Volume IV: Madame Masque
This will be the twentieth chapter of Volume IV, this will introduce Whitney Frost, she's goes by the name Madame Masque, she's the head of the Nefaria Crime Family based out of Atlantic City and the owner of the Golden Mask Casino, she's also a member of a international crime syndicate called the Maggia, this will also bring back Hammerhead who is on loan to Madame Masque and her faction, her organization faced trouble as a world class thief called Black Fox broke into her office and stole something very important as this'll cause trouble for him and his partner Tamara Blake, Black Fox got himself capture but Tamara managed to escape wounded as she's desperate to save her mentor, she knows who to turn to. Meanwhile back in New York City, Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane are reunited with their friend Felicia Hardy AKA Black Cat, she returns as a special guest character, she's all grown and mature like her friends as she came from England for her spring break, she's staying at their place for two weeks. But fate intervene as she's reunited with Tamara Blake as they have a history together, both professional and personal, Tamara ask Felicia for her help in rescuing their mentor from the clutches of the Maggia. Felicia asks her friends in their help to save a man who was considered a second father to her, they agreed and headed on down south to Atlantic City on a rescue mission. Peter, Gwen, Mary Jane, and Felicia relies on secrecy and discretion on this mission to find out where they got Black Fox, around the same time the girls will do a lot of catching up concerning recent events involving Peter. This will explore bits of Felicia's past and how she's motivated to being the woman she is now as this will bond her with Peter as they're dealing with their pasts, their personal losses.
It's April 4th, time is 1:23 AM in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the city is famous for being the Gambling Capital of the East Coast, a number of casinos are active 24 hours a day as everyone is staying awake and gambling, but high up at the Golden Mask Casino owned by the international criminal syndicate called the Maggia, this branch in Atlantic City is owned and controlled by a crime boss name Whitney Frost who is secretly called Madame Masque throughout the criminal underworld as she's a black hair female and blue eyes wearing a red robe her office in the presence of Hammerhead, she's typing on her personal computer looking up the funds she's entrusted with, about 100 millions dollars worth in cryptocurrency safely stored on the hard drive on her computer, she's speaking with Silvermane on the screen who is overseas in Italy.
"Is it all there?" Silvermane said.
"Yes, your men were able to secure the embezzled funds from our Wall Street friends before the feds raided the firm, they're here and safe in my hands." Whitney Frost said.
"Good, I await the wire transfer as soon as possible." Silvermane said.
"I'll have to wait til morning for the banks to opened in order to make the transfer to your secret offshore account, just be patient, I'll have it ready first thing in the morning." Whitney Frost said.
"Good, I trust you'll find my right hand very useful in the meantime." Silvermane said.
"Not to worry boss, anything for the Maggia." Hammerhead remains loyal.
"Whatever she needs, you give... I'll see you soon, old friend." Silvermane said.
Silvermane's cuts the video feed from his end as Whitney Frost closes her laptop and walks over to her office safe, but just outside a window a drone is spying and watching Madame Masque typing in the code to the safe as the people controlling the drone memorized the codes, it opens up and she stores the laptop inside, after she's done she closes the safe, she's feeling all tired out.
"I need some beauty sleep, care to accompany me to my room?" Whitney Frost said.
"Like the man said, whatever you need, I'm a total package." Hammerhead smile.
"Mmm... I'll hold you to that." Whitney Frost flirts.
She walks up and lock her arm with Hammerhead as they're leaving the office together, shutting off the lights and closed the door behind them heading into bed, meanwhile up on the rooftop of the Golden Mask Casino are a pair of thieves dressed in black, the older one is in his 50s and the second one is an 18 year old brunette as they're watching the drone cam of the pair leaving the office. Black Fox is controlling the drone while Tamara Blake is hacking into the building's security system.
"Alright, they're leaving, this is our chance. How's the feed?" Black Fox said.
Tamara looking at the portable tablet on her wrist. "We're in, we're tapped into their surveillance system, we'll see anything happening on the floor."
"Okay, let's get ready." Black Fox said.
Black Fox pulls down his ski mask along with Tamara Blake as they're strapping on the harness connecting to the ropes tided up tightly to the exhaust vents, they lock on the ropes to their harness as they standing on the edge of the rooftop about to rappel down.
"Ready?" Black Fox asking.
"Let's go steal the people's money back." Tamara being enthusiastic.
Black Fox and Tamara rappel down from the rooftop, quietly avoiding detection from inside, they carefully rappel and are approaching the floor, they arrived just outside the office window to see the whole place is dark and quiet, they then pull out their tools, Black Fox puts in a suction handle on the glass while Tamara started carefully cutting around the glass in a circle, she's finished as the handles are locked on tight to the glass, Black Fox pushed the glass gently as there's an opening in the window, he went inside first and carefully set the glass aside with Tamara climbing on through.
"We're in, how's security around here?" Black Fox said.
Tamara checking her wrist device. "They're still patrolling the halls, we got time before they come back."
"Then let's not waste anytime." Black Fox said.
Black Fox walks up to the safe where the laptop is stored, he types in the code he memorized and the safe unlocks itself, it opens up and they spotted the laptop still here, Black Fox pulls it out and walks over to the desk as he sits down and opens it up, it turns back on as its password protected.
Black Fox sighs. "Passwords, of course. Tamara, do you think you could..."
"Not a problem, computers are my thing." Tamara said.
Tamara steps up as she's using her computer skills to crack the password to unlock the laptop which could take a minute or two. Meanwhile at another part of the floor is Whitney Frost laying on her bed as Hammerhead is taking off his shirt leaving him only in his white tank top and blue pants, Whitney is crawling over to the ice bucket where there's only champagne as she scoffed feeling displeased.
"Something wrong, Ma'am?" Hammerhead asking.
"I asked the staff to bring me wine, not champagne, god it's hard to get people who are so good at their jobs." Whitney Frost said.
"Well... I could just head on and get some." Hammerhead said.
Whitney Frost smile. "I do have some in my office, care to fetch?"
"Mmm, wait here and keep yourself warm for me... I'll be right back." Hammerhead flirts
Hammerhead walks out of the bedroom to fetch some wine as a couple of his men accompanied him back to the office, meanwhile back at the office Tamara managed to crack the password and unlocks the computer.
"Voilà, we're in... give me a second." Tamara typing.
Tamara access the drive to see 100 millions of dollars in cryptocurrency still stored on a hard drive, all of it stolen from good people.
"It's all there, 100 million." Tamara said.
Black Fox looks upon Tamara's wrist device to see Hammerhead is coming back to the office with two men.
"Crap, they're coming back! Let's go now!" Black Fox said.
"Damnit!" Tamara said.
Tamara closed the laptop and took it as the door opens up upon Hammerhead and his men finding a pair of thieves here, one of them has Whitney Frost's laptop
"What the... GET THEM!" Hammerhead yells.
The thugs pull out their guns and started shooting as Black Fox and Tamara took cover behind the desk, meanwhile back at the bedroom Whitney Frost got up to hear gunfire on her floor which indicates trouble, she walks over to her closet and finds her trademark suit and a golden mask. Back at the office, the thieves are pinned down by gunfire unable to escape.
"We can't just stay here and wait until they run out of bullets!" Tamara said.
"No, we can't... can you encrypt the computer, lock it down?" Black Fox said.
"Yeah, I can do that." Tamara said.
"Then do it, whatever happens, we can't let the Maggia get their hands on that money again, we need to protect it whatever the cost, understand?!" Black Fox said.
"I understand, but I need some time." Tamara said.
"I'll buy you some time, I'll provide a distraction, draw them away, the minute you're done encrypting, get out without me." Black Fox said.
"What? No! I won't leave you!" Tamara protests.
"Tamara, please don't argue with me! Neither of us are gonna leave together alive, I'll draw them away, give you an opportunity to save yourself. If I do survive, then you must live to fight another day... please." Black Fox said.
Tamara tears up and nods. "Okay... just don't die."
Black Fox nods his head. "Get ready."
The thugs are all finished firing their guns upon running out of ammo, Black Fox heard it as he can then heard them unloading the empty clips, he took the opportunity to toss a smoke grenade as it engulfed the room, Hammerhead and his men can't see anything in the smoke, but coming through running past them is the Black Fox himself as he pushed them down and ran out of the office, Hammerhead spotted one of the thieves.
