Volume II: The Sinister Six
Note: This will be the sixth chapter of Volume II, this will be the first appearance of the team of supervillains calling themselves the Sinister Six. Master Planner has been revealed as Doctor Octopus as he assembled a team consisting of himself, Shocker, Vulture, Mysterio, Sandman, and Kraven the Hunter as they get their revenge on Spider-Man. Spider-Man will need to team up with Ghost-Spider in order to stop them but they will need to learn to trust one another if their partnership is to work.
The day is October 1st, a villain calling himself the Boomerang has broke into the bank and has already taken care of security.
"No need to panic, I'm just here for a withdrawal. Please just say out of my way and let me take some money." Boomerang says to the civilians.
Boomerang walks towards the bank vault to see that it's sealed tight.
"Hmm? Guess I'll have to blow the hinges off the vault door." Boomerang holding three explosive boomerangs.
Boomerang was about to toss them until he looked back at the civilians still inside the bank.
"You all might want to cover your ear. This will give off a big bang that'll pop your eardrums." Boomerang tells them to cover their ears.
The whole crowd compiled and had their hands over their ears as Boomerang still has the explosive boomerangs ready to blow.
"Fire in the hole!" Boomerang aimed his boomerangs.
He tossed them at the hinges and lock of the vault door as the boomerangs blew up upon contact, the explosion gave off a big loud boom. The vault door dropped down as the vault is now ripe for the taking.
"Jackpot!" Boomerang smiled at the sight of money.
Outside the bank, Spider-Man is swinging by to see that the police have barricaded the bank as an explosion was triggered inside.
"Wonder what happened inside, hope nobody got hurt." Spider-Man says to himself.
He placed the camera on the ledge and webbed it to hold it together, he then jumped down it and swings in closer to the bank, he sees all the hostages are alive and unharmed.
"Where did the explosion came from?" Spider-Man asking the hostages.
One of the hostages pointed towards the vault.
"Thanks, you all should go. I'll deal with the robber." Spider-Man tells the hostages to leave.
The hostages comply as they are slowly and quietly leaving the bank as Spider-Man proceed ahead to the vault, he sees a guy in a costume equipped with boomerangs packing up the money.
"Ahem, did you lose your PIN number or something, pal?" Spider-Man surprised Boomerang.
Boomerang finished packing the money into the duffel bag as he turns around to see Spider-Man here in person. Spider-Man never seen this new villain before.
"Who are you supposed to be?" Spider-Man is curious of the new villain.
"Allow me to introduce myself, I am Boomerang and you're in my way, Spider-Man. Please step aside." Boomerang holds the duffel bag.
"Can't do that, Boomerang." Spider-Man won't budge.
"Then I'll make you." Boomerang holds up some razor rangs.
He tossed them with high accuracy as Spider-Man does an acrobatic maneuver and dodged them in mid air, then he sees a second wave of razor rangs coming towards him as he duck his head down and split his legs, he successfully dodged the second wave. Boomerang is surprised that Spider-Man dodge all his razor rangs.
"Show off!" Boomerang says to Spider-Man.
"Is that all you got?" Spider-Man taunts him.
"Not even close." Boomerang pulls out more boomerangs.
He tossed them at Spider-Man he counters by fire off some webbing at the incoming boomerangs and stopping them in their tracks, Boomerang kept tossing as a couple of them got passed his web shots, he dodged the first one easily but the second one managed to cut his suit and his skin, leaving a wound on his arm.
"Love to stay, but I'm needed elsewhere, so ciao!" Boomerang uses his jet boots.
Spider-Man sees Boomerang flying away pass him with his jet boots.
"Great, he can fly too!" Spider-Man then chases after him.
Boomerang then sees Spider-Man chasing after him until he pulled out an explosive boomerang and tossed it at the ceiling above the vault door, the whole ceiling collapsed and trapped Spider-Man in the vault.
"Great, I'm trapped and he's getting away!" Spider-Man says to himself.
Spider-Man then attempts to move the rumble as fast as he can and create an opening.
Boomerang flies out of the bank as the police looked up to see that he's escaping.
"All too easy!" Boomerang smiled as he flies.
He was flies in between the two buildings until a giant web appeared in his flight path and he got caught and stuck on the web.
"Where did this web come from?" Boomerang is trapped.
Ghost-Spider appear above Boomerang and surprised him.
"Guessing someone should've told that there are two spiders in town." Ghost-Spider says to Boomerang.
Spider-Man managed to catch up in time and see that Ghost-Spider has Boomerang trapped in a giant web. Spider-Man landed on the web.
"Managed to catch the bad guy that you let get away." Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.
"Hey, I had it under control." Spider-Man isn't amused.
"Of course you did, you were just doing keeping him busy until I showed up and caught him for you." Ghost-Spider said sarcastically.
"In all fairness, the girl did caught me before you did." Boomerang butts in their conversation.
"Did anyone tell you to talk?" Spider-Man says to Boomerang.
"So please butt out and let us do the talking." Ghost-Spider says to Boomerang.
"Sheesh, sorry." Boomerang felt offended.
"Anyway, I appreciate that you want to help, I really do, but this isn't all fun and games, this is very serious." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
"You don't think that I've been taking this hero thing seriously? Clearly you don't know me very well." Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.
"Well I don't know you at all, but have you ever gone against a supervillain alone or save the whole world with Earth's Mightiest Heroes?" Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
"No, but there is a first time for everything. Last time I checked, you couldn't even beat a giant robot without my help, or let's not forget about that time we faced a giant lizard together." Ghost-Spider reminded Spider-Man.
"If I remember correctly, that giant lizard bested you in combat the first time from what I've heard. You couldn't last two seconds alone without any hero assistance." Spider-Man debating with Ghost-Spider.
"Oh, for crying out loud! Can one of you just take me to jail?!" Boomerang is bothered by their conversation.
"Shut up!!!" Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider said in unison to Boomerang.
Boomerang stayed silent as those two continues their debate.
"Where were you when your pal Peter Parker was dying? Were you off saving the world with your super friends to make time for the little people?" Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.
"No, I was... a bit tied up at the time." Spider-Man lied to Ghost-Spider.
"Okay, you know what. I don't have time to argue with you, I got places to be. Nice teaming up with you." Ghost-Spider says in a less friendly voice.
Ghost-Spider swings away from the scene as Spider-Man watched her leave.
Spider-Man sighed. "Girls, hard to figure out. Wouldn't you say?"
Boomerang looking at Spider-Man. "Are you serious?"
"Never mind, let me get you off this web and take you straight to jail." Spider-Man says to Boomerang.
Spider-Man is removing the tools from Boomerang before he untangle him from the web.
Meanwhile at the underwater base, Master Planner watched a recent news with Tinkerer about a bank robbery that was thwarted by the two heroes.
"And yet again, the two spider heroes managed to stop a robbery that happened earlier today by a criminal who call himself the Boomerang. The police already took custody of the bank robber and retrieved thousands of dollars of stolen money."
"Those two never ceases to surprise me. Are you sure that you're ready to face them head on?" Tinkerer says to Master Planner.
"I'm sure, I've spent half a year setting up this place and studying every one of Spider-Man's moves. I had time and patience to prepare for this moment. But first we must assemble the villains that shares my hatred for the Wall-Crawler and craves for a chance of revenge." Master Planner revealed a mechanical tentacle from the shadow and clamps the claw.
"Are you sure about hiring this man for this task?" Tinkerer looking at a silhouette of a man.
"But of course, beside he has a personal interest in helping us take down Spider-Man. Do you agree?" Master Planner asking the mysterious man.
"Yes, it would be my pleasure to be part of this task to bring down Spider-Man." The mysterious man speaks with a Russian accent.
"Excellent, then we are ready to begin." Master Planner chuckled sinisterly.
At the Daily Bugle, Peter hands the photos of Ghost-Spider capturing Boomerang in a giant web to Robbie Robertson who is the acting Editor-in-Chief in Jameson's absence.
"These are perfect Peter, I'll give you the usual rate for these photos." Robbie holding the pictures.
"Thank you, Robbie. So where is Jameson anyway?" Peter is curious about Jameson.
"He's down in Florida to witness the launch of the space shuttle his son is piloting. Speaking of which, we should probably check the news of the launch." Robbie grabbed the remote and turns on the TV.
Peter and Robbie are watching the news of the shuttle launch that is about to take place right now in Florida.
"We are here in Cape Canaveral where a shuttle mission into outer space is about to happen within a couple hours. We are seeing the new prototype shuttle built by the Life Foundation as it's the first ever modern shuttle built for the 21st century. Now taking the podium is the shuttle commander, NASA pilot Col. John Jameson."
Peter and Robbie watched as John Jameson is on TV waving to the crowd.
(Florida)
Everyone at the launch site a clapped their hands together for John and his team, his father is among the press not wanting to miss this moment.
"Thank you everyone, as you may have heard, our crew is about to launch into space to intercept a comet that is to pass by in two weeks. Our mission is to land on the comet and take samples from it for study. As most of the world is already aware, there is intelligent life out there in the universe. This comet might've been part of a planet at one time, by studying it we can determine what kind of life form lived on it prior to being a big pile of space debris. The great mysteries of the universe is about to be unlocked for the whole world to share, thank you." John Jameson speaks to the press.
