Volume IV: The Dragon's Challenge

This will be the sixteenth chapter of Volume IV, this will bring Peter and Betty on an assignment to Hong Kong for the Daily Bugle where the criminal called the White Dragon is being extradited to face trial for his previous crimes there, but something went wrong as he managed to escape custody while being transferred back to China, he returned back to Hong Kong as he plans to take control of the Chinese Underworld by going up against the Triad faction he was once part of called the Hai-Dai run by a crime boss name Zheng Zu. Peter will need to work together with HKPD chief inspector Lei Ling to track down the fugitive before he makes his move that could put all of Hong Kong at risk, White Dragon plans to get back at his former mentor by kidnapping his thirteen year old daughter Zheng Esme. Meanwhile back in New York, Gwen is still planning the wedding as Mary Jane is reliving the experience of her parent's failed marriage and it will make her oppose her friend's decision for an early wedding, she'll attempt to talk Gwen out of going through with it as it'll cause friction between friends, will they be able to repair their relationship, only time will tell, at the same time this will explore Mary Jane's past with her mother that leads up to her moving in with her Aunt Anna.

It's February 26th, time is 12:45 PM at Riker's Prison, a number of inmates are in the courtyard including Wilson Fisk lifting weights, Man Mountain Marko is practicing his fist on the punching bag, Frederick Myers playing basketball against other inmates, but leaning his back against the fence is a Chinese criminal who was once called the White Dragon is smoking a cigarette alone as the warden and a couple of prison guards are coming his way for some news.

"You really need to lay off them, they'll kill you once of these days."

White Dragon blows a smoke. "I'm touched you so concerned about my health."

"I don't, since you've first step foot into my prison, there's been a number of complaints made against you, fights where inmates would often end up in the infirmary more time than I could count, a few ended up in the morgue."

"Don't blame me if someone stupid decides to pick a fight with me, prison is a jungle after all and one must fight to survive." White Dragon doesn't show any remorse.

"Well, lucky for us we won't have to put with you anymore, we came to tell you that you're about to be extradited back to Hong Kong."

"Hong Kong? Why is that?" White Dragon is confused.

"Our government made a deal with your government, apparently you've committed more crimes back home and they want you to stand trial for them, so like it or not you're China's problem, so you better get ready, tonight the Marshalls are about to fly your ass back home. So see you never."

The warden and the guards are walking out of the courtyard as this man doesn't seemed worried that he's being extradited back to Hong Kong to stand trial, if anything he's counting on it, he then turns his attention to Wilson Fisk still lifting weights as he's got something special in mind to ask him. White Dragon walks over and approached the man just finished lifting as Fisk is curious as to what this man wants.

"Something on your mind?" Wilson Fisk said.

"I want to make a deal." White Dragon said.

"I'm listening." Wilson Fisk said.

"I'm about to be extradited back home to Hong Kong tonight to stand trial." White Dragon said.

"How unfortunate, if you're asking my help to spring you out of prison..." Wilson Fisk said.

"Don't worry, I wouldn't ask you to, I'm actually counting on heading back home for some unfinished business, one that could benefit you in the future." White Dragon said.

"Interesting... go on." Wilson Fisk is intrigued.

"I just need two things from you and your people, first... you still have access to the pharmaceuticals in the infirmary? I need a few meds for something important." White Dragon said.

"Done, what's the other thing?" Wilson Fisk said.

White Dragon smiled as the second thing is the most important of them all, something very special to him. Frederick Myers spotted the White Dragon guy chatting with the Kingpin as made him very suspicious as those two hardly see eye to eye.


It's 4:05 PM at Lower East Side as Peter and Gwen are still looking over wedding venues online, Mary Jane just opens up the door with a bag of groceries, Ms. Lion came barking in happiness welcoming MJ home as she petted the dog to find the couple at the laptop still planning their very own wedding.

"Still deciding." Mary Jane said.

"Yeah, we're looking over venues for our dream wedding, they're all very expensive, not to mention we're still making up the guest list." Peter said.

Mary Jane picks up the list. "I see you've invited most of our former classmates along with some relatives, plus your colleagues from the Bugle and Globe... hold on, you're inviting your superhero friends too?"

"Is there a problem?" Peter said.

"Ah yeah, a big one, I've noticed Jameson and Watanabe are on the list too, are you sure it's wise to bring your hero friends to your wedding?" Mary Jane said.

"Of course we do, they're just as much our friends as much as the others, we want them there on our special day." Peter said.

"That's very sweet, but with Jameson and Watanabe in the mix, how are you both planning to keep those two separate worlds of yours from colliding? Mary Jane said.

"She's got a good point." Gwen said.

Peter sighs. "I know, we haven't thought it through. How are we going to explain to our other friends about this situation?"

"You still got four months left to figure things out." Mary Jane said.

"While I'm at it, I'll have to figure out how to raise money for our wedding, tux, dress, cake, everything is very expensive and my freelance salary could barely cover for cake alone." Peter still doubtful.

"Listen Pete, we don't have to have a big wedding, we can just get married in a church right before a priest with very little people, I don't care how big it is as long as I do." Gwen said.

"How did I get lucky being with you?" Peter flirts.

"Must be your superpower." Gwen flirts.

Peter and Gwen kissed right there until Peter's phone received a text, he picked it up from the table to see it's from Robbie Robertson.

"What is it Pete?" Gwen said.

"It's Robbie, says he needs me at the Bugle immediately." Peter said.

"For what?" Gwen said.

"Don't know, he must have an assignment for me if he needs my services." Peter said.

"Couldn't hurt to find out, who knows, he might pay you in advance." Mary Jane said.

"Hopefully, I could use the extra money. Alright, I'm gonna head on out and earn some money for our wedding. I'll see you later, Gwen." Peter said.

Peter and Gwen kiss each other before he left the apartment as he's heading on out to the Bugle for an assignment.


It's 5:15 PM at the Daily Bugle as Peter got off the elevator and walks up towards the office of the editor-in-chief Robbie Robertson, he enters to find his colleague Betty Brant is here as well sitting down waiting as Peter got curious as to why he got called here and it must involve Betty if she's here too.

"Betty, didn't know you'd be here." Peter looks surprised.

"We were just waiting for you." Betty still in her seat.

"Thank you for coming, please have a seat." Robbie insist.

Peter sat down. "Okay Robbie, what's this about?"

"Very well, I'll get right to it, I'm sure you're both familiar with the criminal White Dragon since you both investigated his activities couple years ago against my advice." Robbie said.

"Right, how could we forget?" Betty blushed as she remembers for whole different reason.

"What about him?" Peter said.

"An old friend in the U.S. Marshals just informed me that the State Department has a made a deal with the Chinese Government, the man is about to be extradited back to Hong Kong soon to face trial for a number of crimes he committed over there, before he was a big player here in New York, he was the main enforcer for the Hai-Dai Triads, currently the most powerful crime syndicate in Hong Kong, that was until he was excommunicated from the organization for unknown reasons, this man knows ever detail about the Hai-Dai that HKPD will want in their ongoing investigation." Robbie explained.

"So basically he's a RICO case for them." Peter said.

"Exactly, he's about to be extradited on a flight bound for Hong Kong tonight, I trust you both have passports?" Robbie said.

"I do, I know Pete has one too." Betty said.

"Wait, you want us to go over there?" Peter said.

"I need a reporter and photographer for this story, Betty is the only one I got available and I like for you to accompany her on this assignment, I'll provide you with a generous bonus for this exclusive story and you definitely need the money." Robbie said.

"Well... when you put it like that... fine, I'm in." Peter agreed.

"Me too." Betty agreed.

"Excellent, I was able to book you both on the same flight to Hong Kong as the criminal, so pack your bags cause you're about to fly out out JFK tonight." Robbie said.

Robbie hands the pair two plane tickets for Hong Kong as they took it.

"Have a safe trip." Robbie said.

Peter and Betty both got flights for Hong Kong as they're now on an assignment overseas.


Later around 7:35 PM back at the Lower East Side apartment, Peter is in his bedroom, he has his passport and airplane ticket on the drawer as he's packing up for his trip to Hong Kong, he puts in his Spider-Man suit along with the web shooters and spare cartridges into the secret compartment of the suitcase, he closed up the compartment and puts in clothes, laptop, and toiletries, afterwards he zipped up the case tight as Gwen is watching from the door.

"How long is this trip?" Gwen said.

"About a week, the trial is within five days." Peter said.

"You sure you want to bring the suit this time?" Gwen said.

"I'm sure, just in case there's trouble, besides Natasha hooked me up with the latest spy suitcase built with a hidden compartment that is undetectable by X-Ray, so it should get through airport security." Peter said.

"Wow, you're embracing this whole spy game." Gwen smile.

Peter smiled as he picked up his passport and ticket, then he took his suitcase along with his camera bag with his personal camera inside along with the compact camera and some equipment, he came out of the bedroom where Mary Jane is waiting along with Miles and Anya all want to see him before he leaves New York, he first gave Miles a hug along with Anya.

"Okay, the city is in your hands again." Peter said.

"Not to worry, we're pretty much use to it." Miles said.

"At least bring us each a souvenir while you're over there, kay?" Anya said.

"Sure thing, promise." Peter said.

Peter then turns his attention to Mary Jane after he's finished hugging Miles and Anya, she gave him a hug.

"Take care Tiger." Mary Jane said.

"Will do MJ." Peter smile.

May came up to the apartment. "Ready to go?"

"I'm ready... see ya all in a week." Peter said as he's about to leave.

"Pete, wait!" Gwen rush to Peter and gave him a goodbye kiss. "Be sure to come back to me."

Peter smile. "I will Gwendy."

Peter and Gwen gave each one last kiss before he picked up and puts on his moto racer jacket as he leaves with Aunt May about to head on to the airport to catch his flight.


It's 7:55 PM at Rikers, at the cell of the White Dragon, the man is dressed in a suit to blend in, he's taken in the substances he obtain with the help of the Kingpin as he's planning something, as the warden and two prison guards came by to see their inmate all dressed up and ready for travel.

"It's time."

The man came out of the cell as the guards are cuffing the man's hands together, he's walking down the cellblock passing by many inmates, one of them is Wilson Fisk as he gave him the cool look as he passed by, he's expecting that second favor later once he reached Hong Kong. He's being escorted out of the prison till he reached the gates where the two federal agents are waiting by the sedan as they're showing their badges.

"We're with the U.S. Marshals, requesting transfer of prisoner over to our custody."

"Granted, he's all yours gentlemen."

The Marshals took custody of the prisoner as they put him in the back of the sedan, this man remained cool as he's counting on getting on that flight to Hong Kong, he's scheming something big once he's back home, the Marshals are driving the sedan away from Riker's and on the way to the airport.


Time is 8:25 PM at JFK airport as Peter has just been dropped off by his Aunt May, he hugged his aunt goodbye as she's about to leave the drop off lane, he got his luggage as May quickly reminded him "Don't forget to get me a ceramic panda!" he gave his aunt the thumbs up as she drove away, he spotted Betty being dropped off by her boyfriend Ned Leeds, the two hugged and kiss each other goodbye, Peter came by and surprised Betty, they've stopped the kiss as Ned has something to say to Peter.

"Promise me that you'll look after her." Ned smiled.

"She'll be safe with me, you have my word." Peter smiled.

"I'll hold you to that. Have a safe trip." Ned smiled.

"Bye Ned, see you in a week." Betty smiled.

Ned is leaving the drop off lane as Peter and Betty each got their luggage and walks into the terminal, they're dropping off their luggage to be loaded onto their flight, so far the X-Ray hasn't picked up Spider-Man's suit and web shooters in Peter's spy suitcase, afterwards they're joining up in line about to board their flight to Hong Kong, but the pair finds a couple of U.S. Marshals escorting a Chinese national all dressed in a suit with handcuffs as everyone got the sense that he's a criminal heading to China, Peter and Betty already knew who this guy is as he's getting on board the Hong Kong flight.

"Please have your tickets ready!"

Peter and Betty each have their tickets in their hands as they're next in line, the check-in officer scans them and allow them through to board the plane, the pair walks towards first class seat consisting of two seats on the right side of the plane as they're sitting down together.

"This is pretty nice, flying first class." Betty said.

"Guessing Robbie wants us to keep an eye on things." Peter said.

Betty and Peter waited as the hatch is being sealed up and everyone is on board, the plane is being wheeled out onto the runway and propel it's engines, it's flying off the runway and leaving JFK, heading for Hong Kong with all it's passengers getting comfortable with their flight especially Peter and Betty enjoying first class, except for the Chinese fellow who is still feeling air sick for some reason as the Marshal with him noticed it, he gave the guy a barf bag and he throws up right into the bag making everyone feeling uncomfortable including Peter and Betty.

"Eww... guess he forgot to tell everyone he's got airsickness, how long is this flight again?" Betty being disturbed.

"16 hours." Peter said.

"Great, looks like I won't get to enjoy first class after all, if this keeps up I won't be able to get some sleep." Betty said.

"Well I don't plan to sleep during the flight, Hong Kong will still be night time once we get there, there's a 12 hour time difference over there." Peter explained.

"So what do you plan to do?" Betty said.

"I plan to practice some Cantonese, I downloaded this app into my phone." Peter said.

"You sure you can get the hang of speaking Cantonese by the time we land?" Betty said.

"Hey, remember I got 'A's in Spanish and French, I'm a pretty adapt linguist." Peter said.