"GET HIM!" Hammerhead orders
Hammerhead and his men are chasing after him as Black Fox got their attention, meanwhile back at the office, Tamara is still hiding behind the desk with the laptop as she's doing her work on putting up a very powerful encryption on it, having it impossible to be accessed unless she's the one who unlocks it. Black Fox is running down the hallway until he spotted someone dressed in a white and black bodysuit wearing a golden mask, it's Whitney Frost as Madame Masque, Black Fox stopped running as Madame Masque is holding a gun and shot him in the leg, Black Fox screams in pain as Tamara heard it, she knew that something bad happened to her mentor. Black Fox is seriously wounded in the leg as Madame Masque walks up to the thief who's causing trouble.
"I take it you've heard of me." Madame Masque said.
"Madame Masque." Black Fox said.
Hammerhead and his men came to see Madame Masque has the thief down, he leaned down to check Black Fox, but he noticed that he doesn't have it.
"Where is it?" Hammerhead said.
"Where's what?" Madame Masque said.
"The laptop, he and his partner broke in and took it." Hammerhead said.
"Where's the partner?" Madame Masque said.
Hammerhead realized something. "Crap... lets get back to the office now!"
Hammerhead and his men are running back the other way, back at the office Tamara has just finished encrypting the computer and it's locked down tight, but she's not out of danger yet as she heard footsteps running her way, she closes the laptop and gets up to make a run for the window, Hammerhead raised his gun and shot a round at Tamara's shoulder, she flinched and dropped the laptop before jumping out of the window, Tamara is falling down from high up as she then uses the parachute on her back, she deploys it and is parachuting around in the air away from the casino as Hammerhead and his men were too late to stop her from escaping, but she did drop the laptop after being shot, Hammerhead picks it up while Madame Masque is coming in with men dragging an injured Black Fox.
"She got away, but we still have the laptop." Hammerhead holding the laptop.
"Check it." Madame Masque said.
Hammerhead went up to the desk and opens up the laptop, the screen turns on to find that its now heavily encrypted, unaccessible to anyone.
"Crap!" Hammerhead said.
"What's wrong?" Madame Masque said.
"We got a problem." Hammerhead said.
Madame Masque walks up to the laptop to see that it's locked down tight, which means the stolen money inside the drives are unaccessible to anyone, this displeased her greatly as she turns to an injured Black Fox, she points a gun to his head.
"How do I unlock it? Tell me now or you die!" Madame Masque is ticked off.
Black Fox looks up and smiles without fear as he won't say a word.
"Take him away and keep him alive, for now." Madame Masque orders.
The thugs takes Black Fox away as she's got plans for him.
"Hammerhead, find his partner! Scour this city until you do!" Madame Masque said.
"Yes Madame Masque." Hammerhead said.
Hammerhead is leaving the office on a mission as Madame Masque now has a bigger complication with the stolen money, its useless for now unless Black Fox's partner can unlock it, she won't stop until she find her. Meanwhile back down at the streets, far away from the Golden Mask Casino at a valet parking lot, Tamara is all injured in the shoulder as she opens up a key box where a lot of car keys are stored, she took one of them, she roams around the parking lot pressing every button until she heard a noise, she found a car and walks up to unlock the door, she quickly enters and turns on the ignition. She drives the car away from the lot and heads north, escaping the city all injured as she can't do anything for Black Fox, she must survive to fight another day, but even she won't be able to help Black Fox in her condition, but she knows someone who can, someone she and Black Fox would trust with their lives.
Time is 8:15 PM in New York City, at the Spider-Cave on Roosevelt Island, Peter Parker is on the mat dressed in workout clothes along with Gwen, Miles, and Anya, all four of them are wielding bokkens as three of them are challenging Peter in a sword fight, practicing kenjutsu Peter learned in Japan, Ganke is watching on the side as Mary Jane is at another part of the cave working out alone, Peter tucked the bokken in his belt awaiting his teammates to make the move.
"Care to make the first move?" Gwen holding her bokken.
"When any of you are ready, I can wait." Peter daring.
Miles and Anya each move to Peter's side holding their bokkens out with both hands as he can see Gwen holding her up waiting to strike, Miles makes the first move as Peter quickly draws out his bokken and counters his strike, Anya came at him as Peter pushed aside his opponent's bokken and blocks Anya's strikes, he kept on blocking until he swings his hilt down onto her hand and forced her to drop her bokken, he strike with a tap to her abdomen, taking her down. Miles and Gwen moves in as Peter rolled over to avoid their strike, he picked up Anya's bokken and dual with his own, both Gwen and Miles are striking together as Peter blocks and staggers Gwen's strikes, he then took the opportunity to strike at Miles's bokken hard and he dropped it, he strikes him in the legs, tripping him off, Miles and Anya are down leaving Gwen left standing and Peter dual wielding bokkens.
"You're the last one standing." Peter smile.
"Don't go easy on me." Gwen smile.
Peter smile as Gwen makes her move and moves in for a vertical strike, swings down her bokken as Peter moves away and strikes at the bokken hard, forcing it off her hand and he holds both bokkens to her neck as she stayed still as she underestimated Peter's sword skills, he lowers the bokkens away as Miles and Anya are getting back up on their feet after the match ended.
"I still don't see the point of all this training." Anya is curious.
"Neither did I, but it helps to learn a new skill that'll come in handy in the future." Peter explains.
"Yeah, I can't exactly see myself wielding a sword as a superhero. But on the plus side, I do love the souvenirs you've brought back from Tokyo." Miles said.
"I figured you were a fan of that anime, you learned that cool kick from watching it." Peter said.
"Hey, it works. Tokyo must've been fun to see." Miles said.
"Sure is, they even got vending machines for a lot of things, even one of those could bake a pizza, can you believe it?" Peter said.
"Wow." Miles said.
"Thanks for the backpack you got me, I love it." Anya is grateful.
"Anytime Anya." Peter said.
All of a sudden everyone heard some punching as Mary Jane is over the punching bag in her sports bra and pants working up a sweat as this has Peter all concerned the way she's working herself too hard ever since Tokyo, MJ kept on punching the bag trying to sharpen up her fighting skills, he walks over to Mary Jane just finishing up as he brought over a towel and hands it over to a tired out Mary Jane.
Mary Jane took the towel. "Thanks Tiger."
"Are you okay MJ?" Peter asking with concern.
Mary Jane wiping the sweat. "Yeah, just need to sharpen up on my boxing."
"That's been happening a lot, ever since we got back from Japan, you've been pushing yourself too hard." Peter said.
Mary Jane sighs. "I should've been able to defend myself, I got kidnapped by a Japanese mob and brought all the way to Tokyo, held against my will, that shouldn't have happened."
"MJ, none of this was your fault." Peter said.
"Tiger, you almost died out there, you were forced into a tough spot, you almost got killed because of me, cause I was the damsel in distress." Mary Jane felt guilty.
"MJ, this sort of things could happen to anyone, no matter how skilled they are, you were outnumbered and they took you by surprise, there was no way you could've prevent it." Peter said.
"Still Tiger... I can't that happen again." Mary Jane said.
"MJ..." Peter said.
Mary Jane sighs. "I'm gonna go use the shower."
"Of course." Peter said.
Mary Jane walks away from Peter heading to the shower room here to get cleaned up, Peter watched as he could tell that this whole kidnapping thing is still getting to her, she's more determined and pushes herself too hard to make sure it doesn't happen again. Gwen walks up to Peter's side as she too is concerned for Mary Jane, but their moment got interrupted as the supercomputer got an alert on it, Ganke Lee walks over to check out what kind of trouble is brewing in New York.
"So, what kind of trouble do we got?" Miles said.
"Two actually, one's in the Diamond District in the city and another one is a bank in Brooklyn." Ganke Lee said.
"Okay, we'll split up, me and Gwen will take the Diamond District, Miles and Anya, you both take Brooklyn." Peter said.
"On it." Miles said.
"Let's go." Gwen said.
Each of the Web-Warriors are walking over to their suits to get suited up as each pair has a crime activity to stop.
