blue spandex for 2years, this wasn't so bad, but it did feel weird without the mask though and the huge X on his chest felt like he had just been drafted to join a secret army. He hadn't joined a secret army right. Right?
His com-set went off in his ear, he winced in pain as the feedback slightly hurting his enhanced hearing, he tapped it and listened to Scott's voice on the intercoms, he and everybody was watching from the surveillance room
"Okay Parker" said Scott "Your goal is just to see how long you can last in a dangerous situation, if at any point you start to feel uneasy, just say so, and we'll stop"
"And remember, this is just a training exercise, we can stop at any time" Jean added
"Don't sweat it Marvel Girl…"
"Marvel Girl?"
"…I'm used to Danger and Stress"
"What/Vhat?" Jubilee, Kitty, Rogue, Kurt and Bobby asked at once
And like that, the test began, with the Danger Room becoming opening up to become a mess of laser systems, saw blades and blockades. Peter begins by running at the traps, following through the first walkway, he quickly leaps over a trap door set below him, landing on the other side and dodging multiple lasers fired from behind without even seeing them. This had just started and Charles, Logan and Scott were already surprised at that.
The lasers continue to open fire on him, with him skillfully, gracefully dodging and weaving his way through all of them, making sure not a single one of them hit him ever once, as he backflips away, he catches himself on one arm, launching himself forward. The saw blades were what came next for him, two coming at him horizontally from above and below, Peter making himself limp as he slides between the two of them, remaining unharmed as he comes out the other side still unfazed. As he lands on the other side, the room starts to collide at him, the pressure plates trying to smash him, he jumps forward, performing multiple front flips to stay ahead of each colliding plate, "Okay Spidey, you can do this, you dodge this kind of stuff all the time with Sandman, and the lasers, don't get me started with Shocker and Electro, the blades, Doc Ock was so last year" Peter quips in his brain as he continues to effortlessly dodge all the things this room had to throw at him "Come on Scott, I thought this was meant to be dangerous?!"
"Oh, Kid's got a mouth on him. Let's fix that"
Scott turns up the difficulty of the room, and again, more lasers, floors dropping out on him at multiple turns, flame throwers, power hoses, falling glass, what the heck?
But did any of this deter Peter, not on Scott's best day.
Peter jumped on one of the flying drones that was also shooting lasers at him while working with others to shoot even more lasers at him in patterns, Peter swings his body to the side to dodge a sort of rectangular shape of lasers, planting the palm of his hand on another drone, he side-flips off it, ejecting one of his Stingers, he spins and slashes the drone in half, before falling down to the ground. The Stinger though was enough to attract some attention from the X-Men, noting how similar it was to Logan and Laura's claws, they looked to be Bone Spikes by what they could tell from them.
Peter continued his avid free rampage, he had the widest smile on his face 'You know, I've never really been able to just sit back and cut loose, and they want to know what I can really do, I guess I should show them everything, Right?' as Peter landed on the wall, running on the sides so perfectly that it was as if his feet stuck perfectly to them, the room shot three poles connecting to the other side to obscure his movements, but it did nothing as he simply threw a backward dive to launch himself threw it. Shooting a web line on the other side, he slips through the wall of flames coming from above him, and below him, making his way to the other side. And finally landing on the ground in a crotched one hand and knee pose, raising his head to simply ask what happens next. And again, Scott increases the difficulty to maximum settings.
Peter stood up, cracking his back and arm muscles, before the room begun to change once again, first the pure metallic surface went completely dark, then with the lights coming back on, they were now in what appeared to be Paris, the Eiffel Tower being all the proof he needed, unless he was in the replica in Las Vegas.
"Okay Peter, now Paris is being invaded by Hydra, your job is to protect civilians and take down the Agents, think you can handle that"
Peter simply cracked his neck and that was the only answer he gave Scott Summers, the, he wasn't sure if it was arrogance or confidence at this point, but it was starting to tick him off and Logan was just loving watching Summers go nuts.
Back Inside the Danger Room, Peter ejected both of his Stingers, and even his clawed fingers as well, as more saw blades come rushing at him from the front with the sole intention of shredding him to pieces, but this was nothing new to the Wall Crawling Vigilante. Rushing at the blade, he entrusts in what Laura and Nick Fury said about his stinger now more than ever as both blades come at him, one at the level of his feet and the other at his head.