"Well, you go ahead and practice, I'm gonna catch some shut eye for a bit." Betty said.

Betty then puts on some earplugs and a sleep mask over her eyes as Peter plugs the earphones into his phone and turns on the app, he noticed that Betty is shivering as he takes off his jacket and puts it over Betty to use a blanket, Betty smiles as she appreciates it and sleeps, a flight attendant is coming by with a cart of snacks.

"Can I get you anything?"

Peter smile politely. "Some coffee and a bag of nuts please."


Flashback

The year is 2014 nighttime in Montourville, Pennsylvania at a two bedroom apartment, 8 year old Mary Jane Watson is asleep in her bed hugging her teddy bear until she suddenly woke up upon hearing noises coming from the living room as she got off the bed and walks over slowly, she opens up the bedroom door to take a peek to find her parent in the middle of their argument, her father Philip Watson is very frustrated at his wife Madeline as she's upset over his verbal abuse he's giving his family with Mary Jane caught in the middle without them knowing it, they're arguing over their marriage and how much it's taking a toll on him.

"Why do you have to spend my hard earned money so carelessly on stupid things?!" Philip being abusive.

"Spending on our daughter isn't stupid, Phil!" Madeline argue.

"Unbelievable, the only thing you're thinking about is our daughter's future instead of mine, I can't even write up a decent novel cause I'm working my butt off for you and our child!" Philip said.

"You're saying we're nothing but a hinderance to your dreams?!" Madeline said.

"I never planned to have a child so early, ever since she came into the picture, we gave up on our dreams to become parents!" Philip said.

"Did you forget that I wanted to become an actress more than anything before we got married? I never regretted having our daughter, she's a great blessing, why can't you see that?" Madeline said.

"What blessing? She's done nothing but hold me back, just like you." Philip said.

"You're a real piece of work Phil, I don't how I end up marrying someone so heartless like you." Madeline said.

"Just be quiet." Philip said.

"Why? It's the truth Phil, you only care about yourself!" Madeline said.

"Be quiet." Philip is getting upset.

"You're so selfish!" Madeline said.

"I SAID BE QUIET!" Philip yells in anger.

Philip raised his hand against his wife in angry and Mary Jane witnessed something so traumatic for a young girl to witness before her eyes.

(Present)

Mary Jane suddenly wakes up all sweaty from her nightmare, she's shaken by what she remembers years ago, she takes a deep breath to calm herself down, she looks at the alarm clock next to her bed, it's 2:44 AM midnight meaning it's February 27th, she finds her dog still resting in his bed on the floor, she quietly gets off the bed and heads towards the kitchen, she opens up the fridge and grabs a bottle of water, she drank it up to rehydrate herself and calm her nerves from the dream, she can't shake this feeling on her parent's failed marriage. She quietly walk up to Gwen's bedroom and slowly opens up as to not wake her up, she's sleeping alone in her bed while her fiancé is away on a trip, she knows that they're about to get married very soon at a young age, much younger than what her parents were when they got married, as much as she tries to forget the past so as not to affect the present, she can't shake this feeling seeing Peter and Gwen about to suffer the same fate as her parents did, she's close the door and heads back to her bedroom to try to sleep peacefully again.


Meanwhile over the South China Sea it's February 28th the time is 2:35 AM in a different timezone as the plane has entered Chinese airspace flying towards Hong Kong, inside the plane itself Peter took a small nap as Betty is awake watching a kung fu movie staring Chinese star Shang-Chi on the headset during the flight, meanwhile the Chinese guy is still feeling sick and throwing up on another barf bag filling it up as he hands it to the Marshal next to him and he hands it to the flight attendant who is very reluctant in take it away.

"We're about to land in five minutes, please be seat as were about to start landing procedures."

Betty takes the headset and shakes Peter's shoulder. "Hey... wake up Peter, wake up."

Peter woke up from his nap. "Huh? What's up Betty?"

"We're about to land." Betty said.

The Chinese man is feeling sick again as he's attempting to get back up but the Marshals wouldn't allow it.

"Hey! Sit your ass down!"

"I can't, I need to use the toilet now!"

"I don't believe this, can't you hold it in?!"

"I can't hold it, I need to go right now, you want me to do it right here!"

"Oh my god, just get his ass to the damn toilet now!"

The marshal got up and escorted the White Dragon guy away from the seats towards the back of the airplane, leaving first class and making their way past coach towards the lavatory section, the guy opens up the unoccupied one as he enters it alone with the marshal enters the lavatory to make sure the prisoner doesn't pull something off.

"Hurry up and get this done already!"

"Not with you watching! Turn around!"

Marshal sighs as she reluctantly turns around unaware that this guy wrapped his cuffs around the Marshal's neck, choking him as the man is trapped and struggling, unable to warn anyone about the danger, the Chinese guy then snaps the marshals neck instantly killing him as he dropped down onto the lavatory floor.

White Dragon sighs tirelessly. "Okay... now I'm done."

This guy bends down to the dead marshal's body to fetch a set of keys from his pocket, he proceeded to unlock the cuffs then grab the service weapon from the marshal's holster, he pulled the barrel as he's now armed with a gun, he opens the lavatory door and locks it up putting up the occupied sign as he's making his way back down the plane.

Meanwhile the airplane came in landing and has finally touched down on runway of Hong Kong International Airport, it's making it way to the airport to dock with the platform, the plane's hatch finally opens up as the speaker says "Welcome to Hong Kong!", everyone is fetching their carry on luggage and getting up from their seats to head out of the plane, Betty is fetching her carry on luggage as Peter is wondering what's going on with the Marshal with the captain and flight attendants speaking in private next to the cockpit.

"We're finally here Peter, let's go." Betty got her luggage but noticed Peter's expression. "What is it, Pete?"

"Something's not right, wait here." Peter gets up.

Peter leaves Betty and walks up to the group next to the cockpit as they noticed the passenger joining.

"Excuse me sir, you're not suppose to be here."

"With all due respect, I can tell that something is not right here, I'd like to help anyway I can."

"Listen kid, I appreciate you want to be a Good Samaritan, but..."

"Listen, my name is Peter Parker, I'm a photographer for the Daily Bugle from New York, I know the man you were with was a known criminal being extradited, so please talk to me seeing as nobody is safe." Peter said.

"Fine... you're right, just a few minutes ago my partner sent him to the back for a restroom break, but they haven't came back."

"Have you tried calling him, doesn't he have a phone?" Peter said.

"I did, he's not answering, I'm getting worried."

"Can you show us where the lavatories are?" Peter said.

"Follow us."

The flight attendants are leading the way for Peter and the marshal as they're making their way through coach towards the back of the plane, they made it to the lavatories as only one is occupied as the marshal knocks on the door "Hello!" there was no response as he knocks agains saying "Hello!" again.

"Can you unlock it?" Peter asking the flight attendant.

The flight attendant steps up and uses a secret latch to unlock the lavatory door, the door opens up as they find a dead body of the other marshal which shocked them by surprised as they're all saying "Oh my god."

Peter leans in to check the pulse. "He's dead." Peter then noticed the holster is empty. "And his gun is missing."

"Son of a bitch! He must be making his escape, I have to go before he get's off the plane!"

The marshal is running towards the hatch hoping to stop the criminal from getting off the plane making his escape, Peter was about to go after but he noticed the door to the lower level of the plane already opened, he got a feeling that everyone is looking in the wrong place, he decided to go down into luggage to find some suitcases opened up and clothes pulled out, but what caught his attention is the suit White Dragon was wearing, he realized that he was picking through luggage to find a change of clothes to disappear, but the bigger question is how did he get off the plane.

Peter sighs. "Where did you go?"

He noticed an air current coming from nearby, he follows it to it's source to find an tear to the plane's landing gear, Peter figured out this guy cut it open and made his escape by climbing through the landing gear, he attempts to follow suit and climbs through the landing gear to the outside of the plane, he's finally outside as he looks around the ground to find someone in a hoodie just walking away from the plane as he figure out he must be White Dragon.

"Hey you!" Peter calls out.

This guy turns around and pulls out the gun, he starts shooting at Peter who quickly ducks down to the ground to dodge the bullets, the people inside the airport are hearing gunshots as they're panicking, the HKPD here heard the gunshots as they're about to intervene, meanwhile outside the airport this guy stopped shooting and makes a run for it, Peter is getting up and tries to chase after the fugitive who is running away, he spotted a van up ahead as he forced the driver out and hops in, he starts to drive away as Peter is picking up the speed to try to catch the van, but coming from behind him is a HKPD squad car speeding up and got in front of Peter, stopping him as the officers got out of the cars and aimed their guns at the photographer.

"You! Get down on the ground!"

"You don't understand, I'm not the bad guy! He's getting away in the van!" Peter trying to reason with the police.

"Get down on the ground right now!"

Peter sighs as he has no choice but to comply with the authorities, he got on his knees with his hands behind his back as HKPF officers are approaching the American and slapped some cuffs on him, they didn't noticed the van leaving the scene, the White Dragon has escape the airport and is now loose in Hong Kong.


It's now 3:23 AM at Central Station of the Hong Kong Police Department as Peter Parker is in the interrogation room cuffed to a chair, he's been arrested by mistake as he hasn't gotten the chance to explain his actions out there, meanwhile the real criminal is still out there in the city while he's here and can't do a thing about it, coming into the interrogation room is a Chinese woman about 33 years of age with long black hair dressed in a black leather coat with a HKPD badge hanging from her neck chain, Peter recognize her from two years ago.

"Hello Mr. Parker, I'm Chief Inspector Lei Ling of the Hong Kong Police Department, how are you feeling?" Lei Ling said.

"Well, I want to say the hospitality here is great, considering the situation I'm in and there's a fugitive loose in your city." Peter saying being handcuffed.

"I apologize for the misunderstanding, you have to understand that our officers were only doing their job in the heat of the moment." Lei Ling said.

Lei Ling pulls out a set of keys from her coat and walks back behind the chair to un-cuffed Peter's wrists, he's gotten loose and checks on his wrists.

"You're no longer under arrest Mr. Parker, the marshal who was on that flight verified your story along with your colleague Ms. Brant, she's waiting for you right now." Lei Ling said.

"Thanks Inspector, by the way, any leads on the van?" Peter said.

"Officers found it ditched in an alley here in Central, no sign of the missing fugitive, he could be anywhere by now. But not to worry, HKPD are making this the top priority along with the your state department since a U.S. Marshal was killed on Hong Kong soil, everyone is out looking for him, we'll find him." Lei Ling said.

"Inspector, I like to help on the investigation." Peter offers his service.

"Mr. Parker, I appreciate your desire to help, but it's best you let the professional handle this." Lei Ling said.

"With all due respect Inspector, this guy you're going after isn't your average criminal, he's a supervillain, I know about this stuff, I ran into a lot of them back in New York." Peter said.

"With all due respect Mr. Parker, this isn't New York, Hong Kong is way different, the rules and customs here aren't like back home. Please, for your own good, don't get involved in this case, especially if it involves the Triads... you can go now, enjoy the tour of Hong Kong, it's new years after all, don't miss the fireworks out in Victoria Harbor." Lei Ling said.

"Thanks." Peter said.

Peter then leaves the interrogation room after being released from HKPD custody, he made his way towards the entrance where Betty Brant is waiting outside next to a cab with their suitcases, Betty hugged Peter as they got into the cab and left central police station together, meanwhile back at the station Lei Ling is in her office thinking about how to find the White Dragon guy now that he's loose in her city, she knows this guy isn't some Ex-Triad, he's a supervillain just like Mister Negative, this is on a whole different league than what she's used to, she types the keyboard "PETER PARKER: NEW YORK" on the search engine of the internet, she found some results of him being a photographer for the Daily Bugle based out of New York City, he's got a connection to the hero Spider-Man who once helped her take down the Inner Demons, she's having second thoughts whether to bring Peter in on the investigation.


Time is 4:43 AM at the hotel in Central, Hong Kong, Peter and Betty are in adjoining rooms unpacking and getting settled in for the night as they're both exhausted after a 16 hour flight and being hold up in a police station for almost an hour, Betty then checks on her phone to see it's still on New York time, she then switched it to Hong Kong time only to be amazed by the 12 hour time difference as they're ahead of New York time and it's February 29th where as New York it's February 28th.

"Huh... you're right about the time difference, it's daytime back home." Betty said.

"Not to mention it's Chinese New Years, chance are we might have catch that famous fireworks display they show every New Years." Peter said.

"Assuming our missing fugitive doesn't cause trouble anytime soon." Betty said.

"Knowing him, he will." Peter said.

"Well, we'll have to figure it out later, I need some rest and so do you." Betty yawns as she walks to her room. "Goodnight Pete."

"Night Betty." Peter said.

Betty enters her room and closed the adjoining door behind her as Peter is now all alone in his room, he picked up his suitcase to make sure everything is accounted for, he opens up the secret compartment in the suitcase to find his Spider-Man suit and web shooters are still there, nobody has suspected he smuggled in his equipment as to not let anyone figure out he's a superhero, he closed the case as he pulls out his phone to make a call back home.

"Hello... Pete?" Gwen said.

"Hey Gwen, love hearing your voice." Peter flirted.

"Love hearing your voice too, how's Hong Kong?" Gwen said.

"I wish I could say well, something went wrong on the flight, White Dragon has escaped and he's now on the loose here in Hong Kong." Peter said.