Later around 8:55 PM nighttime in the Diamond District in New York City, a number of employees are all tied up as a guy in a green frog suit is robbing every jewelry he can get his hands on his and stuff them into a backpack, this is Eugene Patilio, he's a small time supervillain goes by the name Leap-Frog, he just finished up and zipped the backpack as he walks over to the tied up employees.
"Listen, I'm really sorry about all this, I just needed some money, ran quite a tab in Atlantic City, need all these stones to pay a huge debt... anyway, have a good night" Leap-Frog said.
Leap-Frog is rushing out of the store with a backpack full of stolen jewelry needed to pay a debt, that was until he bumped into a couple of heroes, Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider blocking his escape.
"Stop right there, whoever you are." Spider-Man said.
"Oh my god, it's you, Spider-Man, I'm a big fan." Leap-Frog said.
"Appreciate it, and you are?" Spider-Man said.
"Glad you asked... I am... Leap-Frog." Leap-Frog introduced himself.
Spider-Man is confused. "Leap-Frog?"
"Yeah, I'd figured I hyphenate my name, just like you." Leap-Frog said.
"Hmm, you really are a fan... but I'm afraid you're under arrest, put down that bag and turn yourself in peacefully." Spider-Man said.
"I would love to, be a honor to be arrested by you, but I can't do that, see I'm in very big debt to the Golden Mask Casino, if I don't pay back they'll break my legs... so, time to ribbit it and rip it." Leap-Frog said.
Leap-Frog activate the jets on his boots to give himself a big boost up in the air as this caught the heroes by surprise, he made it to the rooftop and started jumping across them to make his escape.
Spider-Man sighs. "Didn't see that coming."
"Come on, let's go!" Ghost-Spider said.
Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider are swinging up to the rooftop to see Leap-Frog jumping across them using the coils in his boots for a better boost, this guy is managing to evade the heroes as they're chasing him on the rooftop, they're underestimating the jumping speed this guy is going as he looks back to see he's still evading the heroes as he took a huge leap to the tallest building.
"Ha, ha!" Leap-Frog giggles.
Leap-Frog is getting carried away as someone came in and drop kick him down towards a water tower, knocking him down as he then looks at his attacker, he became stunned upon seeing her saying "Whoa!". The heroes are running up to the tall building where Leap-Frog jumped onto, the managed to catch up to Leap-Frog only to find him all tied up to the water tower with the backpack full of stolen jewels in plain view, he's been taken care of, but by who exactly.
"Well... we got him." Spider-Man is confused.
"Yeah, but who got to him first?" Ghost-Spider is confused.
They then heard a giggle as they look up at the water tower to find someone very feminine, all dressed up in a black catsuit with white fir along the arms, boots, and her upper chest and neck showing off her sizable cleavage, she's got a black choker with a silver circle tag, she's around 18 years old with white hair and green eyes with dark lips as she's looks very familiar to the pair, she jumps down and lands on her feet to show herself to her old friends, this woman is none other than Felicia Hardy AKA the Black Cat.
"Spiders, it's been a while." Black Cat smile.
Spider-Man looks at the new Black Cat as she's more mature and her suit is more provocative than her old one, showing off her exquisite figure as he's barely said anything in her presence.
"I..." Spider-Man being nervous.
"What's the matter, Spider? Cat got your tongue?" Black Cat teasing.
"Black Cat..." Spider-Man said.
Black Cat smile. "One and only."
Spider-Man looks upon the new and improved Black Cat, she's around their age and standing at 5' 10", same as Peter's height, he's too distracted by her beauty as she's grew in certain places, her bust is about 36D, she's definitely different from Gwen and MJ, Ghost-Spider noticed Spider-Man all quiet and distracted as she elbows Spidey to get his attention.
Ghost-Spider coughs. "Hello, Earth to Spidey!"
Spider-Man snaps out of his thoughts. "OH! Sorry!"
"You remembered! I'm flattered!" Ghost-Spider sounds somewhat jealous.
Felicia giggles. "I don't blame him being all shy, probably too distracting staring at my chest."
"Hey, I wasn't..." Spider-Man being embarrassed.
Leap-Frog coughs being all tied up. "Hey, don't mean to interrupt this awkward reunion, but... can't you guys let me off the hook with a warning?"
"Nice try Kermit, but you stole some jewelry, so in the eyes of the law, you're a criminal." Spider-Man said.
"Oh come on, nobody got hurt, I'm not a heartless criminal." Leap-Frog said.
"Yeah, you're not exactly a hardened criminal either." Black Cat said.
Ghost-Spider picks up the "Well, I'll take these back to that store."
"Right, we'll drop off Kermit here at the precinct." Spider-Man said.
"Okay, I'll meet you at the Cave." Ghost-Spider said.
Ghost-Spider then leaves and went back to the Diamond District leaving Spider-Man and Black Cat alone with Leap-Frog, they're help him up on his feet.
"Up you go Buddy, and no more Wind in the Willows for you, Mr. Toad." Spider-Man said.
"I'm a frog!" Leap-Frog said.
"What's the difference?" Black Cat said.
Spider-Man and Black Cat took Leap-Frog away to be handed over to the police, but their night is far from over as Black Cat is now back in Spider-Man's life.
It's 9:32 PM back at the Spider-Cave as Mary Jane is cleaned up and all dressed in a hoodie and sweatpants as she and Ganke are waiting for their friends to come back from their mission, but only one of them came back as Ghost-Spider is walking back into the cave alone and takes off her mask, this caught MJ's attention.
"Hey, where's Tiger?" Mary Jane said.
"He'll be back, along with someone we didn't think we'd see again." Gwen said.
"Who?" Mary Jane said.
Coming into the cave are Spider-Man along with their old friend Black Cat as they're taking off their masks, Mary Jane is surprised to see Felicia again after two years.
"Felicia?" Mary Jane is stunned.
"Hey Red, long time." Felicia smile.
Felicia and Mary Jane came up and hugged each other feeling happy seeing each other again, Felicia then stopped hugging MJ and turns to Gwen Stacy.
"Not happy to see me too?" Felicia smile.
Gwen smile. "Yeah... it's great to see you too, Felicia."
Gwen walks up and hugs her friend Felicia Hardy in a friendly manner, afterwards she turns to Peter Parker who is also happy to see her again too, she walks up and hugs him right there.
"I miss you Spider." Felicia hugging.
"I missed you too, welcome back Party-Hardy." Peter hugging.
Felicia pulls back to take a good look at the new Peter Parker, more mature and handsome than before.
"Still like you better with the mask on, but this new you is great too. I see you're still with Spider-Barbie here." Felicia said.
"And engaged in case you haven't noticed." Gwen said.
Felicia looks stunned. "Really."
Felicia walks around to tour the Spider-Cave to see some improvements, including a pair of Spider-Cycles, a Spider-Mobile, glass cases displaying a collection of Spider-Man's suits, including the Spider-Samurai armor, the Spider-Man stealth suit, and the Superior Spider-Man suit.
"This is new." Felicia looking at the Superior Spider-Man suit.
"Yeah, that one was from that time I was possessed by Doc Ock." Peter said.
"Doc Ock?" Felicia said.
"Yeah, it's a long story, just be glad you weren't around, can't imagine what he would've put you through." Peter said.
"And this one." Felicia asking about the Spider-Samurai armor.
"That one is very new, got it from Japan and used it in my fight against the Silver Samurai." Peter explained.
"Wow, I really have missed a lot." Felicia said.
"I'm actually surprised to see you back in action, thought you were still in S.H.I.E.L.D. witness protection." Peter said.
"I was, but they've finally finished arresting all the members of the 1400 club, so there's no reason for me to hide anymore." Felicia said.
"In other words, you got bored." Mary Jane smile.
"I miss this, being the Black Cat, I was oversea attending Oxford majoring in art, now I'm on my spring break, thought I'd stopped by and visit my old friends, though things certainly have changed while I was gone, my Spider is getting married, and to Spider-Barbie no less." Felicia said.
"So you've heard." Gwen said.
Felicia smiles then turns to frown. "I... heard about what happened to your dad... I'm sorry."