The press records and takes pictures of John and the shuttle team, John waved and smiled for the crowd, he then spotted his father among the press happy and proud for his son.
(New York City)
Peter and Robbie watched as John finished talking to the press and waving along with his team of astronauts.
"Jameson must be very proud of his son." Peter says to Robbie.
"He is, John is a great guy, Jonah must've done something right to raise John into the man he is now." Robbie says to Peter.
Peter agrees with Robbie, but right now he's got other things on his mind right now, Ghost-Spider is the main one.
An hour and a half later, in the basement of the Parker Residence, Mary Jane is practicing on her fighting style, specifically Wing Chun that Peter taught her as she's using the dummy to practice, she's had a sports bra and workout pants with fingerless gloves on.
Mary Jane blocks and counters on the dummy as Peter came into the basement to find Mary Jane practicing. Mary Jane has built up a sweat until she stopped practicing and takes a brake.
"How long have you been practicing?" Peter is wondering.
"For an hour, I was just waiting for you. What happened to your arm?" Mary Jane noticed the bandaged arm.
"Oh? This, I got cut, my suit is torn and needs to be fixed." Peter explained to Mary Jane.
"Sit down, let me check on that wound." Mary Jane grabbed the first aid.
Peter sits down on the chair as Mary Jane undo the bandage to see the nasty cut Boomerang inflicted on his arm.
"What did this?" Mary Jane is curious.
"A boomerang." Peter says to Mary Jane.
"A what?" Mary Jane is confused.
"It was a sharp boomerang. This new villain calls himself Boomerang and fights with boomerangs. He came so close to escaping until Ghost-Spider came in and stopped him in time." Peter says to Mary Jane.
"Guess that Spider-Man can't do everything alone these days." Mary Jane applying alcohol on the cotton.
"Hey, I would've stopped him without her help. I was doing fine keeping the city safe alone before she showed up." Peter felt the sting of the alcohol on his wound. "Ow! That's hurts."
"Sorry! But what's wrong with Ghost-Spider doing what you do? She's helped a lot of people in the past month, she even saved your life when you came close to dying." Mary Jane reminded Peter.
"And I am grateful for that, but I've been doing this for over a year and she just began her hero work for only a month, fighting regular criminals is one thing but fighting supervillains is a whole new level." Peter tells Mary Jane.
"Tiger, she helped you when you were getting bested by two supervillains robbing an armored car, she helped our class evacuate and aided you in defeating the Living Brain, plus she was a big help in stopping the Lizard and saving Dr. Connors. Doesn't all that impress you?" Mary Jane says to Peter.
"MJ, why are you defending Ghost-Spider so much? Is there something that I don't know?" Peter is curious.
Mary Jane wanted to tell Peter why but she remembers the promise she made to Gwen for keeping her hero identity a secret from anyone, even Peter.
"Promise me that you won't tell anyone, not even Peter or Harry, Promise!" Gwen's voice from before.
"I promise." Mary Jane's voice from before.
"MJ?" Peter is awaiting her response.
"It's just that... she's a lot like you in so many ways. I know that you've done some good, and that's great. But there are things that you simply can't do alone, like it or not, Ghost-Spider is just every bit the hero you are. What you've started last year has gone beyond you, your mission lives on in the heroes you've inspired. The question is can you live with what it has become?" Mary Jane says to Peter.
Mary Jane then got a vibrate on her phone and check to see that she's got a text from Gwen. It's says 'I'm waiting at your house, in your room.'
"Everything okay?" Peter is curious.
"Yeah Tiger, everything is fine. There, that should do it. How's your arm?" Mary Jane finished treating his cut.
"It's better now, thanks MJ." Peter checks his bandaged arm.
"No problem, with all my practice in treating you, it's a piece of cake. Bye Tiger." Mary Jane says to Peter.
"Bye MJ." Peter says to Mary Jane.
Mary Jane is walking up the stairs and leaving the basement. Peter thinks about what Mary Jane has said about Ghost-Spider being the hero like him and what he himself has started in the past year.
Later, Mary Jane returned home and made it up to her bedroom to find Gwen still in her costume. Gwen could see that Mary Jane is in her workout clothes and worked up a sweat.
"Working out?" Gwen made a guess.
"Yeah, doing some yoga with Peter." Mary Jane made an excuse.
"Yoga? I didn't know that Peter does yoga." Gwen is surprised.
"What about you? Still in your suit?" Mary Jane noticed Gwen.
"Yeah, I was just in the city helping Spider-Man catch a bad guy he almost let get away." Gwen tells Mary Jane.
"Really? How did he take it?" Mary Jane is curious.
"Not well, he still thinks that I'm inexperienced. Just because he saved my life last year and he's been doing this longer than I have, doesn't mean that I can't handle things myself. I was there when Peter was close to dying and he wasn't there. If I didn't become a hero, then I would've lost Peter forever. I had to be a hero to keep my loved ones safe, to keep everyone safe." Gwen explained why she's a hero.
"You have, you've made a difference too. You saved our lives when the Living Brain was threatening our entire class and you helped get them out to safety, we were all safe thanks to you." Mary Jane says to Gwen.
Gwen smiled that her best friend acknowledged her as a hero, Gwen's phone rang as she picked it up.
"It's Peter." Gwen answered the call. "Hello."
"Gwen, are you near a TV?" Peter says to Gwen.
"Yeah, why?" Gwen looking at a TV in MJ's room.
"Turn it on, the space shuttle that John is on is about to launch." Peter says to Gwen.
"Okay, thanks Pete." Gwen hangs up.
"What's going on?" Mary Jane is curious.
"Turn on the TV." Gwen tells Mary Jane.
Mary Jane grabbed the remote and turned on her TV as they watched the live footage to the shuttle launch happening right.
"Colonel Jameson and his team are all on board the shuttle as the countdown has started. Let's all watch and see."
"10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1, we have lift off!"
The TV shows the new space shuttle fired its boosters and just launched from the bay and is heading up into space.
"And there they go, climbing up into the heavens. All we can do is wish them luck on their mission."
Mary Jane and Gwen watched the footage as the shuttle has launched and is still climbing up into space.
"We got to witness the new shuttle launched into space without incident. I should get going." Gwen says to Mary Jane.
"Where are you going?" Mary Jane asking Gwen.
"The city still need a hero looking out for the little guy. Beside, crime doesn't sleep at night." Gwen puts on her mask.
Ghost-Spider climbs out of the window and heads out for patrol. Mary Jane watched as her friend is off doing hero work.
Mary Jane sighed. "I wish that one day you and Peter will get to tell the truth to one another and finally become partners."
It's almost midnight, at Rikers Penitentiary, a prison van came in through the gates. The correction officers opened up the back door to escort the new prisoner who was just recently captured by Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider.
"We are here to transfer Prisoner 3654 Fredrick Myers into your custody."
"I prefer Fred or Boomerang, just to be clear." Fred speaks out.
"Shut up!"
Fred zipped his mouth shut as he comply.
"Thank you, we'll take it from here."
The guards escort Fred into the cell block, he looks around to see Montana, Fancy Dan, Ox, Quentin Beck, Herman Schultz, and Adrian Toomes all in their cells.
"Wonderful, I get to be in the same cell block with all the badass villains Spider-Man took down. What an honor." Fred still walking.
The empty cell door opens, the guards shoved Fred inside.
"In you go. Welcome to your new cell, Fred."
"It's Boomerang." Fred stated to the guards.
"I don't give a damn what you call yourself. Here, you're prisoner 3654. Get use to it."
The cell door closes leaving Fred all alone inside his cell. He looks around to see the bed and the sink with a toilet, but he noticed something missing.
"Hey, there's no toilet paper here! Guys?!" Fred calls out from his cell.
(Later)
A single guard is walking up to the control room where all the monitors watch the cell blocks and controls the cells doors.
"Anything?"
"No, it's been all quiet."
"Good."
The guard pulled out his gun with silencer and started shootings the guards dead as they quickly try to react but were too late as they all got killed off in seconds.
"Are you in the control room?" Master Planner asking on the earpiece.
"Affirmative."
"Good, time to cause a scene. Open up all the cell blocks." Master Planner gave the order.
The guard types into the computer and unlocks all the cell doors in every cell block.
(Cell block)
The doors opened as all the prisoners inside are surprised and the guards are in the middle caught off guard.
The prisoners attacked the guards on site and managed to overwhelm them with their large numbers. The Enforcers joined the party and started to attack the guards.
Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin, looked around to see that there's a riot happening right now but he chose to remain in his cell and do nothing to jeopardize his chance for parole.
Fred is surprised to see the cell door is opened and everyone is out causing a riot.
"What's this? Early parole?" Fred is wondering.
The guards are having trouble containing the situation as they're outnumbered by the inmates.
"The prisoners are loose, we have a riot! Alert the whole prison immediately!"
The guard calling out got attacked by the inmates as the guard nearby the door rushed to trigger the alarm. An inmate picked up a pistol from a downed guard's holster and aims it at the running guard. The man reached the alarm and triggered it before he got shot in cold blood, the whole prison is now on alert.
