Volume III: Hawkeye
Note: This will be the tenth chapter of Volume III, this will introduce Clint Barton, a circus performer and master archer who goes by the stage name Hawkeye, he and the circus he works for will come into Brooklyn and open up for a time, unknown to any of them, they will face trouble from a local gang called the Tracksuit Mafia, their leader is Ivan Banionis. This will also introduce Buck Chisholm as Trick Shot, Jacques Duquesne as the Swordsman, and Lucky the Pizza Dog playing as supporting characters of Hawkeye. Peter and his friends will check out the circus along with Miles and his friends, including their classmate Kate Bishop, all will soon face a big surprise as the Tracksuit Mafia will cause trouble for everybody and tragedy as some close to Clint will lose his life. He will abandon the circus and become an archer vigilante to take on the entire mafia to avenge his friend, as they too will retaliate back and bring war to Brooklyn to kill Hawkeye. The Tracksuit Mafia along with the hired hitman Bullseye will plays as the antagonists of this chapter. Spider-Man and his friends will team up with Hawkeye to save a couple of teens from the clutches of these criminals.
It's about 10:15 PM on November 5th in the West Coast as Peter and Happy are at the Stark Airfield about to board the plane as Peter is wearing a DisneyLand t shirt along with a DisneyLand Mickey Mouse hat, Happy is carrying the luggage on board. The ramp closes up as Happy takes up the cockpit and pilots the craft, the private plane is taking off from the runway and is heading back to New York taking Peter back on home after his time out here is done, the plane is still in the air as Happy puts the plane on autopilot and leaves the cockpit to check up on the passenger.
"Next time, don't ever ask me to go on any roller coaster rides again! They really scare me!" Happy isn't feeling great about his time in Disneyland.
"I know." Peter holding up a picture taken from the ride.
The picture of Peter smiling with his arms raised up having fun, next to him is Happy who's looking very scared by the ride as he's screams while making a scared look on his face.
Happy sighed. "This is embarrassing... please don't show it to anyone."
"No promises, Hap." Peter can't promise Happy.
"Well anyways, we should be in New York in about five hours. Did you let anyone know you're coming home tonight?" Happy asking Peter.
"Yeah, I already called Aunt May before we boarded, she'll be waiting at the airfield." Peter told Happy.
"Do you think that your city is doing well while you were away?" Happy asking about New York City.
"Of course, I'm pretty sure Gwen and Miles has got this." Peter has faith in his friends.
At the same time back in New York City, it's 7:15 PM on Eastern Time as a armored car heist is happening right now, Ghost-Spider and Kid Arachnid are working together facing off against the supervillains Panda-Mania and Walrus committing the robbery, Panda-Mania jumps up and came down for a drop kick as Ghost-Spider backflips out of the way, Walrus is picking up a car nearby and tossed it hard at Kid Arachnid who jumps up and swings around, the car crashed and Walrus missed his target. Kid Arachnid joins up next to Ghost-Spider as they're in for quite a fight.
"You know these two?" Kid Arachnid asking Ghost-Spider.
"Yeah, Walrus and Panda-Mania, couple of amateur supervillains Spidey and I faced last year. They were sent to the Raft." Ghost-Spider told Kid Arachnid about them.
"Looks like they've escaped and they're back." Kid Arachnid tells Ghost-Spider.
"Not for long, cause we're going to bring them in together." Ghost-Spider tells Kid Arachnid.
"Like hell you are, we're not going back to the Raft." Panda-Mania stated to the heroes.
"Yeah, we'll crush you both." Walrus crunched his knuckles.
Walrus charged in at full strength as he slams his fists down hard, but both Ghost-Spider and Kid Arachnid splits up, Ghost-Spider then got surprise attacked by a flying kick executed by Panda-Mania. Kid-Arachnid came in for a drop kick but his leg got caught and Walrus swings him around and tossed him towards Ghost-Spider attempting to get back up, both heroes collided with each other. Walrus and Panda-Mania are getting the best of them as both heroes are getting back up and shakes off their injuries.
"We need to come up with something new." Kid Arachnid suggested to Ghost-Spider.
"Trade dance partners?" Ghost-Spider tells Kid Arachnid.
"Sure." Kid Arachnid likes the idea.
Panda-Mania and Walrus are charging in for another attack, Ghost-Spider grabs Kid Arachnid's hand and spins him around, she tossed him towards Panda-Mania as he does a flying kick and kicked Panda-Mania back hard, meanwhile Ghost-Spider runs up and does a flying knee strike on Walrus's gut hard as he falls down on his back. Panda-Mania gets back up and looks around to find Kid Arachnid but no sign of him, he's disappeared.
"Where are you, bug?" Panda-Mania still looking around.
All of a sudden, Panda-Mania felt herself being shocked from behind by some kind of electrical touch on her back, she felt down unconscious as Kid Arachnid de-cloaks himself and appears before a defeated Panda-Mania on the ground.
"Here I am." Kid Arachnid defeated Panda-Mania.
Ghost-Spider is still in a fight as the Walrus caught her in his embrace, he then proceeded to crush her down until she blackout or dies, Ghost-Spider is struggling to break free from the Walrus, but is unable as she's slowly losing consciousness.
"Better do something." Ghost-Spider tells herself in trouble.
So desperate to break free, Ghost-Spider raised her foot backwards as she then kicks hard down below the belt and hits his most vulnerable parts, Walrus's eyes widen and moans out in pain, he's unable to get his thoughts straight as Ghost-Spider took the opportunity to use her strength to break free from his arms, she jumps up and strikes with a strong axe kick down on his head, Walrus got knocked out cold as he fell backwards down on the ground. Ghost-Spider then webs up Walrus for good measure, Kid Arachnid then tossed Panda-Mania next to Walrus, she's already all tied up in webbing too. Kid Arachnid joins up next to Ghost-Spider to see that they've taken care of the supervillains and thwarted an armored car robbery.
"Now that's a wrap!" Kid Arachnid tells Ghost-Spider.
Kid Arachnid raised his fist up awaiting for Ghost-Spider to bump her fist with his, she has no idea what he's doing or what he's waiting for.
"Come on, don't leave me hanging!" Kid Arachnid still has his fist up.
Ghost-Spider formed a fist and raised it up, she bumps fists with Kid Arachnid as the NYPD finally arrived to see that the heroes has got the whole situation in hand, both Panda-Mania and Walrus are captured and none of the money was stolen, everything worked out in the end.
It's 8:31 PM as Ghost-Spider and Kid Arachnid are sitting on top of the Brooklyn Bridge eating hot dogs and drinking soda after a night of patrolling the city together, keeping everyone in it safe and successfully stopped an armored car robbery.
"Not bad for some teamwork, I was getting worried that without Spider-Man, our teamwork would be out of balance." Kid Arachnid chews down on his hot dog.
"I though so too, but we work well together, well done, Kid Arachnid." Ghost-Spider takes a sip of her soda.
Ghost-Spider and Kid Arachnid still sits on top as down below a convoy of trucks and RVs are crossing over through the bridge heading for Brooklyn, they've noticed as they looked to see it pass on by below, one of the trucks has the the word 'Carson Carnival' on the side on the trailer, they figured out that it's the circus coming to town and making their way to Brooklyn, one of the vehicles part of the convoy is a red 1972 Dodge Challenger.
"Looks like the circus is in town, and it's in Brooklyn." Kid Arachnid says to Ghost-Spider.
"Maybe I'll ask Peter if he wants to come and check it out, by the way, I heard back from May, he's coming home tonight from L.A." Ghost-Spider tells Kid Arachnid.
"Then I take it that his mission in Cali was a success, can't wait to hear how it went. I should probably head on back to the academy for the night, can't let anyone noticed that I'm skipping curfew again." Kid Arachnid tells Ghost-Spider.
"Sure thing, I should get going too, need to be there with May to pick up Peter at the airfield when he finally arrives. See you tomorrow." Ghost-Spider gets up from the ledge.
"Okay, bye Gwen." Kid Arachnid tells Ghost-Spider.
Ghost-Spider jumps off the ledge and swings away towards Queens for the night, Kid Arachnid gets up and jumps down, he's swinging back to Brooklyn towards the academy. Meanwhile somewhere in Brooklyn the whole convoy has finally found a place here to set up the circus, a Dodge Challenger came onto the parking area where the RVs are parked for the night, the car parked itself as a blonde hair man about 30 years old got out of the driver's seat, his name is Clint Barton and joining him is his pet dog Lucky getting out through the driver's side and is finally out, Clint looks around to see they're in Brooklyn.
"So what do you think of New York, boy?" Clint asking Lucky.
The dog Lucky barks smiling, he's a golden retriever with his left eye missing and the pet dog of Clint Barton. His owner is looking down at his dog smiling and sticking out his tongue as he gets the sense what he wants.
"Yeah, I know, you're hungry." Clint sighed and smiles at Lucky. "Okay, let's go find a decent pizza place around here, you crazy Pizza Dog."
Clint climbs back inside the Challenger along with Lucky riding shotgun next to him as they roam around Brooklyn to find someplace that make a good pizza for them to chow down together. As they drove away from the circus, someone was nearby looking at the circus making their place here in Brooklyn, this man is wearing a tracksuit and pulls out his phone and makes a call.
Much later it's now November 6th, 12:30 PM at an airfield in Queens where May and Gwen are standing near the car awaiting for the return of Peter from his trip to the West Coast, they look to see a private plane coming down for a landing, it opens up the landing gear and finally touched down onto the runway, it's heading slowly towards them until it finally stops in its track, May and Gwen slowly approaches the jet, the hatch opens and lowers itself down to see Peter Parker finally returned home, Happy hands Peter his suitcase full of luggage.
"Here you go, kid, this is your stop." Happy tells Peter they're here.
"Thanks for the lift, Hap." Peter thanked Happy.
"Good luck, kid." Happy tells Peter.
Peter took his suitcase and walks down the stair hatch, he touched down on the ground and walks up to see May and Gwen here waiting for him, he's happy to see them both again, they're both also happy too to see Peter returned home.
"Hey, thank you both for coming." Peter smiles at May and Gwen.
"Welcome home, Peter." May hugs Peter tightly.
"It's good to be home, Aunt May," Peter hugs May back.
Peter broke off his hug and turns to Gwen, they embraced each other without hesitation.
"Thanks for being here, Gwendy." Peter hugs Gwen tightly.
"Always, Pete." Gwen hugs Peter back.
They broke off their hug as Gwen looks upon Peter in his DisneyLand t-shirt and Mickey Mouse ear hat, she's curious as to what he's been doing in the West Coast.
"What are you wearing?" Gwen looking upon Peter and is curious.
"Oh, I got this from my trip to DisneyLand after I've helped Tony. I'll explain everything to you, but right now, I'd like to go home, need to rest for my day in school." said Peter to Gwen.
Peter takes off his hat and puts it on top of Gwen's head as she smiles, they all walked towards the car to head on home for the night, Peter is back home with his aunt and Gwen welcoming him back with opens arms.
It's 7:30 AM in Brooklyn, the circus is being set up all around the area opening very soon, meanwhile Clint Barton is asleep in his RV as someone is knocking on the door hard, he then forced himself to wake up and get's off from his bed, on the floor is his pet Lucky next to a pizza box he and Clint chowed down last night, there are a few slices left, Clint walks up and stretches his arm while yawning, he opens up the door to find fellow circus performer Jacques Duquesne knocking his door.
"Get up, kid, we got work to do." Jacques Duquesne tells Clint in a French accent.
"Yeah, I'll be right there." Clint closes the door.