(New York City)

Time is 4:44 PM daytime on February 27th back home in New York City, at the Spider-Cave Gwen is in her costume and she's still on the phone, here are Miles and Anya in their suits along with Ganke Lee at the supercomputer.

"Hold on, he's escaped? How?" Gwen is shocked.

"My guess is he somehow faked his airsickness on the flight and had the marshals fooled, one of them took him to the lavatory and he got killed, made his escape the moment we landed in Hong Kong, now he's out here and I got no leads to go on." Peter said.

"I have Miles and Anya here with me." Gwen as she switched to speaker. "Okay Pete, you're on speaker."

"Hey Pete, what do you need from us?" Miles said.

"Alright, I need you guys to head on to Rikers and talk to the inmates in the cellblock he was locked up with, he must've told someone about his plans to escape." Peter said.

"We're on it." Miles said.

"Thanks, I'm gonna catch some sleep, it'll be daytime later where I'm at." Peter said.

"Okay Pete, get some rest and please be careful over there." Gwen said.

"I will, can't wait to see you again Gwendy." Peter flirts.

"Mmm, I miss have you in bed." Gwen flirts.

"Can't wait to sleep with you in bed, feeling the warmth of your skin." Peter flirts.

"Oh!" Miles was disturb

"Okay, we didn't need to hear that." Anya was disturb.

"Oh... didn't know the speaker was still on... well, I'll... talk to you guys later... bye." Peter being awkward.

"Night Pete." Gwen hangs up the phones.

(Hong Kong)

Peter smiled upon hearing his fiancée lovely voice, he puts down the phone on the drawer and yawns as he needs some decent sleep, he undresses himself til he's only wearing a boxer and climbs into the bed for some sleep, he turns off the lights and goes to sleep.


Time is 5:45 AM at North Point in Hong Kong, the residential neighborhood full of apartments, in a cheap rental hotel here is the criminal called White Dragon as he's resting after a night of escaping and evading police, all of a sudden the door is knocking as he suddenly wakes up and quickly pulls out the stolen gun from underneath the pillow, he quietly gets up and walks up to the door with the gun in his hand and a finger on the trigger, he unlocks and opens up the door as he aims the gun at whoever is outside, the mystery guests are none other than the criminal mercenaries called the Enforcers.

"Really? This is welcome home greeting we get." Montana said.

"I just escaped from the police, so I'm a little paranoid... come in."

The Enforcers entered the room with a case in Ox's hand which looked heavy.

"You might want to show us some respect, we went through a lot of trouble and traveled halfway across the globe to deliver this to you, on behalf of our employer... Ox, Fancy Dan." Montana said.

Ox steps forward and holds up the case, Fancy Dan opens it up and shows the criminal what they've deliver personally for him and Kingpin, the man gazed upon the White Dragon suit he once wore years ago when he was starting out as a crime lord, it was confiscated by the NYPD after his arrest and now it's been returned to him, he pick up his mask for a closer look.

"At last, I feel complete, the White Dragon lives."

"Ok, glad you got your suit back again, now to the other matter, is what you promised Fisk true, are you planning to take over the Triads?" Montana said.

"Exactly, now that the Inner Demons are no more and that fool Mister Negative is locked up, the only Triad faction left ruling Hong Kong is the Hai-Dai, ruled by my old mentor, the great and powerful Zheng Zu."

"I think Fisk mentioned him once, I heard he rules the Chinese criminal underworld with an Iron Fist." Fancy Dan said.

"For good reason, he's cunning and dangerous, he's well versed in many martial arts."

"If he is as dangerous as you say, do you really believe you can take him out?" Montana said.

"Of course, I used to be in the Hai-Dai, I know how they operate, I especially know my old master, all his strengths and especially... his weakness."

"Well, as long as you can keep your word with Fisk, we're with you til you deliver." Montana said.

"Well then, welcome aboard gentlemen, look out Hong Kong, White Dragon is back in town."

"What's the next move?" Ox said.

"First things first, we need some local muscle to build up an army, afterwards we'll go after a target to hit Zheng Zhu where it hurts."

White Dragon has got back his suit as he now has the Enforcers as he went over to the table where the laptop is, he opens it up and types in a name in the search engine as he's looking for someone.


It's September 28th, time is 6:30 PM back in New York City, at the apartment in Lower East Side, Mary Jane Watson is watching TV with Ms. Lion, she's eating a yogurt with a spoon, she hopes that watching a movie would put her mind off the dream she had last night about her parents, but as much as she tries it's hard, she pretty much has to deal with such trauma since she was eight, she then heard a window opening up as she paused the movie and gets up only to wait, seconds later Gwen came out of her bedroom all dressed in regular clothes as she walks over the fridge to get a drink.

"Did you hear from Peter?" Mary Jane said.

"Yeah, he and Betty made it to Hong Kong, but the White Dragon guy escaped, me and the team were just at Rikers talking with one of the prisoners, Frederick Myers." Gwen said.

"Learn anything?" Mary Jane said.

"A lot, I'm gonna call Pete later since he's asleep over there, time difference. But on the plus side, he was very happy to hear my voice again, he must really miss me a lot. Can't wait for him to come home and continue planning our wedding." Gwen said.

"Yeah... the wedding." Mary Jane looks uneasy.

Gwen noticed something. "What's wrong?"

Mary Jane snapped out. "Huh... nothing."

"It's not nothing, you have that look on your face, tells me something is bothering you and it only happened when I mentioned the wedding, so please talk to me MJ." Gwen said.

Mary Jane sighs uneasy. "Fine... are you sure you want to go through with the wedding?"

Gwen looks surprised. "What? Where is this coming from?"

"Gwen... I just think maybe you and Pete are rushing into this marriage too soon." Mary Jane said.

"Oh... I did not expect this coming from you." Gwen never expected this.

"I'm just saying that maybe you two didn't consider what you're going through." Mary Jane said.

"Are you telling me you don't want us to get married?" Gwen said.

"No, of course not, I'm saying that maybe you're about to make a mistake getting married at an early age." Mary Jane said.

"I don't believe this, I thought you were okay with me and Pete being together, didn't think you'd object to our decision." Gwen felt offended.

"Why are you being so reckless?!" Mary Jane raised her voice.

"I'm being so reckless?!" Gwen raised her voice too, she then calms herself down. "Mary Jane, this is what I want, to be together with Pete for the rest of our lives, to be happy, I thought you'd be so supportive for us... guess I was wrong."

"Gwen..." Mary Jane wants to say more.

"You know what, you already said enough, we don't have to talk about this anymore." Gwen said.

Gwen remained quiet as she doesn't want to continue this conversation with her best friend or she'll end up saying something regretful, she walks back to her bedroom to be leave alone as Mary Jane could tell that her words has affected Gwen deeply and she felt hurt which is something Mary Jane never wanted.

Mary Jane sighs. "Way to go MJ."

Mary Jane is still haunted by her past with her parent's failed marriage and what she and her mother had to go through afterwards.

(Flashback)

It's 2014 in Montoursville, Pennsylvania, the next morning at 7:02 AM as Mary Jane is still asleep still hugging her teddy bear as she's shaking from the trauma she witness last night, Madeline came into the room to wake up her daughter, Mary Jane is waking up to find her mother with a red mark on her left cheek from Philip's hand.

"Morning MJ, time for some breakfast." Madeline said.

"Mommy... your face... why did daddy do that?" Mary Jane noticed it.

"Doesn't matter, daddy doesn't live here anymore, he doesn't want anything to do with us, he left last night." Madeline said.

"Is it because of me?" Mary Jane assumed.

"No... MJ, don't you dare say that, you've done nothing wrong, your daddy was the one who was wrong, he just doesn't want to assume the responsibilities of his actions... listen to me, no matter what happens, I'll never leave you, it's now you and me... together, okay?" Madeline said.

Mary Jane hugs her mother tightly after hearing that her father walked out on their lives, now it's just her and her mother together, Madeline comforts her daughter as she promised never to leave her. Sometime later Mary Jane is having pancakes on the table while her mother Madeline is picking up an envelope from the hospital she didn't get the chance to read, she opens up and reads her oncology results, her expression turned grim upon learning the result, it's not good, she looks upon her daughter Mary Jane enjoying pancakes in peace as she couldn't bring herself to tell her daughter the bad news giving everything she's been through, for now she just goes on with her live, however long she has.


Time is 7:01 AM in Hong Kong at a luxury estate surrounded by bodyguards, all members of the Hai-Dai Triad, a 13 year old girl named Zheng Esme is all dressed in prep school uniform having breakfast in the dining room, meanwhile in the training room is the head of the Hai-Dai, Zheng Zu, all dressed up in sweatpants and a tank top as he's about to spare against three of his men in a sparring session, the three men does the fist-and-palm gesture before their master as Zheng Zu does the same for his men, the three men all ready themselves for a fight as Zheng Zu stood there and waited for the first move, two of them approach from both sides to strike but Zheng Zu blocked both their attacks and counterattacks with a side kick to the one on the right and elbow strikes the left, he took two down simultaneously as the last one came at him with a roundhouse kick as Zheng Zu does the Tai Chi maneuver and dodge the attack elegantly and strike with both palms and knocked him down with ease. Zheng Zu waited as all his men to get back up on their feet, he does the fast-and-palm gesture as did his men as they're done sparring for the day, his butler hands him a towel to wipe of the sweat from all the sparring, but something else is on his mind, the return of his old protege.

"Any news on our former associate?" Zheng Zu said.

"None, even our people within the police force have no leads, he's gone underground."

"He knows what would happen if he ever set foot in Hong Kong again, he made a big mistake coming back after all the trouble he caused me and the Hai-Dai." Zheng Zu said.

"I know this is personal for you, Sifu, you took him under your wing after your son..."

"I have no son... not anymore, he chose his own path by going to America to get famous, turn his back on his family, his legacy, as far as I'm concerned he's already dead to me. But back to the other matter, put out a price, high enough so that we'd have everyone looking for him, understood?" Zheng Zu said.

"Yes Sifu."

Zheng Esme came by with her backpack. "Baba, I'm all set."

Zheng Zu smile warmly. "Be good."

Zheng Esme hugs her father before leaving for school as Zheng Zu just watched with concern over his daughter's safety now that an old foe has come into town, despite being a ruthless crime lord, he does love his daughter a lot. Zheng Esme is climbing the back of the sedan with two bodyguards in front, driving the sedan out of the estate to school.


Later around 8:43 AM in North Point, Hong Kong, at the dock where a local gang is hanging out at their hideout with motorcycles parked outside, inside they're surrounded by many stolen merchandise as the gangsters are at the table playing mahjong against each other and betting money, but coming barging in through the door are the Enforcers armed with guns as they all caught the gang by surprised, some of them tried to reach for their guns on the table, but the Enforcers quickly fired at those guns and knocking them off the tables, the gang don't have any weapons as they raised their hands scared for their lives, coming into the hideout is the White Dragon himself fully dressed in his costume.

"I apologize for interrupting your morning, gentlemen, but I'm in need of some muscle and I was hoping you're all available." White Dragon said.

The head gangster gets up from the chair and steps up in front of his gang. "Who do you think we are? Henchmen?"

"Oh come on, we're both from this neighborhood, can't you do me a favor as one local to another." White Dragon trying to be diplomatic but the thug wouldn't bite. "No? Very well."

White Dragon got tired of trying the nice way, so he resorted to unleashed the flames from his mask and burned the gang leader alive as the man is screaming and his crew watched in horror, the man kept on screaming until he couldn't no more and collapsed down on the ground still burning.

"So much for asking? Now, would anyone care to join him, or will you join me?" White Dragon asking the gang.

"We will join you."

"Good, we got a lot of work to do." White Dragon said.

White Dragon gain the allegiance of the local gang, plus with the Enforcers he's got enough manpower to face against Zheng Zu and the Hai-Dai, but he's got something that'll hurt Zheng Zu where it hurts.


Time is 11:23 at the hotel in Central, Hong Kong, Peter is awake and dressed in a white t shirt and blue jean feeling hungry as the door is knocking, he walks and opens up to find room service delivery breakfast, Peter said thank you in Cantonese as he paid the guy for the food, he took in the tray of traditional breakfast consisting of crustless toast, Cantonese scrambled eggs with chopsticks, and a cup of yuanyang, he sat at the table to have breakfast as Betty is coming through the adjacent door all dressed up to find her friend about to have breakfast.

"Oh, sorry to interrupt your breakfast, I was just wondering if you'd like to go out and explore around Hong Kong since we got nothing to do with the story being on the loose." Betty said.

"You go on ahead and have fun I'm gonna hang back and have some breakfast, besides I gotta look around for a ceramic panda for Aunt May, maybe tomorrow." Peter said.

"Okay Pete, I heard there's a Disneyland around here, we should go there sometime, I hear it's a fun place to go." Betty said.

"It sure is." Peter speaking from experience.

"How do you know?" Betty is curious.

"Just... from what I heard." Peter said.

"Okay... I'm gonna head out, I'll see you later." Betty said.

"Okay, don't forget there's fireworks tonight." Peter said.

"Thanks for the reminder, Happy Chinese New Years Pete." Betty then leaves the room and heads out.

Peter is left alone to have breakfast in peace as he grabbed some chopsticks and picked up some eggs, he took a bite and chews as his eyes widens upon tasting it, he then grab a toast and took a bite, afterwards he picked up a cup of yuanyang and drinks it, it's a mix of coffee and tea as it taste delicious, he continues eating until he hears his phone ringing and stops, he picks up the phone to find out Gwen is calling him from back home.