The guard who was responsible for creating the riot watched as everyone is doing their part, he spotted the three criminals Adrian Toomes, Quentin Beck, and Herman Schultz out of their cells.
At the same time in the city, Spider-Man is sitting on a edge of a rooftop thinking about Ghost-Spider and his conversation with Mary Jane.
"Maybe MJ is right, Ghost-Spider has been a big help for me and the people of New York. Having another hero around might not be so bad." Spider-Man says in his thoughts.
Spider-Man's rang as he pulled it out to see that George Stacy is calling, he answered the call.
"Captain Stacy?" Spider-Man says to George Stacy.
"Peter, there's a situation happening at Rikers Prison, a riot of happening and all the criminals are loose from their cells. My precinct is aiding along with SWAT units to contain this situation. If you have time to spare, I would really appreciate it." George Stacy explained.
"Don't worry, I'm on my way right now." Spider-Man tells George Stacy.
"Thanks Spider-Man, I knew I could count on you." George Stacy says to Spider-Man.
Spider-Man hangs up his phone and puts it away, he get up from the edge and jumps off to swing towards Rikers to aid Captain Stacy.
(Elsewhere)
In another part of town, Ghost-Spider is still swinging around on patrol until her phone started to ring, she landed on a rooftop and pulled out her phone to see that her father is calling her.
"Hey Dad." Ghost-Spider says to her father.
"Gwen, I'm sorry that I'm not going to be home anytime soon, something big came up." George Stacy says to his daughter.
"What's wrong?" Ghost-Spider is getting worried.
"There's a riot happening at Rikers, my precinct is doing everything they can to help contain the situation. I don't know how long this will take, but it's most likely that I won't be coming home anytime soon. I'm sorry to drop this news on you." George Stacy explained to his daughter.
"It's okay, dad, I understand. Please be careful." Ghost-Spider says to her father
"I will, I love you." George Stacy tells his daughter.
"I love you too." Ghost-Spider tells her dad before she hangs up.
Ghost-Spider puts away her phone as she's getting worried about her dad handling a prison riot, she jumps off the rooftop and swings towards the prison as fast as she can.
"Hang on Dad, I'm coming." Ghost-Spider still swinging in the air.
At Rikers, the riot continues as the inmates raided the armory and seized all the guns stored there, they are now armed.
Adrian Toomes, Quentin Beck, and Herman Schultz sees a guard approaching them as they get jumpy.
"Hold it right there." Herman Schultz points a gun.
"Easy! That's no way to say thank you for getting you three out of your cages!"
"This was you, you did all this? Why?" Adrian Toomes is curious.
"I am merely an employee, I'm here on behalf of my client, the man who arraigned for this riot to happen, the Master Planner."
"And what does this Master Planner want?" Adrian Toomes is curious.
"To recruit you and your friends for an operation to take control of New York City, and a chance to get back at the very man responsible for your incarceration, Spider-Man."
"Hmm? This sounds interesting. Perhaps I'll be very interested in hearing what this Master Planner has to say. I'm in." Adrian Toomes agrees.
"Me too, I'm itching to get back at Spider-Man for all those times he's humiliated me." Quentin Beck agrees too.
"If this Master Planner can get me out of here, then I'm in." Herman Schultz agrees.
"Excellent, while the whole prison is dealing with the riot, we shall sneak into the Vault to recruit on more villain for the team, the Sandman. Let's get going."
The villains follow the man as the riot continues and many lives are hurt or dead.
(Outside)
The NYPD are outside the prison gates barricading it, SWAT along with Corrections are doing their best to keep the prisoners from getting out.
George Stacy and Yuri Watanabe are at mobile headquarters coordinating the operation. Spider-Man landed on the ground outside the mobile headquarters and got everyone's attention.
"Hope I'm not late, Captain." Spider-Man says to George Stacy.
"Spider-Man, glad to see that you've made the time." George Stacy is glad Spider-Man is here.
Everyone then turned their attention to someone swinging in white, she landed next to Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider made it to the scene and surprised everyone, including Spider-Man himself.
"I see that you haven't start the party without me." Ghost-Spider standing next to Spider-Man.
"Ghost-Spider? How did you know about the riot?" Spider-Man is surprised by her appearance.
"I have my sources, just like you." Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.
"Anyway, I'm glad that you're both here. The whole prison is on a riot, a number of guards and personnel have been captured or killed, the inmates managed to armed themselves with shotguns and sidearms. It won't be easy in stopping the riot, but with you two at our side, this should be a piece of cake." George Stacy explained to them.
"Sure, we can take care them. Let's get going." Ghost-Spider jumps and swings.
"What? Hey, wait up!" Spider-Man jumps and swings after her.
George and Yuri watched as the two spider heroes head inside the prison.
(The Vault)
The prison guard lead the three villains deep inside another section of the prison called the Vault.
"Here it is, the Vault. Where the most dangerous supervillain is being kept at."
They approached the hi tech cell where Flint Marko, the Sandman has been incarcerated.
"Flint Marko!"
Flint heard a voice outside his cell as he sees a prison guard along with three supervillains Spider-Man has put away. Flint doesn't seem like his old self, he seemed different, changed.
"Who are you?" Flint Marko is curious.
"Someone who's going to free you from your cage. I know what has happened to you since you've been incarcerated, what the Kingpin has done to you."
The man turned off the cell's countermeasures and unlocked the doors, Flint steps out of the cell and is now free from confinement.
"Thank you for letting me out so early." Flint Marko says to the guy.
"Don't thank me, thank my employee, the Master Planner."
The whole prison alarms has gone off as the villains are curious to what the fuss is all about, they got to use the security terminal to see that Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are here right now inside the prison taking on the inmates.
"Spider-Man! Let's get him!" Flint Marko isn't too happy.
"No! Now is not the time. Soon, you all shall have your revenge. But right we need to get out of here while those heroes are busy with the inmates."
"And how do you propose we escape?" Herman Schultz is curious.
"Follow me, time is of the essence."
The villains follows the guy to make their escape.
(Cellblock)
The Enforcers are joining the party as they've got their hands on some weapons as guard with riot shields are doing their best to hold them back. They tossed some tear gas hoping to keep the inmates at bay. Some of the inmates are breathing in the gas and have their eyes closed.
"Stay back!"
"If they think that a fog of smoke will keep us at bay, then they're sadly mistaken. Ox, show them what you can do!" Montana tells Ox.
Ox crunches his fists as he charges in head on through the smoke and slammed against the riot shields and staggered the guards back with force.
Ox picked up one guard and tossed him hard as a group of guards with no difficulty. Some more guards came at Fancy Dan with batons but they're no match for his martial arts skills as he kicked each of them with ease.
Montana sees one guard still standing as he points the pistol at the man who looked startled like he's going to die right now.
"Sayonara pal!" Montana smiled as he points the gun.
Montana was about to pull the trigger until a web line attached itself to the gun and got yanked off Montana's hand, Ghost-Spider arrived in time as she does a flying knee and hits Montana.
Fancy Dan and Ox sees that a new hero is here, they were about to help Montana until they turn around to see that Spider-Man is here too and running towards them, Spidey jumps and does a hurricanrana on Ox and flips him down on the ground.
Montana recovers to see Ghost-Spider is the one who attacked him, Ghost-Spider sees the man's face and recognize him from before.
(Flashback)
One Year Ago
Gwen was held hostage in the principals offices by Montana, Ox, and Fancy Dan during the hostage situation at Midtown High.
Later, Gwen was taken to the pool area by Montana as Spider-Man chased after them.
"Oh I see, you feel something for this girl, how romantic. You want her? Catch!" Montana pushed Gwen into the pool.
Gwen is still tied up to the chair as she's drowning in the school's pool, unable to escape.
(Present)
"You!" Ghost-Spider isn't too happy.
"Do I know you darling?" Montana is confused.
"You're about to." Ghost-Spider says to Montana.
Montana pulled out another gun and started shooting her but she moved in at high speed and dodged every bullet fired from the gun. She got in closer and managed to strike with a punch to the face. She sent him down onto the ground.
"That was payback for what you did." Ghost-Spider says to Montana.
"I don't even know you." Montana then passed out unconscious.
Spider-Man does a spinning heel kick and managed to strike Fancy Dan, knocking him out unconscious. Spider-Man turns to see that Ghost-Spider has already taken care of Montana.
Fred Myers came in with a baton he took off the unconscious guard.
"Alright, time for me to join all the fun!" Fred Myers stopped in his tracks.
Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider turn to see a criminal with a baton in his hand. Fred stopped as he already had close encounters with those two earlier today.
"Oh shit." Fred froze in fear.
Fred dropped the baton and moved back into the cell without putting up a fight and closed the cell door.
"Who was that?" Spider-Man is confused.
"Don't know." Ghost-Spider is confused too.
Fred Myers sighed. "Seriously?"
"Thanks for your help, we'd be goners if you are didn't came to us in time."
"It's our jobs, happy to help." Ghost-Spider says to the guards.
One of the guards heard static over the radio and pick it up to check what's going on.