Clint walks over to his closet where his stage clothes is being stored along with a bow and quiver full of arrows, the suit is all purple with a purple eye mask with the letter 'H' on top. Inside the closet is a picture of his younger self as a kid with a man wearing red suit and quiver with a bow in his hand, it was signed by Trick Shot. He then dressed him up in his suit and straps the quiver on his back, he then picks up the bow and is fully dressed as he looks down at Lucky awaken and eating a pizza slice in his mouth.
"Time for me to go to work." Clint Barton becomes Hawkeye.
Clint steps out of his RV with Lucky as they looks around to find the workers are setting everything up for the circus they're about to start soon, they made their way through until they find Jacques Duquesne already dressed in his purple suit wielding a sword, he goes by his stage name Swordsman, next to him is the man who now runs this circus both Clint and Jacques works in, his name is Buck Chisholm, both he and Jacques are in their early 50s as Jacques is still sharp in his swordsmanship, Buck on the other hand is retired, they see Clint all dressed up in his Hawkeye suit heading their way.
"So how is your drive around Brooklyn, Hawkeye?" Buck asking Clint.
"We drove around neighborhood to neighborhood until we found this pizza place that make such good pies, mmm, it's quite delicious." Clint told them about last night.
"I'll bet Lucky feels the same way." Buck looks down to Lucky barking and smiling.
"You know Lucky, he's always been a Pizza Dog." Clint looked and smiled at Lucky.
"Okay, enough chit chat, let's get down to practice." Buck tells Clint and Jacques.
Jacques pulls out his sword as the tennis ball launcher shoots out some balls and he swings his sword, cutting each of them in half easily, meanwhile Buck unleashed the balls all up in the air as they got high enough for target practice, Clint quickly draws out his arrows and draws the bow, he aims and shoots the balloons down one by one as they're getting too high, but that won't stop him as his marksmanship and mastery in archery are extraordinary, Buck watched as he's proud of Clint's skills with a bow and arrows rivals his own back in his youth. Clint then shot the last balloon out of the air as Clint successfully destroyed them all, Jacques sliced off the last tennis ball in half shot at him, both circus performers are done practicing as their skills are still sharp.
"Piece of cake." Clint is done shooting arrows.
"Never had a doubt in your archery, Clint." Buck smiled at Clint.
"You should know, you taught me. Would've been fun if you still continue on with the show, Trick Shot." Clint called Buck by his old stage name.
"I wish I could, Hawkeye, but thanks to my carpal tunnel syndrome, my archery days are over. But at least I had the chance to pass on my skills to you, you Clint Barton who has been like a son ever since I found you a runaway kid in Iowa." Buck tells Clint he sees him as a son.
"I'm very fortunate you and Jacques found me, taught me everything, gave me a place and a purpose." Clint tells Buck he's thankful to him.
Couple hands claps as Clint, Jacques, and Buck all turned to see several men in tracksuit coming, one of them is clapping and smiling, Lucky is growling as he has a bad feeling about these guys, the man who is clapping his hands is Ivan Banionis, the leader of the Tracksuit Mafia here in Brooklyn, Clint and the others are curious as to what brings these men all the way here to their circus.
"That was quite a performance you show with just a bow and arrow." Ivan Banionis still clapping his hands together.
"Who are you?" Buck asking the man his name.
"I am Ivan Banionis, and you gentlemen have just entered my territory, Brooklyn is my turf." Ivan Banionis introduced himself to them.
"Your turf? Are you like a mobster or something?" Clint asking Ivan Banionis his true occupation.
"I'd prefer the term entrepreneur, a pillar of my community." Ivan Banionis told him that he's someone of great importance here.
"So in other words you're a mobster, so tell us what you and your mafia want?" Clint sees them as criminals.
"Very well, let's get down to business, as I said before, Brooklyn is my turf and there is a certain toll for everyone in it to pay in order to continue their business in peace." Ivan Banionis demands money from them.
"You want us to pay you money for us to do business here?" Buck figured out what they want form them.
"Now you're catching on, clearly your in charge, so if you all want to set up you circus here without any trouble, let's talk price." Ivan Banionis wants them to pay his crew money.
Lucky barks at the mobsters as Clint raised his bow and draws out an arrow from his quiver, he aims his arrow straight at the mobster boss Ivan, the Tracksuits all pulled out their guns as Jacques uses his swordsmanship to disarm the two men of their guns from their hands, only Clint and Jacques are the only ones left with weapons, Ivan sees that Clint is threatening him with an arrow, Buck is worried that things are escalating around here.
"We don't work for you and we don't do business with criminals." Clint aiming his arrow.
"Clint, take it easy." Buck tells Clint not to do anything stupid.
"You don't have the guts to shoot a man, kid." Ivan Banionis isn't easily intimidated.
Clint veered off his aim and fired off an arrow that cut part of Ivan's right face, the criminal felt intimidated as everyone around the circus sees the criminal very scared and humiliated by a circus performer with a bow and arrow, Clint draws another arrow from his quiver and aims again at Ivan.
"Oops, I missed, or did I? Now I'd suggest you and your joke of wannabe gangsters turn around now and walks back to wherever it is you came from and stay out of our business, or else the next arrow will go through that thick skull of yours!" Clint threatens them to leave the circus.
Ivan Banionis felt threaten and humiliated. "This isn't over... men, let's go."
The Tracksuit Mafia all turned around and walked away from the circus as Clint still has his bow and arrow aimed, Lucky is still barking out loud at the criminals, Buck is getting worried that Clint has provoked these criminals and could come with unintended consequences for him and everyone else here. The criminals have already left the circus as Clint puts away his arrow and Buck walks up next to him.
"I hope you realize what you've just done, you may have just poked the bear and made it angry." Buck is worried about Clint's actions could bring trouble.
"I couldn't let him come here and bully us for money, I had to make a stand for all of us." Clint justified his actions.
"I just hope your actions doesn't come back and bite all of us in the ass." Buck is still worried for everyone.
Buck and Jacques walked away to get everything see for the opening of the circus, Lucky walked up next to Clint and stood beside his master rubbing his head up and down his leg, Clint smiled as Lucky has been his most loyal friend, Clint thinks about what Buck said about his actions against the Tracksuits could bring to him and everyone at the circus, he hopes that it'll never come and everything will be alright.
It's 12:13 PM at Midtown Science High School, it's lunch and break time for everyone her, in the courtyard Flash is holding up his phone showing off a photo taken from the internet about Spider-Man's most recent appearance in Hollywood, he along with Betty, Randy, Kong, Harry, and Glory are all sitting together to see that Spider-Man has marked his place in history by leaving his feet and handprints at the Chinese Theater.
"I'm quite surprised that Spider-Man finally made it to the West Coast, only a single day there and he ends up having his hands and feet printed in the cement in Hollywood." Betty tells the group.
"He deserves it, he saved the world with the Avengers a couple times, it's about time he got some recognition outside of New York." Flash tells the group.
Meanwhile Peter is sitting with Gwen and Mary Jane all alone as Peter is showing off photos he took during his trip to DisneyLand, the first photo of him taking a selfie with the Sleeping Beauty Castle in the background, next of him with both hands on the Sword of the Stone looking like he's pulling it out, and the last is of him on the ride having fun next to Happy Hogan who looked very scared and screams while making a scared face, Gwen and Mary Jane smiled and giggled at that particular photo.
"So how was DisneyLand, Tiger?" Mary Jane asking Peter about his experience in DisneyLand.
"I was great, the place is so humongous, there was so much to do, so many rides and so many sites. I was about to head on home, but Pepper suggested I stick around and try something fun to do in California while I still can, and all I can think about is trying out DisneyLand." Peter told them about his experience.
"So I take it that your mission to help Tony was successful?" Gwen asking about Tony Stark.
"Very successful, we've prevented AIM from taking Stark Industries, Tony has checked himself into rehab, and Pepper is on her way to Japan to discuss a partnership with Fujikawa Industries, if that happens, it could be huge for both companies. How about you? Anything happened while I was away?" Peter asking Gwen about his time away from New York.
"Well, me and Miles were able to thwarted an armored car robbery and captured both Walrus and Panda-Mania, both of them are already locked up in the Raft, again. Also, the circus is in town, in Brooklyn to be precise." Gwen told Peter about recent events.
"Really? And I take it that you want to go?" Peter asking Gwen if she's interested in the circus.
"Why not? You got to have fun while me and Miles were taking care of the city, so why can't we have some fun too?" Gwen made a compelling point.
"She's got a point, Tiger." Mary Jane agrees with Gwen.
"Really? You too?" Peter is surprised by MJ siding with Gwen.
"Come on, Tiger, we all could use some fun, look at it this way, you'll get to take two of the hottest girls in your life out on a date, don't pass up a chance like this." Mary Jane encourages Peter to take them both out to the circus.
"Please Pete." Gwen pleaded with Peter to take them on a date.
Peter smiled and sighed. "Okay, I guess it wouldn't hurt to check out this circus, could be exciting."
"Thanks, hope you got enough money for this, cause you're paying." Mary Jane smiled and teased Peter.
"Say what?" Peter is shocked to hear this.
"Great, pick me up at 6 at my place, Tiger." Mary Jane gets up and walks away happy.
"Thanks Pete." Gwen kissed Peter on the cheek before she walks away with Mary Jane.
Both girls smiled and giggled while Peter stayed behind and accepted to take them both out to the circus later this evening, Peter is caught up in a love triangle between Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson, he loves them both equally but he only wants to be with one of them the most, but he can't decided which one he wants.
It's 2:50 PM at Brooklyn Visions Academy, school has ended for the day as Miles is walking out of school grounds with his friends Ganke Lee and Anya Corazon, they're all talking about the circus in town until they've spotted senior student Kate Bishop leaving the school premises in her expensive convertible, Miles is very confused as to why she gets to ride out by a limo, he doesn't know too much about Kate Bishop and her life.
"What's with the convertible? Did she rent it or something?" Miles is confused about Kate Bishop.
"What? You don't know? Kate's family is rich, the Bishops are one of the wealthiest family in the city." Anya explained about Kate and her family.
"Whoa? For real?" Miles is very surprised by this news.
"Seriously Miles Morales, in all these two months here in Brooklyn Vision Academy, you never knew? Everybody here knows about Kate Bishop, she's pretty much famous around here." Anya is surprised that Miles didn't know about Kate Bishop.
"Evidently not... Anyway, the circus is about to start this evening, you coming?" Miles asking Anya out.
"Miles Morales... are you asking me out... like on a date?" Anya is wondering if this is a date.
"Uh... yeah... I mean as friends of course." Miles acting all nervous in Anya's presence.
"Sure, I'd like that. It's a deal, I'll stop by my dad's place and meet you both later at the circus this evening." Anya agreed to go out with Miles and Ganke.
"Sure, see you there." Miles still looking nervous.
Anya walks away waving back to her friends, Ganke and Miles waved back to Anya, she had already left as Ganke turns to see his friend Miles all froze up after asking Anya out to the circus, he knows that Miles is in his shy moment when asking a girl out. Miles unfroze himself and looks back at Ganke staring at him.
"What?" Miles is wondering.
"You froze." Ganke teased his friend.
"Hey, I never freeze." Miles denies he froze cause of Anya.
"Whatever, let's just get ready for this evening, lover boy." Ganke still teased Miles.
Ganke heads back inside the school while Miles rolled his eyes up, still bother by Ganke's words about him freezing up by Anya, he walks back with Ganke, they're getting ready for the circus this evening.
It's 4:49 PM in Brooklyn at a hideout in Brighton Beach, the leader of the Tracksuit Mafia, Ivan Banionis is in his office, he looked himself in the mirror to see that nasty cut on his face he got by Clint's arrow, that guy made a joke out him, humiliated him in front of everyone including his own men, he's feeling anger at the archer responsible for his humiliation and disrespecting his crime syndicate by calling them a joke, he slams his fist down in anger.