Peter answered the call. "Hey Gwen."

(New York City)

Time is 11:25 PM in New York back at the apartment in Lower East Side, Gwen is alone in her bedroom talking with her fiancé over the phone.

"Hey Pete, did I wake you up?" Gwen said.

"No, of course not, I'm already awake and having breakfast, always happy to hear your voice." Peter flirts.

Gwen smiles. "Happy to hear your voice too."

"Take it you didn't call just because you missed me." Peter said.

"Oh, right, I just wanted to inform you about our visit to Rikers." Gwen said.

"Did you learn anything?" Peter said.

"Yeah, we talked to a prisoner we ran into last year, Frederick Myers." Gwen said.

"The Boomerang guy." Peter said.

"The same, he didn't tell us much about White Dragon's time in prison, but he did mention about a conversation he had with another inmate." Gwen said.

"Do we know who this inmate is?" Peter said.

"Yeah, it's none other than Wilson Fisk." Gwen said.

"Kingpin... any idea what their conversation is about?" Peter said.

"Not much, except that he asked Fisk for access to some meds, he asked for the vey specific combinations." Gwen said.

"Let me guess, it's enough to induce vomiting." Peter said.

"How do you know?" Gwen said.

"That sneaky bastard, he ingested himself to pass himself off having airsickness to fool the marshals, he planned his escape." Peter said.

"It gets worse, Ganke informed us that NYPD evidence storage was hit by a three man team, the only thing stolen was the White Dragon suit." Gwen said.

"This was Fisk, no doubt." Peter said.

"I don't get it, why would Fisk help this guy?" Gwen said.

"Fisk doesn't do anything for free unless there's something for him to benefit, if I had to guess, White Dragon needed his suit back to take control of the Triads in Hong Kong, Fisk must be building alliances from behind bars to rebuilt his criminal empire and having the Triads as allies would be a big opportunity for him." Peter said.

"Even behind bars, this guy still got a lot pull on the outside. So what's the next move in tracking down this guy?" Gwen said.

"I don't know, I'm far from home in a city way different from New York and I don't know anyone here to turn to for help, so I'm on my own." Peter said.

"Hey, you still have us, you're not alone and you'll find a way to find him." Gwen said.

"Thanks Gwendy, hopefully I'll have solved in time before I return home to plan our wedding." Peter said.

"Yeah... the wedding." Gwen felt uneasy.

"Is everything alright? You sound... uneasy." Peter said.

"Pete, can I ask you something?" Gwen said.

"Sure." Peter said.

"Do... you think we're too young for marriage?" Gwen said.

"Okay... didn't see this coming... where's this coming from?" Peter said.

"Just... do you think we're rushing into this too early?" Gwen said.

"Gwen... back then I had some doubts about marriage cause of everything Otto put us through, I didn't work up the courage to propose to you for a month, but you told me that when it comes to marriage we'll face anything together, it's because of those words I finally got to propose." Peter said.

"You did it because of me?" Gwen said.

"And it was the best decision of my life, I want to spend the rest of my life by your side... but listen, if you think it's the wrong time, then I'll understand." Peter said.

"No, I still want to marry you." Gwen smile.

"Good, cause I want to marry you very soon, Gwen Stacy." Peter said.

"Can't wait to become Gwen Parker." Gwen smile.

"Or Gwen Stacy-Parker if you want to hyphenate, either way is fine with me." Peter said.

"Okay... take care Pete." Gwen smile.

"You too Gwendy... I love you." Peter said.

Gwen smiles warmly. "I love you too."

Gwen then hangs up the phone as she feels happy after having a chat with Peter about going through with the marriage, unknown to her Mary Jane is outside the door listening to the conversation as she heard from her two friends the wedding is still on, these two want to be together in holy matrimony and nothing is going to keep them apart, a part of MJ still wants her friends to be happy together but another part of her is worried how their relationship might turn out at an early age, she's feeling conflicted.

(Hong Kong)

Peter continues back to eating his breakfast in peace in his hotel room, that was until he got a text on his phone from a local unknown number, he picks it up and reads. "Mr. Parker, meet me in the hotel lobby alone." Peter is curious as to who it is, he quickly finished his breakfast and drank up the yuanyang, he opens up the suitcase to look upon the Spider-Man suit and web-shooters he brought with him on the trip, he only took the web-shooters along with the compact camera but decided to leave it behind as he doesn't want anyone to figure out why Spider-Man is here with Peter Parker, he just left it under the bed and grabbed his moto racer jacket as he left his hotel room.

A few seconds later he just got off the elevator and walks towards the lobby trying to find out who sent him a text message, he eventually spotted someone very familiar in a black leather coat, he walks up and meets up with Chief Inspector Lei Ling of the Hong Kong Police Department.

"Inspector Ling?" Peter looks surprised.

"Mr. Parker, I see you got my message." Lei Ling said.

"How'd you know which hotel I'm staying at?" Peter said.

"I'm a detective, I'm very good at my job." Lei Ling said.

"Right, though my next question is, why are you here?" Peter said.

"I can handle a lot of things happening in my city, except for supervillains, we hardly get characters like those around here, it took a joint task force from two different police departments to take down someone as powerful as Mister Negative, now with this White Dragon in the mix, things might heat up in Hong Kong, especially on Chinese New Years, a lot of people could end up getting hurt or worse." Lei Ling said.

"Which is why you came to me." Peter said.

"I looked up your name online, I know that back in New York you take pictures of Spider-Man at certain crime scenes involving supervillains, so that means you pretty much know a lot about this stuff." Lei Ling said.

"Are you asking for my help?" Peter said.

"Look, I don't like the idea asking a civilian, especially a foreign one, to get involve in a case, but for Hong Kong, I'm willing to make an exception, we need to find White Dragon before it's too. So Mr. Parker, will you help me?" Lei Ling said.

"Yes, I've seen what criminals like him are capable of, so I'll gladly offer my services as a consultant." Peter said.

"Thank you Mr. Parker." Lei Ling said.

"Mr. Parker was my father, just call me Peter." Peter said.

"Okay Peter, and call me Lei." Lei Ling said.

"Well Lei, guess we're in this together." Peter said.

Peter and Lei shake hands as they agree to work together to find White Dragon and bring him to justice.


Later around 12:45 PM on the highway from Central to North Point, Inspector Lei Ling is driving around in her sedan with Peter riding shotgun in the left passenger seat as the car is driving on the left lane rather than the right as this isn't new to him as Lei noticed this lack of surprise

"You don't seem surprised by how traffic works around here." Lei Ling said.

"Not a bit, this kinda brings me back to London where everyone drive on the left lane rather than the right." Peter said.

"Funny you should mention that, used to be Hong Kong was once part of the British Empire for over a hundred years until they handover the territory back to China in 1997." Lei Ling said.

"Huh, didn't know that." Peter said.

"Most people still practice English besides Cantonese, Hong Kong is a special administrative region." Lei Ling said.

"So it's kinda multicultural, just like New York." Peter said.

"Pretty much, even the crimes here are the same, except for supervillains, America seems to be full of them, mostly New York." Lei Ling said.

"Well these days, supervillains are pretty much everywhere in every part of the world, even here." Peter said.

"Used to be Mister Negative gave HKPD trouble, it took two years in two different countries and five different cities to take him down along with his organization, even thought the Inner Demons are no more, the power vacuum here gave other factions here an opportunity for their criminal enterprises, crime here still remains the same." Lei Ling said.

"Yeah, Spider-Man took down Kingpin years ago and had him sent to prison, but it also created a power vacuum and many crime lords are always eager to claim some territory Fisk left behind." Peter said.

"I don't what's worse, the vicious cycle of crime never ends or that there are people out there who are capable of committing very dangerous things." Lei Ling said.

"You got a point, in the past three years there have been three world ending events, but we should be grateful there are heroes in the world who protect it and uses their gifts for the greater good." Peter said.

Lei Ling listened to Peter's words and realized that he's right about this world having heroes, otherwise the planet would've ended years ago, she wouldn't have taken down Mister Negative and the Inner Demons without Spider-Man's help, he's made a big difference for his neighborhood and the whole world. Lei Ling is still driving til she's getting a call from HKPD on the touchscreen as she answered the call.

"Inspector Ling here." Lei Ling speaking Cantonese.

Peter is listening to the conversation in Cantonese, he only recently practiced it and understands bits of it as they're informing the Inspector about an incident at the docks in North Point that could be related to a case she's investigating, she thanked her superiors and hangs up the call.

"I take it there's an update on the case." Peter said.

"North Point division informed Central about an incident at the docks, could be related to the case. You might want to hang on." Lei Ling said.

Lei Ling rolls down the window and puts on the blue siren on top of the roof, she turns it on and speeds up the car to drive faster on the freeway to the crime scene.


Time is 1:22 PM in North Point, Hong Kong at the docks as an unmarked car finally arrived at the scene where HKPD North Point division has secured the crime scene keeping away curious reporters, coming out of the unmarked car is Lei Ling and Peter as they're walking past the reporters as Inspector Ling flash her badge allow her through but the officers refused to let Peter past but Inspector Ling told them he's with her and allows him to pass, the pair walks up to the detectives investigating the crime standing over a body covered by the sheets.

"Inspector Ling from Central, what do we have?" Lei Ling speaking Cantonese.

One of the detectives bend down and removed the sheet to show a charred body all wet, this whole scenario felt familiar.

"Oh my, what happened to him?" Lei Ling speaking Cantonese.

"One of the fishermen found him floating out in the harbor, all burned to a crisp, we're still determining the cause of death as you can see identification will prove to be very difficult."

"I see, thank you for sharing." Lei Ling finished speaking to the detectives and turns to Peter suspecting something about this scene. "What is it, Peter?"

"This man was burned alive." Peter said.

"How do you know?" Lei Ling said.

"Cause this happened before back in New York, couple years ago White Dragon would murder the heads of the Chinese gangs by burning them alive as a way to make a statement to the gangs." Peter said.

"You think this was White Dragon?" Lei Ling said.

"I don't think Inspector, I know this is White Dragon." Peter said.

"If that's the case, then that means he's here somewhere in North Point." Lei Ling said.

"So what's the next move in finding him?" Peter said.

Lei Ling sighs. "I know someone here, she's an informant who works at the Karaoke Bar that is a known Triad hangout, she know things."

"You think she might know more about White Dragon's habits?" Peter said.

"Not sure, but it's worth a shot, let's go." Lei Ling said.

Peter and Lei Ling are leaving the crime scene to go talk to an informant of her.

(Hong Kong Shue Yan University)

Later at the University in North Point, Peter and Lei Ling are waiting on campus for an informant to come by as a lot of college students are walking around and hanging out.

"So this informant of your is a college student?" Peter said.

"You make it sound like it's weird, aren't you a photographer who's in college too?" Lei Ling said.

"Touche." Peter said.

"Oh, there she is." Lei Ling said.

Walking their way is a young Chinese woman around 21 years of age carrying books as she spotted Lei Ling.

"Lei!" Emily Chan greeted in Cantonese.

"Hey Emily, sorry to come here unannounced." Lei Ling smile in Cantonese.

"Don't worry, I'm on break, and who is this?" Emily Chan speaking Cantonese.

"This Peter Parker from New York City, he's consulting on a case I'm working on." Lei Ling speaking Cantonese.

Emily Chan smiled as she speaks Cantonese. "He's pretty cute."

Lei Ling smiled. "Peter, this is Emily Chan, she's my informant."

"Hi... ah..." Peter attempts to speak Cantonese.

"I speak English." Emily Chan switched to English.

"Oh, okay, that'll make this easy, hi, I'm Peter Parker." Peter introduced.

"I'm Emily, so what can I do for you?" Emily Chan said.

"We're tracking a fugitive who escaped from U.S. custody during his extradition." Lei Ling holds up a phone with a photo of the criminal. "Recognize him?"

Emily Chan sighs. "Yeah, he used to come by the bar, he was part of the Hai-Dai, didn't think he'd have the nerve to come back home."

"Why do you say that?" Peter said.

"Years ago he was the main enforcer and the right hand man of Zheng Zu, the head of the Hai-Dai, he was dedicated to the organization but he was also very ambitious, he overstep boundaries as he was secretly making deals with other factions, trying to make moves to overthrow his boss and take over the Hai-Dai, but Zheng Zu caught on to his treachery so he had him banished from Hong Kong, he swore to kill him if he ever set foot back into Hong Kong again." Emily Chan explained.

"Just as I thought, he's back to his old ways, trying to make a move to take control of the Triads, we need to find him before things get heated up." Peter said.

"Did he ever talk about himself? Maybe some place he would often hang out?" Lei Ling said.

"Actually he did talk about his time in North Point, there's this small neighborhood he grew up in, he pretty much has an attachment to the place." Emily Chan said.

"Know where it is?" Lei Ling said.

"Yeah, I'll text you the address." Emily Chan texting on her phone.

Lei Ling received the text. "Got it, thank you Emily, stay safe and keep your head down."

"Hey... Peter, is it?" Emily Chan said.

"Yeah." Peter said.

"I was wondering if you got some time later, I could show you around Hong Kong, maybe we could watch the fireworks." Emily Chan flirts.

Peter smiles as he raised his left hand with a wedding ring. "Very flattered... thanks anyway."

Emily still smile as Peter and Lei Ling walks away after getting the info need to find the neighborhood White Dragon grew up in. Sometime later they left the university and drove around North Point to find the neighborhood and hope they could pick up a trail as Lei Ling is itching with curiosity about the ring around Peter's hand as he noticed it from her expression.