"Mayday! Mayday! The Vault has been breached, Sandman has escaped from his cell! I repeat, Sandman has escaped, over!"
"Sandman had escaped?" Ghost-Spider is shocked.
"This whole riot must've been a diversion to keep us busy. We need to find him before he gets away. Come on!" Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider proceeds ahead to stop Sandman from escaping.
(Prison Wall)
The guard escorted them outside to the prison wall as they're still trapping inside the prison.
"Okay, we're at the wall. Now what?" Adrian Toomes is wondering.
The guard pulled out some C4 and placed on the wall, he activated the time as it's about to explode in 30 seconds.
"Stand back."
Everyone is retreating to a safe distance as the timer is counting down. 10 seconds are left as they wait to see, the C4 blows up and destroying the wall.
(Inside)
Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider made it to the Vault to see that Sandman has already escaped, then they hear a very loud kaboom.
"What was that?" Ghost-Spider is wondering.
"Sounds like an explosion, my guest is that's where Sandman is. Come on!" Spider-Man ran up along with Ghost-Spider.
(Outside)
The wall came down as they see an ocean between them and the mainland.
"There's still a big body of water in the way, and I don't do so good with water." Flint Marko says to the guy.
"Congratulations, you succeeded in taking down a wall. So what's the plan for getting us out of here?" Quentin Beck is not impressed.
"Just wait and see."
They see something emerging from the waters, it's a submarine of some sort, they're quite surprised.
"Whoa!" Adrian Toomes, Quentin Beck, Herman Schultz, and Flint Marko says in unison.
"Alright, everyone on board right now!"
Everyone started climbing aboard one by one until the guard spotted Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider heading their way.
"Go! I'll hold them off as much as possible!"
The four villains continue to climb inside as the heroes are getting closer, the man grabbed a assault rifle from the submarine and started shooting at the heroes. Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider both senses the bullet coming towards them.
"Evasive action!" Spider-Man yelled out.
The two heroes both split up and dodged every bullet as the man kept on shooting, buying the villains time to escape. Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider both take cover behind the wall as they watched the submarine making its escape by submerging itself underwater.
"Damn it! They got away!" Spider-Man is disappointed in himself.
"Let's worry about that later, right now we need to take care of this dude." Ghost-Spider tells Spider-Man.
"I'll draw his fire, you get ready to web his rifle." Spider-Man tells Ghost-Spider.
Spider-Man ran out as the man focuses his fire on the web-slinger but is having a hard time as Spider-Man does some acrobatic maneuvers and avoided all the bullets being shot at. Ghost-Spider took the opportunity to counter by firing a web line at the barrel of the rifle, jamming it.
"I don't need guns to take you both on!"
"We'll see about that!" Spider-Man is ready to fight.
Spider-Man charged in and throws the first punch but the guy tossed a flash bang on the ground, Spider-Man was too late as it went off and his sense got temporarily blinded.
The man took the opportunity to strike back by using a taser baton and zapping Spider-Man with electricity. Ghost-Spider can see that Spider-Man is in trouble.
Ghost-Spider ran up to the guy and executes a psycho kick to the man's face and knocking him down to the ground. The taser separate from his hand and stopped zapping Spider-Man.
"Spider-Man, are you okay?" Ghost-Spider asking Spider-Man.
"Yeah, I'm okay. Thanks." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
They see the man is getting back up after taking a strike to the face as they noticed something strange about it.
"Too much for you to handle." Ghost-Spider says to the man.
"You both have no idea who you're dealing with."
The man pulled of the mask from his face and revealed himself as the Chameleon.
"See if you can handle this!" Chameleon smiled and laughed.
"Chameleon! I should've known!" Spider-Man says to Chameleon.
"You're too late, heroes! It has begun!" Chameleon says to the heroes.
"What has begun?" Ghost-Spider is curious.
"The Master Planner has set in motion his master plans." Chameleon pulls out his pistol.
Chameleon started shooting at them both as they dodge the bullets, Spider-Man counters by firing webbing at the gun and sticking Chameleon's hand to the ground, Ghost-Spider webbed up the other hand, they finished by webbing his feet too, they've succeeded in immobilizing Chameleon.
"That takes care of the Chameleon, but now we got bigger problems." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
(Later)
The whole riot has ended as inmates are escorted back to their respected cells, the medics are tending to the injured.
Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are at mobile headquarters outside the prison gate with George Stacy and Yuri Watanabe. On the scenes are the mugshots of Adrian Toomes, Quentin Beck, Herman Schultz, and Flint Marko.
"According to Corrections, these four prisoners are unaccounted for. Remember them Spidey?" George Stacy asking Spider-Man.
"How can I forget, I put each of them away in the past year." Spider-Man says to George Stacy.
"What about the Chameleon? Has he said anything else?" Yuri Watanabe asking Spider-Man.
"He just said that the Master Planner has something big planned." Ghost-Spider says to Yuri Watanabe.
"But what is it? What could they be planning?" George Stacy is wondering.
"I don't know, whatever it is, it can't be good." Spider-Man is concerned.
The submarine has made it way towards the underwater base and docked with it. The villains disembarked from the submarine to meet with Phineas Mason, the Tinkerer.
"Mason, what are you doing here?" Adrian Toomes is surprised.
"I'm here waiting for you four, the Master Planner is waiting. Please follow me." Phineas Mason walks down the hall.
The four villains followed after Mason as he leads the way towards the control room.
They all arrived in the control room to find screens showing off footages of Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider as they're curious as to what this whole thing is about.
"Okay, so where is this so called Master Planner?" Adrian Toomes is curious.
"Now now, that's no way to treat your host." Master Planner hides in the shadows.
The Master Planner steps out of the shadows to reveal his true identity, they see a mechanical tentacle along with another one. They're all shocked to find out that the Master Planner is really Doctor Octopus.
"After all, I've gone through great lengths to arraign your freedom, all your freedoms." Doctor Octopus shows himself.
"Otto Octavius? You're the Master Planner?" Adrian Toomes is shocked.
"Correct, but these days I'm known to the public as Doctor Octopus, but I am the Master Planner, the genius who planned your escape." Doctor Octopus tells the villains.
"I'm surprised that you're out, last time Spider-Man defeated you and you got put away." Herman Schultz says to Doctor Octopus.
"My lawyer suggested that I take the insanity plea and I took it, I ended up at Ravencroft, turns out that it's easier to get out of a psychiatric hospital than prison." Doctor Octopus explained.
"If you've been freed for months, why wait until now to spring us?" Quentin Beck is curious.
"All this time I've been studying Spider-Man's movements, learning all his routines, all his moves, I've been preparing for this moment." Doctor Octopus explained.
"To do what exactly?" Adrian Toomes is wondering.
"To take down Spider-Man for all he had done to us, each of us. This is why you're all here, I'm assembling a team of villains such as yourself, each of us has taken on Spider-Man individually with no success, but as a team we shall triumph in defeating Spider-Man once and for all." Doctor Octopus explained his intentions.
"Look, I appreciate the early release, but I'm not looking for partners." Herman Schultz speaks.
"Me neither, I hate Spider-Man, but I'd rather take him on alone." Quentin Beck speaks.
"And look where each of us ended up when we took him on alone, in prison. Gentlemen, we need each other, if we work together, we shall finally succeed in getting our vengeance on the Wall-Crawler and this city shall finally be ours. So what you say, are you in or are you out?" Doctor Octopus says to the villains.
"If we're going to work together, we're going to need some serious hardware to work with." Adrian Toomes needs his suit.
"You shall everything you require, Mason, if you'll please." Doctor Octopus says to Tinkerer.
Phineas Mason brought out some cases to each of the three villains and opened them. Herman Schultz gazed upon the Shocker suit and gauntlets, Quentin Beck sees the Mysterio suit and his illusion tech, and finally Adrian Toomes gazed upon his Vulture suit with wings.
"I trust these are to your liking, gentlemen?" Doctor Octopus says to the team.
"Very, I miss these bad boys. I'm in." Herman Schultz holding his gauntlets.
"Spider-Man humiliated me twice before, now I shall return the favor. I'm in too." Quentin Beck agrees to join.
"That menace thwarted my long time revenge scheme against Norman Osborn, now I have the opportunity to pay him back in full. I'm in." Adrian Toomes joins the team.
"And you Flint Marko? I know that you've teamed up with Spider-Man in the past to save your daughter. Are you in or are you out?" Doctor Octopus asking Flint Marko.
"I tried to do the right thing and wanted to pay my debt to society, but instead I ended suffering hell when I double crossed the Kingpin. He had his bribed men torturing me for months, they pour acid onto my skin, the pain I've suffered was excruciating, they broke me. I am no longer the same man who helped Spider-Man in the past. I shall help you take down Spider-Man, once I'm done with him, I shall take my vengeance against the Kingpin for all he had done to me." Flint Marko says with anger and a thirst for revenge.
"Then we are in agreement, welcome to the Sinister Six." Doctor Octopus named his team.
"Six? But there's only four of us, with you makes five. We're still one member short." Adrian Toomes reminded Doctor Octopus.
"Not to worry, I've already recruited our sixth member." Doctor Octopus looking to his right.