"That arrogant punk, how dare he disrespects me and my organization, he humiliated me in front of everyone, no one gets away with this, no one!" Ivan Banionis wants retribution against Clint Barton.
"What do you want to do, boss?"
Ivan Banionis sighed and calms down. "Call all our guys, tell them to arm up and bring ski mask, we're not going to let this insult go unpunished. We're going to show archer boy what happens when he messes with the Tracksuit Mafia."
"As you wish, boss, on it."
The Tracksuit Mafia are gearing up for retaliation on Clint Barton by attacking the circus he belongs to, they're in for a surprise of their lives and anyone attending it.
It's 5:58 PM in Forest Hills, Queens at the Parker Residence, Peter is all dressed up and ready for his date with Gwen and Mary Jane to the circus, he's downstairs waiting with Aunt May for Gwen to come down all dressed up and ready to go out, Peter is still processing how he got dragged into this in the first place, going out with the two most beautiful girls in his life, Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson.
"What is it, Peter?" May asking Peter what's on his mind.
"How did I get talked into taking both Gwen and MJ out to the circus?" Peter is wondering.
"Maybe you're just too nice to ever say no to them, I'm amazed that you've gotten lucky with the ladies in these past two years." May tells Peter.
"Used to be I had none being a wallflower, at least back then life was simpler for me." Peter missed his old life.
"Look, both MJ and Gwen are wonderful, but I think you'll feel better being with just one girl." May gave her nephew some advice.
"Yeah, I feel the same way." Peter agrees with May on that.
Peter and May stopped their talk as Gwen came downstair all dressed up all elegantly as Peter is amazed how great she looks.
"So how do I look?" Gwen showing herself off.
"Amazing." Peter smiled at Gwen, she's blushed.
"Alright, you both take care of yourselves, have fun." May told Peter and Gwen.
"We will." Gwen smiled and waved to May.
"See ya, Aunt May." Peter waved to Aunt May.
Peter and Gwen walked out of the house and made their way towards the Watson house to pick up Mary Jane to bring along to the circus, they've finally arrived at the door as Peter rang the door bell, letting Mary Jane know they're here. Peter and Gwen are waiting as they hear footsteps inside coming towards the door, it opens up as Peter and Gwen sees Mary Jane all dressed nice for the date, she's just as beautiful as Gwen, Peter began to see Mary Jane more differently than ever before.
"Whoa!" Peter is amazed by Mary Jane's looks.
"How do I look?" Mary Jane shows herself off.
"Spectacular." Peter told Mary Jane.
"Face it, Tiger, you just hit the jackpot." Mary Jane flirted at Peter.
"Shall we?" Peter asking Mary Jane.
Peter, Mary Jane, and Gwen all left together to the circus, Gwen noticed that Peter is developing an attraction to her friend Mary Jane more than ever before, even thought she still has feeling for Peter, she can't but feel jealous and insecure that she's losing Peter to Mary Jane more each day, Gwen had already had a relationship with Peter in the past two years, both face obstacles in their lives but managed to overcome them, only this time it's different, the girl he's falling for is her best friend. Gwen starting to think that what she and Peter had is gone, but they're still connected to each other.
It's 6:45 PM in Brooklyn at the Carson Carnival, a lot of people are walking around, they have a petting zoo and fun games to play, Miles is already there with his friends Ganke and Anya trying out the High Striker game to test their strength, if they're strong enough to ring the bell, they get a prize, Ganke is the first one to play as he swings the mallet down hard on the puck as it almost reached the bell, clearly he wasn't strong enough to make it climb high enough.
"So close, kid. Okay, who's next?"
"Me!" Anya steps up and accepts the challenge.
Ganke hands Anya the mallet as he joins up next to Miles, both are watching Anya positioning herself to swing the mallet down hard, she then uses up all her strength and swings the mellet down on the puck, it went up and it almost came so close to reaching the bell, even more than Ganke's attempts, clearly Anya wasn't stronger enough to get it to reach the bell.
"Nice try, missy, better luck next time. Who's next?"
"I am!" Miles is next in line and accepts the challenge.
"Well then, step right up and test your strength, kid!"
Anya hands Miles the mallet. "Good luck."
Anya walks and joins up with Ganke, both have lost this game as Miles is stepping up with the mallet, Miles isn't too worry about losing since he's got superhuman strength that'll increase his odds of winning, Miles positioned him and raised the mallet up, he attempts to use only a small portion of his spider strenght as he doesn't want to over do it. Miles swings the mallet down as it hits the puck and made it reach the bell and rings it, Anya is amazed how a small teen is strong enough to make the puck ring the bell when neither she nor Ganke could, Miles smiled as he knew he got this.
Later after Miles won the game, Anya is holding out a donkey plushie Miles got a prize and gave it to here, all three are walking together around until Miles spotted Peter at the food spot picking up a jumbo popcorn and sharing it with Mary Jane and Gwen, none of them are aware that Miles is here with his friends, so Miles decided to call out to his other friends and waved to them.
"Hey Peter! Gwen!" Miles calling out and waving to Peter and Gwen.
Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane are all looking around the crowd and wondering who's calling out to them, Peter then sees Miles Morales waving in the air with his two friends Ganke and Anya. Peter waved back to him, Gwen and Mary Jane spotted Miles here at the circus with two teens as they all walked up and joined together, Peter and Miles gripped hands with each other in greetings.
"Hey Miles, didn't know you'd come." Peter greeted Miles.
"Likewise, and I see you brought both Gwen and MJ with you." Miles tells Peter.
"Well, they talked me into it, can't turn back now. So who are these friends of yours?" Peter asking about Miles's friends.
"This guy is my best bud, Ganke Lee, and she's Anya Corazon, we all go to Brooklyn Visions Academy together." Miles introduced Ganke and Anya.
"Hi, my name is Peter Parker, and these two are Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson. It's nice to meet you both." Peter introduced himself, Gwen, and Mary Jane.
"Hi, nice to meet you, Peter." Ganke greets Peter.
"He's pretty cute." Anya described Peter's as attractive, made Miles a bit jealous.
"So how do you know Miles?" Ganke asking about his friendship with Miles.
"My mom volunteers at the homeless shelter that Peter's aunt own, it's how we meet." Miles explained to Ganke.
Miles hasn't told Peter nor Gwen that Ganke is well aware of his double life as Kid Arachnid, and Miles didn't tell his best friend Ganke that Peter and Gwen are the heroes Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider, Miles has kept certain secrets from each of his friends, only Anya Corazon doesn't know that he's Kid Arachnid. Meanwhile as the group are chatting and introducing themselves, the speakers all around the circus is making a sound that caught everyone's attention, including the heroes and their friends.
"Looks like the main event is about to begin, we should get going." Anya tells the group.
"Agreed, come on, Tiger." Mary Jane grabbed Peter's arm and pulls him away.
Gwen is having that feeling again as Mary Jane is having her way with Peter, Miles noticed it as all three of them are caught in a love triangle. But he stays out of it as he walks with Anya and Ganke as everybody is heading inside the tent to see the performances happening inside. Meanwhile outside the circus premises, a groups of SUVs parked out along with a sedan where Ivan Banionis steps out, soon everyone is stepping out of the vehicles all armed and ready, the Tracksuits are all masked up and about have their revenge on Clint Barton.
(Inside)
Sometime later inside the circus tent, the whole crowd is watching the elephants all walking around doing some performances as everyone is enjoying it, including Peter Parker sitting between his dates Gwen and Mary Jane, both girls are watching and sharing popcorn that Peter holds in his hand, Miles is sitting with Ganke and Anya enjoying the performance out there on stage. Meanwhile at the performer's sections, Buck is watching as it's almost about to end, Clint is on standby all dressed up in his performance costume next to Lucky along with Jacques waiting for their moment to shine on stage. The elephants along with their tamers are all done and gave a bow towards the audience, everyone is clapping their hands together.
"Okay Clint, Jacques, this is it, show them what you can do." Buck tells Clint and Jacques to shine.
"Wish me luck, boy." Clint tells Lucky, the dog barked smiling.
Buck walks up to the stage along with Clint and Jacques while Lucky stayed behind and watches his master walking up, the audience still claps their hands as the elephants and the tamers all retreated from the stage, Buck steps up with the microphone in his hand as Clint and Jacques all are taking the stage, everyone stopped clapping as the ringmaster is about to speak.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, next up we have a pair of performers, each skilled in their own way, first up with is Jacques Duquesne, known simple as the Swordsman, trained in teh ways of the sword, he's pretty handy with a blade in his hand, do not underestimate him, give it up for the Swordsman." Buck introduces the Swordsman to the audience.
The Swordsman steps up and draws out his sword and holds it up vertically for everyone to see, he then displays a bit of swordsmanship to the crowd with such skill and grace, after he's done showing off, he sheathe his sword back and bows to the audience, everyone claps for the Swordsman, now it's Hawkeye's turn to shine.
"Next up, we have Clint Barton, the agile archer with a sharp eye, he can hit his targets with such amazing accuracy, he never misses, ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the one and the only... Hawkeye!" Buck introduces Hawkeye to the audience.
Hawkeye steps and waves to the audience as they all waved back, meanwhile some lights shine around the room to find balloons floating around in the tents as this is part of the show, Hawkeye still has his bow in his hand as he draws out an arrow, he shot one of the balloons in the air, the balloon popped as confetti rain down onto the audience, Hawkeye draws out more arrow and started shooting the balloon out of the air one by one, a lot of confetti is raining all around the audience, Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane all caught their fare share as did Miles, Ganke, and Anya smiling as they got confetti on them. Hawkeye is done shooting arrow as he successfully took them all down without missing a single one, he gave a bow to the audience as they all clapped their hands in excitement by his amazing performance.
Unknown to anyone who are still clapping their hands, the Tracksuit Mafia has made their way into every corner of the tent and cocked their guns ready to shoot, Peter and Gwen are still clapping their hands until their faces frown by their spider senses tingling, Miles also has his sense tingled too. The round of applause suddenly turned into screams of terror as men with guns started shooting their guns up in the air, causing panic and chaos, everyone is attempt to run away but all the exits are blocked by Tracksuit thugs in ski masks armed with guns, no one is escaping, Ganke and Anya all looked scared as they turn to see that Miles suddenly disappears without a trace, they lost him during the confusion, Peter and Gwen wants to suit up, but they can't as all eyes are preventing them from slipping away unnoticed, they're trapped with the rest.
A group of thugs came up to the stage and have their assault rifles aimed at Buck, Clint, and Jacques, they see that they're surrounded at every angle, both Clint and Jacques still have their weapons in their hands but can't do anything while surrounded and the Tracksuits have their fingers on the triggers ready to shoot, they reluctantly dropped their weapons as the Tracksuit boss Ivan who's hiding his face with a ski mask came up to the stage and looks upon the man who wounded his face with an arrow, he was all tough before but now he's powerless along with everyone else here. Meanwhile up on top of the tent, Kid Arachnid still invisible is looking down and sees a number of thugs covering the exits and the one on stage aiming their guns at the performers and ringmaster.
"So what do you think about my joke of wannabe gangsters now, smart mouth?" Ivan Banionis gave a hint to who he is underneath the mask.
Clint's eyes widen as he recognized that voice. "You?"
"I told you this isn't over. Did you really think that you can just humiliated us and shit like this would never happen? Every action has consequences, and now it's time for you to pay." Ivan Banionis wants revenge on Clint Barton.
"I'm the one who humiliated you, not these people, let them go." Clint tries to get Ivan to release the hostages.