Peter side flips through both of the blades right through the middle, with both of them passing right over him, allowing him to pass, but not before he uses one of his stingers to slash the mechanism controlling the blades, allowing him with drag and rip it off its hinges. He spins around while still in the air and then finally, he throws it at the next obstacle, which was supposed to be Automated rounds, but now they were both lash a round. Peter lands on the ground, doing a full side flip and landing on his signature Spiderman pose. Kitty seemed to notice the similarities between Peter and the Wall Crawling hero just goes "Hmm?" but the others were surprised and more even impressed by the way the Speed, Strength and Agility he just showcased to them.
Logan turns to Charles who was sitting in-between the standing Storm, and Cyclops, with the other X-Men behind them, Rogue, Iceman, Nightcrawler, Magma, Cannonball, Jubilee, and so on.
"He's good" Cannonball said with a nod, obviously impressed with Peter's moves "I mean the guy is the hardest level of the Danger Room and isn't even so much as breaking a sweat"
"Yeah, the only ones to ever do that are…" Jubilee said turning to her father and sister figures "Man, think he might have a relationship to those two?" she whispered and leaned to Magma
"No idea, maybe, probably not"
Back with Peter, this felt amazing to him, dodging, weaving and evading everything this place had to throw at him, it felt like the good days of being Spider-Man, before all the shit hit the fan, yes that did happen almost really quickly but hey, this was fun.
And then he reaches the finish line.
Landing and performing a frontal roll and immediately gets up, smiling at his housemates. Raising his hand he gives them a big thumbs up to which Logan, Kitty, Kurt, and a simple nod and small smile from Laura, 'God I~ nope I live with two maybe more telepaths I do not need that thought out there' 'What Thought?' the voice of Jean Grey peered through his thoughts and he frowned at her 'Stay out of my head Jean'
Coming out of the Danger Room, Peter is absolutely rejuvenated, he needed a work out and that was one of the best and most dangerous that he had ever had. That didn't stop the other X-Men from coming after him though, with all the younger members, The New Mutants, where he and Laura were, except she absolutely refused to wear their Uniform, opting to wear the one that Peter really seemed to like, by the way he ogled at her. (And she would never admit that she liked it) but he had done good for himself, and maybe she can tease him a bit later.
Up in the control room, Scott, Logan, Charles, Kurt, Jean, Hank and Rogue are all watching Peter's moves, his Speed, Strength, his Physicality was almost baffling to them, he was in every way, similar to Logan and Laura, but by the fact he was able to move a 3Ton weight with ease would provide something else entirely. Then there was the Bone Spike he ejected from his wrists, another similarity to Logan, so Jean was the first, she just had to ask the question first.
"Logan" Jean started "Did you maybe have an affair with a woman in your past and now you've brought to us your son you didn't know you had?" she asked
Kurt, Kitty, and Rogue all looked at her a certain way, with a What the Fuck Jean? Look on their faces
Jean looked at them and shrugged her shoulders as to say What?
And Rogue's arched eye brow says it all
Jean's low brow answers back
Until Logan finally answers for all of them "Okay first, No Jean, he isn't one of mine" Logan answered "I did know his parents though"
This surprised the team though, who was Peter Parker and how did Logan know his parents, who were they, all Logan's answer did was open up a whole new can of questions and they all wanted answers.
"Vell? Vho were they?" Kurt asks
"Just some old friends of mine, helped me out a couple ah times"
"Really, and then you tried to get into the moms pants" Scott teased
"No, I will have you know I did not try to do that Summers" Logan and Scott bantered back
"I would also want to know more about Mr. Parker, because with these scans of his muscles dexterity" Hank Cut in their conversation "It would seem that the boy has a lot more physical strength than he's letting on and this X-Ray from my lab" he shows an image of Peter from his earlier scan
"What're those things in his arms?" Rogue asked
"That my dear Rogue, as we've seen, the lower one would be that Bone Spike he showcased earlier" Beast answered
"And the one on top?" Charles asked
"That, this would sound insane but I believe it is a Spinneret, the organ in a spider that allows it to Spin Webs"
"Wait, you mean to tell me zhat Peter Parker, the man who's are age, is Spider-Man?" Kurt questioned
"Probably not, but might just have similar abilities, but I might want to ask him about the Radiation in his blood"
NIGHT TIME
Spider-Man and Talon, New York City's new young crime fighting duo, the two having shared each other past sorrowful events and now, there was a complete trust between them, and as of tonight, the two of them were going to send a message to a certain Oversized Billionaire who thought he could control everything.