Everyone sees a man stepping out of the shadows and reveals himself as a Russian with a lion's head vest.
"Meet Sergei Kravenoff." Doctor Octopus introduced their sixth member.
"But you may call me Kraven the Hunter." Kraven introduced himself.
"Now that the team is assembled, we can proceed to the next phase. Listen carefully for what I'm about to plan." Doctor Octopus tells the team.
The next day in school, Peter and Gwen are both in class listening to Raymond Warren teaching, but they've got other things on their minds.
"I wonder who this Master Planner is. Could he be the same man who pulled the strings behind the Spider-Slayer and the Living Brain?" If so, then this thing he's planning with my old villains must be huge." Peter says in his thoughts.
Gwen is sitting next to Peter as she listens to her teacher talking, but like Peter she's got other things to think about.
"I wonder how I will hold against Spider-Man's old villains now that they're loose. I know that I was able to help him take down the Living Brain and the Lizard, but I'm still inexperienced compared to him. But I won't let any of that stop me from doing my job, if innocent people are in danger, Ghost-Spider will always be there to fight for what's right." Gwen says in her thoughts.
The school bell rang as everyone gathered their stuff and walks out of class. Peter and Gwen walked out together as school has ended for the day. Neither one of them spoke a word as they're still keeping secrets from one another.
"So..." Peter and Gwen said in unison.
Peter and Gwen smiled as they've said the same words.
"Uh... why don't you go first?" Peter says to Gwen.
"Well... no, you go first." Gwen says to Peter.
"Okay, I won't be make time for our date due to Bugle work, something big came up and requires my photography skills." Peter made an excuse.
"Oh, well that's okay, I get that you need to work to help out your aunt. I was going to hang out with MJ today. We can reschedule our date for another time, okay?" Gwen says to Peter.
"I'm sorry for not making time for us. I would do anything to be with you." Peter says to Gwen.
"So would I, Peter. So would I." Gwen says to Peter.
Peter and Gwen shared a kiss on the lips before they part ways, Gwen watched as Peter walks away from her.
"Peter, I wish that my life as Ghost-Spider didn't get in the way of us being together. But this is my life now, being a hero is now my purpose in life. I hope one day you'll understand." Gwen says in her thoughts.
Peter continues to walk away from Gwen and the school as he has things to think about.
"There are times that I wish that I was just simply Peter Parker, but that's not the case for me, because I am Spider-Man. As my uncle use to say, with great power comes great responsibility. I need to stay true to myself, but I wish that my responsibilities didn't get in the way of my relationship with Gwen. She's the best thing that's ever happened to me, I love her so much that I wish she and I can be together without any secrets between us. Maybe one day I'll tell her the truth about me, hopefully she'll understand." Peter says in his thoughts.
Peter kept walking alone as he still feels conflicted with his double life as himself and as Spider-Man.
Later at the Daily Bugle, Peter got off the elevator as everyone is doing their work. His classmate Betty Brant spotted Peter coming in and looking like he's got other things on his mind.
"Hey Pete, are you alright?" Betty asking Peter.
"Yeah, just heard about what happened last night at the prison. I needed to come by in case I'm needed for work." Peter says to Betty.
"But that's not why you're like this, what's going on?" Betty is concerned for Peter.
"I had to cancel my date with Gwen for work. I kinda feel bad doing this to her, she's my girlfriend, the love of my life. It seems like my career is getting in the way of my relationship with Gwen." Peter says to Betty.
"Probably because you're letting it. Pete, do you love Gwen so much?" Betty asking Peter.
"With all my heart." Peter confessed his feelings.
"Then find a way to make time for her. Pete, I've never seen you so serious with any girl when you finally fell for Gwen, not even when you were dating Liz Allan. Any girl would be lucky to get with a great guy like you." Betty says to Peter.
"That wasn't always the case for me since I was a wallflower and a science nerd." Peter says to Betty.
"Yeah, but you're one of the nicest guys I know of, and behind those glasses was a hot dork. It's fine, chicks dig that." Betty smiled at Peter.
Peter blushed as Betty said those words, in the past Peter was a wallflower and not a lot of girls his age have taken interest in him due to him not being athletic or a jock like Flash Thompson and the others. But after being bitten by the spider and going through such a change, he was no longer the same guy who gets bullied, he became attractive and confident than ever before.
"Parker! I need you to head for the bank downtown. The Shocker is back!" Robbie speaks from his office.
"The Shocker is back so soon? This seems too easy." Peter is suspicious about the Shocker.
"At least you know now where to take the photos. Better get going while you still have the chance." Betty gave Peter some encouragement.
Peter can't let an opportunity like this slip by, he knows that he needs to stop Shocker from causing more damage but a part of him is still suspicious of Shocker's sudden appearance. He heads out of the Daily Bugle hoping to stop Shocker in time.
Later at the bank downtown, Shocker managed to blast down the vault door as he sees all the money lying in wait.
"All that money is within reach, hopefully Spider-Man will get the message." Shocker is waiting all alone.
Outside the bank, Spider-Man arrived in time to see some of the police cruisers are wrecked and destroyed by the Shocker.
"What is it about supervillains robbing banks?" Spider-Man says to himself.
He swings in a little close above the bank rooftop. He looks down at the window ceiling to see that there are no hostages inside the bank.
"There are no hostages inside, that's good. This will make things easier for me." Spider-Man says to himself.
Spider-Man placed a camera on the window ceiling and webbed it in place. He opens it and jumps down to see the Shocker still standing in front of the vault with the money still inside.
"Shocker, I'm surprised to see you again. Even more surprised that you've decided to rob banks after your prison escape." Spider-Man says to Shocker.
"Spider-Man, it's been almost a year since you've had me sent to prison. Now I get to pay you back for locking me up." Shocker aimed his gauntlets and fired.
Spider-Man jumped up and dodge the incoming fire and fires a webbing at Shocker's face, blinding the man. Spidey swings in for a drop kick and managed to strike Shocker down.
"So much for paying me back, looks like you're going back to prison. Have you've learned nothing, I've beaten you before and I just beaten you again. You should've never faced me alone." Spider-Man says to a defeated Shocker.
"Who says that I'm alone?" Shocker isn't too worried.
Spider-Man's spider sense tingles as he jumps up and dodged a enlarged fist and landed down on the floor. He spotted Sandman here.
"Flint Marko?" Spider-Man is shocked.
"It's Sandman, Bug Boy!" Sandman says to Spider-Man.
Spider-Man's senses tingle again as arrows are fired towards him from behind, Spider-Man does some twists and dodged them all. He turned around to find Kraven here.
"The prey has taken the bait." Kraven holding the bow.
"Kraven." Spider-Man is shocked.
Something began to happen in the bank as the whole place is covered in smoke and darkness.
"So what's the Itsy Bitsy Spider to do now?!" Mysterio's voice is all around the room.
"Still hiding behind your fake illusions as always, Mysterio." Spider-Man is still stuck in darkness.
Illusions of Mysterios appears out of thin air and has Spider-Man surrounded.
"Your parlor tricks maybe convincing, but they're still fake!" Spider-Man says to Mysterio.
"Then come and find me!" Mysterio dares Spider-Man.
The Mysterios are walking in closer as Spider-Man is firing multiple webbing at them in all directions. All the webbings phased through the illusions.
"You can't hide yourself forever!" Spider-Man yelled out.
"I don't have to, I just had to distract you!" Mysterio's voice.
Spider-Man's senses tingle again as he got tackled hard by the Vulture and still got caught in the air. The illusions faded as Spider-Man sees that the Vulture has caught him.
"Remember me Spider-Man? You've ruined my chances for revenge and sent me back to prison. I made a promise that I get my revenge for all the misery you caused me!" Vulture still flying with Spider-Man.
Spidey webs up the Vulture's eyes and managed to punch him in the face, forcing the Vulture to let Spider-Man go. Spider-Man drops down only to be blasted hard by the Shocker, the hero crashed himself against the ceiling and falls down. The Sandman enlarged his fist and strikes him with a back fist hard.
Spider-Man crashed against the wall and fell down as he's outnumbered, he tries to move his arms until they got gripped hard by mechanical claws and Spider-Man got pulled up into the air.
"At long last, we've finally have the upper hand." Doctor Octopus has Spider-Man trapped.
"Doc Ock?" Spider-Man is surprised to see Doctor Octopus.
"I prefer Master Planner theses day." Doctor Octopus revealed himself as the Master Planner.
"It was you? You're the Master Planner." Spider-Man is shocked.
"All these months hiding in the shadows I've been preparing and learning, I knew that I could never defeat you all alone, but now with my new team of villains, we have the opportunity to get vengeance on you for all the misery you've caused us. We call ourselves the Sinister Six." Doctor Octopus says to Spider-Man.
Ghost-Spider arrived on the bank rooftop as she looks down to see that Spider-Man is at the mercy of six supervillains.
"Let's cut the chatter, kill him already!" Vulture suggested to Doctor Octopus.
"Very well, goodbye Spider-Man." Doctor Octopus says to Spider-Man.
Ghost-Spider jumped in for a drop kick to Doc Ock's face, the claws forced to let go of Spider-Man, freeing the hero from Doctor Octopus' grip. Ghost-Spider jumped in closer to Spider-Man to check up on him.