Gwen frowns. "Thanks."
"Losing a father, can leave a wound too deep to heal." Felicia sympathizes.
"It does... you know what that's like." Gwen relates.
"It still hurts, I imagined you feel the same way." Felicia said.
"I did, for a while, but... I had Peter who kept me going, he makes me whole again." Gwen smile.
Felicia smiles. "Good for you."
"And how's your mom?" Gwen said.
"Still in WitPro, safe and living comfortably. Thank you for asking." Felicia said.
Coming back into the Spider-Cave are Kid Arachnid and Spider-Girl back from their mission in Brooklyn as they're taking off their masks to noticed their other friends are already back and in the presence of the Black Cat no less.
"Hey, how'd it go in Brooklyn?" Peter said.
"It went well, some Tracksuit thugs got taken down." Miles said.
"Too well that we haven't had any action, Starling showed up before we got there and took care of the situation." Anya said.
"Hey, we should be glad we got the extra help these day." Miles said.
"Oh, if you that impressed by her performance, maybe you should be asking for her number." Anya said.
"Thanks, but I'll pass... sorry to interrupt, didn't know you'd be having company." Miles said.
"Guys, meet Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat." Peter said.
"Oh, I heard about her, she's that cat thief you were once romantically involved with." Miles said.
Gwen gave Miles the look upon hearing those words, things got awkward around here.
"Ah... sorry." Miles felt nervous.
"Don't be... it's nice to see my two old friends adopted two young kids, they need good role models." Felicia smile.
"Hi, I'm Miles Morales, I go by Kid Arachnid said." Miles introduced himself
"I'm Anya Corazon, I go by Spider-Girl, I once dressed like you for Halloween." Anya introduced herself.
"I'm touched." Felicia said.
"And I'm Ganke Lee, the guy in the chair." Ganke Lee introduced himself.
"I see the Spiders have their own team now. Couple years ago I was once part of a team up consisting of myself, Peter, Gwen, and MJ." Felicia said.
Felicia puts out her phone and shows them a picture from two years ago around Christmas Eve where she's in the picture along with Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane back when they were all sixteen at the time.
"I still consider them my friends, and I look forward getting to know all of you." Felicia being friendly.
"Well this is all great, but we should call this a night for now." Mary Jane said.
"Yeah, time to head on home." Peter said.
"Sounds good, I should call this night too, I'm in need of a decent shower after a long flight." Felicia said.
"So where're you gonna be staying at?" Peter said.
Felicia then smile as she gave him that look, Peter then gets the picture as he frowns.
"Oh!" Peter said.
Mary Jane and Gwen all frowned upon figuring out where Felicia is planning to stay, Miles, Ganke, and Anya figured out where this is going.
Later around 10:46 PM at Lower East Side at the apartment, inside the bathroom is Felicia Hardy taking a hot shower alone, letting the hot water rain down upon her as she's rinsing her hair in shampoo and her body all covered in suds, meanwhile Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane with Ms. Lion on the couch, all are in the living discussing having Felicia spending two weeks here in their apartment.
"Can't believe you're letting her stay here with us for two weeks." Gwen said.
"What was I suppose to say? No?" Peter said.
"Yes!" Gwen and Mary Jane said in unison.
"Wow... some friends you two are." Peter is surprised.
"Look, we both love Felicia and it's great having her back." Gwen said.
"But..." Peter could tells there's more.
"But sometime she can be... too wild, doesn't exactly play by the rules." Mary Jane said as the shower in the bathroom shuts off.
Peter sighs. "Okay, I see your point, but she's here already, can't exactly tell her to go, that would be so mean... look, we've already got a couch that can convert into a bed, let's just let her sleep here in the living room, it's only for two weeks, let's just get along like we've done before, like old times."
Felicia opens the door. "Sounds great."
Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane all look upon Felicia with a towel wrapped around her hair as she isn't covering any parts of her, she's mostly wet and naked in their presence as she noticed the awkwardness in the room by their staring at her wet nude figure.
"What? You two are woman and you Spider, you're the first guy who's seen all of me, you should consider yourself very lucky." Felicia smile as she wraps a towel around herself.
Gwen coughs. "We... should get to bed, it's very late."
"Yeah, me too." Mary Jane said.
"Felicia, help yourself to the couch, it also converts into a bed, we've got a blanket and pillow all set here for you." Peter said.
"Thanks, and just a heads up, I like to sleep in the nude, it's very comforting... Good night." Felicia said.
"Yeah... good night Felicia." Peter being awkward.
Mary Jane went to her bedroom with Ms. Lion and closed the door behind her, Peter and Gwen went to their bedroom together and closed their door, Felicia is all alone as she's yawning feeling tired, she opened up the couch and it becomes a bed for her to sleep in, she undo the towel and climbs into the bed all nude and covers herself in a blanket to see in. Peter is still processing everything he just seen as Gwen gave him the look, not a happy one as Peter can't ignore everything he just saw, it's etched into his memory forever.
Peter sighs. "Why does this keep happening to me?"
It's now April 5th around midnight, time is 1:02 AM as Mary Jane is sleeping in her bedroom with Ms. Lion on the bed, in the other bedroom are Peter and Gwen sleeping together under the blanket, in the living room is Felicia still sleeping nude in the couch-bed, she then got a ping on her phone as she wakes up to check the text, saying "Leesh, come meet on the rooftop of this address, come alone, Tamara." Felicia knows this name as she's curious what she wants with her, she gets up from the bed and stands up nude wanting to meet up with Tamara Blake.
Felicia picked up her suit, she started dressing herself, zipping up her Black Cat suit and puts on the mask as she quietly sneaks around, she opens up MJ's door to find her still asleep but Felicia doesn't want to risk waking up the dog, she then turns to Peter and Gwen's bedroom to find the couple still asleep together, she quietly move through the bedroom avoiding not waking them up, she slowly opens up the window and turns to see Peter and Gwen are still asleep, she climbs out and closed it quietly, Felicia had left the apartment, unaware that Peter has opened up his eyes wondering where Black Cat is going at this hour.
A few minutes later Black Cat is jumping across rooftops, roaming around the nighttime of New York heading to the location to meet up with a friend, unaware that Spider-Man is following, keeping his distance as to not let Black Cat know she's being followed, Black Cat eventually made it to the rooftop, she looks around to find her friend, Spider-Man is at another rooftop watching Black Cat waiting alone.
Black Cat sighs. "Tamara, where are you?"
"I'm right here, Leesh." Tamara's voice.
Black Cat turns to see coming out of the shadows is someone dressed in black as she's got an arm sling for her left arm, she walks up slowly to Black Cat as she pulls up her ski mask to show that it's Tamara Blake, she slowly approaches Black Cat and grabbed her by the back of her head as Spider-Man is watching and worried, he's about to make his move to help Black Cat, but he stopped at the last second upon seeing Tamara pulling Black Cat gently closer and slowly kisses her right there not the rooftop, Spider-Man is shocked and surprised upon seeing this other side to Black Cat, the two eventually broke off the kiss and gazed upon each other.
Black Cat is speechless. "Whoa..."
"Sorry... I just missed you." Tamara smile.
"I missed you too Tamara... how'd you find me?" Black Cat smile.
"You forget, computers are my thing, I can find anyone on the net, besides I'm one of the few people who know your secret identity." Tamara said.
"So why did you need to find me, not just because you miss your ex." Black Cat said.
Tamara sighs. "No... I need your help, it's about Black Fox."
"What happened to Black Fox?" Black Cat is worried.
"Last night we were doing a heist in Atlantic City, we broke into the office of Madame Masque, I'm sure you've heard of her." Tamara said.
"Yeah, I've heard of her, she's one of the Maggia's head, the owner of the Golden Mask Casino." Black Cat said.
"That's her, me and Black Fox were trying to steal back money stolen from various families, she was going to transfer those stolen funds into an account for Silvermane." Tamara said.
"How much are we talking about?" Black Cat said.
"100 million in cryptocurrency, all of it stolen from good people, we were just trying to steal them back but the job went bad, they took us by surprise, Black Fox stayed behind and gave me a chance to escape, but I couldn't get away with the laptop with the money in the hard drive." Tamara explained.