"What?" Peter said.

"You sure have a strange gift with woman... so... who's the lucky lady in your life?" Lei Ling smile.

"Her name is Gwen Stacy, we're engaged." Peter said.

"Stacy?" Lei Ling is familiar with the name.

"Her father was the late Captain George Stacy." Peter said.

"I remember him, we worked together couple years ago on the Inner Demon investigation, he was a great cop." Lei Ling said.

"He was, one of the best men I knew in my life." Peter said.

"It's thanks to him we were able to take down Mister Negative and dismantled his organization for good, it's sad that it costed him his life." Lei Ling said.

"George knew what he was doing, the risk he took in service of his city, he was New York's finest cop." Peter said.

"I respected him, thanks to his sacrifice we've taken down the Inner Demons here, made Hong Kong much safer, at least for a while." Lei Ling said.

"Hey, don't let this bring you down, George risked his life to make New York a safer place, I know you're doing the same for Hong Kong, don't give up on the good fight Lei." Peter said.

"Thanks Peter... I hope you do George proud marrying his daughter." Lei Ling said.

"That's the plan." Peter said.


Later around 2:16 PM at the neighborhood in North Point the car is parked outside of a cheap hotel as Peter and Lei Ling got out and passed by some shady individuals hanging by motorcycles giving them the look as they're going inside the hotel, they're texting their boss about two people snooping around and they got the message to take care of it, meanwhile inside the hotel Peter and Lei Ling are getting off the elevator and walking down the hallway to find the room where White Dragon is staying.

"Okay, desk said a man matching our guy's description rented a room last night, paid in cash. Here it is." Lei Ling stands at the door and knocks as she speaks Cantonese. "Housekeeping!"

"Don't think anyone's home." Peter said.

Lei Ling hands Peter the master key. "Get the door."

Peter slide the key in as Lei Ling pulls out her weapon and signs Peter to open it, he unlocks it as Lei Ling came in first aiming her pistol, checking all the corners only to find the room empty.

"You're right, nobody is home." Lei Ling said.

Peter noticed the clothes on the floor. "But he was here, this is what he was wearing last night when he escaped."

"Okay, we know he was here, question is where is he now? Let's look around, maybe he might've left something behind." Lei Ling said.

Peter looks around til he spotted the table. "Inspector, over here."

Lei Ling walks over to Peter. "You found something?"

Peter opens up a laptop. "A computer, and it's unlocked without a password, he must've acquired it recently, let's see what's been looking up." Peter checks out that pages that are all in Cantonese. "All Cantonese, should've figured."

"Here, let me look up." Lei Ling takes the computer and reads the search page. "Looks it he's looking for someone, he just typed in a name... Zheng Esme."

"Zheng? That's sounds familiar." Peter heard that name.

"It should, Emily mention about Zheng Zu earlier." Lei Ling said.

"Oh yeah, the crime boss, what this person's connection?" Peter said.

"I'm going to find out." Lei Ling makes a call. "Inspector Ling, I need you to check a name, Zheng Esme, text me everything you got... thank you."

Peter and Lei Ling waited for headquarters to rundown a name, a few seconds later Inspector Ling got the text back as she reads the info.

"Well?" Peter said.

"According to this, she's thirteen year old and she's Zheng Zu's daughter." Lei Ling said.

"Oh no, this is bad, White Dragon must be planning to get back at his boss and taking control of the Triads by hitting him where it hurts, through the person he love the most." Peter said.

"His daughter." Lei Ling said.

"We need to find her fast, try looking up the computer's history, maybe it'll give us a clue where he'll strike." Peter said.

"Give me a second..." Lei Ling moving the arrow and searches the internet's history. "Got it, there's a prep school in Kennedy Town, it's on the other side of the city and school is about to end soon."

"Which means they got a head start, we have to go right now." Peter said.

Peter and Lei Ling are rushing out of the room, meanwhile outside of the hotel the pair finally made it outside only to find four guys blocking their way to the Inspector's car, the four of them are surrounding the pair.

"Leaving so soon?"

"We are, so step aside." Lei Ling said.

"Afraid we can't do that."

Lei Ling pulls out her badge. "I'm Hong Kong PD, last chance, step aside or prepare to be arrested."

One of the thugs behind Lei Ling quietly pulled out a switchblade as Peter's spider sense tingles, he noticed the knife about to swing as he quickly reacts.

"Look out!" Peter screams.

Peter quickly got a hold of Lei Ling's wrist and pulled her away before she could get killed, Lei Ling was stunned Peter saved her life but was pissed some thug tired to kill her as she and Peter are back to back surrounded.

"Goddamnit! Did they just try to kill a cop?!" Lei Ling said.

"Yeah they did. They mean to kill us." Peter said.

One of the thugs came at Peter with a knife as he dodge the swing and strike back with a quick punch to the face, taking one down as Lei Ling noticed it, but she's busy blocking the strikes with her arms till she grapple the wrist and strike at the knee, dislocating the knee and striking at the face with an elbow, Lei Ling has training in martial arts as did Peter, another thug came at Peter with a knife as he ducks and strike with a spinning heel kick to the face, the last thug tossed a punch but Lei Ling caught it and perform a shoulder throw on the thug and tossed the man down to the ground, she quickly pulled out the cuffs and arrested the man.

"Nice moves, Inspector." Peter is impressed.

"Thanks, you too... didn't know you practice Kung Fu?" Lei Ling said.

"Oh... living in New York I had to learn to defend myself in dangerous situations. How about you? Part of your police training?" Peter said.

"That and also I'm a Sifu, I teach a class part time... but I'm glad you're here, you got great instincts, you saved my life... there's something odd about you." Lei Ling suspect something.

"What do you mean?" Peter said.

"You seemed calm in the face of danger, you tried to catch a dangerous fugitive last night, you have experience in investigating crime, you have training in martial arts, it's almost as if you live for this kind of life everyday." Lei Ling is putting the pieces together.

"Yeah, being a photographer for the Bugle meaning having skills to deal with every situation no matter how dangerous they are." Peter made up an excuse.

"Okay..." Lei Ling searches the cuffed thug's pocket only to pull out a phone, she reads the text and learns something. "These guys got orders to take us out."

"No doubt the orders came from White Dragon himself, these guys must've been ordered to stand by the hotel in case anyone came looking for him, staying a step ahead, which means he knows we're on to him." Peter said.

"But why go through all the trouble just to take us out?" Lei Ling said.

Peter then figured it out. "Time... they just needed to keep us occupied here while they're out there executing their plan."

"They're going after Zheng's daughter, we have to get to her before he does." Lei Ling said.

Peter looks at the car and sighs. "Not in your car."

Lei Ling walks up to see the tires are punctured as she curses in Cantonese. "Son of a bitch." she sighs as she switched back to English. "How are we going to get to Kennedy Town?"

Peter then looked at the motorcycles. "Know how to ride a bike?"

Lei Ling sighs. "No..."

A few seconds later Peter is putting on the dragon decal helmet and zipped up his black moto racer jacket as Lei Ling is putting on the helmet, they both hopped onto a commandeered motorcycle as Peter is driving it away from the neighborhood and driving around the streets of North Point till they've reached the highway and are heading toward Kennedy Town at high speed as fast as they can before it's too late.


Later around 2:45 PM at a prep school in Kennedy Town, Honk Kong, school has ended for the day as many students are walking out of school and heading on home for the day, including Zheng Esme walking towards the luxury sedan as she hops in the back with her two bodyguards driving her home along with an escort car up front and another one in the back, unknown to any of them, a couple of motorcycles drove around the corner and follows after them along with a box truck, the luxury sedan and escort drove onto the highway as the box truck speeds up onto the other lane, going pass the convoy til they made a right and are in front of it and slows down, the lead escort doesn't like this as the back of the box truck rolls up as the Enforcers are armed with their personal automatic weapons as they started shooting at the lead escort, killing the driver and passenger along with the security in the back seat.

The luxury car driver curse in Cantonese. "Oh shit!"

The luxury sedan made a immediate stop as they're in trouble, the rear escort made an immediate stop as well as the security in the back all got out of the vehicle to respond to the threat, but the motorcycles drives up and the riders aims their submachine guns, they fired off bullets before the security team could fire off a shot, they were all taken out, Zheng Esme is in the back of the sedan scared for her life as her two bodyguards pulls out their guns and are about to get out.

"Stay here!"

Both bodyguards got out of their vehicles and aims their guns at the assailants but the Enforcers are quick with the trigger and fired with perfect precision, Zheng Esme is more scared and vulnerable now that the security her father sent to protect her are all dead, jumping out of the box truck is the supervillain White Dragon as he walks up to the luxury sedan and opens up the back door to see the daughter of his enemy before him.

"Who... who are you?" Zheng Esme is frightened.

"Just an old associate of your father, he and I have some unfinished business... take her." White Dragon said.

Ox step up and pulled the girl out of the car by force, he then carried her over his shoulder as she struggles, the crew was about to hop back into the truck until they hear police sirens coming on the highway, it's HKPD squad cars, Montana and Fancy Dan both aim their weapons and started shooting at the HKPD as the police made a full stop, they duck their heads down to avoid the bullets, Ox then hopped onto the back of the box truck with the hostage as White Dragon walks up to the passenger door. Meanwhile coming from the opposite lane is Peter and Lei Ling on the motorcycle as they've spotted trouble on the highway, Peter sees White Dragon climbing onto the box truck's passenger side with his mask in view of the windshield.

"It's him! Hang on!" Peter said.

Peter then turns around and drives up to the HKPD squad car pinned down, Peter and Lei Ling quickly got off the bike and hide behind the squad cars, HKPD are doing their best to contain the situation as the officers return fire on the gunmen, Peter opens up the helmet visor to see the Fancy Dan and Montana are here, one of the officers got shot and went down injured. Lei Ling quickly rushed to help the man out, Montana and Fancy Dan hopped into the box truck and closed the doors with Ox holding Zheng Esme hostage.

"Okay, we're in, let's go boss!" Montana said.

"Drive!" White Dragon said.

The box truck is driving away from the scene as the HKPD squad cars are too damaged by the bullets to chase, Peter quickly rushed back to the bike and hops on, Lei Ling is helping the injured officer as she spotted Peter roll the throttle and speeds away.

"Parker!" Lei Ling yells out.

Peter ignored the inspector and speeds off after the criminals heading towards Central, the box truck is being escorted by several motorcycles, inside the box truck the Enforcers have Zheng Esme tied up while White Dragon's sitting in the passenger seat, he looks at the side mirror and spotted a motorcycle speeding up towards them very fast. Peter is driving up to the rear motorcycle riding two as he quickly kicked it with ease and knocked them off balance, the rear motorcycle fell down on the highway as White Dragon suspects it's not one of theirs.

White Dragon holds up a radio. "We got company, take care of it!"

The remaining two motorcycles got their orders to deal with their chaser, Peter still has a helmet on so nobody could see his face, but he spotted the rear riders pulling out their submachine guns and started firing upon him, he took evasive action, even jumped off and holds on to the handles while taking cover from the right side to shield himself from the bullets as the bike is taking too much damage, the thugs kept on shooting until their guns ran out of ammo, Peter noticed his bike is damaged as he speeds up in front of the rear bike, he jumps off and drop kicks the riders off the bike and he commandeered their bike. He rolls the throttle and speeds up to the last remaining bike as the rider is still in the middle of reloading, Peter drove up next to it as he jumps and spins for a kick, knocking both riders off their bike as a car nearby has two people watching the action happening, Peter then sit back on the bike and chases after the box truck, White Dragon noticed their escort are gone with the only bike left catching up.

"What the..." White Dragon in Cantonese.

Peter managed to get close enough to jump off the bike and get on top of the truck, the Enforcers along with Zheng Esme heard the pound on the roof.

"Boss!" Montana said.

"Stay with the girl, I'll take care of it." White Dragon said.

White Dragon is climbing out of the cab and onto the top of box truck roof, he sees an unknown individual dressed in a zipped up leather jacket with a helmet covering his face who is causing trouble for him.

"Who the hell are you?" White Dragon said.

"Just a Good Samaritan, now stop this truck and let the girl go." Peter said.

"Can't do that, I've went through a lot of trouble and made some new alliances, I won't let you or anyone undo what I've worked so hard to accomplish." White Dragon unleashed flames.

Peter quickly rolled on the roof underneath the flame and strikes at his left leg, trip him off a bit til he does the martelo de negativa kick, knocking White Dragon off the roof till he uses his claws to cling himself onto the hull which caught the Enforcers by surprise, White Dragon is still holding on as Peter is walking up to the cab to stop this truck, Montana inside the truck takes matters into his own hands.

"Enough of this!" Montana aims his rifle.

Peter's spider sense tingles as he quickly backflips as bullets are fired from inside the truck, he's still dodging them as White Dragon took the opportunity to climb back on top, Peter eventually ran out of room and holds onto the edge of the back of the box truck while a car is driving up behind with two people seeing someone hanging on, Peter then sees White Dragon back on top standing over him.

"Hey! Afraid this is your stop!" White Dragon raised his foot.