"Are you alright?" Ghost-Spider asking Spider-Man.
"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
"Two spiders here, even better. Now we get to kill two birds with one stone." Vulture is hovering in the air.
Doctor Octopus gets back up. "Kill them both."
Shocker fired his gauntlets as the two spiders jumped and separated from each other. Ghost-Spider then gets attacked by Kraven swinging his machete at her, she pulls herself back dodging every cut.
Spider-Man's sense tingles as Sandman extended his arm and throws a long punch but the hero jumped up and clings to the ceiling.
"Flint, why are you doing this? I thought that wanted to do the right thing?" Spider-Man is confused.
"I did try to do the right thing, but instead I've suffered hell because of it. Kingpin didn't like that I've double crossed him, he couldn't get to my family, so he had his men inside torture me for months, the pain was excruciating, they slowly broke my mind." Sandman explained.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know." Spider-Man says to Sandman.
"It doesn't matter, I'm done trying to pretend to be someone I'm not, this is who I am now!" Sandman says to Spider-Man.
Sandman throws a big punch but Spider-Man jump up only to be attacked by Vulture who tackled him in mid air.
Ghost-Spider bend backwards and does the flash kick, kicking the machete off of Kraven's hand. She webbed him up and pulls him for a flying knee. She took him down but then see looks around to see that the whole room is cover in smoke as Mysterio is using his illusions.
"Can't see." Ghost-Spider is having trouble.
"So you're the new spider hero I've heard some much about. So far I'm not impressed." Mysterio taunts Ghost-Spider.
"Why don't you show yourself!" Ghost-Spider says to Mysterio.
"As you wish!" Mysterio's voice.
Mysterio shows himself as Ghost-Spider could see that Mysterio is moving around making moves with his wrists.
"There you are!" Ghost-Spider runs towards him.
Spider-Man is webbing up the Vulture and Shocker with his webs, he's gaining the upper hand until he sees Ghost-Spider coming at him and does the hurricanrana on his head, she flips Spider-Man down hard.
"Ow! Have you lost your mind?!" Spider-Man is confused.
Ghost-Spider can see better now that the illusion faded away, she see Spider-Man on the ground as she realized that she attacked him instead of Mysterio.
"Sorry, I thought I was attacking Mysterio." Ghost-Spider apologizes to Spider-Man.
"I nearly had the situation under control until you stepped in." Spider-Man isn't too happy.
"Hey, don't forget who saved your life!" Ghost-Spider argue with Spider-Man.
"What do we have here? Discord among the heroes, this is all too easy." Doctor Octopus smiled sinisterly.
Shocker then unleashed a blast of virboshock energy, he managed to hit them both, knocking them off the ground. Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider-Man are getting bested by a team of supervillains with precision. They're too injured from the fight as six villains are too much for them to handle.
"We're getting thrashed around, we have to retreat." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
"No, we can't just admit defeat!" Ghost-Spider refused to run.
"We're not admitting defeat, we're retreating to fight another day. We have to go right now." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
Ghost-Spider wants to fight but she's injured from the fighting like Spider-Man is. She reluctantly retreated with him as they make their escape.
Doctor Octopus chuckles. "That's right, run!"
"Shall we go after them?" Vulture asking Doctor Octopus.
"No, we have won this battle. We have shown them what we're capable of as a team. For now, let us enjoy our victory." Doctor Octopus smiled sinisterly.
Sometime later, Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are at a safe distance after they've lost their battle with Sinister Six. They landed on a rooftop all injured from the fight.
"I think we're safe for now." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
"Safe? A team of villains just defeated us in battle and you think that we're safe. What about the whole city? We were supposed to stop them instead of running away!" Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.
"And if we fall, who's going to protect the city? I'm just thinking the long game instead of doing something reckless like you have." Spider-Man argued with Ghost-Spider.
"Me? What about you? You came charging at them all alone without backup and they ended up beating you, you would've been dead I hadn't stepped in and saved your life." Ghost-Spider argued with Spider-Man.
"I nearly had this situation contained until you came in charging and attacked me." Spider-Man argued with Ghost-Spider.
"I didn't know that it was you, I thought I was attacking Mysterio. It was an accident." Ghost-Spider argued with Spider-Man.
"And because of your recklessness, we got distracted and they got the advantage. We lost, they won!" Spider-Man argued with Ghost-Spider.
"So this is my fault?!" Ghost-Spider felt offended.
"Now it's our fault that they're out there free and wrecking havoc on the city. This is on us!" Spider-Man blames themselves.
"You know what, this was stupid thinking that we could ever work together." Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.
"I agree with you. We don't work so well together." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
"I'm going home to rest and think about how to stop those villains by myself, alone. Good luck." Ghost-Spider jumps off the rooftop.
Spider-Man watched as Ghost-Spider swings away from him, he pulled out his camera that he was able to retrieve before escaping from the Sinister Six. He checks the photos of himself and Ghost-Spider fighting the Sinister Six.
"Now that I know they're a team, how am I going to defeat them by myself?" Spider-Man is wondering.
Spider-Man puts away the camera as he jumps off the rooftop and swings away.
It's sunset as Mary Jane is at her house with her pet dog Ms. Lion, she's studying for her science test until she heard a tap on her window. She gets off the bed to see that Gwen is outside her window.
"Gwen, what are you doing here?" Mary Jane says to Gwen.
"I've had a bad day. Can I come in?" Gwen asking Mary Jane.
"Sure, climb inside quickly before anyone sees you." Mary Jane invite Gwen into her bedroom.
Gwen climbed inside as she's already dressed in her regular clothes. Mary Jane could see that Gwen is troubled by something.
"So what's this bad day you've been having?" Mary Jane is curious.
"Me and Spider-Man just got our butts kicked by a team of supervillains calling themselves the Sinister Six. I've screwed up badly." Gwen explained to Mary Jane.
"How so?" Mary Jane is curious.
"I managed to save Spider-Man before they've got the chance to finish him off but even the two of us together weren't able to defeat them. I was tricked by Mysterio into attacking Spider-Man thinking he was him, then the Shocker took the opportunity to strike back at us. We were both lucky to make it out of there alive. But now me and Spidey are not on good terms with one another. Do you really think that I made a mistake of being a hero?" Gwen asking Mary Jane for her opinion.
"Gwen, we all make mistakes in life. No one is perfect, but we can't let our mistakes bring us down. Sometimes we get hit and we fall down, but we pick ourselves back up on our feet and keep on fighting. The point is, you are a hero Gwen, you've saved Peter's live once, and you've been a great help to the people of New York. Don't ever give up Gwen, Spider-Man will need your help to take down the Sinister Six, and you will need him too. You both need to find a way to work together." Mary Jane says to Gwen.
"You're right, thank you Mary Jane. I knew I made the right choice in trusting you." Gwen felt better.
"Always Gwen, always." Mary Jane smiled at Gwen.
Mary Jane's phone vibrated as she pulls it out, it's Peter texting her, saying to meet up in his house.
"I gotta go." Mary Jane stands up.
"Where are you going?" Gwen is wondering.
"To see Peter." Mary Jane leaves the room.
The sun has already gone down as nighttime has come. The police have barricaded a restaurant holding their positions. George Stacy came up to the scene as Sergeant Davis is looking through the binoculars.
"Sergeant, What are they doing now?" George Stacy is asking.
"I think... they're having dinner." Jefferson Davis informs George Stacy.
Inside the restaurant, the Sinister Six all sit together at the same table celebrating their recent victory against the heroes.
"A toast to the defeat of the two Wall-Crawlers." Vulture holds up his glass.
"Defeat? It seems to me a job ain't done till it's done." Shocker stated to the group.
"I for one agree with the Shocker, the hunt is still on. I will not be satisfied until I hunt down one of the two spiders and claim my trophy." Kraven isn't satisfied.
"Patients, we'll all get our chance to finally be rid of the wall-crawlers once and for all. We've already proven that together we're are unstoppable." Doctor Octopus says to the team.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go get him." Sandman stands up.
"Patience, Sandman. Rather than find him, we'll make him come to us." Doctor Octopus says to Sandman.
"How? After that humiliating defeat we've dealt to them, I reckon they be long gone from the city by now." Mysterio says to Doctor Octopus.
"Not necessarily. We simply engineer a situation that forces them to play the hero, they can't help themselves. Check please." Doctor Octopus tells the waiter.
"It's on the house, sir."
"How kind of you... and wise." Doctor Octopus smiled as he wipes his lips with the napkin.
At the same time, Mary Jane is at Peter house tending to Peter who is shirtless and injured from his fight with the Sinister Six. Mary Jane rubbed alcohol on his back making him flinch in pain.
"Oww! That's hurts!" Peter felt the pain.
"Don't be such a big baby, Tiger." Mary Jane tend to his wounds.
"Sorry, though it's not the wound that got me tense. I've underestimated Doctor Octopus and his Sinister Six. He spends months planning everything. He knows all my moves and has executed his plans with precision. Not even with Ghost-Spider could we stop them. We have failed the city and it's people." Peter explained to Mary Jane.