"So Madame Masque still has it, this is bad." Black Cat said.
"Not quite, before I escaped, I was able to upload an encryption onto the laptop, it's locked down tight along with the cryptocurrency in the drive, for now it's unaccessable to anyone except me, I'm the only one who can unlock the encryption." Tamara said.
"That's good, and what about Black Fox? Do you think he's alive, or..." Black Cat said.
Tamara sighs. "I don't know, I hope so... I couldn't risk staying in AC, I'd go back and save him, but..." Tamara shows off her arm sling. "I'm in no good condition to help Black Fox."
"Which is why you came to me." Black Cat said.
"I know how much Black Fox meant to you, I'd figured you want to help, but it won't be so easy even for you, the place is built like a fortress, top-in-the-line security system, armed thugs guarding the place 24/7, it's not something you can do alone." Tamara said.
"I might know a few people who can help me out." Black Cat said.
"People you can trust?" Tamara said.
"With my life, they helped me out of a tough spot before, I know they'll do it again, trust me." Black Cat said.
"I do trust you, always have." Tamara smile as she hands Felicia a thumb drive. "This is everything I've gathered on Madame Masque, it's all there for you to look at."
Black Cat holding the thumb drive. "Thanks, I'll put it to good use."
Tamara then came up and hugs Felicia again tight.
"Promise me you'll be careful, come back safe, both of you." Tamara said.
"I will, promise." Black Cat said.
Tamara and Black Cat broke off their hugs, Tamara then parts way from the rooftop leaving Black Cat alone as she's now more motivated in rescuing her mentor Black Fox from the clutches of the Maggia.
"You can come out now, Spider!" Black Cat calling out.
Spider-Man showed himself. "How'd you know?"
"Come on, I've been a thief for a long time, I've been trained to keep my head on a swivel, especially when I'm being stalked by my ex." Black Cat teasing.
"Hey, I wasn't stalking! I was just... doing surveillance, superhero training and all." Spider-Man said.
"Whatever, glad you're here, I need your help, actually need some help." Black Cat said.
"What do you need?" Spider-Man said.
"I'll tell you everything in the morning, it's better I tell everyone, for now let's just get some rest, we're gonna need it." Black Cat said.
"Sure." Spider-Man said.
Black Cat has something else to say. "Listen... what you just saw..."
"It's okay Felicia, you don't have to explain... let's head on back." Spider-Man understands.
"Sure." Black Cat said.
Spider-Man and Black Cat left the rooftop to head on back to the apartment, things are a bit awkward between them especially after finding out about Felicia's sexuality, but right now there's bigger things on her mind, her mentor is in danger and she needs help to rescue him whatever the cost.
Time is 6:30 AM back in Atlantic City, at the Golden Mask Casino on a private floor, Hammerhead is punching Black Fox viciously as the master thief tied up the chair next to a wet rag and a floor full of water, he's enduring all this abuse he's getting from these criminals, meanwhile in the office is Whitney Frost still dressed as Madame Masque as she's on the phone speaking with Silverman overseas.
"I've been more than patient, waiting more than a day, where are those funds you promised?" Silvermane demands.
"We ran into a problem, two thieves broke into my office and access my computer where I kept the stolen money." Madame Masque said.
"Did they get away with the funds?" Silvermane said.
"No, it's still here in the computer, problem is is that one of them put up a high level encryption on it, it's impossible to transfer those funds while it's still locked. We're working to unlock, but it's going to take some time." Madame Masque said.
"Time is something I don't have, I've already exhausted what's left my funds to stay afloat while still in hiding, if I don't get those new funds soon, I won't be able to maintain my operations in the shadows, Interpol will soon come down on me hard." Silvermane said.
"I'll get you your money, just wait a bit longer." Madame Masque said.
"Do whatever it takes, even if you have to kill to get it." Silvermane then hangs up.
Madame Masque is on a clock as Silvermane won't wait forever for the money to come to him, she walks out of the office and down the hall towards the room, Hammerhead is still hitting Black Fox as the man is taking too much injuries on his face, Hammerhead is getting exhausted as he wipes the blood from his hands as Madame Masque came in to see Black Fox is still resisting and exhausted Hammerhead's strength.
"Anything?" Madame Masque said.
"Nah, not a single word, and I'm running out of ideas, I tried waterboarding, even gave him a serious betting, but he won't budge." Hammerhead getting tired out.
Madame Masque steps up in front of a battered Black Fox still tied up, all hurt and exhaust from resisting the pain, his face is bruised.
"You got a nerve stealing from the Maggia, trying to take our money is pretty ballsy of you." Madame Masque said.
"That money was never yours, it belong to all those people you've scammed through your Wall Street connections, a lot of those lives were ruined cause of you." Black Fox said.
"And let me guess, you were going to steal that money back, trying to do a noble thing for the poor, being all Robin Hood." Madame Masque said.
"Sounds like that other thief who made the mistake stealing from us, we all know how it ended with him." Hammerhead said.
"What was his name again?" Madame Masque said.
"Walter Hardy." Hammerhead said.
"Ah yes, of course, and now we have another foolish thief who made the mistake in crossing the Maggia." Madame Masque said.
"We maybe thieves, but we're nothing like you, we steal precious valuables, but you, you steal everyone's lives, even destroy them!" Black Fox speaks with such resentment.
Madame Masque gave Hammerhead the signal as he walked back behind Black Fox as he took a hold of one of his fingers.
"We know your partner is the one who encrypted my computer, tell us where she is and this will all stop. If you don't, you're going to be begging us to kill you." Madame Masque being very serious in her threats.
Black Fox looks up without fear. "Go to hell."
Madame Masque nodded to Hammerhead as he proceeded to break one of Black Fox's fingers, the man screamed in intense pain as he's being tortured.
"You still have nine fingers left, if you want to keep them, tell us where your partner is!" Madame Masque being ruthless.
"NEVER! YOU'LL STILL KILL US ONCE YOU'RE DONE, I'LL NEVER GIVE HER UP!" Black Fox being relentless.
"Have it your way, keep going, but don't overdo it, I still need him alive, I want him to suffer until he's ready to talk." Madame Masque said.
Hammerhead chuckles. "With pleasure."
Madame Masque exits the room and closed the door behind as Hammerhead continues torturing Black Fox as he's screaming in intense pain, but he's still holding up his will to never betray Tamara, fighting against the Maggia with everything he's got.
It's 9:03 AM at the Spider-Cave as the entire team including Ganke and Mary Jane are here with Felicia Hardy as she's got something to share with the group concerning her mentor and the organization that has him captive, she's in need of their help.
"First off, thank you all for coming, I know that some of you don't have anything to do on Saturday." Felicia said.
"It's cool, us heroes hardly have any free time. So what's this about?" Miles said.
"Go ahead Felicia, explain." Peter said.
"May I?" Felicia said.
"Go ahead." Ganke still sitting in his chair.
Felicia plugs in the thumb drive and shows the entire team everything Tamara Blake has gathered on Madame Masque and the Maggia, including what they've did recently concerning a scam.
"I'm sure some of you heard about the huge Wall Street scam on the news." Felicia said.
"Yeah, I've heard of it, the SEC caught wind of a couple of Wall Streeters scammed a huge number of their clients of their investments, all total together they embezzled 100 million dollars in cryptocurrency." Anya said.
"Dang, that's a lot of money." Miles said.
"Any idea who's behind the theft?" Gwen said.
"Any of you guys heard of the Maggia?" Felicia said.
"A little, heard some mentions of the name, but never knew they are exactly." Peter said.
"Allow to fill in the blanks, the Maggia is very powerful International crime syndicate, based out of Sicily, has charters in Italy and has expanded into America, even here in New York, they're into everything, gambling, smuggling, gun running, narcotics, even prostitution, they consist of various crime families in both Italy and America. Remember Silvermane, he's a part of that organization, including Hammerhead, even that Scarface looking guy currently controlling Little Italy, they're all Maggia." Felicia explains.
"So you believe the Maggia is behind it?" Peter said.