At Fisk Enterprises, the tower in which Wilson Fisk, The Kingpin used to Lord over and look down upon the city as he enabled massive and untold number of criminals to reign over it and abuse the innocents all for his own benefit and Daredevil already explained something to them, that Wilson Fisk is a man who has Cops, the Mayor, Lawyers, he has everything he could need to stay on top and now he was looking to start a new trade. Trading of Living Weapons, trading of people he calls Freaks, people with powers, Mutants.
Matt had been looking into this though, he knew about something like this happening, according to the information, the Kingpin had been approached by a strange unknown group, all he knew about them was that they were even more illustrious than the Hand, keeping themselves secret and not sharing anything. But apparently, the Kingpin was currently helping them to find and ship out young mutants, this had been done before a few times, but right now.
The two swung through the city as fast as they could towards the Harbor, Talon hung on Spider-Man's back, even if they were moving so fast, the scenes they were passing were still incredible to behold, she had seen some of them before and now, now it somehow managed to be even more beautiful than ever, the vibrant colors, all the people getting on with their days, their everyday lives and everyday activities.
The Pair finally made it to the Manhattan Cruise Terminal, they landed on top of crate mover, watching from above as these people were moving around, with a quick sniff from Talon, she already has a total number of the scum bags that were helping them ship off the Mutants.
"Got em all?" The Spider asks his partner in crime and heroism
"Yes, 22 in total, 6 to the West, 4 to the East, 12 to the North, right where the ships are to come in"
"So, where do you think they're keeping the hostages"
"North, there would not be a need to have so many guards in one place" Talon explains to him
Spider-Man and Talon, faced each other with a smile
"I go High/Low" they said in unison
With that little exchange of game plans over with, the two drop down to the ground below, landing and dropping the two guys below them '20' facing each other with a slight nod where Spider-Man shoots a web line and swings up to the top of the crates, going high. While Talon, quickly moving out of a spot shinned on by Moonlight, and into a location where the darkness reigns over, sticking to the shadows as her stealth training demands.
Staying Low.
The pair move through the area rather quietly, with Spider-Man using quick Web Zips to different locations, the two were within an ear shot of each other, making sure that they keep each other close but not getting caught either.
With Laura, she was careful as to not be seen by anybody, her years in high end Stealth and Infiltration Training coming to the fold, being careful as she walks behind two guys, they were both talking to the other
"So think what they say is true, that the boss is starting to ship Super Freaks?" Goon 1 asked
"Don't know, don't care, I'm just here to get paid" Goon 2 answered while snacking on a candy bar "But in my honest opinion, not really sure what to think of is going on down there with that kid, Freaky Skin"
Laura had heard enough as she kicked Goon 1 in the back of his leg, dropping him down to the knee, she uses his other knee as a launch platform to attack the second guy, she locks him in both knees and pins him to the ground, before she uses a back flip kick to attack and slice his gun in half with her foot claw. The first guy was knocked out, but the second was still conscious, grabbing and pinning him to the crate, the familiar sound of SNIKT is heard and the pour man lays eyes on her Adamantium claws
"Scream and I slight your throat" she whispers growled to him aggressively
The man nodded a response and she glared right into his eyes
"Where are they keeping the prisoners?"
"I don't know" he says
And she brings the claws closer to his eyes, almost mere inches away, the girl asks him her question again and once again he gives his answer
"Please don't hurt me I really don't know, I'm just outer security, I'm not supposed to know where it is"
Reading his body language, she can tell that he isn't lying to her, he's more afraid than anything, good, she wanted him afraid, she sheathes her claws and then she kicks him in the nuts, he falls to the ground wincing in pain. Unable to bear it. Laura faces up to another high crate mover, with her enhanced vision she can see her partner up there, staring at her, but why, then it clicked to her, he was waiting to see what she'll do, jerk. Her assumptions were quickly squashed by him outstretching his hand in a thumbs up. She didn't respond to the gesture, but she did like that he gave it to her. So she thought to be nice and give him a nod in response.