"Tiger, you can't let this simple defeat bring you down. There's still time to turn things around." Mary Jane tells Peter.
"How? Me and Ghost-Spider can barely work together against a team of well organized villains. Besides, I don't think that Ghost-Spider will want to team up with me again after we've argued. I don't blame her." Peter says to Mary Jane.
"Tiger, do you remember last July when the whole world was about to end?" Mary Jane says to Peter.
"No one could forget that day, New York was freezing and a lot of good people have died. The whole world was shaken that day." Peter remembers the incident.
"But we're still in the world because of you and the Avengers. You guys weren't a team at first, you had arguments and disagreements, but just when it seem like all hope was lost, you managed to put asides your differences and work together to become a team of heroes the world needed the most. Because of you and the Avengers, everyone still living their lives because you chose to become a team. The point is, you're going to need the help of Ghost-Spider if you're going to stop the Sinister Six." Mary Jane tells Peter.
"How? I've had experience against these guys before, this is the first time she's taken them on. Our team up didn't work last time." Peter says to Mary Jane.
"Then you need to find a way to make it work, instead of seeing her as a rookie, start seeing her as an equal. You two will need each other if you're going to defeat the Sinister Six and saved the city. Try to make your partnership with her work." Mary Jane tells Peter.
"You're right." Peter agrees with Mary Jane's advice.
Peter's phone rang, it's George Stacy calling him.
Peter answered the call. "Captain Stacy, what's up?"
"Peter, there's a situation happening at city hall, the Sinister Six have taken control of the building and claimed hostages. The police are doing everything they can to diffuse the situation but they're ill equipped for this. I need your help." George Stacy asking for help.
"I'm on my way." Peter hangs up.
Peter gets up and puts back the suit as Mary Jane could see that something is up.
"What is it, Tiger?" Mary Jane is wondering.
"The Sinister Six are at city hall, and they took hostages." Peter puts on his mask.
"You know that it's a trap." Mary Jane says to Peter.
"I know, but I'm still going." Spider-Man isn't backing down.
"Okay, but you'll need Ghost-Spider's help if you're going to stop them." Mary Jane tells Spider-Man.
"I know, wish me luck." Spider-Man jumps off the window.
"Good luck Tiger." Mary Jane watched Spider-Man leaves.
Later at night, Ghost-Spider is on a rooftop looking at city hall surrounded by cops. The Sinister Six are already inside with hostages.
"How am I going to stop them alone?" Ghost-Spider is wondering.
"You won't have to face them alone." Spider-Man says from behind.
Ghost-Spider turns around to see Spider-Man here again.
"Spider-Man? I never thought I'd see you again." Ghost-Spider is surprised.
"I didn't think I'd see you again. Listen I'm... I'm sorry for the way I've treated you, I was harsh, I was too harsh." Spider-Man apologies to Ghost-Spider.
"Thanks, and I want to apologize too. I'm sorry for attacking you, I've underestimated Mysterio and the others. I thought I knew what I was getting into, but I was wrong, I made mistakes." Ghost-Spider apologies to Spider-Man.
"It's okay, I made mistakes too. But we learn from our mistakes, so that we can be better. The truth is, is that I can't take them on, not by myself. I need you, I need your help." Spider-Man admits to Ghost-Spider.
"And I need your help too. If we're going to stop them, then we need to work together." Ghost-Spider admits to Spider-Man.
"Then how about we work together as partners. So what you say? Partners?" Spider-Man extended his hand to her.
Ghost-Spider took his hand and grips it.
"Partners." Ghost-Spider agrees to the partnership.
(City Hall)
A number of hostages are gathered in a corner as the Sinister Six have the upper hand. Shocker is walking back and forth feeling inpatient as neither of the heroes showed up.
"It's been an hour. If neither of those spider heroes show up. I'll start killing hostage to kill the time." Shocker is impatient.
"Patience, they'll be here." Doctor Octopus assured Shocker.
The window ceiling broke down as Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider both jumped down and landed in a three point stance.
"See! I told you!" Doctor Octopus smiled.
"We're here, this is between us and you. Leave them out of this." Spider-Man says to Doctor Octopus.
"Fair enough, everyone out now!" Doctor Octopus tells the hostages.
The hostages got up and leaves the building as the two heroes stayed behind with the Sinister Six.
(Outside)
Meanwhile outside Captain Stacy and the police watched as the hostages are running out of the building.
"All units, hold fire! Hostages are coming out!" George Stacy orders the units.
The officers help escort the hostages to safety.
(Inside)
Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider still remained inside with the Sinister Six.
"We've been waiting for you both to come. Are you both ready for the end?" Doctor Octopus says to the heroes.
"It's the end alright, just not ours." Spider-Man says to Doctor Octopus.
"This time we're not running away, we're going to stay and fight you all." Ghost-Spider says to the Sinister Six.
"Don't make us laugh, we've already beaten you before. There's only two of you and six of us. What makes you think this will be any different?" Vulture says to the heroes.
"Because this time we'll be working together as partners." Ghost-Spider says to the Sinister Six.
"That's right, we have teamwork on our side." Spider-Man says to the Sinister Six.
"So be it, then you'll both die together. Surround them!" Doctor Octopus orders the Sinister Six.
Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are together back to back as each of the villains have them surrounded.
"Ready to take them on?" Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
"I was born ready, like you." Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.
Shocker throws the first strike as he fires the gauntlets and the two heroes split up and fight. Spider-Man webbed up Shocker's face and blinded him temporarily. Kraven came at Spider-Man swinging his machete as the hero flips back and dodged ever cut.
Doctor Octopus swings his tentacles at Ghost-Spider but she does some acrobatics maneuvers, she counters by webbing his two tentacles and uses them as she pulls back and jumps in for a slingshot kick to the gut. Doctor Octopus tries to get back up but passed out from the pain, he was defeated.
"That's one." Ghost-Spider defeated Doctor Octopus.
Spider-Man counters with a inner crescent kick to Kraven's face, knocking him out unconscious. He webs Kraven down for good measure.
"That's two!" Spider-Man defeated Kraven.
Ghost-Spider sees that Spider-Man has already taken care of Kraven until the whole area is engulfed in smoked and darkness around her. Multiple illusions of Mysterios have appeared before Ghost-Spider.
"More of your parlor tricks again, Mysterio." Ghost-Spider says to Mysterio.
"You want me? Come and get me!" Mysterio's voice.
"Okay Ghost-Spider, remember what Spider-Man told you, use your spider sense to navigate through his illusions." Ghost-Spider says in her thoughts.
Ghost-Spider closes her eyes and takes a deep breath, the Mysterios all aimed their hands at Ghost-Spider. She uses her spider sense to pick up on the real Mysterio. He fired his laser at her as she rolled out of the way. She fired a webbing in that direction, she managed to cling onto him, she pulls him in as she strikes back with a flying knee, taking Mysterio out of the game. Mysterio went unconscious and was defeated, his illusions disappeared after his defeat.
"Three down, three to go!" Ghost-Spider defeated Mysterio.
The Vulture came in flying and fired off his razor feathers at Spider-Man but the hero does some backflips and dodges them all. Shocker is aiming his gauntlets at Spider-Man while he's distracted.
"I have you now!" Shocker aimed his gauntlets.
Shocker was about to fire until Ghost-Spider came in for a drop kick and knocked Shocker off his feet, causing him to misfire. Spider-Man stop flipping as he sees that Ghost-Spider just saved him.
"Thanks for the assist!" Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
"Anytime Spidey!" Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.
Shocker sees that Ghost-Spider is the one who kicked him, he quickly aims his gauntlets but Ghost-Spider quickly caught his wrists in time. She uses her strength to crush the gauntlets, making them useless now. Shocker realizes that he has been disarmed of his most powerful weapons. Ghost-Spider still has her hands gripping his wrists, she strikes back with a headbutt to Shocker's head, he got hit and went out cold. She lets go and he falls down unconscious.
"Four down!" Ghost-Spider defeated Shocker.
Ghost-Spider's senses tingles as Sandman throws a large punch but she jumped above to the ceiling. Sandman missed but he strikes agains at Ghost-Spider, she jumped off and fires off some webbing, but they're ineffective.
Spider-Man still jumps around dodging Vulture's attacks, the Vulture looks around to see that some of his teammates have fallen.
"You and your sidekick may have defeated some of us, but that's not going to stop me from exacting my revenge against you, Spider-Man!" Vulture still flying in the air.
"Are you still mad at me? It is because I didn't send you some cookies?" Spider-Man jokes around.
"Still the joker, I see. All that enthusiasm won't save you from me!" Vulture flies in closer.
Spider-Man fired his webbing at Vulture's face, blinding him. He still flies in the air as Spider-Man jump up and got onto Vulture's back.
"Get off me!" Vulture tries to shake Spider-Man off while still blind.
Spider-Man see that Ghost-Spider is still fighting off Sandman who is still throwing punches. He grab a hold of Vulture's wings and does his best to steer Vulture around as knows where to fly him to.
Ghost-Spider dodged an attack from Sandman as she turns around to see Spider-Man coming in with Vulture still blind. She then get the idea what he's got in mind.