"I know they are, the SEC including the FBI moved in to arrest those Wall Streeters responsible for the scam, but they were both found dead and the money they stole is still missing. However, those two Wall Streeters have something in common, they like to gamble big time, until they hit a string of bad luck, ran quite a huge tab at a casino in Atlantic City, the casino is controlled by the Maggia, after that they both belong to them." Felicia said.
"So the Maggia was pulling the strings in that scam, who controls the casino?" Peter said.
Felicia switch to show them an image of the mastermind behind the scam, Whitney Frost, including her alter ago as Madame Masque wearing her trademark golden mask.
"This is Whitney Frost, born Giulietta Nefaria, she's the owner of the Golden Mask Casino and the head of the Nefaria Crime Family based in Atlantic City, she's well known throughout the criminal underworld as Madame Masque. She established herself as a legitimate businesswoman but her casino is suspected being a front for money laundering." Felicia said.
"Makes sense, what better way to launder money than through a casino where anyone can spend their money carelessly without raising any suspicions." Peter said.
"FBI and Interpol tired building a case against her and her businesses for years, but never had any hard evidence to convict. She uses the casino to move around money for various crime families, handling their investments and finances, controlling and moving them to various secret overseas accounts." Felicia said.
"So basically she's the money for the entire Maggia." Gwen said.
"Exactly." Felicia said.
"So why are you bringing this to our attention? I take it there's more to this than just the money." Mary Jane said.
Felicia sighs. "You're right, this isn't about the money, this is personal for me, it's about Black Fox."
"Who?" Miles said.
"He's a world renouned thief, he was also my mentor, he's part of the secret society of thieves called the Thieves Guild." Felicia said.
"I heard about it, or at least my dad did, thought they were a myth." Gwen said.
"No, they're very real, my father was also a member of that organization just I am, they operate in the shadows for years, training new generations in the art of thievery, also they're mortal enemies of the Assassins Guild, a war between the guilds still rages on to this day, there's even one happening in Louisiana. You remember the 1400 club we took down years ago, they're a branch of the Assassins Guild." Felicia explains.
"Ah, so when you were steal from them, you wanted to put a hurt on the Assassins, didn't you?" Peter said.
"So basically a criminal stealing from another criminal." Gwen said.
"Look, we're nothing alike, we thieves are like ghosts, we just go and take without harming anyone, assassins are like vampires, they like the taste of blood and they take away lives, we're a completely different breeds." Felicia said.
"Okay, but back to this Black Fox fellow, what happened?" Peter said.
"There was a heist a couple nights ago in Atlantic City, he and Tamara broke into the office of Madame Masque, they're were trying to steal back the money the Maggia stole, but it went south, Tamara managed to escape, but she was forced to leave the money behind and Black Fox was captured, there's no telling if he's alive or..." Felicia is very worried.
"Hey, there might be a chance he's still alive Felicia." Peter comforts her.
"I hope so, Spider, I hope so." Felicia feeling down.
"There's no doubt after the break-in, Madame Masque already transferred the stolen money into an offshore account by now." Gwen said.
"Not quite, just before Tamara escaped, she was able to put in an high grade encryption onto Madame Masque's laptop, it's currently locked down tight, everything inside it including the money is currently unaccessible for now, in other word she can't transfer those funds unless Tamara unlocks the encryption herself." Felicia said.
"Wow, that's impressive, she must be a computer whiz." Ganke is impressed.
"She is, so we might have the opportunity to take back that laptop and return all that money back to the people who lost it, but the important thing is saving Black Fox before it's too late. But it won't be so easy, after what happened Madame Masque will no doubt increase security, I'll have to try a different approach, but I can't do this alone." Felicia said.
"Which is why you need us." Peter said.
"Why can't you just call the police?" Mary Jane said.
"And tell them what? That a master thief is being held against his will by the very same mob he tried to steal from? It's not quite that simple, Madame Masque has everyone in Atlantic City in her pocket, cops and politicians alike, she's protected. Besides, Black Fox is wanted by Interpol in twelve countries, the minute any authority finds out who he is, he'll be arrested and locked up, I can't risk it." Felicia explains.
"So you're asking us to risk our lives to save a criminal?" Peter said.
"Listen Spider, life isn't always black or white, and Black Fox isn't just a mentor, he was a second father to me, he's been there ever since my dad died, I though you of all people would understand... look, I know that I'm asking a lot, but if any of you don't want to be part of this, then I'll understand, I'll do this on my own, I won't lose Black Fox like I lost my father, I'll go over to Atlantic City alone and save him, even if it's the last thing I do." Felicia is about to leave.
Peter sighs. "Felicia!"
Felicia stops upon hearing Peter, she turns around and looks back.
"I already lost an uncle who also like a father to me, even George Stacy meant a lot to me... I'll help you." Peter said.
"I'll help you too." Gwen said.
"Me too." Mary Jane said.
"We're in too, whatever you need." Miles said.
Felicia smile. "Thank you all... but since this is Atlantic City we're heading into, a city full of casinos, it'll have to be just us adults, no kids allows."
"Ah!" Miles and Anya all frowned.
"She's right, besides we can't leave New York unguarded while we're gone, you two need to stay here." Peter said.
Anya sighs. "Make sense, don't worry, we understand."
"We'll keep the city safe, just be careful in AC." Miles said.
"Will do." Gwen said.
"You mentioned that Madame Masque controls the Golden Mask Casino, right?" Peter said.
"Yeah." Felicia said.
"Could be a coincidence, but we might know someone who happens to be in debt to the Golden Mask, someone who likes to jump around in a Frog suit." Peter said.
"Well, we do have some time to pack up before leaving for AC." Gwen said.
"Okay, he's should still be at the Tombs awaiting to be transferred to Rikers, I'll head down there and see what he knows." Peter said.
"Good, meanwhile we need some wheels." Felicia said.
"Alright, procure us some transportation... and please no stealing this time." Peter said.
"Fine, no need to be uptight." Felicia said.
"Maybe I should go and procure us a ride." Mary Jane said.
"Good idea." Gwen said.
"And make sure it's something fancy, something fast." Felicia said.
"Fine." Mary Jane said.
Felicia smiles. "The four of us, teaming up... just like old time."
It's 10:04 AM at the NYPD Detention Center called the Tombs, a number of felons are being held in various cells, among one of the cells is Eugene Patilio AKA Leap-Frog, except without the suit and awaiting to be transferred to prison, he is laying on the bunk alone until he heard something just outside the bar window, he walks up to see who it could be, showing him is none other than Spider-Man clinging outside the detention center meeting with Eugene Patilio.
"Spider-Man?" Eugene Patilio said.
"Hey, glad you're still here, I hope you're not still upset at me for putting you in here." Spider-Man said.
"Nah, I get it, I broke the law and I need to be hold accountable. You were just doing your job, I was just desperate, needed to pay a huge debt to a casino." Eugene Patilio said.
"Actually, that's why I'm here. You mentioned that it was the Golden Mask Casino, is that correct?" Spider-Man said.
"Yeah, in Atlantic City, the Gambling Capital of the East Coast, where you're always a winner." Eugene Patilio smiles.
"Obviously not, look where you are now." Spider-Man said.
Eugene Patilio sighs. "Point taken... anyway, I had 48 hours to pay up the money or else, these guys don't mess around, especially the woman who's running the casino."
"Let me guess, she likes to show off in her golden mask." Spider-Man said.
"That's her, her and that flathead mobster means serious business." Eugene Patilio said.
"Flathead mobster? Is his head deformed and likes to dress himself like an old style gangster?" Spider-Man said.
"Yeah, you know him?" Eugene Patilio said.
"Hammerhead... listen, when you were there, did you happened to see anyone else? He might be an older gentleman being held against his will, seen someone like that?" Spider-Man said.
"Oh man." Eugene Patilio said.
"What?" Spider-Man said.
"There was this guy, he's all tied up and look like he was waterboarded, that Hammerhead guy was putting the serious beating on the poor guy and made me witness it, to show me what happens if I don't get them their money." Eugene Patilio said.
"So he's still alive?" Spider-Man said.
"Don't know if he's alive or not, but he's definitely in some serious pain. Honestly, I feel bad for the poor guy. I'll probably be sharing his fate the moment these guys find out I can't pay back the money." Eugene Patilio said.