Meanwhile as Clint is trying to reason with the Tracksuits on behalf of the people here held hostage, a number of thugs are being shocked by something invisible, Peter and Gwen looked around to see that some thugs are falling down to the ground all of a sudden, they knew that it's Kid Arachnid cloaking him and shocking the thugs with his venom blast, he's quietly making an opening for everyone to evacuate soon.
"Why? This is the chance to see the fall of the great Clint Barton." Ivan points his gun towards Clint. "Goodbye."
Clint stood by as his life is about to be taken right before his eyes, but a webbing shot the gun right off Ivan's hand as the criminal boss has no idea what just happened, Kid Arachnid made his appearance as he de-cloaks himself and swings around for everyone to see, Ivan and the tracksuits all started shooting up in the air at the hero, meanwhile the whole crowd took this opportunity to make their escape as the thugs who are guarding the exits are down mysteriously, Peter and Gwen are among the crowd as they finally made it outside, they ditched everyone to find someplace to change into their costumes, among the crowd is Lucky who is running away from the circus.
Back inside the tent, Clint and Jacques looked to see that the thugs are distracted by Kid Arachnid swinging around dodging bullets, they quickly grabbed their weapons off the ground, Jacques uses his swordsmanship to take down the thugs shooting, Clint spotted more coming in as he draws out his arrows and shot each of them down with precision. Some of the crowd tries to escape as more Tracksuit thugs came in and aimed their guns at the civilians, including Anya and Ganke. But then Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider finally arrived in time, they've webbed down their guns and dropped in for a kick, Anya and Ganke finally sees Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider for the first time with their own eyes.
"Sorry we're a bit late, glad nobody was hurt." Spider-Man tells the saved civilians.
"Go, get to safety!" Ghost-Spider tells them to leave this place.
Everyone complied as they rushed out of the tent, including Anya and Ganke as Kid Arachnid is swinging around and webbing upon all the thugs he come across, he looked to see that his friends Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider saved his friends in time before anything bad could happen, meanwhile as more thugs keep coming in, the heroes are all tied up in dealing with them first as at the stage Clint and Jacques are holding their own against these criminals despite not having any powers. Ivan spotted one of his men down on the ground, he walked up and pulled out this downed thug's pistol out of the holster, Buck spotted the leader aiming to aim the gun at Clint Barton fighting alongside Jacques Duquesne to noticed the danger he's in, he rushed to Clint trying to warn him.
"Clint, look out!" Buck screams out to Clint fighting.
Clint stopped shooting arrows as he spotted Ivan Banionis aiming the gun at him, he pulled the trigger and fired off a few rounds, but Buck made in time and used his body as a shield to protect Clint from the bullets by taking the shots, Clint screamed out "BUCK!" in horror. Spider-Man and his friends all stopped fighting as they turn to see a man shot in cold blood down on the stage, Buck fell down onto the ground as Clint and Jacques are shocked to see their friend Buck shot, Ivan missed his target as he took the opportunity to escape now that there are heroes in the mix taking down his men, Clint got down on his knees to check up on Buck who is seriously injured by the bullets, he then looked across to see the man responsible for shooting the bullets at Buck, bullets that were meant for him. Clint felt nothing but rage at the man who shot Buck, but he snapped out of his anger as Buck is coughing out blood.
"Buck, stay with me! You're going to be okay!" Clint holding down the bullet wound on Buck.
"It's okay, Clint, at least you're safe." Buck is still dying.
"Hang in there, Buck, ambulance is on its way, just hold on a little longer." Clint tells Buck not to die.
"It's time, Clint, time to let me go and find your destiny." Buck is accepting death.
"Buck, don't!" Clint pleaded Buck not to go.
"Goodbye." Buck said his final word before he passes away.
"Buck, stay with me! Don't go! Buck!" Clint yells out at a deceased Buck Chisholm.
Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider, and Kid Arachnid came down to the stage to see that they're too late as the Tracksuit Mafia has already claimed a victim, the ringmaster has been killed, Clint is crying and holding the body of his dear friends, Jacques along with his fellow circus performers are all gathered around to mourn for the death of Buck Chisholm, the day of the circus ended in a night of tragedy.
It's November 7th, 9:30 AM in the morning, the entire circus is closed down after it became a crime scene in the murder of their ringmaster, inside the huge tent, a wake was made in honor of Buck Chisholm, everyone is dressed in suit, including Clint Barton as he steps up to the coffin where Buck is resting in peace, all he can feel right now is sadness and rage that someone dear to him was taken away from his life, he won't let this murder go unpunished, he'll vow vengeance for his friend by taking down the entire Tracksuit Mafia including the man who killed Buck in cold blood.
"I'm sorry I couldn't save you, Buck, you deserve better than this. You've been like a father to me, more than my old man ever was, you gave my life purpose, taught me everything you knew, you made into the person I am now. I promise you that I won't rest until I find the man who did this and make him face justice, I swear it." Clint vows to his deceased friend he'll avenge his death.
Clint placed his hand on the coffin and paid his respects to his mentor, his father figure, and his great friend, he took his hand off and walks away after paying his respects, Jacques could see that Buck's death really hit him pretty hard, he's worry since he knew Clint ever since he joined the circus and knows that he going down a path of no return, he wants revenge on the Tracksuit Mafia for Buck and he won't stop until he get it.
Clint made his way inside his RV to find that his pet Lucky isn't here, he's been missing since last night after the Tracksuits attack the circus, he walks up to the closet where his suit and gear are stored, he decided to take matters into his own hands as a vigilante rather than a circus performer, he picked up the picture of his younger self with Buck and Jacques from twenty years ago, he remembers those times he got himself into the circus as a runaway kid from Iowa.
(Flashback)
20 years ago
In Iowa, a ten year old runaway boy named Clint Barton is trying to escape from his abusive parents as he came across a circus wrapping up and moving on to the next town, he decided to stowaway with the convoy as he found someplace to hide himself. At some point, the convoy had already left Clint's hometown without them knowing that they have a stowaway on board one of their trailers. The next day the convoy finally stopped itself at a open field for the day as Clint climbs out of the trailer and sneaks around to find that they're not in any town on the map, he then heard sounds coming from nearby, he sneaked around and hides himself to find a man dressed in red aiming his bow and arrow, he fired off an arrow towards a target from a far distance, the arrow hits it target, Clint is amazed how this man hits his target with such great accuracy, his smile then got turned into a frown as a sword was held against his chin, he got nervous as he turns to see another circus performer with a sword, Buck turns to see his friend Jacque held his sword against a ten year old kid.
"Buck, we got a stowaway here." Jacques still has his sword held up.
Buck walks back towards Jacques with the kid. "You can put away your sword now, Jacques."
Jacques sheathe his sword as Clint looks upon the man walking towards him, Buck stood before him.
"What is your name, kid?" Buck asking for the name of the stowaway.
Clint began to speak his name. "Clinton Barton."
"Clinton, no offense, but that's a pretty lame name, why don't we just call you Clint." Buck gave him a nickname.
"Sure, Clint is better. And you are?" Clint asking the archer for his name.
"Buck Chisholm, but everyone here knows me by my stage name, Trick Shot." Buck Chisholm is Trick Shot.
"Trick Shot, because of the way you shoot arrows, it's pretty impressive. Can you teach me?" Clint asking Buck for training in archery.
"And why should I train a stowaway? Why shouldn't I just take you back home to your parents?" Buck asking Clint why he should take him in.
"My folks would be relieved if I never came back, my old man is a drinker who would beat me, my mother would just slap me for misbehaving. There's no way I'm returning home to them, ever, and if you try to take me back, I'll just runaway again." Clint tells Buck he's not going back.
Buck could see this kid is very serious. "Have you ever shot an arrow with a bow before, kid?"
"No, but there's a first time for everything." Clint admits he's never fired an arrow.
"We'll see, follow me, kid." Buck walks back to the field.
Clint follows after Buck as they made to the open field where Buck practiced his archery skills, Buck hands young Clint the bow and arrow for practice.
"Take'm, let's see what you can do, kid." Buck hands Clint the bow.
Clint takes the bow in his hand, then he grabs the arrow Buck, Clint placed the arrow on the draw string and pulls back ready to shoot.
"Okay, now what?" Clint still new to this archery game.
"Breathe, always breathe when shooting an arrow, breathe, aim, and fire. Go ahead, you try." Buck gave Clint some advice.
Clint followed Buck's advice, he breathes and aims his arrow towards the target far away, Buck and Jacques watched to see what this kid can do, Clint fired off an arrow towards the target but it missed and only fell down shot to the ground, Clint's archery skill are still novice level as he has a lot of training to do to improve his skills with a bow and arrow.
"I missed." Clint tells Buck.
"Relax kid, archery is a rare skill that requires time and practice, if you're sure you want to stick with us, then I'll be happy to teach you to be the best and help you refine your skills, that is if you want." Buck offers Clint a place among the circus.
Clint smiled and nodded his head as he found a new place among the circus with Buck taking Clint under his wing and teaching him archery.
(Present)
Back in the RV, Clint smiled as he remembers the good time Buck offered him a place and a new purpose for his life, he helped made Clint into the man he is now, but now he's starting to think that he needs to be something more than just a simple circus performer, he holds the photo as Jacques came in and spotted him with the old picture of his younger self with him and Buck in the old days, Clint noticed Jacques is here as he puts away his photo back into the closet.
"I miss him too, Clint, he was my best bud... listen, after the wake, we're going to shut down the circus and pack everything up, then we'll hit the road taking Buck's body back to his hometown for a burial." Jacques informs Clint they're leaving soon.
"I'm not going anywhere, Jacques." Clint refuses to leave New York.
"What?" Jacques is a bit surprised.
"I can't leave and let these assholes that killed Buck get away with this, I won't let his death be for nothing, Buck deserves justice and I'll be the one to give to him." Clint tells Jacques.
"You'll get yourself killed, Clint, you know that." Jacques tells Clint this is dangerous.
"Maybe, but you and Buck have trained me since I was ten, you both taught how to fight and survive. Perhaps I've always known that at some point I'd have to leave and find my true calling out there in the world, Buck told me before he died that I have to find my destiny, that time is now. It's been great being a part of this circus for so long, but I have to leave you and stay behind." Clint tells Jacques he needs to find his true calling.
"You've always been a stubborn piece of work, Clint Barton, just like Buck was... The rest of us are going to leave very soon, you can keep this RV, Buck would've wanted you to have it. I wish you the best of luck, Clint." Jacques extend his hand to say goodbye to Clint.
Clint takes Jacques's hand and shakes it. "Thank you, Jacques, it's been a honor working beside you both these past twenty years."
"Goodbye Clint, I truly hope that you find this new purpose in life and it will the right one." Jacques tells Clint one last time.
Jacques leaves the RV after saying goodbye to Clint Barton who elected to leave the circus and stay behind for his mission to seek justice for Buck, he then walks over to his workbench where all the tools needed for Clint to build trick arrows for his mission. He walks up and sits down to start his work, he began to build trick arrows, he stayed and worked for hours creating different types of trick arrow, each with their own specific purpose, after he's done, he loaded them up into his quiver and he walks over to his closet to gaze upon his performance suit. A bit later, he steps out of his RV all dressed up and became Hawkeye.
"Time to go hunting." Hawkeye tells himself as a new man.
Hawkeye climbs into his Dodge Challenger and rides off around Brooklyn in search of the Tracksuit Mafia and the bastard who killed Buck in cold blood, he puts the circus performer he was aside and embraced his new life as an archer vigilante called Hawkeye.
It's now 3:45 PM at Brooklyn Visions Academy, Miles is in his dorm room where his parents came by to check up on their son after hearing about that tragedy that happening at the circus last night, Rio is hugging her son tightly in relief and scared out of her mind, Miles looked a bit embarrassed being hugged by his mother right in front of Ganke, Jefferson wants to ask Miles about the incident yesterday, specifically the men who attacked the circus and killed the ringmaster in cold blood.