Meanwhile with Peter, he was camping above everybody, using his Inferred Vision to try and spot out any and all perpetrators of tonight's little festivities and now, he counted 15, with the three he took down stuck to walls in web nights, his new webs didn't dissolve like the old ones, but maybe that was a good thing, because making '14' he had the guy he had just snatched from the ground dangling off his feet for over 20stories high up
"Where are the goods chuck?" Spider-Man asked, glaring at him while hanging him upside down
"I... I… I don't know, please I'm just"
"If you give me the 'I'm just Security excuse' I'm gonna drop you" Spider-Man said, not only dropping the man's confidence but also lower the amount of fingers he was using to hold him up "1, 2, 3…"
"Okay, okay! Just don't drop me, please, look the goods are in red and blue containers over there, the ones that're diverged from the others"
"Now was that so bad"
Peter wrapped the man up in webbing, creating a cocoon around him as he stuck and hung him upside down to the Container Carrier. Looking down, he calls Talon
"Hey Talon, I just made my 6th Catch, how's your doing" he asks, a slightly flirtatious tone to his voice
"Oh that's good"
"Thanks I think we…"
"I'm not sure what to do now that I'm on my 10th"
And with that, The Spider refused to allow himself to be beaten by Talon, she already had a somewhat ego of calling him an idiot, so he jumps down from the height he was at and begun to glide down softly. He Glide Kicks a guard, making his count 7, he shoots another web swinging up as he grows his claw fingers, slashing another guy's gun into pieces and then, he then kicks him in the torso, sending him flying back into a wall. As two more come running with their weapons trained on him, they try to take him down, but Peter shoots two web lines at their legs, pulling them to the ground, jumping up into the sky, he dropkicks them both, before tossing them into the back of a nearby car. Making his count 9.
Taking down the rest of these goons, but then finally, Spider-Man and Talon walked towards their final destination, Talon sniffed out the container they were looking for, but then, Laura picked up something, something different, and something triggered Peter's Spider-Sense. But whatever the threat was, it was far away, no not far, this was the sensation he got when someone was watching them.
Far away, Peter was right, as a mere Two Miles away, a woman, a dark haired woman with a sadistic grin on her face as she stared through a sniper barrel at the two Weapons, X-23 and 24-A,
"Hi X, good to see you're still using the skills we taught you" she whispered to herself
Back with the two child weapons, Peter and Laura were both in a state of worry as the tingle in his Spider Sense started to slowly subside, but it hadn't gone away yet, so he chose to keep his guard up, using Inferred, he was looking around for anybody but the only thing in the direction were people and with the heat of the city, the moving cars, he couldn't really see much in terms of people. Shit!
Laura used her claws to cut open the locks to the Container, Peter then grabs the handle and forcefully drags them open, looking inside there was only one person inside, it was a girl, she was crawled into a corner in the darkness of this small container crate. Spider-Man tried to step inside but the girl was too afraid, she tried to crawl in deeper, Talon saw this, looking at the girl, she was able to see in the darkness so she could see the girl's face clearly, just a look at the girl made you think she was a junkie, she had all the signs from her constant sweating, she looked quite drowsy, her bloodshot eyes, the way she shivered in the corner, but there was something else, in her eyes, there was a look of fear in them, like something had been done to her.
"Spider-Man…" Laura called out to her partner in a calm voice"
He turned around to see her motioning for him to come with her head, he looked back at the girl with slight confusion and stepped out to meet Talon
"Everything alright?" Spidey questioned
Talon looked at the girl in there, it was her eyes, they looked forced "She's been drugged"
A small wave of anger rushed over him as he clenched his fist, he wanted to find out who did this and just, shove his entire fist through his brain and out his ear, but right now he had to relent
"Is there anything we can do for her?" he asked
She clenched her fist as well, she hated things like this "It gets worse"
"Please don't tell say rape" he quickly retorted, not wanting to here that
But she just nodded to it and his anger rose to unfamiliar heights, this was beyond wrong, this was just wrong on so many levels, the things they've made that girl go through, maybe she has someone looking for her, until finally, Talon gets an idea, the girl is scared and two teenagers in scary costumes aren't going to make it better.
So this time, she walks into the container crate, the girl was still inside it quivering, the scent of fear was adamant in her, Laura could feel it and then, out of nowhere, she takes off her mask, revealing her emerald orbs behind the red lenses
"It's okay, I won't hurt you" Laura spoke in a calming sweet tone "We are here to get you out of here"
The girl started to calm down, Spider-Man seeing what Laura just did, the masks, the girl needed to see that they were just like them, right now she only saw two strangers in masks telling her things she wouldn't understand, she was afraid and they needed to show her that she had nothing to fear from them. Slowly but surely, Spider-Man follows his partners lead, taking off his mask in front of the teenage girl, showing that she was roughly the same age as some of the Magma or Mirage, she looked to be about around 13-15 at most.