"Maybe not, there's a decent chance I might put an end to their operations. Thank you for the info... oh, and please stay away from casinos, no more gambling, get into a program once you're out of prison." Spider-Man said.
Eugene Patilio sighs. "After everything I've went through, my gambling days are over. Thanks for the concern."
"Good luck in prison, try to stay good." Spider-Man said.
"Will do!" Eugene Patilio smile.
Around 11:02 AM back at Lower East Side, Gwen is packing up her backpack along with Peter's, putting some of their stuff inside needed for their trip to Atlantic City, she just finished packing and came out of the bedroom to find Felicia sitting on the couch staring at her smartphone, a picture of her 13 year old self with her mentor Black Fox as she's very worried for him, no telling if he's still alive or if he's dead.
"Is that him?" Gwen said.
"Yeah, that's Black Fox, this was taken around the time I've first started my training under him, the first time I've saw him was at my dad's funeral, he was very hurt by his death, they were like brothers. I didn't learnt the truth about my dad's double life until I was old enough, when I found out that my dad was a master thief, it all started to make sense, why he was killed." Felicia said.
"That's when you seek out Black Fox, didn't you?" Gwen said.
"I figured out that he and my father were both thieves, I was still dealing with the loss of my dad and I wanted to be strong, follow in my father's footsteps, I asked Black Fox to train me, he taught everything I know about being a thief, he's the reason I became the master thief I am today, he made me into the Black Cat." Felicia said.
"I get you, when it comes to dads, my father was the only family I had growing up, we were pretty close, he was a great cop and a great idol for me, I learned a lot from him, in someways he's the reason I became the hero I am today." Gwen said.
Felicia smile warmly. "Well, that's one of the many things we have in common, besides our feelings for a certain someone... so, soon to getting married, huh?"
"Yeah... who'd thought?" Gwen smile.
"You know, on that Christmas morning before me and Peter parted ways, I asked him to come with me, to leave everything behind so we'd be together." Felicia said.
"Huh, didn't know that." Gwen looks surprised.
"I really wanted him to come with me that day, but he couldn't, cause deep down I knew that he's still has feelings for you. I did have hopes that one day we would meet again, I didn't imagine to learn my Spider would be engaged." Felicia said.
"Hey... you still mean a lot to him, even though it wasn't meant to be, he still values you as more than just a friend or a partner, you're one of the most important person in his life." Gwen said.
Felicia felt happy hearing those words, however coming climbing through the window is Spider-Man as the pair came to greet him as he took off his mask, Gwen came up and hugs him as Felicia is eager for some news.
"Hey Spider, how'd it go with your chat with Kermit?" Felicia said.
"Well, good news is that Black Fox is still alive." Peter said.
"Oh, that's wonderful." Felicia felt relieved.
"And the bad news?" Gwen said.
"Bad news is he's being beaten, and the worst news is the one who's doing the beating is none other than our old mobster friend Hammerhead." Peter said.
"Hammerhead, didn't think I'd hear that name again." Felicia said.
"Neither did we, last time we saw him was during that Cloak and Dagger incident, but he escaped with Silvermane." Gwen said.
"Silvermane? I thought he died in an explosion. He's alive?" Felicia looks surprised.
"I wouldn't say all alive, he's still breathing but he's half machine now, he's basically a cyborg." Peter said.
"Last we heard he's somewhere in Europe still evading Interpol." Gwen said.
"It all make perfect sense, Hammerhead works for Silvermane, no doubt he's involved. I just called and spoke with Coulson who contacted his friend in Interpol, Silvermane has run out of funds, he's about to be cornered without the resources needed to evade the authorities." Peter explained.
"Silvermane needs the money to survive and he's running out of time." Gwen said.
"Exactly." Peter said.
"Too bad he'll never get it, you know why?" Felicia said.
"No, but I have a feeling you're about to tell us." Gwen said.
"Cause we're going to take that money back, all that money belongs to the many lives the Maggia has taken, and that's not all, if we get our hands on that computer, not only will we put a hurting on Silvermane, but to the entire Maggia, her computer may contain important information, like bank accounts the Maggia controls and uses to fund their criminal activities." Felicia explains.
"I see, so you want to him 'em where it hurts, their wallets, it's bold... I like it." Peter said.
They then heard a car honking it's horn, they walk up to the bedroom window to see Mary Jane down below in a green convertible.
"There's our ride, why don't you both go and load up? I'm gonna change." Peter said.
"Okay, meet you downstairs, let's go." Gwen said.
Gwen and Felicia are leaving the bedroom and closes the door partially as they picked up backpacks full of their stuff, Felicia is looking a back the bedroom door to take a peek of Peter taking off the top part of his Spider-Man suit, to show off his new adult body, he's still lean and muscular like before, but more good looking than ever, still has abs as Gwen could tell Felicia is looking back. Gwen coughs to get Felicia's attention as Felicia snaps out of the staring and walks out with Gwen.
Later down below in the streets, Felicia and Gwen are loading up the bags into the trunk, Peter came out wearing his regular black leather jacket over a white shirt and blue jean to see the ride, it's a green BMW M4 convertible that belongs to their friend Harry Osborn, out on the sidewalk are Mary Jane with Anya, Ganke, and Miles as she hands the leash tied to Ms. Lion over to Anya.
"Please take care of Ms. Lion, I already told you what he likes, and he likes to take walks on the park each day." Mary Jane said.
"Don't worry, he'll be fine with me." Anya said.
"We'll keep the city safe." Miles said.
"If you guys needs some computer assistance, I'm just a phone call away." Ganke said.
"Will do." Gwen said.
"So this is your idea of getting us some wheels" Asking our friend Harry to borrow his ride?" Peter said.
"Yeah, he said it's okay to borrow it since he'll be out of town for a while, he's heading to a funeral for a board member who was killed while on vacation, Harry said he was a good guy." Mary Jane said.
"My god, that's terrible... did you at least gave condolence on our behalf?" Peter said.
"I did, he really appreciates it." Mary Jane said.
"That's very sweet, but we need to get going, it's a two hour drive to Atlantic City and Black Fox is waiting for us." Felicia said.
"Right, let's get going." Peter said.
Felicia took the keys from MJ and tossed them to Peter as he caught them.
"You drive, I call shotgun." Felicia said.
Peter walks up to the driver side and climbs into the driver seat with Felicia sitting in the passenger seat, Gwen and Mary Jane climbed into the backseats, Peter ignites the engine and its roars.
Felicia smile. "Whoa... gotta say, I love your choice, Red."
Peter looks at his friends. "Take care!"
"Will do, good luck!" Miles said.
Miles, Anya, and Ganke all waved as Peter drives the convertible away from the apartment, the car drove through the city until they made it to the Holland Tunnel, they're now crossing into New Jersey on their way to Atlantic City.
Later around 12:14 PM in on the US Route 9 in New Jersey, the green convertible is heading down south with Peter driving with Felicia, Gwen, and Mary Jane, all heading to Atlantic City on a rescue mission, Felicia is relaxing her feet on the dash teasing Peter while listening to the music on the radio still has both his hands on the wheel.
"Are we there yet?" Felicia said.
"No." Peter said.
"Are we there yet?" Felicia smiles.
"No." Peter feeling irritated.
"Are we there yet?" Felicia still teasing.
"No, and please don't tell 'Are we there yet?' anymore?" Peter said.
"Sorry, just feeling a little bored." Felicia said.
"And please remember my friend is letting us borrow this ride, take your feet off the dash." Peter said.
Felicia sighs as she lower her feet off the dash as everyone is still listening to music and feeling the boredom, she then switched off the radio.
"Well... since we still have a long way to go, why don't we do some chatting? There's a lot of things I want to ask." Felicia itching with curiosity.
"Sure, shoot." Peter still driving.
"Since you and Gwen are already sharing a room, I assume you two have..." Felicia said.
"We what?" Peter said.
"You know... MMM... OHH...AHH!" Felicia making moans sounds which is bothering everyone.
"HEYYY!" Peter and Gwen felt embarrassed.
"What? Wait, you two haven't done it yet? Are you both still virgins?!" Felicia said.
"Hey, for your information, Peter and I already done it!" Gwen getting riled up.