"Hey Sandman! Is that all you got?! Give me your best shot!" Ghost-Spider taunts Sandman.
Sandman readies his fist for a strong punch as Ghost-Spider managed to bait him, Spider-Man sees that Ghost-Spider has Sandman ready for an attack. He flies the blind Vulture towards Ghost-Spider's direction. Ghost-Spider stays in place as Sandman is about to throw the punch. Vulture is flying closer to Ghost-Spider without knowing that he's flying into a trap. Sandman throws the punch at Ghost-Spider, she jumped high up in the air as Vulture flies towards the fist, Spider-Man jumped off the Vulture. Sandman missed punching Ghost-Spider, he insisted punched Vulture out.
Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider landed together as they see the Vulture has been taken out by Sandman. Sandman sees that he punched Vulture out cold, he screwed up.
"That's five down." Spider-Man is keeping count.
"That just leaves you, Sandman." Ghost-Spider says to Sandman.
"It doesn't have to end like this, you can still do the right thing, Marko." Spider-Man tries to reason with Sandman.
"I made the mistake of going back to jail once, I won't do that again. I don't need anyone, I'll take you both down myself." Sandman refused to back down.
Sandman sends a stream of sand towards them both, they jumped and dodged his attacks, Ghost-Spider fires back at Sandman with her webbing but to no avail.
"My webbings are ineffective against him. What do we do?" Ghost-Spider wants suggestions.
"He maybe tough to take down in his sand form, but he has his weaknesses. The only thing that can weaken him is fire and water." Spider-Man tells Ghost-Spider.
They look up to see the sprinklers above their heads, they get the idea.
"I'll keep him busy, bring the rain." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
Spider-Man charges in and fires small volleys of webbing at Sandman, piercing through him, Ghost-Spider grabs a match book on the desk. Spider-Man jumps in for a drop kick to Sandman, taking him down but Sandman reassembles himself back to his full form as he counter and managed to punch Spider-Man back. Ghost-Spider jumps up on the ceilings, she pulls out a match and starts a fire. Sandman gripped Spider-Man'a neck and has him at his mercy.
"Out of everyone in the Sinister Six, I've always been the one who came closes to defeating you. You couldn't beat me this time." Sandman says to Spider-Man.
"I wasn't trying to beat you, I was just distracting you." Spider-Man says to Sandman.
Sandman then noticed Ghost-Spider up on the ceiling, she started a fire and feeds it to the sprinkler, she succeeded in triggering the sprinklers all around the room, water started raining down upon the Sandman, making his whole sand body wet as mud.
"Nooo!!!" Sandman is now vulnerable.
Spider-Man breaks off the Sandman's grip and got him free. Ghost-Spider jumps in closer to Spider-Man and Sandman.
"May I?" Ghost-Spider asking Spider-Man.
"By all means." Spider-Man tells Ghost-Spider.
Ghost-Spider walked up closer to an all wet Sandman, she's has her fist ready.
"Nighty night Sandman!" Ghost-Spider throws the punch.
Ghost-Spider punched Sandman out cold, Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider looked around to see that all of the Sinister Six are defeated.
"And you make six." Ghost-Spider defeated Sandman.
"'Nighty night, Sandman,' that's my line. But it's great you said it." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
"Thanks. Looks like that all of them. So what now? These guys got out once, what's to keep them from escaping again?" Ghost-Spider is wondering.
"Don't worry, I know who to call." Spider-Man has a suggestion.
(Later)
Couple of quinjets are outside city hall as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are taking custody of the Sinister Six. They're being loaded onto the quinjets for transport.
Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider overlooked from the rooftop to see the Sinister Six have been arrested and taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.
"So what's going to happen to them?" Ghost-Spider is curious.
"Thanks to Stark and S.H.I.E.L.D., the new supermax prison has been built to contain them, it's called the Raft. It's in the middle of the ocean and they won't be able to escape for a time. The city is safe thanks to you and me." Spider-Man tells Ghost-Spider.
"I have to admit, we make a pretty good team." Ghost-Spider admits to Spider-Man.
"I was thinking the same thing." Spider-Man admits too.
"I should get going, I need to be home soon. Till next time." Ghost-Spider jumps and swings away.
Spider-Man stays behind as he managed to get shots of the fight of him and Ghost-Spider defeating the Sinister Six.
"I hope Robbie will love these photos." Spider-Man says to himself.
The next day at the Daily Bugle, Jameson returned back to New York after the shuttle launch in Cape Canaveral, he bursted into his own office holding the recent issue of the Daily Bugle.
"Robbie, what is the meaning of this?!" Jameson slams the paper down on the desk.
Robbie looks at the recent issue titled 'Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider saves city from the Sinister Six', the picture was taken by Peter Parker himself.
"Peter dropped theses photos off yesterday after Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider defeated the Sinister Six. The criminals are finally behind bars and the city is safe again. Plus today's issue sold more paper than ever before. People are loving it." Robbie tells Jameson.
"Great, I've gone away for a week and this happens. Now the people will think that I have a change of heart on these so called heroes." Jameson isn't too happy.
"Sorry Jonah, but you weren't here and we still have a tabloid to run. I had to make a call. By the way, how was your son?" Robbie asking Jameson.
"He's fine, the launch was a success and he's currently up in the international space station awaiting the comet. Now that I'm back, I'm taking charge as editor-in-chief." Jameson is back in charge.
"Welcome back, Jonah." Robbie steps aside from the desk.
Jameson takes back his place as editor-in-chief as he takes his chair and sits down.
At lunchtime in Midtown High, Flash is holding up today's issue of the Bugle.
"Check it out, Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider kicked the asses of the Sinister Six." Flash tells his classmates.
"So it's seems like these two are now finally partners. That's good, with those two working together, the city will be more safer than ever." Betty says to Flash.
Peter and Gwen smiled as they're happy to hear that there are others like Flash and Betty who supports them being partners. Mary Jane is happy too that Peter and Gwen managed to find a way to trust each other and work together.
Meanwhile at the Raft, the new supermax prison in the middle of the ocean, S.H.I.E.L.D. has guards watching the prisoners more closely at all times. Each of the Sinister Six are in their separate cells in prison uniforms.
"So much for your master plan, Master Planner." Adrian Toomes is not too happy.
"We should've finished off the menace while we had the chance." Herman Schultz is disappointed.
"I agree, those spiders humiliated me again." Quentin Beck is disappointed too.
"Oh shut up, all of you! We shall have another opportunity one day to take what is ours." Otto Octavius tells the Sinister Six.
"How? We're in the middle of the ocean in a new supermax built specifically for us. None of us are getting out of here." Flint Marko says to Otto Octavius.
"I don't plan on staying here forever, I shall be out one day and continue the hunt for my trophy." Kraven remains calm inside his cell.
"Kraven is right, nothing is forever. Someday, somehow, we shall get out one day and exact our vengeance against Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider, that's a promise." Otto Octavius still planning his revenge.
The Sinister Six still remained trapped inside their cells dreaming about the day they would finally get their freedom and take down Spider-Man once and for all.
Later at night, Ghost-Spider is on a rooftop looking down at the city, Spider-Man came in and landed on the rooftop.
"Spider-Man, glad to see you again." Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.
"I'd hoped to run into you again tonight. It seemed like everyone is excited about our new partnership." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
"I had my doubts before that I would never measure up to you as a hero." Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.
"Well, you shouldn't, you've proven to be a great hero on your own. You've saved my skin a couple times, and you've been a great help in taking down the Sinister Six. I could never have done this without you. You're exactly the kind of partner I need, one I would fight beside." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
"Thank you, means a lot." Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.
"And I've been thinking it through, if you and I are going to be partners, then we need to trust one another. I think that it's important that you know who I am underneath this mask." Spider-Man is willing to share his secret identity.
"Spider-Man, that's okay, you don't have to do this." Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.
"But I want to, in the past I use to think that I would fight alone in this crusade as a hero, but I was wrong. I need a partner to fight beside with, someone who I would trust my life with, someone I would die for." Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
"If that's what you want, then I think it's fair that you know who I am underneath the mask too." Ghost-Spider willing to share her secret identity.
"Are you sure this is what you want?" Spider-Man says to Ghost-Spider.
"Yes, I need to trust you too as a partner. If we're going to work together, then it's important that we know each other." Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.
"Well, okay." Spider-Man has his hand on his mask.
Ghost-Spider has her hand on her mask too. "Same time."
They then turn away from one another, each having a hand on a mask ready to be pulled off.
"Okay, one." Spider-Man counts.
"Two." Ghost-Spider counts too.
"Three!" Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider says in unison.
Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider pulled up their masks and turned around to showed their real faces to each other. Peter's eyes widen as he sees Gwen's face before him. Gwen is also equally shocked to see Peter's face before her.
"Oh my god." Peter is shocked.
"Oh my god." Gwen is shocked too.
Peter now learns that the mysterious Ghost-Spider is none other his girlfriend Gwen Stacy. Gwen is very shocked to find out that the very hero who saved her life last year, the one calls himself Spider-Man is none other than her boyfriend Peter Parker. Peter and Gwen now know that they're both superheroes, they have a long road ahead of them.
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