The girl inside, was a young, she was rather average height for her age, reaching Peter just right above his elbow, the first thing to really notice about her was her Pink with Brown outgrown messy wispy bangs, evident at the fact she hadn't showered in what smelled like days. Her eyes were ruby red, almost shining in the dark with pinkish highlight on the edges, her skin was pale, even without the drugs she looked quite ghostly, she had a heart shaped face with fit perfectly with her chosen hair style, her cheeks were bonier as her arms and legs were slightly skinned down, and finally, she was dressed in a dark green T-Shirt with Blue Denim Jeans and Brown Boots.
She took two steps forward before falling, her legs haven't moved in quite a while, Laura quickly catches her, she was still shivering, her skin was cold, Spider-Man helped her from the other side, the two of them carrying her towards the exit of the harbor. When Spider-Sense goes off, Peter turns around the corner to look towards the exit, to see the police coming towards them, with a squad of officers coming out of their cars and aiming their guns at the two vigilantes
"Spider-Man and accomplices, put your hands in the air now, by order of the NYPD, you are under arrest for illegal entrance into private property"
Spider-Man trying to de-escalate the scenario, raises his hands defensively and tries to calm down the officers
"Hey, hey, look, this girl was kidnapped, Talon and I rescued her, but she needs medical attention right now" the wall crawling hero explained to the officers
Talon, getting better looks at them than her naïve partner, she sees some of them starting to turning off the safeties to their firearms, then the one in the back, he reaches out for his com-set,
{Boss, it's like you said, they're here, we're about to take care of them now}
And Laura hearing this, immediately shouts for her friend
"They work for Fisk!" she yelled out
"FIRE!"
And the cops immediately open fire on three of them, with Laura using her body to cover the unnamed girl from the incoming bullets, she was protecting her, but then, she never felt the bullets hitting her and what sounded like, sparks. Turning around, she didn't expect what she saw next, it was Peter, but there was something in front of him, it looked like a Web Shield, he turned back to her to smile beneath the mask and she just rolled her eyes at her friend, but that only widened his smile.
The girl was already freaking out, she was sweating even more and covering her ears from the sounds of gunfire, the sounds were so loud, so loud, but then she felt something, looking up at one of the Security Lights, it was shining on her, outreaching her hand, she begins to drain the light from the Light Post, and her body, her formerly sickly body, it all just begun to heal, the way she breathed, it wasn't strained anymore. And Damn, the girl had gone from flake to bombshell in literally 3.7seconds, because both of them were checking out the 15yr old kid who just grew a whole foot, now her clothes were slightly too small for her on the chest region, rivaling Laura's. (Peter's teenage boy thoughts)
The girl remained crouched down to avoid the bullets firing on him, but then Spider-Man had an idea, he and she both heard the sound of the cops reloading
{Flank them, Boss wants them both gone and the girl back where she belongs}
And with that, Spider-Man and Talon jumped into action, with Spider-Man, THWIP, shooting multiple web lines, sticking to their guns and pulling them out of their hands, just in time for Talon to pounce on them, she delivers a high kick to one of the officer's heads, knocking him back and out, just for Spider-Man to come from below with another one, sliding between his legs, he flips up with a double round house kick, knocking the man to the ground and sending him flying six feet away.
Talon punched one of them in the gut, using her claws to stab into another one's leg, the man screams in pain as she strikes him in the jaw with a palm strike to the chin, she flips up, locking a third cops head between her thighs as she flips him onto the ground with her body.
While for Peter, although his fighting style is much less refined, more akin to instinct, using his natural abilities in his fight, not just his powers, but using his whole body, as he rushes into a cop, pressing his side arm into his body, he flips him into the air, performing a backflip in which he catches his head in his legs, using two web lines, he pulls him down, knocking him out.
He performs a spin kick to a guy's head, sending him drowsy towards Talon, her striking him with a Groin Kick, the man falls to his knees in pain for his crotch, falling face first to the ground.