"Mom!" Miles still being hugged by his mother.
Rio eventually stopped hugging her son. "Sorry Hijo, can't help it after hearing about that terrible tragedy last night, I heard you were there and I got so scared something might've happened to you."
"I'm okay, mama, really, not a scratch on me." Miles assured his mother he's fine.
Unexpectedly his Uncle Aaron came into the dorm room and is relieved to see that Miles is unharmed, he heard about Miles being at the circus last night and wanted to be here for his nephew showing his support.
"Hey Miles, glad to see you're fine." said Aaron to his nephew.
"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks for being here, Uncle Aaron." Miles is glad Aaron is here.
"We're all glad you're alright, son, but I'd like to ask you some questions if you're up to it." Jefferson wants to talk to Miles.
"Jeff, is this ready necessary? Our son was lucky enough to survive such a terrible event, can't this wait?" Rio says to her husband.
"It's okay, mama, I'll talk." Miles wants to talk to his dad.
"Are you sure, son? You don't have to do this if you're not ready." Jefferson doesn't want to pressure his son.
"I appreciate all your concerns for me, but I'm ready, I want to talk." Miles still wants to talk to his dad.
"Very well, can you tell us anything about the men who attacked the circus last night?" Jefferson asking his son questions.
"Not much, they all wore ski masks over their head, but they also wore tracksuits." Miles described the criminals he saw.
"Tracksuits? Are you sure, Miles?" Aaron heard the word tracksuits and it's familiar.
"Yeah, I'm positive." Miles confirmed it.
"Why? Do it mean anything, Aaron?" Jefferson asking his brother Aaron.
"From what Miles is describing, it sounds like the Tracksuit Mafia based here in Brooklyn." Aaron is familiar with this crime syndicate.
"You've heard of them? How?" Jefferson is curious.
"When you're in prison like I was, people talk and you hear many things." Aaron describes his prison experience.
"What can you tell us about them?" Jefferson asking Aaron about the Tracksuit Mafia.
Aaron sighed. "I ain't no snitch, but I got no love for them. Two years, back then the mob started out small, then the power vacuum Wilson Fisk left behind gave them an opportunity to expand their operations around Brooklyn, they've recruit more guys into their ranks and grown stronger as they expand, soon they took over almost all of the criminal operations from extortion to prostitution."
"Still doesn't explain why they attacked a circus and killed a man?" Jefferson is confused to this logic.
"Don't know, maybe someone there crossed them and the Tracksuits made an example of them by killing off their ringleader, they've been known to be ruthless." Aaron told them what could've set them off.
"In all these time Spider-Man has been around, he never came across these Tracksuits." Miles told Aaron.
"They mostly stick to Brooklyn since they know Spider-Man rarely ventures this far. They try their best to stay under the radar to avoid attracting the wrong kind of attention." Aaron explained how the Tracksuits operate.
"Not anymore, murder at the circus has got everyone's attention. Any ideas where they operate from?" Jefferson asking Aaron where to find them.
"Unfortunately no, they're pretty hush-hush about their base of operations, but rumor has it that its somewhere in Brighton Beach, that's all I know." Aaron told them a neighborhood they operate from.
"Well, it's a start." Jefferson now has a possible lead to follow on.
Miles knows too as he wants to find these guys along with his friends Peter and Gwen, Jefferson's phone rings and answered the call.
"Sergeant Davis here..." Jefferson listening to the call until he got the urgent news. "What? When? Okay, I'll be right there."
"Everything okay?" Miles is curious.
"Apparently two criminal hideouts have been hit very recently here in Brooklyn, all the thugs wearing tracksuits were all attacked by someone dressed in purple and all were shot by arrows." Jefferson describes what just happened recently.
"Arrows?" Miles is confused.
"That's what they told me, listen, I should get going, I have a feeling that things around Brooklyn are about to get escalated." Jefferson tells his family.
"Be careful, Jeff." Rio tells her husband.
Rio kissed her husband on the cheek before he walks out of the dorm room, Rio is also leaving along with Aaron after check in with Miles, Miles himself needs to go after hearing about some new guy dressed in purple taking down the Tracksuit Mafia with a bow an arrow, he exits the room and makes his way towards outside of the school, he came out to find Anya talking with an older man who turns out to be her father Gilberto Corazon, he hugs his daughter before leaving her behind, Anya spotted Miles in the hallway.
"Hey Miles." Anya greeted Miles.
"Hey, who is that?" Miles is curious.
"That's my dad, Gilberto, he came to check up on me after hearing about that I was there yesterday at the circus, it's very sad a man died." Anya told Miles.
"I know, but I'm glad that you're okay." Miles told Anya.
"I could say the same about you, you disappeared all of a sudden when the bullets started shooting, where were you?" Anya is curious.
"I... was in the restroom." Miles made up a lie.
"What? No, I'm pretty sure you were next to me and Ganke when it happened." Anya corrects Miles.
"Maybe your mind was playing tricks on you due to all the stress that happened yesterday, sometime people don't get their thoughts straight in the midst of chaos. Anyway, I should get going, see ya!" Miles told Anya before walking away.
Miles is leaving the school after managing to dodge a bullet with Anya, she came too close to figuring out what really happened to him that night, he told her that her mind is playing trick from all the fear and stress that happened yesterday, he couldn't tell her that he's Kid Arachnid and he disappeared to save almost everyones lives that night. Meanwhile Anya is walking down all alone as senior student Kate Bishop is in her convertible and spotted Anya walking down alone, she knows that Anya was one of the kids there that night when someone at the circus was murdered, she drove up close to the sidewalk and honks her car horn.
"Hey Anya!" Kate honking to Anya.
Anya stopped and turns to see Kate Bishop. "Hey Kate."
"I heard about what happened, just wanted to see how you're holding up." Kate worried for Anya.
"I'm doing fine considering men with guns came to the circus and started shooting, it was scary, but I'll get over it." Anya still a bit shaken by yesterday's tragedy.
Kate wants to help cheer up Anya. "I got an idea, you hungry for pizza?"
"That's very kind of you, Kate, but you don't have to do that for me." Anya appreciates Kate's act of kindness.
"Please, you could use something positive in your life to help you get over these tragic events. Come on, it's just pizza, my treat." Kate offers to buy pizza.
Anya rolled her eyes and smiles. "Fine, I guess I could use a bite to eat."
"Great, hop in." Kate opens up the passenger door.
Anya hopes into Kate's convertible as they drive off around the neighborhood to find a decent pizza place.
It's 4:03 PM at a warehouse in Brooklyn, it's a Tracksuit hideout where all the stolen merchandise such as 4K TV's and Blu-Ray players, among them is millions of dollars stacked together, the Tracksuit Mafia is listening to the radio playing a song while playing a game of poker, unknown to any of them someone is on the rooftop attempting to pick through the locks on the window ceiling while the thugs are playing their games.
"Aces over kings, I win again."
"Ah! I never good at poker."
"So what do you suggest? Play Go Fish? Cause I don't know how to play that game!"
"Seriously? You don't know how to play Go Fish? It's pretty easy, you just..."
All of a sudden an arrow shot the lightbulb above their heads and spooked them into fear, they all grabbed their guns and looks around to find out who did that, the only source of light is coming from the window ceiling above their heads, they see that it has been opened and someone broke into their hideout.
"Someone is here, find him!"
Out of nowhere, an arrow fired upon and took down one of the thugs, then another shot the other, the lead thug is left behind as both his men are down injured with arrows in them, he still looks around to find out where that shot came from, he heard a noise come from nearby, he began shooting in that direction, but he missed. He unloads the mag from his gun and reloads a new one, another noise is coming from nearby as he shoots again in that direction. He stopped as he missed again and is getting freaked out by this whole mind game this guy is playing.
"Where are you?!"
"Behind you!" Hawkeye's voice coming from behind.
The thugs suddenly turns around ready to fire and kill the guy, but an arrow was fired first as it was a trick arrow that unleashed bola and wrapped itself around the thug's body, trapping him tight, he then sees someone stepping out of the shadows wearing a purple costume wielding a bow and arrow in his hands. This guy turns his attention towards the cash stash owned by the Tracksuits.
"Do you know who you're messing with? Do you know who's money you're stealing?!"
Hawkeye aims his arrow at the cash stash. "Who said anything about stealing?"
Hawkeye aims and fired the incendiary arrow upon the cash stash, it bursted into flames as the thugs witness millions of dollars being burned right before his eyes. Hawkeye just dealt another critical blow to the Tracksuit Mafia by taking down their operations and burning away their money.
"What have you done?"
"This is a message to your boss, Ivan, I've already hit more spots like this, and I'm going to dismantle you Tracksuits one by one until you all have nothing left." Hawkeye tells the thug about his mission.
Hawkeye then hears police sirens closing in, he then makes his retreat as the doors are bursted open and the NYPD came to the scene to find a couple of Tracksuit thugs all injured with arrows in them, and only one all tied up in a bola, they spotted all the stolen merchandise kept here and the cash stash all burning up to a crisp, they realized that someone had already been here causing trouble for the Tracksuits. Elsewhere nearby, Hawkeye made his way to an alley where his Dodge Challenger is parked, he hops inside and drives away from the block to avoid any police encounter.
"Another Tracksuit hideout down, this makes it number three. Hopefully this will draw them out of hiding. Now to continue to hunt for these bastards... and to find my dog, wherever he is." Hawkeye is driving his car.
Hawkeye still drives around Brooklyn taking down any Tracksuits as he can find, causing so damage to their organization, and at the same time hoping to find his pet dog Lucky who has been missing since last night, he hopes that nothing bad has happened to him.
It's 4:27 PM at Brighton Beach in the Tracksuit's base of operations, Ivan along with his men are troubled by all the recent attacks against his organization by an archer vigilante, they're all watching the news on the TV about another recent attack in Brooklyn involved with this archer and the Tracksuits, Ivan realizes that someone is going to war against him and his people, this vigilante has already caused so much damage to them.
"At approximately 4:03 PM, another criminal hideout was just hit by this mysterious archer vigilante, this makes it the third attack against a criminal organization calling themselves the Tracksuit Mafia, this crime syndicate is suspected to be responsible for last night's attack at the circus where ringmaster Buck Chisholm was murdered, the NYPD are investigating these criminals and hopes to bring them to justice for all the crimes they've committed."
Ivan Banionis slams his fist down in anger. "This is all gone to shit! Who the hell is doing this to us?!"
"Boss, they say on the news that this guy is an archer, sound familiar?"
Ivan Banionis's eyes widen in shock. "It's him, that punk archer who scarred my face and humiliated me, this is all his doing. He's getting back at us for killing his friend."
"He's been very successful so far, boss, he's hit our spots and burned all our money, he's crippled us good."
"Call all our men, have them scour all around Brooklyn and shake every tree until you find this son of a bitch! If he wants to go to war with me, so be it. I'll be happy to make Brooklyn a battleground, I don't care how many lives will die as long as he's dead." Ivan Banionis wants war with Hawkeye.
"Yes, boss."
"In the meantime, I'll need to hire an expert for this vigilante problem, and I know just who to call." Ivan has a plan to take down Hawkeye.
At 4:31 PM at a pizza parlor in Brooklyn, there's a dog named Lucky across the street looking at the place, drawn to the scent of the pizza being baked, one of the waiter came outside and place a warm pizza onto the table Kate and Anya are sitting at, Lucky make his way across the street towards the girls having pizza together, Anya took the first bite of the slice and her eye's widen as she like the taste.
"Hmm, so good, thanks for bringing me here, Kate." Anya told Kate.