White Dragon kicked Peter off the box truck with so much force as he falls onto the incoming car behind and crashed on top of their windshield, the driver hits the breaks and made an immediate stop, making Peter roll off the hood and falls onto the road, Peter is hurt by the impact as he raised up the visor to see the box truck is too far away and has got away from him, the driver and passenger are more worried for the guy that crashed onto their car, but this guy is getting back up on his feet which is impossible for a ordinary guy to endure such a accident, Peter can't do nothing to chase after the truck as it's long gone, he drops the visor down and looks back at the two citizens looking all speechless.

Peter sighs. "Sorry about the windshield."

Peter then proceeded to walk ahead alone as the two people watched, Peter has failed to stop the kidnapping, White Dragon has got away with the girl and now matters in Hong Kong are about to get much worse.


Time is 4:02 PM in Central, Hong Kong, a shady van is coming in through the underground parking of a leased skyscraper, coming out of the back of the van are White Dragon along with the Enforcers as they're dragging out Zheng Esme, they're all making it to the private elevator as it's going straight up to the highest floor of the building till it finally reached there, the floor itself is still under renovation as his crew have the place secured, White Dragon ordered the Enforcers to strap the girl onto the chair in a room without any windows, Montana then gagged her mouth with a bandana.

"Nice! I gotta hand it to Fisk for leasing this building, nobody would ever think of finding me here." White Dragon said.

"It's leased out to a shell corporation Fisk controls, you better be worth the money for Fisk to go through all this trouble." Montana said.

"Relax, it'll be money worth spent, especially since we've got our most valuable hostage in our hands... time to call dad." White Dragon said.

White Dragon is making a call on the burner phone through FaceTime.

(Zheng Zu Estate)

The entire Hai-Dai organization has gathered at the Estate after word got out that Zheng Zu's daughter was recently kidnapped by an unknown gang, the Triad boss Zheng Zu is already on edge someone dared to make a move on him by taking his daughter, all of a sudden someone is calling him on his personal phone coming from a blocked number which surprised him that someone would have his number, he answered and is on FaceTime with White Dragon.

"Hello old friend." White Dragon said.

"You... you got a lot a nerve coming back to Hong Kong, have you forgotten what would happen if you ever came back?" Zheng Zu said.

"How could I forget? You had me exiled from my home, Hong Kong was going to be mine one day, I just made early preparations for my rise to power." White Dragon said.

"That's always been your problem, you're too ambitious." Zheng Zu said.

"And you're too soft to ever be a leader, you made the mistake in letting me live through exile, you couldn't even bring back your son who renounce his family legacy, that weakness is why I'm going to take everything from you, starting with the person you love the most." White Dragon shows Zheng Esme on FaceTime. "Say hi to daddy."

Zheng Zu is stunned seeing his daughter gagged. "Zheng Esme."

White Dragon holding the phone as Zheng Esme is unable to speak through the bandana. "I'm afraid she's too shy for words."

"You bastard... if anything happens to her..." Zheng Zu is angry.

"How sweet, for a Triad boss you're too soft, it's no wonder I was able to exploit your weakness, but you can relax, as you can see she's fine... for now." White Dragon said.

"What do you want?" Zheng Zu said.

"Like I said, I'm going to take everything from you, I challenge you for control of the Triads, I'm going to decide where and when this'll take place... Oh, just remember, if you attempt to find me or even let the police know, I'll burn your daughter to ashes and I'll send what's left back to you, are we clear?" White Dragon said.

"Yes... very well, I accept your challenge." Zheng Zu said.

"Good... I'll call you again with a time and place... see you soon old friend." White Dragon hanging up.

Zheng Zu is troubled that his daughter is in the hands of his old enemy, White Dragon has returned to finish what he started years ago.

(Central)

White Dragon then walks over to remove the bandana gagging Zheng Esme to let her talk.

"Can't believe how easy your father would break, all for you." White Dragon said.

"Why?" Zheng Esme is mad.

"Pardon?" White Dragon said.

"Why do you hate him so much? What did my father do to you?" Zheng Esme said.

White Dragon sighs. "I was your father's right hand man for years, he trained me, taught me everything I knew about the business, I guess you could say that he kinda saw me as a son after your brother, his male heir, turn his back on his father and his legacy, all so he could go to America and get famous, it really dealt a big blow to your father, so I've worked beside him for years helping him in his business, by then I knew too much and it wasn't enough to be a right hand of a powerful Triad boss, I want it all, so I started taking matters into my own hands, forged alliances with rival Triads who could help me overthrow Zheng Zu, Hong Kong was going to be mine, but your father caught on to my treachery, he made an example out of me, he and his men had me beaten and tortured, after he was done he told me to leave Hong Kong forever and never return... now here I am, back home and ready to take back what is mine, with the help of my new friends, I shall take control of the Triads and Hong Kong shall be mine to rule." White Dragon explained.

"You're going to kill him... aren't you?" Zheng Esme said.

"Zheng Zu has always been untouchable, surrounded by his army of Triads, no one could ever get close to him, but with you I can, I'm going to make him come to me, once he falls into my trap, I'll kill him and take what's mine, after that, you won't be of any use to me, I'll see to it his entire bloodline ends, you and that brother of yours will die, any trace of Zheng Zu's existence shall be erased, just a footnote in Triad history." White Dragon said.

White Dragon walks away leaving Zheng Esme alone as she worried for her father, White Dragon doesn't plan to fight him, he's going to lure him into an ambush and kill him, once he's done she'll be dead too.


Time is 6:01 PM at the Hotel in Central, Hong Kong as Peter is back in his room speaking with his friend Ganke Lee back in the states as he needs some help in tracking down White Dragon along with the Enforcers as he's got nothing to go on.

"You're telling me that the Enforcers are Hong Kong?" Ganke Lee said.

"Yeah, they're working with White Dragon, they had to be the same team that stole back the suit on Fisk's behalf, there's no doubt in my mind Kingpin is helping him making a move on the Triads, this guy now has the daughter of a Triad boss in his possession and I need to find him fast. Can you help me?" Peter said.

"I wish I could Pete, but I don't have access to the Chinese network, I'm used to hacking on the American network and I can't hack a foreign network remotely without causing some noise, I'm sorry." Ganke Lee said.

Peter sighs. "It's fine and hey, I'm sorry I woke you up so early."

"It's fine, pretty much used to waking up in the middle of the night, so what's your next move?" Ganke Lee said.

Peter sighs. "I don't know, I'll have to figure something out on my own... thanks for the time."

"Good luck Pete." Ganke Lee hangs up.

Peter puts away the phone as he can't get Ganke to look up anything on the Hong Kong network, he still has nothing to go on and time is running out for the hostage as well as Hong Kong, all of a sudden the door is knocking repeatedly.

"Open up Parker! I know you're in there! Open up!" Lei Ling knocking outside.

Peter was too busy focusing on saving the girl that he forgot he ditched Inspector Ling behind at the crime scene, he walks up to the door and opens up as Inspector Ling came in not looking too happy.

"Inspector, I'm sorry about before..." Peter tries to apologize.

"Shut up... you have some explaining to do." Lei Ling said.

"Okay, I can explain..." Peter said.

"Good, explain to me who you really are, Peter Parker, cause you're clearly not some average photographer, you went off chasing without warning." Lei Ling said.

"I couldn't wait, I was just trying to help before we lost them." Peter said.

"And you had to fight against a group of armed bikers on the road by yourself, I have witnesses who saw someone wearing a black leather jacket riding a motorcycle taking down bikers alone with unnatural moves, someone who matched your description." Lei Ling said.

"Inspector..." Peter said.

"No more lies Parker, either you me the truth me now or I'll have to arrest you again!" Lei Ling said.

Peter sighs calmly. "Okay... the truth is... I'm... I'm Spider-Man."

Lei Ling is stunned. "What?... I said no more lies."

"I'm being serious, I'm Spider-Man!" Peter telling the truth.

"Okay, that's it." Lei Ling taking out the cuffs. "Peter Parker, you're under arrest..."

Peter then resorted to jump up onto the ceiling as Lei Ling looks up to find Peter Parker clinging above the ceiling in the way Spider-Man can.

"Holy shit..." Lei Ling speaking Cantonese looking all stunned and surprised.

Peter then dropped down and landed in a three point stance as he stands back up on his feet after proving he's Spider-Man.

"Now do you believe me?" Peter said.

"Oh my god, you really are Spider-Man." Lei Ling said.

"Told you." Peter said.

"It's really clever, a young photographer working as a superhero, you're hiding in plain sight." Lei Ling said.

"Okay, now that we're all done clearing everything up, shall we continue on the investigation?" Peter said.

"Listen Peter, I appreciate you're being honest with me about your double life, but that doesn't give you cause to play vigilante in my city, the rules here are different." Lei Ling said.

"But the criminals involved are from my city, the three men who abducted the girl are the Enforcers." Peter said.

"You know them?" Lei Ling said.

"They're mercenaries, they hired their services out to bad actors for dirty jobs, anything that'll make them easy money, they once attacked my old school years ago and held it hostage, more recently they were involved in the murder of police officers while breaking out a criminal, they disappeared after the events of Spider-Island, never again till now." Peter said.

"And now they're working for White Dragon, helping him make a move against the Triads." Lei Ling said.

"He's not doing it alone, White Dragon is being backed by Wilson Fisk, I'm sure you've heard of him as the Kingpin, it's no coincidence the Enforcers are helping White Dragon, those guys worked with Fisk before, in fact that incident at my old school was all him, Fisk was behind it." Peter explained.

"If that's the case, then we need to find her fast." Lei Ling said.

"We do, as soon as White Dragon gets what he wants, he'll kill the girl." Peter said.

"How can you be so sure?" Lei Ling said.

"Cause I know these people and how they operate, Fisk ordered the Enforcers to have Gwen killed, they nearly succeeded. So that alone should tell you what kind of people we're dealing with." Peter said.

"Oh my god, then we don't have much time." Lei Ling said.

"Agreed, so let's get back to investigating? Did Hong Kong PD find the box truck?" Peter said.

"Yeah, it's been abandoned in an alley, looks like they've switched vehicles to disappear, they could be anywhere by now. How about you? Got any leads?" Lei Ling said.

"None, I tried my hacker friend back home, but he doesn't have access to Hong Kong's network." Peter said.

"I might be able to help with that, you have a computer?" Lei Ling said.

Peter went over to the bed to pick up his personal laptop and hands it to Lei Ling as they set it onto the table, she then types in the website of the HKPD, she puts in her username and password, and voila, she's in the network.

"Okay, we're in, you known how these people work, so where would White Dragon go to disappear?" Lei Ling said.

"If Zheng Zu has eyes everywhere, the last place he'll go to is somewhere too obvious the Triads can easily find, so he'll need to find someplace well hidden where they wouldn't expect to find him... Inspector, can you look up any recently leased out properties in Hong Kong?" Peter said.

"What are you thinking?" Lei Ling said.

"If I know Kingpin, he's probably letting White Dragon hide out on his property, try searching properties that's been leased out most recently, his alliance with Fisk happened within days, so look up any within that time period, Fisk would've had to used a dummy corporation so it wouldn't be registered in his name, untraceable." Peter said.

Lei Ling is using HKPD network to search any recently leased properties using a dummy corporation, she got a result.

"This is interesting, a property was leased yesterday to an offshore corporation that only exist on paper, it's in Central." Lei Ling said.

"That's gotta be it, can you pull up the building?" Peter said.

Lei Ling shows the address and image of the building, it's a skyscraper in Central.

"The building is a skyscraper, White Dragon chose his stronghold well, the top floor is well secure, they got security camera everywhere inside, they'll see any police or Triad coming and be alerted, it's pretty much impossible to rescue the girl without alerting anyone, White Dragon will see it coming." Lei Ling said.

"But not for Spider-Man, I can go." Peter said.

"Peter, have you seriously listened to the words I say? You can't just go around being a vigilante in Hong Kong, we know where the girl is, I could get a warrant and send in a SWAT unit, but that'll take time." Lei Ling said.

"In the meantime her life could end at any moment. Did you ever think about that?" Peter said.

"What am I suppose to do, Parker? I'm an officer of the law, there are rules to follow." Lei Ling said.

"I get it, Inspector! I get it! Getting a warrant would be the right thing to do, but every second we waste an innocent live is in danger, by the time you get a warrant it could be too late!" Peter said.

Lei Ling sighs calmly. "How do you do it, Parker? How do you justify in breaking the rules to do good? How does Captain Stacy ever allow you to do the things back in New York?"

Peter sighs. "George was just like you Inspector Ling, a great cop always doing things by the book, before I ever told him who I was, he told me that he knew that I was Spider-Man for sometime and never told anyone."

Lei Ling is surprised. "What? If he knew you were Spider-Man, why did he keep it a secret for so long? As an officer, he was obliged to notify his superiors his discovery, why didn't he?"

"He almost did, but he took the big risk in keeping my identity a secret cause I saved his daughter's life, but it was also cause he saw all the good I did as Spider-Man, he always saw me for who I was, not a vigilante, but a hero who willing to do what's right no matter the consequences, and he was right, he died believing I was a great hero." Peter said.

Lei Ling smiled. "I respected George, he made the right call bringing you into the investigation, cause of you Mister Negative was taken down and the Inner Demons are gone from Hong Kong *sighs* alright, I'm going to put my faith in you cause this is about saving an innocent live and maybe saving a lot of lives in Hong Kong, White Dragon needs to be stopped and you're the only one who can stop him and save the girl."

Peter smile warmly. "Thank you Inspector, I won't let you down."

"Better get going, her life and the life of this city is in your hands now... good luck." Lei Ling said.