"Man that was just cruel" Spider-Man tells his partner
"No time for cruelty, only punching" she says as she spinning elbows one of them in the torso,
"Fair" said Spider-Man as he grabs a guy from behind and delivers him with a devastating Suplex
One of the cops finally manages to grab his gun from off the ground, he quickly albeit sloppily gets the gun and points it at the two Vigilantes, but as he was about to open fire, the gun is fired upon by a beam of pink light, melting it completely, he screams in pain and falls to the ground in tears.
Spider-Man and Talon both turn around to see the girl, her hands and eyes glowing pink with light, facing back towards each other, they nod in a 'Later' type fashion. Talon flip kicks a guy into the air, for Spider-Man to web his leg and slam him to the ground, his groans of pain were very adamant as his back broke concrete. "Yeesh, put some ice on that dude" "Ice? Really?" Spidey shoulder shrugged and web pulls a guy towards the two of them and they proceed to deliver a double round house kick to the man's torso, sending him flying back.
And with that, all the corrupt cops were dealt with, it hurt Peter knowing that the New York Police who were meant to be the best and bravest, were actually a bunch of cowards who could be bought off into helping the very criminals they put away, they deserved to be thrown into the very same prisons.
The Girl walked closer to the Teenage Vigilante Duo "Um? Hello?" she said very shyly
The two of them turn around to face her, not having forgotten she was there, but in the heat of the moment, they kind of did, well Peter did, Laura, not even for a second
"Who are you?" she asks them
"Oh right, I'm Spider-Man, this is my partner in heroism and crime, Talon" he announced with a bow "But of course we don't actually commit any crimes"
"We just broke into a legally owned Fisk Property, beat up the security and the cops whom were here to stop us" Laura listed
"They worked for Fisk"
"I didn't say they didn't, I said Fisk Legally owns this place and we broke into it Illegally and thus we broke the law"
"You just love to one up me don't you?"
"I love even more proving that you're an idiot"
"You wouldn't change me being an idiot, it's part of the reasons you Love me"
This made Laura blush madly, she does her usual stoic expression, but on the inside, she was absolutely blushing hard, sweating with her face burning red, she didn't show any real emotion, just folding her arms under her chest, then looking back at the girl
"Do you have a name?" Laura asked her, a slightly annoyed tone to her voice
"Lydia" the girl finally speaks up "Lydia Mercer"
"My name is Talon; this is Spider-Man"
"Wait, Spider-Man? As in the Amazing Spider-Man?"
"Yep, and please don't believe what the Bugle says about me, I'm very soft and cuddly"
The girl was again unnerved, she didn't know where she was, who these people were, but at least she knew their faces, she could use that as a bargaining chip, even though they just saved her, she needed to find her brother.
"Thank You" she was about to move, when suddenly, she became all wobbly, her feet had given out beneath her as she falls down, only to be caught by Peter, he just acted on instinct and now. Laura checked her pulse, the girl was still breathing and her pulse was still strong, but then they heard it, her stomach groaned, meaning that the girl, Lydia was quite hungry.
"Do we take her back to the Institute?" Peter asked
"We can't bring her back to your Aunt's house"
"So that's a yes to the Institute, Of course"
With Lydia in an unknown condition, Laura had to take care of her while Peter swung them both across NYC
But Unknown to the Teenage Vigilantes, that black haired sadistic smirked woman, was still watching them, because this wasn't just any woman,
Kimura
She had been spying on the two of them, watching, evaluating and once they left, her grin only grew as she let out a laugh, it was quiet, but that quiet laugh contained all the plans this evil, Evil woman was concocting in her mind for the Two Weapons and finally, she contacted The Facility.
"Secure Doctor Warren, tell him he'll have his work cut out for him on this one" Kimura ordered over her com-set "Which one, I'm yet to establish that, I'll get back to you on the Winner"
Kimura says that as she raises a vial with a green liquid inside,
"I've always loved watching you get Triggered Dear X, but let's see how you fair against the New Generation of Weapons. Huh?" Kimura chuckled to herself, the mere thought of inflicting X-23's suffering put a smile on her face
NEXT: AND THE WINNER IS…TAKEN
A/N: Okay I'm sorry if this Issue feels a little rushed, I was trying to get somewhere else fast but I guess I didn't think about the stories in between them, again, I'm Sorry, oh and sorry I haven't been very active, I got sick last week when I was supposed to post both this, and Spider-Man: Hybrid, which Chapter 3 is already in the works and will deal with the side effects of Tony's actions, if you haven't read it, please do so.
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