"I'm glad the pizza is cheering up your spirits, you needed it." Kate told Anya.
"I'm kinda surprised that..." Anya was about to say more.
"Why would a rich girl like me care about someone who's not rich? Just because I'm rich and come from a wealthy family, doesn't mean that I don't care about those who are less fortunate. I never chose to be rich, but I try my best to fit in among the crowd and be like everyone else, just a normal kid." Kate explained how she actually is in life.
"Well, to me, you are like everyone else, a cool girl." Anya told Kate.
Kate appreciates Anya's complement as she grabs her slice of pizza and was about to chow down until she stopped to see a dog with only one eye looking straight at her whining in hunger, Anya and Kate could see that this poor fellow seems to be hungry for pizza.
"Hey boy, want a pizza?" Kate asking Lucky.
Lucky barks as he smiles, Kate place her slice on the ground as Lucky quickly chows down the pizza slice, both girls are amazed that he's eating pizza for a dog. Kate then noticed something on his collar, a name tag, she gets up from the chair and got down on her knee checking out the tag with the name Lucky.
"So you're name is Lucky, huh? Well, Lucky the Pizza Dog, where did you come from?" Kate is curious about Lucky she checks the back of the tag for the owner and she found it. "Clinton Barton, Carson Carnival."
"Carson Carnival? That's the circus me and my friends went to last night, this dog must belong to someone over there." Anya told Kate.
"Do you belong over there, boy?" Kate asking Lucky as the dog barks to her. "Okay, we'll take you over there once we're done eating, okay boy?"
Lucky barked and smiled as he took a liking to Kate Bishop, she feed him more pizza like in the way his master does. Kate and Anya got back to eating their pizza and agreed to take Lucky back to the circus and return him to his owner Clinton Barton.
It's 4:44 PM at the Spider-Cave where Miles is all suited up along with Peter and Gwen, he told them what he had learn from his father and uncle about this Tracksuit Mafia and this mysterious vigilante taking them down with a bow and arrow, things around Brooklyn are escalating as a war is about to erupt very soon in the streets and innocent people are going to get caught in the crossfire as the Tracksuit will want blood for these attacks against them.
"You're saying that someone dressed in purple is attacking the Tracksuits with a bow and arrow?" Peter asking Miles that question.
"That's what I heard, from that description, it sounds like that performer from the circus, this Hawkeye." Miles suspects it's Hawkeye.
"Yeah, we've seen him mourning for his friend who was killed by the Tracksuits." Peter recognized that who Hawkeye is.
"So on a mission to avenge his friends by taking down the people who killed him, this is personal." Gwen knows what's motivating Hawkeye.
"Well we need to find this guy fast before things get any worse." Peter wants to find Hawkeye.
"You want to stop the guy who's taking down criminals?" Miles is confused.
"No, but I don't want a war to erupt in Brooklyn either, if the Tracksuits finds out that Hawkeye is behind these attacks, they're going to rain down hell on the neighborhood and innocent people are to get killed until they get to him. We can't let that happen, we have to stop all this violence, no matter who it is." Peter explained the danger Brooklyn is facing.
"He's right, too many people will get hurt or worse." Gwen agrees with Peter.
"Then let's go to Brooklyn and put an end to this, whatever the cost." Miles agrees with his friends.
Peter, Gwen, and Miles all picked up their masks and puts them on as they hopped onto the Spider-Cycles and heads out to Brooklyn to stop Hawkeye and the Tracksuits from causing too much trouble to the neighborhood.
It's 5:07 PM as Kate is driving her convertible around in Brooklyn with Anya riding shotgun and Lucky is in the back, Anya is helping Kate find the circus she went to last night and hopes to return Lucky back to his owner Clint Barton. The car finally came onto the lot only to find there is no circus left here except for a RV that Lucky and Clint lived in, Kate parked the car as she and Anya all got out to see that the circus is completely gone.
"Are you sure this is the place?" Kate asking Anya.
"It was the place, but there's no sign of them, they're gone." Anya told Kate.
Kate looks at the RV. "Maybe one of them stayed behind looking for his dog, let's go check out that RV."
Kate and Anya walked with Lucky to the RV, Kate knocked on the door twice hoping that the owner is home, but no one came to the door. Kate got her hand on the handle and opens the RV door and looked inside to find out that no one is home, but they found a bowl on the ground with the name Lucky on it.
"Looks like this is the place, but no one is home yet. Think the owner might be out looking for his dog." Kate thinks Lucky's owner is searching for his dog.
The girls came out of the RV, and all of a sudden a couple of SUVs came up to the lot and the Tracksuits came out with their guns, the girls turned around to find the same guys from yesterday heading towards them and aimed their guns at them, they both raised their hands as they're deep trouble now, Lucky is growling at the thugs threatening the girls.
"Hands up!"
"Whoa, take it easy!" Kate has her hands up.
Lucky growls and charged in and bites one of them in the arm as this guy is struggling to get the dog to let go of his arm, this guy moved up to the RV and kicked the dog hard off of him and got him inside, Lucky then attempts to attack him again but the guy closed the RV door and trapped the dog inside unable to get out and help the girls.
"Damn dog bit me!"
"Never mind that, tell us where this archer is?"
"We don't know anything?" Anya has her hands up.
"Then what are you two doing here?"
"Look, this is all a big misunderstanding!" Kate tells the thugs.
"We'll see, take them!"
The Tracksuit thugs then kidnapped both Kate and Anya as they have so many questions to ask them about this archer who's attacking their people, they dropped their phones as the Tracksuits are taking them by force into the SUVs and drive away with two hostages.
Sometime later at the Tracksuit hideout in Brighton Beach, inside the office of Ivan Banionis, the boss is talking to the mercenary he hired to take care of this archer who's responsible for causing trouble to his organization, this man is dressed up in a black costume with what appears to be a bullseye on his mask all armed with throwable projectile weapons such as knives and shurikens, this man is a master marksman who can throw anything throwable with precision accuracy, this man goes by his professional name Bullseye, a professional assassin with a reputation with handling vigilantes in the past, even killed one once for the Kingpin.
"So can you do it?" Ivan asking Bullseye if he'll take the job.
"Of course I can, handling vigilantes is my specialty." Bullseye lives by his reputation.
"I hope so, I heard that you once come across a pair of vigilantes, is that true?" Ivan is curious of this story.
"Yes, I once bested one in combat and killed the other right in front of him, and I can handle your vigilante problem without difficulty, but it'll cost you." Bullseye has a price for his services.
"Money isn't the issue for me, this vigilante causing problems is, I'll pay you a bonus if you bring me his head, interested?" Ivan offers a bonus to Bullseye.
"You have a deal." Bullseye accepted the contract.
Ivan and Bullseye shake hands as they made a deal, the office door opens as the Tracksuit thugs just returned from their hunt in Brooklyn for this Hawkeye, but brought back two teenage girls instead, Ivan is confused by all this.
"Wow, the Tracksuits are now into kidnapping girls? How brave of you." Bullseye is surprised.
"Why are they here? I told you to find this archer, not a couple of girls!" Ivan demands an explanation.
"We found his RV, but we found these two at the place, we brought them here in hopes one of them could tell us where this archer is."
"We told you, we don't know where he is, we just came by to return the dog, that's all!" Kate tells the Tracksuits.
"If you have nothing to offer, then you're of no use to us, kill them both!" Ivan orders his men to kill them.
All the thugs in the room aimed their guns at Anya and Kate, both of them are scared that they're about to be killed until Kate spoke up and knows something that could save their skins.
"Wait! Do any of you know who I am?!" Kate asking the Tracksuits.
"No, and we don't care, kill them!" Ivan still wants them dead.
"My name is Kate Bishop, daughter of Derek and Eleanor Bishop, my family is rich, very rich, they'll pay anything for my safe return, if you kill me, then you'll get no money." Kate uses her rich status to save them.
"I see, and what about her?" Ivan points the gun towards Anya.
"Her father is a personal friend in the family, they'll pay much money for both of us back safe and sound, you need here alive too." Kate lies to save Anya.
Anya is impressed that Kate is willing to lie to the Tracksuits to help save her life, Ivan still has his gun pointed at Anya as he's unsure whether to keep them alive for ransom, but given that Hawkeye has burned down their cash stash, he'll need to come up with money to replace the ones he's lost, these girls could prove useful in solving his money problems, he points the gun away and decided to spare their lives.
"Okay... stand down, men. Tied them up and keep them alive." Ivan orders his men to stand down.
The Tracksuits all lower their weapons as their boss Ivan spared the girls lives until they get paid in ransom money, Kate and Anya are safe for the moment, but they still need saving, the thugs took the girls away to be locked up until they do the exchange for the ransom.
It's now 6:31 PM in the lot in Brooklyn, a couple of Spider-Cycles came up and stopped here at the lot, Spider-Man got off his bike and Ghost-Spider got off with Kid Arachnid riding in the back, the three spider heroes arrived at the place where the circus used to be, they found nothing except an RV and a convertible parked here that looks very familiar to Kid Arachnid, but no sign of anyone here, Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider spotted a couple of smartphones on the ground as they walked up to pick them up.
"This car, I sent it before, one of my classmates from school drives this vehicle." Kid Arachnid recognized it as Kate Bishop's convertible.
"Apparently she's wasn't alone, we found these lying on the ground." Spider-Man holding up the smartphones with Ghost-Spider.
Kid Arachnid recognized one of them. "That's Anya's phone."
"Anya? You friend Anya Corazon?" Ghost-Spider asking Kid Arachnid.
"Yeah, that Anya I introduced you both to, this is her phone, I'd recognized it. Apparently she was here with another classmate, Kate Bishop, this is her car." Kid Arachnid told them about Anya and Kate.
All of a sudden they heard a scratching sound coming from the RV, Spider-Man carefully approaches the door and opens it slowly, they found a one eyed gold retriever inside who was trapped inside for about an hour and a half, Lucky doesn't appear hostile towards these heroes as he sensed they're the good guy.
"Hey boy, why are you all alone inside?" Spider-Man being friendly with the dog.
Spider-Man got down on his knee as Lucky barked and smiled, Spidey then scratches the dog's neck as he's enjoying it, Kid Arachnid is surprised how good Spider-Man is with dogs.
"You sure love dogs, don't you, Spidey?" Kid Arachnid tells Spider-Man.
"What can I say? I'm a big dog lover." Spider-Man tells Kid Arachnid.
All of a sudden an arrow was fired upon as Spider-Man's spider sense tingles, he took the dog away as they dodged the arrow shot, Kid Arachnid and Ghost-Spider turns around to find the circus performer aiming his bow and arrow at them, Hawkeye spotted Spider-Man with his pet dog Lucky in his arms after the hero saved them both.
"Put my dog down on the ground, Spider-Man!" Hawkeye aims his arrow at Spider-Man.
"Whoa, put down the bow, Merida! I mean no harm to your dog, I just found him inside your RV all alone." Spider-Man still got Lucky in his arms.
"I don't believe you, lower my dog on the ground now!" Hawkeye demands Spider-Man.
Spider-Man puts down Lucky on the ground to stand on his four feet and raised his arms up to show that they're no enemy of his, Hawkeye puts away his arrow after see that Lucky doesn't consider them a threat, he trust his dog's judgment in people and sees them as friendly.
"Look, we believe that a couple of teen girls were here, they're probably the ones who found your dog. Have you seen them?" Spider-Man asking Hawkeye.
"No, I just got back, I haven't seen anyone other than you three. Why are you here?" Hawkeye is curious about their intent.
"Looking for you, we've been hearing rumors about someone dressed in purple taking down criminal with a bow and arrow, and you, my friend, fit the bill." Spider-Man told Hawkeye.