Lei Ling then excused herself from the room as Peter walks over to the suitcase under the bed, he pulls it out and opens up to find his Spider-Man suit still inside, this time he'll have to go out as as hero.


Back home in New York City it's February 28th, time is 7:10 AM in the morning at the apartment in Lower East Side, Mary Jane is brewing herself some coffee in a french press as Ms. Lion is eating from the bowl, Mary Jane is all alone as Gwen already left early, Mary Jane is still dealing with the quarrel she had with her best friend since yesterday, her coffee is just finished as she pressed down and poured in some coffee into the mug, she drank some coffee til she heard knocking, she sets down the mug and walks over to the door, she opens up to find her Aunt Anna standing outside.

"Aunt Anna, what a surprise?" Mary Jane said.

"Hi... Did I interrupt your morning?" Anna Watson said.

"No, of course not, come on in." Mary Jane invites her aunt inside the apartment.

Anna Watson enters the apartment. "I was just on my way to F.E.A.S.T., thought I'd stop by while I get the chance. Are you alone?"

"Yeah, Peter is still in Hong Kong, Gwen left early in the morning without tell me, doing who knows what." Mary Jane said.

"From your voice, I take it things aren't going well between you two... what's going on?" Anna Watson said.

Mary Jane sighs. "I might've screwed things up with Gwen, she's not talking to me."

"Why? Mary Jane, what did you do?" Anna Watson said.

Mary Jane sighs. "I... tried to talk Gwen out of going through with the wedding."

Anna Waston is stunned. "Why in the world would you do that?"

"I know, it was stupid." Mary Jane felt bad.

"Mary Jane... talk to me..." Anna Watson said.

Mary Jane sighs. "Seeing those two getting married at a young age... it reminded me of mom and dad... their failed marriage."

Anna Watson sighs. "And you're thinking they're about to make the biggest mistake of their lives."

"My parents did, they were in college and they were a few years older than Peter and Gwen, they had dreams they wanted to pursue but they were in love, they got married when they were young, about a year later they had me, a daughter, my parents struggled between finishing college and my dad trying to write a decent novel while making ends meet to support his family, it took on him and he started drinking, ended up raising his voice violently in front of his wife and kid, till the day he took it too far, I'll never forget what I saw that night, still haunts me... that's why I tried to talk Gwen out of going through with the wedding, I don't want my friend's happily ever after to turn into a nightmare." Mary Jane explained her reasons.

"I see... listen Mary Jane, I think it's very noble that you're very concern about your friend's future, I really do." Anna Watson said.

"But..." Mary Jane said.

"Not everyone is like your parents, not even Peter nor Gwen, listen... life isn't easy nor perfect, especially in a marriage, when two people are committed to spending their lives together, they're bound to face some problems at some point, but every marriage challenges whether two people are willing to overcome their problems and face them together or give up and end their marriage." Anna Watson giving some wisdom.

Mary Jane is saddened. "Just like my parents, they didn't expect to have me so early, my dad wanted to be a writer and my mom wanted to be an actress, but they never reached their goals cause they were too busy raising me, a child who became a nuisance in their marriage."

"Mary Jane, don't you dare say that, you were never a nuisance, sure your mother had dreams, she didn't plan on being a mother, but she never regret having you in her life, you were her joy, her miracle, your father obviously lost sight of that, he didn't realized what he threw away, didn't see what a great gift you are, and to be honest I'm happy having you in my life too, you're my niece, you're the closest thing I ever have to a daughter and it's been a great privilege raising you these past eight years, you've grown up into an amazing woman Mary Jane Watson." Anna Watson said.

Mary Jane smiled with tears. "Everything I am now is thanks to you, Aunt Anna, you kept me going since my mom passed away, you gave a great home, a great life, I'm lucky to have you, then and now."

Anna Watson smile. "I'll always be there for you... listen to me, Peter and Gwen will have some challenges in marriage, but it's up to them to face them together, all we can do is support them and pray that they get through it together."

"Those two always had some bumps in the past three years, they overcame them and they grew stronger together." Mary Jane said.

"Mary Jane... don't let your past affect your life or the lives of your friends, try to mend things with Gwen." Anna Watson said.

"Okay Aunt Anna." Mary Jane smile.

Mary Jane and Anna have a brief hug together.

"Okay, I'm gonna go and see May, please think about what I said." Anna Watson said.

"I will... Aunt Anna... thank you for everything." Mary Jane said.

"Always Mary Jane, always." Anna Watson said.

Anna Watson then leaves the apartment and heads out to meet up with her best friend May, Mary Jane is thinking about everything her Aunt Anna said about life and marriage, MJ was doubtful about her friend's marriage cause of her troubled past and she let that affect their friendship, but after talking with her Aunt she decided to try to mend things with Gwen, Mary Jane is lucky to have a wonderful aunt raising her and giving her great advice, she's always been there since she was 10, since her mother passed away.

(Flashback)

It's August 23, 2016 in Montoursville, Pennsylvania at a hospital in the oncology department, Madeline Watson is resting in one of the rooms, she's thinner than before and she's already loss hair as she's wearing a bandana, Madeline's been battling cancer for two years, 10 year old Mary Jane is coming down the hallway with a snack, she came back to the room and spotted a doctor chatting with her mother as the news isn't good as she leaves the room, Mary Jane doesn't like the look of this, she knows that her mother isn't well, but this was different.

"Mom..." Mary Jane said.

Madeline Watson smile. "Hey..."

"Are you... okay..." Mary Jane is worried.

"Yeah... I'm just... gonna take a nice long sleep... a very long one..." Madeline putting on a smile despite what's about to happen at any moment. "MJ... your Aunt Anna is coming over from New York, you're going to be staying with her."

"For how long?" Mary Jane said as Madeline remains quiet. "Mom..."

"Mary Jane, I need you to be strong." Madeline said.

"Why?" Mary Jane said.

"Cause I'm very tired, that's why, I fought as long as I could for you, but now I'm very exhausted and I need to rest for good." Madeline said.

"Mom, you said you never leave me." Mary Jane tearing.

"I'll always be with you, in your heart... life will go on for you, my wish for you is that you live a wonderful life surrounded by great love." Madeline said.

"What about you mom? What about your happiness?" Mary Jane said.

"I already have it, I've always have, you are my happiness, my miracle, when you were born and I held you in my arms, I felt like the happiest woman on Earth cause I gave birth to an amazing girl, you're the only thing that kept me going through all the tough times, I'm glad to have you here at the very end by my side... I love you so much, Mary Jane." Madeline smiled.

Mary Jane tearing. "I love you too, mommy."

Madeline reached out her hand as Mary Jane took it, Madeline remained happy have her daughter by her side til the end, she then closes her eyes and rests for good as her time was up, Mary Jane tears up and cries for her mother has just passed away right there on the bed.

Hours later in the waiting room, Mary Jane is still saddened that her mother is now long gone from her life, coming in from the hallway is Anna Watson as she made it to the waiting room where Mary Jane is sitting there all saddened, she knows what happened to her sister-in-law, she slowly walks up to Mary Jane being all quiet.

"Mary Jane..." Anna Watson said.

Mary Jane breaks down crying. "Aunt Anna... my mom..."

Anna Watson got down on her knee as Mary Jane rushed over and hugged her aunt in tears.

"I'm so sorry Mary Jane... I promise you that I'll always be there for you." Anna Watson hugging her niece.

Mary Jane is still crying in the arms of her Aunt Anna as her whole life has changed on this day, she lost her mother and she's only got her Aunt Anna who's going to take care of her from now on.


Time is 7:40 PM back in Hong Kong, the entire city is celebrating Chinese New Year filled with decorations such as the lion or dragon dance on the streets, a lot of boats are out in Victoria Harbor along with people at the docks about to watch the fireworks soon to happen, meanwhile in Central, Spider-Man is climbing up the skyscraper approaching the top all stealthy on a rescue mission, he spotted the balcony up ahead.

"Okay, you're up Spidey-Drone." Spider-Man said.

Spider-Man summoned his Spider-Drone attached to his suit as it's hovering up to the balcony to get some eyes inside, it made it to the top to find very little security around the floor, the drone is flying around remaining undetected as Spider-Man is remote controlling the drone from outside via holoscreen on his web shooter, he spotted cameras here as well, he flies around the blindspots as to get spotted, the drone spotted a terminal connecting to the security system, he flies the drone onto the terminal and plugs it in, Spider-Man is getting security footages of the building, but the one that caught his attention is the hostage Zheng Esme all tied up in one room alone, he then spotted White Dragon in the private room with the Enforcers strategizing on taking down Zheng Zu.

"Time to hack the cameras... now!" Spider-Man said.

The Spider-Drone is hacking the system as the screens in the security room gave off some static which caught the guys monitoring it, but it went back to normal as unknown to them the video is being played on a loop, they just chalked it up to an error and went back to their business, meanwhile Spider-Man started climbing up to the top of the balcony to take a peek, he spotted a sentry armed with a rifle as he thought he heard something while Spidey duck his head down, the man walks up to the balcony to check it out, he leans over to take a peek but was surprised by a hand pulling him over the balcony, Spider-Man webbed up the guy to the edge as he looks down from high up, he's scared.

"Just hang in there and enjoy the view, I'll come back for you, okay?" Spider-Man said.

Spider-Man left the guy webbed up as he climbs onto the balcony and moves inside the building, he's alone as he pulls out his phone to make a call.

"Parker?" Lei Ling said.

"Yeah it's me, listen carefully, this is the building, the girl is here along with White Dragon, I need you to send in some backup." Spider-Man said.

"I can do that, what about security?" Lei Ling said.

"Handle, their system is hacked, they won't know you're coming until its too late, meanwhile I'm going to save the girl." Spider-Man said.

"Alright, good luck." Lei Ling hangs up.

Spider-Man puts away his phone as he proceed with the rescue, he sneaks around the hallway till he heard footsteps and quickly moved himself into the restroom, two sentries are walking the hallway as Spider-Man fired off some webbing and webbed them up together, he pulls them into the restroom and knocks them out unconscious, he came out of the restroom and walks up ahead till he found the room where the hostage is held up in, he opens up to find Zheng Esme all tied up to a chair gagged, the girl is stunned upon seeing a superhero here in the flesh.

"Take it easy, I'm here to help." Spider-Man said.

Spider-Man walks up to Zheng Esme and removes the bandana from her mouth, then he started to untie her.

"Spider-Man? I didn't know you worked outside New York." Zheng Esme is confused.

"I don't, usually." Spider-Man said as he's finished untying Zheng Esme. "Come on, let's get you home."

Spider-Man escorts Zheng Esme out of the room as they're sneaking around the hallway til they're reached the elevators, Spider-Man pressed the button as they're waiting for an elevator to come.

"Okay, we're gonna take this elevator down and then we're home free." Spider-Man said.

"I think not."

Spider-Man and Zheng Esme turns around to find White Dragon with the Enforcers.

"Spider-Man, long time no see, should've figured it was you on that highway." White Dragon said.

"White Dragon, I see you're still up to your old tricks again, taking over gangs, only you've stepped up to kidnapping and threatening an innocent kid, it's no wonder you get along so well with scum like Fisk and these three clowns." Spider-Man said.

"We still got a score to settle with you, Bug!" Montana said.

The elevator finally arrived and opens up.

"Go... get to safety... I'll hold them off." Spider-Man said.

Zheng Esme enters the elevator alone and closes it as she's going down to the lower floor.

"It's over, White Dragon, this place is about to be raid by HKPD any minute." Spider-Man said.

White Dragon growls in anger. "Always at the wrong place at the wrong time."

"Story of my life." Spider-Man said.

"You thwarted my takeover of New York, now you've destroyed my best chance in taking Hong Kong, you've been nothing but a thorn at my butt side." White Dragon said.

"Hey, it's what I do, give it up, you've lost." Spider-Man said.

"Not yet, I'll simple start over, but not before taking care of you, at the very least I'll have the satisfaction in killing you." White Dragon said.

"Just try." Spider-Man said.

"Let's go." White Dragon surprise with a flame burst.

Spider-Man jumps over the flame and drop kick White Dragon down, Ox is coming in charging for a tackle as Spidey slides down past the his legs and webs up his legs, he pulls and tripped Ox down, Fancy Dan came in swinging his bo staff as the hero backflips as he was too busy to notice a lasso tossed and wrapped around his legs, Montana pulls and tripped Spider-Man off a bit.

"Not so jumpy are you, Bug!" Montana said.

Spider-Man got a hold of the lasso and pulls Montana in towards Fancy Dan as the two Enforcers collided and went down, Spider-Man undid the lasso as White Dragon is standing up to see all the Enforcers are down, leaving him to deal with Spider-Man alone.

"Now it just you and me, Spider vs. Dragon." Spider-Man said.

"So you want to challenge me one-on-one, so be it, I'll be happy to oblige, this will be our last stand." White Dragon said.

Spider-Man and White Dragon charged in to challenge each other in hand-to-hand combat, meanwhile inside the elevator, Zheng Esme is listening to the music being played, the elevator finally arrived down but she spotted some thugs here in the lobby as she refused to get out of the elevator, but just outside the building HKPD has finally arrived with SDU officers, Lei Ling came out of a squad car with a vest as she pulls out her side arm.

"Let's go!" Lei Ling leads the operation.

Lei Ling went in with SDU officers, the thugs inside are all caught by surprise as HKPD are here aiming their guns at them yelling "Drop you weapons! Get down on the ground!", the thugs are outnumbered and outgunned as they lower their guns and got on their knees, the officers are arresting the criminals as Zheng Esme is taking a peek out to see HKPD came and took care of the thugs, she came out as Lei Ling spotted her.