"Well, you found me, now what?" Hawkeye is curious to hear more.
"You need to stop this, what you're doing." Spider-Man tells Hawkeye.
"You mean doing your jobs? Taking down criminals?" Hawkeye tells the heroes.
"Normally, I'd have no problem with that, but it's the way you're taking them down that's the problem, I know these guys killed someone close to you and you want to avenge him, but this mission of yours will only bring war to Brooklyn, a lot of people will get hurt because of this vendetta of yours, you're only making things worse." Spider-Man explained about the consequences of Hawkeye's actions.
"It's too late, things are already worse and people have already gotten hurt, these bastards killed someone who was like a father to me and they gunned him down in cold blood. So I'm going to destroy them and nobody is going to stop me." Hawkeye won't back down from his mission of vengeance.
"We can stop you, and we will." Spider-Man warns Hawkeye.
Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are willing to stop Hawkeye from escalating his personal vendetta into an all out war with the Tracksuits, meanwhile Kid Arachnid's phone is ringing as he steps away to answer the call, it's from his best bud Ganke.
"Hey, what's up?" Kid Arachnid asking Ganke the purpose of this call.
"Miles, you didn't hear?" Ganke asking Kid Arachnid if he knows.
"Hear what? What's going on?" Kid Arachnid could tell this is urgent.
"Everyone here at school knows, they heard it from Kate's parents, Kate Bishop has been kidnapped and the criminals are demanding ransom money in exchange for her safe return." Ganke informs Kid Arachnid that Kate has been kidnapped.
"Oh no, I'm here at the lot and found Kate's car along with her and Anya's phones." Kid Arachnid is shocked to learn of this news.
"Anya? They kidnapped her too?" Ganke is shocked to hear Anya has been kidnapped too.
"I'm afraid so, but I'm going to find them." Kid Arachnid hang up the phone.
"What's wrong?" Ghost-Spider could tell Kid Arachnid is worried.
"Looks like things are much worse than we thought, Anya and Kate have been kidnapped." Kid Arachnid gave the bad news.
Spider-Man sighed as he turns to Hawkeye. "It has to be the Tracksuits, they came here looking for you, but found them instead."
"Oh no... this is all my fault." Hawkeye felt guilty two girls have been kidnapped as a result of his actions.
"Let's not worry about that, we need a way to find the girls before it's too late. I promise you, Kid Arachnid, we're going to get them back safe and sound." Spider-Man assures Kid Arachnid.
"We got your back." Ghost-Spider assured Kid Arachnid.
"Thanks." Kid Arachnid is grateful to his friends.
Kid Arachnid, Spider-Man, and Ghost-Spider are walking away as their mission has changed, they're going to rescue Anya and Kate from the clutches of the Tracksuit Mafia. Hawkeye stayed quiet as he brought this upon the girls when he went after the Tracksuits in his quest for revenge, he never considered the consequences his actions could bring, now he wants to make things right this time for the girls he put in harms way.
"Wait!" Hawkeye calls out to the heroes as they stopped and turned. "I'm coming with you!"
"Thanks, but I think you've done enough damage, Robin Hood." Spider-Man turns down Hawkeye.
"This whole thing happened because of me, I'm the reason Buck is dead." Hawkeye confessed the error of his mistake.
"What are you talking about?" Spider-Man wants to know.
"The Tracksuits came by and asked for money to allow us to open our circus here, but instead I turned them down and provoke them by striking their boss. Buck warned me about what my actions could bring, but I didn't listen to him. They killed him because of me, he took bullets that were meant for me and he paid the price for my mistakes with his life. I can't undo what has been done, but I won't let two innocent girls die because of my mistake, I'm going to help you save them if its the last thing I ever do. So like or not, you're all stuck with me until it's done." Hawkeye wants to help save the girls.
Spider-Man could see in his eyes that he's regretting his actions and now only seeks to make things right, something he himself can relate. Hawkeye only cares about saving the girls he put in harms way in his desire for revenge, he'll go save them whether the heroes accepted his help or not.
"Okay, but we still need to find out where they're based out of, it's very likely that's where they're held captive." Spider-Man suspects where to find the girls.
"I know they're based out of Brighton Beach, but I still don't know where exactly." Kid Arachnid doesn't have much to go on.
Lucky barked out as he got everyone's attention, he then walks back inside the RV to fetch something that'll prove useful to him, he came out of the RV with a piece of cloth in his mouth as Hawkeye smiles as he knows what Lucky has in mind to find the Tracksuits.
"Good boy, I think there might be a way to find their hideout, Lucky can lead us there." Hawkeye tells the heroes Lucky is the best chance.
"Then we're all in this together, let's go save the girls." Spider-Man agrees to team up with Hawkeye.
It's now 7:15 PM in Brighton Beach, at the Tracksuit Hideout, Ivan Banionis is in his office with Kate Bishop all tied to the chair as his most valuable hostage, he's on the phone with Kate's parents negotiating the amount of money paid for their daughter's release, Bullseye is also here shuffling cards waiting for his chance to take down Hawkeye and collect his reward.
"I want 20 million dollars in exchange for both girls to be returned unharmed, take it or leave it." Ivan demanded money for the girls.
"Okay, but please Kate on the phone to confirm that she's alive." Derek Bishop wants to hear his daughter.
Ivan got up and hold the phone close to Kate. "Here, say hi to daddy."
"Dad?" Kate calling out her dad through the phone.
"Kate, sweetheart, are you alright?" Derek relieve to hear his daughter is alive.
"I'm okay, dad, me and Anya are both alive." Kate told her dad.
"Okay, hang in there, Kate, we're going to pay the ransom, you're both coming home together, you hear me?" Derek is willing to pay for their safe return.
"Yeah dad, I hear you." Kate told her dad.
Ivan took the phone back to his ear. "You have until midnight to come up with the money, I'll call you back with a location for the exchange, no cops."
"Okay, no cops as we agreed, I'll start collecting the money in cash, untraceable bills." Derek tells Ivan.
"Very well, I'll call back later." Ivan hangs up the phone as he turns to his men. "Looks like everything is going our way."
(Outside)
At the same time, a Dodge Challenger is driving around the neighborhood in Brighton Beach followed by a couple of Spider-Cycles, inside the Challenger, Lucky has his head out as he has yet to pick up the scent on the Tracksuit thug he attacked earlier, he then got the scent and barks out loud, Hawkeye stops the car, the heroes hits the brakes on their cycles as Lucky has caught a scent, he hops out through the window and follows the scent to it's source.
"Lucky has got something!" Hawkeye told the heroes.
Hawkeye and the three Spider heroes all Lucky around the neighborhood hoping that the scent he picked up will lead them to the hideout of the Tracksuits and hopefully to Anya and Kate as they're all now on a rescue mission to save the girls from these criminals. Lucky has barked as the scent has grown stronger, he leads them towards what appears to be a theater of some sorts, the heroes went into hiding as they scoop out the place, they see a couple of thugs in Tracksuits watching the front, one of them got a tear in his jacket along with a bandaged arm from Lucky's bite.
"Looks like this is the place." Hawkeye told the heroes.
"We need to do this quietly and carefully, if they spot us, then the hostages could get kill. Let's use the rooftop to sneak inside undetected." Spider-Man tells Hawkeye.
Hawkeye turns to Lucky. "Stay here, boy, we'll be back soon with the girls who found you, promise."
Hawkeye pets Lucky on the head before leaving with the Spider heroes as they sneak around undetected and made their way to the rooftop. Only a couple of sentries are looking out, all of a sudden one of them got webbed up as the other one noticed, he was about to alert the whole syndicate until he got shot with a tranq arrow, he fell down unconscious, the heroes found the rooftop access to the inside.
(Inside)
The heroes have been successful so far in making their way inside undetected, that is until they arrived at the hallway and got spotted, everyone froze as the heroes have been spotted here, even the heroes themselves are froze they've been spotted and they lost the element of surprise.
"Oh crap!" Hawkeye looked nervous.
All of a sudden, the thugs all pulled out their guns as the heroes all countered with shots of their own, the spider fired their webs to incapacitate them, Hawkeye fired an arrow and took one out, but no before he fired off a round in the air and letting the whole mafia know that there are intruders here.
Hawkeye sighed. "Looks like they know we're here."
"This place is too big, there's no telling where they have the girls kept." Ghost-Spider tells her teammates.
"We'll have to split up and cover many grounds, Ghost-Spider and I will go down below and search, Hawkeye and Kid Arachnid, you both take the top floor, good luck." Spider-Man tells them to split up.
All the heroes split up and went their separate ways, Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider went down to the lower level as they've encounter some more thugs shooting their guns at them, they jump and split as they dodged the bullets and fired back their webbing at any thugs in their path. At the same time, Kid Arachnid went down a separate hallway as more thugs are coming, he turns himself invisible and the thugs have no idea where he is, all of a sudden one thug got shocked and fell down, then the next one and the next, the last thug got spooked as he attempts to run away, but Kid Arachnid suddenly appears and fired off a web line at the back of the thug, he pulls him in and strikes with a punch to the face.
In another hallway, Hawkeye spotted more coming his way, he pulls out a trick arrow and fired it through the hallway as it's emitting knockout gas all around, some thugs are starting to fall down unconscious after breathing it in, but some managed to hold their breath in and charged towards Hawkeye, the archer uses his bow as a melee weapon and swings it around, taking down any Tracksuits he came across. In the office, Ivan and Bullseye can hear conflict coming from everywhere inside their hideout, Ivan gave Bullseye the look, the assassin takes his leave as he has work to do in taking care of the archer problem, Kate is still tied up wondering what's happening out there, who's causing all this trouble.
Down in the basement, Anya is tied up to a chair as she too hears conflict happening up there on the floor above, she's trapped with two thugs keeping an eye on her, until they hear that noise is making it's way downstairs towards the basement, they pulled out their guns and aimed at the door waiting to shoot whoever will attempt to break in. They hears gunshots and fighting happening outside the door, they await to open fire if they attempt to break inside, Anya is wondering who's causing all this trouble, she hopes that it's who she thinks it is. The door came pulled off as the thugs all started shooting out towards the other room, they stopped shooting as they hit nothing, all of a sudden a couple of webbing came fired through and traps both thugs down. Anya then see Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider here, they came to her rescue.
"Spider-Man! Ghost-Spider!" Anya is happy to see them here.
"Hang on, kid, we'll cut you loose." Spider-Man tells Anya.
Spider-Man walks back to the back of the chair and started to untie the ropes off of Anya, they finally freed here.
"Thank you, you both saved my life." Anya is grateful to them.
"Happy to help, where's Kate Bishop? We know she was kidnapped with you." Spider-Man asking about Kate Bishop.
"We got separated, they took her to another part of this place." Anya told them about Kate.
"Where?" Spider-Man asking where to find Kate.
Meanwhile on the top floor, Hawkeye took down a couple of thugs as he sees someone at the end of the hallway blocking the door to where Kate Bishop is being held hostage, Hawkeye walks up to get a closer look and sees that this guy is in some kind of black costume armed with sharp weapons, Bullseye spotted the archer he was hired to kill, this Hawkeye, the archer pulls out an arrow and aims at this mercenary.
"So you're the archer who's been causing my employer so many problems? You don't look like much." Bullseye tells Hawkeye.
"I don't care, I'm here looking for a couple of girls your boss has kidnapped." Hawkeye tells Bullseye.
"One of them is behind this door, and the only way through this door is through me." Bullseye tells Bullseye.
"I'm good with that." Hawkeye fired his arrow.
Bullseye used his hand to catch the arrow before it could touch him, Hawkeye is stunned to see someone who caught his arrow easily without difficulty.
"Arrows, impressive tools, but not good enough." Bullseye holding the arrow.
Bullseye then tossed the arrow back at Hawkeye who used his bow to deflect the shot, Bullseye then draws out some knives an started tossing them at Hawkeye as the archer kept using his bow to deflect the knives and protecting him, but one of them hit him in the shoulder as he then make a retreat behind to room next to him. Hawkeye pulls out the knife from his sound and flinched in pain, he underestimated this assassin, he's quite the marksman just like him. Bullseye still has his knives out in his hands slowly walks down the hallway to kill his target, Hawkeye is waiting for him to get close enough, he came out and tossed the knife he pulled out and it pierced his leg, Bullseye yelled out in pain as Hawkeye came out and Bullseye tossed his knives, Hawkeye used his bow to deflect the shots and swings the bow hard on Bullseye's head. Hawkeye managed to get the best of him as Bullseye stands back up and pulls out his shurikens.
"I've underestimated you, your marksmanship rivals my own, let's make this interesting." Bullseye drops his shurikens.
Hawkeye understands where Bullseye is going with this, he takes off his quiver and drops his bow, Bullseye tightens his fists as did Hawkeye, both are now unarmed and about to fight each other in hand to hand combat. Hawkeye strikes first with a jab to the face, but Bullseye deflect his fist and strikes back with an elbow strike to the head, then he side kick him back hard. Hawkeye could see that he's well trained in martial arts, but so is he as he got back up and charged in for a tackle and pushed him down on the ground, Hawkeye got on top of him and proceed to punches down on Bullseye's face hard. The villain grapples and flips Hawkeye off of him, both fighters are getting back up on their feet. Bullseye strike with a jab but Hawkeye ducks and turns to an elbow strike to the head, then he back kicked the villain hard. Bullseye is getting bested as he crawl towards the bow and Hawkeye walk closer to him, Bullseye grabs it and swings it hard at Hawkeye's head. The archer fell down as he got suckered by Bullseye fighting with weapons, he looks to see a shuriken nearby, Bullseye picks up an arrow from the quiver and aims it at Hawkeye.
"Guess in the end, I've proven to be the superior marksman of all time. It's been fun, but you've proven to be nothing but a failure." Bullseye draws the bow and arrow.
Bullseye shot the arrow but Hawkeye rolled over and picked up the shuriken, he tossed it back to Bullseye and hits his hand as he drops the bow, Hawkeye gets back up and strike back at a vulnerable Bullseye by executing a strong uppercut and knocked him off his feet to the ground, Bullseye was defeated as Hawkeye picks his bow and quiver, he strapped it back on and draws out another arrow and aims at Bullseye who got bested by the archer as he looks back at him aiming his arrow.
"Looks like I was mistaken." Bullseye admits he was wrong about Hawkeye.
"It's over." Hawkeye aims his arrow.
"For now." Bullseyes tossed down a flash bomb.
Hawkeye was blind briefly as Bullseye took the opportunity to make his escape by jumping out of the window nearby, Hawkeye regained his sense as he went to the window and aims his arrow, but there's no sign of Bullseye, the assassin is long gone. But right now, he's got other worries, the hostages, he then proceed towards the door Bullseye was guarding. He bursted through and aims his arrow to find Ivan wrap his arm around Kate's neck and aims his gun at her head, Hawkeye hesitates to take the shot as the girl is being used as a human shield by the criminal, Kate see that an archer dressed in purple is aiming his arrow towards her captor.
"Don't be stupid, you circus clown, make one wrong move and she dies." Ivan threatens Kate's life.
"Don't worry, kid, everything is going to be okay." Hawkeye assured Kate.
"Wrong, I got the upper hand and you have nothing. You think that you're better than me?" Ivan mocks Hawkeye.
"No, but at least I'm not hiding behind a girl like the coward you are." Hawkeye taunts Ivan.
"What did you call me?" Ivan felt insulted.
"You heard me, only a coward would use a defenseless girl to shield him, because deep down you're nothing but a joke, one big fat joke, just like the rest of your gang. So why do you need her for? Come on, aren't you man enough to face me? Or are you going to continue hiding behind that girl like a big scaredy cat?" Hawkeye mocks Ivan more trying to get into his head.
Ivan is being insulted as Hawkeye called him a coward, he's humiliating him again just like before, all these insults and humiliations are starting to get to him, he still has his gun aimed at Kate as Hawkeye's lowers his bow hoping to bait him into attacking him, Ivan wants to prove Hawkeye wrong by pointing the gun away from Kate and aims it at Hawkeye, the archer quickly raised his bow and took the shoot, he arrow flew past Kate and hit's Ivan in the throat as he fell down and Kate managed to get away uninjured. Kate Bishop is saved thanks to Hawkeye as the archer walks up closer to see that the man who killed his friend is long gone.
"That was for you, Buck." Hawkeye avenged his friend Buck.
"You... you saved my life... thank you." Kate is grateful to her savior Hawkeye.
Meanwhile Spider-Man and his friends finally arrived to see that Kate Bishop is saved but the Tracksuits leader Ivan Banionis is dead, shot in the throat by an arrow, they figured that Hawkeye was the one who killed the criminal.
"Was this you?" Spider-Man asking Hawkeye.
"I had no choice, he had a gun pointed at her, I had to make a choice, and I chose to save her." Hawkeye justified his actions.
"It's true, he saved my life." Kate vouches for Hawkeye.
Spider-Man and his friends are impressed that Hawkeye was successful in saving an innocent girl's life, he chose her over his need for revenge. Anya came by to see that Kate is save thanks to Hawkeye, he was the hero. All the heroes were able to rescue the girls in time and took down the entire crime syndicate in one night.
(Later)
The NYPD are outside the theater as officers are arresting members of the Tracksuit Mafia and bringing them out in handcuffs, meanwhile Kate's parents came to the scene and hugs their daughter in relief that she's out of danger.
"Oh Kate, we'd never thought we see you again." Eleanor Bishop felt relieved for her daughter.
"I'm okay, mom, dad." Kate tells her parents she's alright.
Anya is happy she and Kate were saved thanks to the heroes, she then sees her father Gilberto rushing towards her.
"Anya!" Gilberto calling out to his daughter.
"Papa!" Anya says in Spanish.
Gilberto and Anya hugged each other as they're happy to see each other again. Meanwhile on a rooftop above the ground, Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider, Kid Arachnid, Hawkeye, and Lucky are looking down at the scene to see that both girls are reunited with their families and the Tracksuit Mafia has been taken down once and for all.
"I have to say, I have doubts that we'd success with your help, but we were wrong, everything worked out thanks to you, Hawkeye." Spider-Man told Hawkeye.
"Jeez, thanks Spider-Kid." Hawkeye told Spider-Man.
"I guess it's back to the circus for you now that you've gotten justice for your friend." Spider-Man guessed Hawkeye is going back to his old life.
"Nah, I'm done with the circus, now I must embrace my new destiny as a hero, this is who I am now." Hawkeye proclaims himself a hero.
"A hero? Really?" Spider-Man is surprised by this news.
"What? Be honest with me, you think that I'd make a great hero?" Hawkeye asking Spider-Man for his opinion.
"Well, I'd say you make an OK hero." Spider-Man gave Hawkeye an honest answer.
"Thanks for the strange compliment, Spidey. I guess this is where we part ways now. It's been great, Spider-Man." Hawkeye extends his hand.
Spider-Man takes it and shakes. "Likewise, I hope that you do well in this new life you've chosen for yourself."
Spider-Man and Hawkeye stopped shaking hands as the archer look down to see the girl he saved Kate still hugging her parents, she looks up to see Hawkeye waving to her goodbye, Kate smiled as she got a new hero in her life, Hawkeye is her hero, she found him to be cool fighting bad guys without powers, shen then got an inspiration by his actions,
It's November 8th, the time is 3:25 PM at the apartment of Gilberto Corazon, Anya skipped school for the day after the day of being kidnapped by the Tracksuits and having her and Kate's lives saved thanks to the heroes. Gilberto is in his living room writing up a story as he's a reporter for the Daily Globe, it's about two teenage girls saved from the Tracksuit Mafia thanks to Spider-Man and his team, including the new hero Hawkeye, Anya came to check up on her dad and sees a picture of the heroes together, one in particular is her personal hero Spider-Man.
"How are you, Hija?" Gil asking his daughter.
"I'm doing fine, Papa, thanks to Spider-Man and his friends." Anya tells her dad.
"Sounds like you're a big fan of Spider-Man." Gil tells his daughter.
"The guy is amazing, sometimes I wish I could be like him, make a big difference." Anya confessed she wants to be like Spider-Man.
All of a sudden the door started knocking, someone is outside the door as Gil got himself up and walked up to see who it could be, he got a peek through the eye hole to see a couple of Anya's classmates here, he opens it up as Anya sees Miles and Ganke here, Gil allow them to come inside the apartment.
"Miles, Ganke, what brings you by?" Anya asking her friends.
"We came to check up on our friend, wanted to see if you're alright." Ganke told Anya.
"Thank you both for being here, you're both my greatest friends." Anya is happy to see her friends.
"Anything for you, Anya." Miles told Anya.
"You're sweet, Miles." Anya told Miles as she gave him a kiss on the cheek.
Miles froze up and blushed, Ganke smiled as he was right, Miles freezes when it comes to Anya. All of a sudden, Anya's phone is ringing, she pulls it out to see Kate Bishop is calling her, Anya answered the call and held the phone to her ear.
"Hi Kate, how are you holding up?" Anya talking to Kate over the phone.
(Bishop Penthouse)
At the penthouse in Manhattan owned by the Bishops, Kate is talking on the phone with Anya Corazon checking up on her since they both got kidnapped yesterday and we're saved by the heroes, she's all dressed up for practice while holding the phone to her ear.
"I'm doing fine, thank you for asking, sounds like you're doing so fine yourself." Kate tells Anya.
"I am, thank you for yesterday, for sticking out for me, you really are a cool person, Kate Bishop." Anya thanked Kate.
"Please, just call me Kate. I'll see you at school tomorrow." Kate tells Anya.
"Sure thing, take care." Anya said one final time.
"You too." Kate told Anya before hanging up the phone.
Her butler came by carrying a long case and placed it on the table, Kate walks up and opens it up to see a recurve bow and some arrows. Kate picks up the bow and holds it in her hand as its her first time wielding it, she picked up an arrow and placed it on the drawstring, she aims it at a target she herself set up for practice.
"Ms. Bishop, may I ask why the sudden interest in archery?"
"No reason." Kate smiled as she aims the arrow.
Kate lied as she does have a reason, she was inspired by her hero Hawkeye that she wanted to be just like him, and to do that she decided to practice archery in order to live up to his expectations, she aimed and lets go of the arrow as it fired away.
It's now 5:30 PM as Clint Barton drove his Challenger next to his RV, he and Lucky both got out, Clint is dressed up in his regular clothes as he has no hero work for the day, Lucky then barks out towards the RV as Lucky tells Clint that someone is inside his home, he went to the trunk and pulls out the bow and arrow, he carefully approaches the RV to meet this intruder who broke into his home. Clint opens the door and got inside aiming his arrow at someone, a red haired woman in dressed in black.
"Stay right there and don't move!" Clint aims his arrow.
Black Widow raised her arms up while remained calm. "You got me."
"Black Widow? What are you doing here in my home?" Clint is surprised by Black Widow's presences.
"Don't shoot the messenger, I came on behalf of Director Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D., he has an offer for you." Black Widow relay Nick Fury's message.
"What kind of offer?" Clint wants to know this offer.
"The kind that is well suited for a man of your talents, that is if you're interested?" Black Widow tells Clint.
"Sound interesting, very well, I'll hear what Nick Fury has in store for me." Clint is willing to talk with Fury.
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