"Zheng Esme?" Lei Ling said.

"Yeah, that's me." Zheng Esme said.

"It's okay, you're safe, come on." Lei Ling said.

Zheng Esme came over to Lei Ling as she's now safe with HKPD, the hostage is safe. Meanwhile back at the top, Spider-Man and White Dragon are in the middle of their fight, Spider-Man tossed in some strikes as White Dragon blocks and counters with a kick as the guy is a master in Dragon Style Kung Fu.

"What's the matter Spider? Can't handle my Dragon Style." White Dragon mocks.

White Dragon then switches to using his claws for the strike as Spider-Man uses his reflexes to dodge them, he then strikes with a spinning heel kick to the head and caught the villain by surprise.

"How do you like my Spider Style?" Spider-Man mocks.

"I don't!" White Dragon unleashed his flames.

Spider-Man reacted and jumped away from the flame burst, White Dragon is still firing off his flames as Spider-Man is doing his best to avoid being burned, Spider-Man took cover behind a pillar as he spotted the Enforcers wearing wing suits and standing over the balcony.

"Let's go boys, our contract has just been cancelled." Montana said

The Enforcers jumped off the balcony and glided in the air to escape capture, Spider-Man couldn't stop the Enforcers from escaping as he has problems of his own, he's still pinned by White Dragon and can't get close enough to take down the villain as long as he's unleashing heat, he spotted something on the pillar he's hiding behind, a fire extinguisher.

"What's the matter, Spider? Can't handle the heat!" White Dragon taunts.

Spider-Man came out of hiding as White Dragon is about to unleash flames but Spider-Man pulls out the fire extinguisher and dosed the flames easily as he walks up closer to White Dragon, he got close enough to hit him in the head with the extinguisher, knocking him down unconscious.

"Always have an extinguisher in hand in the event of a fire, very efficient." Spider-Man jokes.

White Dragon moans in pain as he's still down, Spidey then webs him up for good measure as he saw the clock nearby as it hits 8 PM, he then heard a noise outside on the balcony, he walks up to get a peek to see the fireworks launched out from Victoria Harbor, it's very bright.

"Wow, that's beautiful... some should take a picture." Spider-Man said.

Spider-Man pulls out his compact camera and takes a picture of the famous Hong Kong fireworks, he had the honor of witnessing such an event, but that event got cut short as he heard the elevator finally arriving, Lei Ling and HKPD came out to find the criminal White Dragon is down out cold and all webbed up, Lei Ling figured out this was all Spider-Man's handiwork, but there's no sign of the hero around as he's already gone, Lei Ling is happy the situation is well handled, the girl was saved and the villain has been arrested.

Sometime later Spider-Man is at another skyscraper watching the fireworks show, he took some time to look down at the bottom to see HKPD escorting White Dragon out in handcuffs, Spider-Man uses his camera to zoom down and take a shot of White Dragon in custody as they loaded him into the van with the other criminals, meanwhile a limousine came over to the crime scene where the head of the Hai-Dai Triads Zheng Zu came out in the company of his bodyguards as the entire HKPD are uneasy seeing such a man here but they can't do anything about it, Zheng Esme spotted her father here.

"Ba!" Zheng Esme smiles.

Zheng Esme rushed over to her father and hugs him, she finally reunited with him safe and sound, HKPD are now transporting the criminals to a prison as Zheng Zu looks upon the vehicle with his hated enemy inside, this night isn't over yet for him, Spider-Man sees that his job here is finished as he swings away, the people of Hong Kong are surprised to see Spider-Man swinging around their city.


It's now 9:32 AM back in New York at Rikers Prison, Wilson Fisk is inside his cell listening to music and having a omelette in peace, that was until his assistant James Wesley came by his cell with some news about recent events concerning a new associate, Fisk is drinking a coffee from the cup.

"What's wrong, Wesley." Wilson Fisk asking.

"I got a call from our friends in China, White Dragon has been arrested again and the operation in Hong Kong has failed." James Wesley said.

"Arrested? How?" Wilson Fisk said.

"It was Spider-Man, he took down White Dragon." James Wesley said.

"Spider-Man... should've known, all those favors we've cashed in, millions of dollars spent, all for nothing... that'll be all Wesley." Wilson Fisk said.

"Excuse me." James Wesley politely takes his leave.

Fisk isn't happy to hear that his attempts to forge an alliance with the Triads has failed due to the unexpected intervention of Spider-Man, everything he spent on the operation is for nothing, Fisk crushed his cup in his hand as he's angry Spider-Man got in his way again.


Back in Hong Kong around 10:04 PM at the Temple Street Night Market, Chinese New Year is still going on as the whole place is packed with people shopping around and eating the food cooked here, Peter and Betty are here together as Betty is typing on her laptop writing a story about White Dragon's arrest, Peter thanked the cook in Cantonese as he grabbed both his and Betty's food in bamboo steamers and walks back to their table and sits down.

Peter hands Betty a bamboo steamer. "Here you go, one orange chicken."

Betty took it. "Thanks, what'd you get?"

"Peking duck. Let's eat" Peter grab the chopsticks.

Betty and Peter each opened up their bamboo steamers and uses the chopsticks to start eating, Betty noticed the bag full of things Peter bought but what caught her attention is the ceramic panda.

"I see you've finally found that ceramic panda." Betty noticed.

"I promised her I would bring her one while I'm out here. Did you finish writing the story?" Peter said.

"I did, which means I can finally enjoy my vacation here." Betty said.

"I think everyone can now that White Dragon is in police custody, case closed." Peter said.

Meanwhile the same time elsewhere in Hong Kong, a HKPD van transporting the criminals including White Dragon to a penitentiary, the driver inside the van watched the lead HKPD squad car escorting the van to the prison, he spotted an exit and took it separating itself from the squad car as the officers inside it noticed the van taking a detour and are confused as to where it's going, the van stopped itself in an alleyway as the officers get out and walked away, White Dragon is taking a peek to see them leaving them.

"Hey! Where you going?! Hey, I'm talking to you!" White Dragon said.

Everyone inside the van then hears a phone ringing nearby, one of the thugs noticed something tucked in the seat behind him, he pulls it out and found the phone as he hands it to White Dragon, it's coming from a blocked number.

White Dragon answered it. "Hello?'

"Do you remember the promise I made to you?" Zheng Zu said.

"You..." White Dragon said.

"I'm a man of my word." Zheng Zu said.

Everyone inside heard some kind of device underneath the van being armed, White Dragon figures out it's a bomb.

"Goodbye." Zheng Zu said.

The van exploded right there in that alley, instantly killing everyone inside it, White Dragon is now dead courtesy of Zheng Zu.


Time is 4:45 PM in New York City at the apartment in Lower East Side, Mary Jane is in the living room watching news on TV about the recent sighting of Spider-Man in Hong Kong in his role in defeating White Dragon, she smiled for her friend's success in being a hero in another city, coming into the apartment Gwen just returned home to find her best friend at the couch.

"Hey Gwen, Pete's on TV swinging around Hong Kong." Mary Jane said.

"I know, I just heard back from him, he wanted me to remind May that he's got that ceramic panda, he's sleeping over there as we speak, it's night time over there." Gwen said.

"That's good, he deserves some rest... listen, I'm... I'm very sorry about yesterday, I didn't mean to cause you trouble.. I hate fighting with you." Mary Jane is apologizing.

Gwen sighs. "I'm sorry too... I hate fighting with you too."

Mary Jane smile. "Yeah, me too, the truth is... I was getting worried that you two were rushing into marriage too soon, my parents did and it didn't work out very well, I guess in a way I saw them in you and I let my past affect me a bit."

"Or a lot." Gwen said.

"Or a lot... I shouldn't have stop your engagement, I only mean well cause I love you, you're my sister Gwen... listen, if you and Peter really want to get married and spend the rest of your lives together, then I support you." Mary Jane smiles.

"Thank you, means a lot... care to be my maid of honor?" Gwen said.

Mary Jane smile warmly. "I'd be honored."

Mary Jane got up and hugs Gwen as the two rekindled their friendship.

"I'm very lucky to have you and Peter as friends, you both mean everything to me." Mary Jane hugging.

"You mean everything to me too, you're my sister too." Gwen said.

Gwen and Mary Jane stopped hugging, Gwen then heads on to the bathroom alone after she and Mary Jane patch things up together, Mary Jane is alone and feeling happy having great friends like Peter and Gwen in her life, she pulls out her phone to view a recent photo of herself with Peter and Gwen, she focuses on Peter as she remembers the day she first met him.

(Flashback)

It's August 29th, 2016 in Forest Hills, Queen at the Parker residence as Uncle Ben and Aunt May are downstair is waiting for their nephew to come down as May got surprise in mind for Peter that'll change his life for the better.

"Peter, are you coming?!" May calling out.

"I'll be right there, Aunt May!" Peter said from upstairs.

"So what's the occasion?" Ben asking his wife.

"I'm glad you've asked, Anna Watson is bringing over her niece Mary Jane who just moved in with her, this might be a great opportunity for Peter to meet her." May said.

"Why do I get the feeling that you're trying to pair off our nephew with your best friend's niece?" Ben smile.

"It's not like that Ben, Anna and I just want them to be friends, but I won't deny that I like the idea of them getting together in the future." May smile.

Coming down the stairs is 10 year old Peter Parker wearing glasses looking all dorky as always.

"Hey kiddo, what took you so long?" Ben teasing.

"What's the occasion?" Peter asking.

"Today is the day you're about to meet a new girl in the neighborhood, her name is Mary Jane Watson, she's Anna Watson's niece." May confessed.

"A girl?" Peter is being shy.

"What's the matter Peter?" May said.

"Aunt May, I'm only 10 and... I'm very shy around girl, I never even met this Mary Jane girl, what if she's all dorky like me? What if she's got the lisp?" Peter is nervous.

"She's not like that, Anna told me that she's a sweet girl with a wonderful personality, I'm sure you'll like her." May said.

"Ms. Wonderful Personality?" Peter is shivering til the doorbell rang.

"That must be her, why don't you open the door?" May said.

"She's here? Ah, why not tell her that I got her flu and see me another day?" Peter making an excuse.

"Stop being ridiculous and just open the door." May said.

"Come on, couldn't hurt." Ben encourages.

Peter is still shy about meeting a girl he's never seen before, he took a deep breath and opens up about to brace himself for whatever he's about to see, but he became stunned upon seeing a redhead girl about his age, she's all pretty for her age.

"Whoa... you're... you're Mary Jane Watson." Peter being stunned and shy.

Mary Jane is all shy too as she doesn't know what to say, but she's happy to finally meet Peter for the first time, the two instantly took a liking to one another as a bond has been forged to this day.

(Present)

Mary Jane looks upon the picture of Peter Parker, she remembers how shy she was that day she first met him that she barely said anything as she didn't know what to say in that moment, many years later she finally figured out what she should've said that day to Peter.

"Face it Tiger, you've just hit the Jackpot." Mary Jane smile warmly.


In Hong Kong the day is March 1st, time is 8:14 AM in the morning at Peak Tower at Victoria Peak as Peter is here with his camera taking shots of the perfect view of the entire city, coming his way is Lei Ling as Peter stopped taking pictures to meet the Inspector.

"Enjoying the view?" Lei Ling smile.

"Sure am, it's perfect. I'm sorry to hear White Dragon is dead, I know he's an important piece in your investigation against the Hai-Dai." Peter said.

"None of us saw it coming, Zheng Zu had to be behind this, but we can't prove it, so we got nothing." Lei Ling said.

"I see, and the Enforcers?" Peter said.

"We got HKPD canvassing the city, but so far nothing, my guess they're long gone." Lei Ling said.

"I see, sorry bringing him here was all for nothing, so what's the next move?" Peter said.

"We'll start over from scratch and fight the good fight, but anyway, I came here to thank you for your help." Lei Ling said.

"Just doing my job." Peter smile.

"I admit I haven't always been a fan on how you do things, but I can't argue with the results, you went above and beyond to save an innocent life, I can see now why George put his faith in you, so thank you." Lei Ling said.

"I couldn't done it without your help Inspector, thank you." Peter said.

"You know, I'm good at doing my job for the greater good, but not in the same way you do, I actually envy you, sometimes I wish I could do what you do, making a big difference." Lei Ling said.

"Lei... not all heroes wear masks or have special powers, you just need heart and you got it, you are a hero in your own way." Peter said.

Lei Ling smiled. "Thank you, it's been an honor fighting beside a great hero."

"And it's been a great honor fighting beside Hong Kong's finest, if I'm ever in the neighborhood and there's trouble, you know who to call." Peter said.

"I'll keep that in mind... enjoy your vacation." Lei Ling said.

Lei Ling does the palm over fist gesture as Peter did the same as they're saying goodbye to each other before parting ways, Lei Ling has already left as Betty is coming to Peter.

"Did you get great shots?" Betty said.

"I did, so what do you want to do next?" Peter asking.

"Well... I've always wanted to check out the Disneyland here, interested?" Betty said.

"Yeah, why not? Now that we've got some time to ourselves, let's go." Peter said.

Peter and Betty are about to leave Victoria Peak together about to check out Hong Kong Disneyland, they plan to enjoy their vacation in peace while they still can, Hong Kong is safe once again thanks to Spider-Man.

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