"GWEN!" Peter looks shocked.
Felicia smiles. "Really? Wow, didn't think you two had it in you, both being innocent, dorky and all."
"Don't make a big deal out of it." Peter still being shy.
"Why? Was the sex all that bad?" Felicia still teasing.
Peter sighs. "Yes, we have sex, we have great sex and honestly this isn't something you be talking about with other people."
Felicia smile. "Seriously Spider, don't feel bad, if anything I kinda envy what you two have. Looks like me and MJ are the only girls who haven't been intimate with you."
Mary Jane coughs at this conversation as she and Peter are acting quiet, Felicia could see the signs.
"Wait, did you two..." Felicia smile.
"It's not what you think." Peter said.
"It happened one Christmas night, we were just staying warm, nothing else happened." Mary Jane said.
"Okay, don't say anything... so... are we there yet?" Felicia said.
Felicia got back to teasing Peter as he turns on the radio playing "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany, everyone remained quiet by all this awkwardness between them about sex and intimacy, Peter is being all quiet and focused on driving south.
Later around 1:15 PM the green convertible finally arrived in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Gambling Capital of the East Coast, where a number of casinos are gathered here, there's a huge boardwalk along the beach which has a number of restaurants and an amusement park, all four are gazing upon this city since this is their first time here, eventually they made a stop just outside of the Golden Mask Casino to see the place is packed with so much security.
"So this is the Golden Mask." Peter said.
"Yeah, looks like they doubled up their security." Felicia said.
"After what happened, they're not taking any chances, this is going to be more difficult than we anticipated." Gwen said.
Felicia sighs. "I know, drive up to the Roulette Casino, that's where we'll be staying for the time being."
Peter drove up to the Roulette Casino and Resort, just opposite of the Golden Mask, he's driving up as he and the girls are getting out, he hands the keys to the valet as the group went up to the back and pop open the trunk to collect all their luggage, from backpacks to duffel bags, afterwards they all enter the Roulette as the place is packed full of people at the slot machines and poker tables, they made it to the resort lobby where a lady at the desk sees four guests coming.
"Welcome to the Roulette, would you all like a room?"
"As a matter in fact, we'd like a suite for four, preferably very high up with a perfect view of the building across." Felicia said.
"Hang on, all of four of you together?"
"Yeah, we pretty much share the same apartment, beside we girls got a thing for our man here." Felicia smile.
Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane all looked stunned upon hearing Felicia implying they got some kind of four way going on here.
"Okay, it's not my business... but the suite you're asking for is very expensive, can you afford it?"
"Of course." Felicia smiles.
Felicia pulls out a credit card from her top and hands it to the lady, its being swiped and accepted, afterwards she hands back the card along with four keycards to the suite.
"Enjoy your stay at the Roulette."
Felicia smiled as she leads the group to the elevator, they enter as Felicia press the button to their floor and they're all going up together.
"Seriously, did you have to imply that all four of us are in some kind of relationship together?" Mary Jane said.
"Why not? You three pretty much live together, what having one more?" Felicia smile.
"Do I even want to know how you got the money to afford such a suite?" Peter is bit worried.
"Hmm... no." Felicia acting all innocent.
Eventually the elevator all stopped and they've made it to their floor, they all walk down the hallway until they made it to their suite, Felicia taps the keycard on the scanner as it accepted and unlocked the door, Felicia opens up as all four enters their luxury suite they're gonna spend their vacation days together as they're all impressed as it got everything from a pool table, a 8K TV in the living room with fancy seats, a kitchen with snacks and drinks, a window with a plain view of the Golden Mask Casino on the opposite side of the Roulette.
"Whoa!" Peter is impressed.
Felicia sighs with a smile. "Go ahead, pick a room and get settled."
"I call dips on the ocean view!" Mary Jane smile.
"Come on Pete, let's go to our room and unpack." Gwen smile.
Gwen got a hold of Peter's hand and dragged him to one of the rooms here, Felicia then walks up to the window to see the Golden Mask Casino, the place where Madame Masque is and possibly Black Fox if he's still alive, she's determined to observe the casino itself to see if there's any possible entry points to exploit for their heist. Peter and Gwen are in their room they plan to sleep in together and started unpacking everything they've brought on their trip, clothes, tolietries, Peter's camera and laptop, including their suits along with web-shooters and web cartridges.
Peter sighs. "There, all unpacked."
Gwen smile. "Me too."
Peter and Gwen walks out of their room and joins up with Felicia in the living standing by the window looking through her binoculars to observe the Golden Mask, she's focused on the floor where the office is located, the window is all fixed up and replaced as she spotted Madame Masque in the company of Silvermane's right hand, Hammerhead.
"Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in, our old friend Hammerhead." Felicia spying.
Peter steps up and Felicia lend him her binoculars as he took a peek to see Hammerhead and Madame Masque together as neither of them are too happy for some reason.
"Whatever is going on, they don't see too happy." Peter said.
Madame Masque has the laptop in her possession as she's walking over to her safe, she puts it inside and closed it tights.
"Okay, she just put a laptop in a safe.." Peter is spying through the binoculars.
"That must be the same laptop Black Fox and Tamara tried to steal the other night." Gwen said.
"If that's the case, the laptop should still be encrypted tight, along with the stolen funds. What about Black Fox? Do you see him anywhere in your view?" Felicia said.
"Nah, I don't see anyone resembling him, I'm guessing they're holding him in another part of the casino, somewhere with no windows." Peter spying.
"I just hope he's still alive." Felicia said.
"I'm sure he is, these guys still want the money, they're keeping him alive as leverage." Gwen said.
"Yeah, but for how long? These criminals are ruthless and I don't know how much pain he can endure. We need to move in as soon as we can, but we also need to get our hands on that laptop." Felicia said.
"Right, a lot of good people are out in the streets without it... okay, we'll try to get the laptop along with your mentor." Gwen said.
"Thanks." Felicia said.
"It's not gonna be easy, the casino is more fortified, a number of armed guards on every floor, she sure isn't taking any chance of a second break-in." Peter said.
"Okay, we can wait until night time, sneak around under the cover of darkness and crawl up the casino, get in and take the laptop, piece of cake." Gwen said.
Peter looking through the binoculars. "Nah, that's not gonna work."
"What do you mean?" Gwen said.
Peter hands the binoculars. "Check out the rooftop."
Gwen took the binoculars and focuses on the casino rooftop to see a number of men on it, some are looking down around the window surfaces.
Gwen sighs. "They even got spotters on the roof, watching everything."
"Yeah, no doubt they might have night vision, and if we sneak up in night, they'll detect us and thing could get nasty." Peter said.
Felicia sighs. "So there's no way to break in from the outside, then our only option is to infiltrate the casino from within."
"Easier said than done, no doubt they got spotters inside guarding every possible entry points, cameras watching everything, it won't be so simple." Peter said.
"No, but there are always weak spots, openings we can exploit, we just need to figure out how to sneak in without raising any alarms, I'm sure between the four of us we'll pull off a heist of our own." Felicia said.
"A heist? What are we, Ocean's Eleven?" Peter said.
"Yeah, except we're more like Ocean's Four." Gwen said.
"I'm guessing this make you like Danny Ocean." Peter said.
"More like Debbie Ocean, you know from Ocean's Eight." Felicia said.
Mary Jane came out of her room after unpacking to find her friends discussing everything.
"Hey, what did I miss?" Mary Jane said.
"Well, we know where the laptop holding the stolen money is, problem is the casino itself is well guarded, it won't be a cake walk." Peter said.
"Which is why we need to case the joint, observe their security, guard rotations, anything we can us." Felicia said.
"Case the joint? These words are strange to me." Peter said.
"It'll be easy, besides with your experience as a hero and working with an intelligence agency, I assume you know a thing or two about espionage." Felicia said.
"I do, it's part of my skill set... alright, me and Felicia will go to the Golden Mask and observe, Gwen, do you think you could give our friend Ganke a call? Maybe he could pull up blueprints and building schematics of the Golden Mask, especially their security system." Peter said.
"I'll give him a call." Gwen said.
"Okay, let's get to work." Felicia said.
Later around 2:30 PM at the Golden Mask Casino, both Peter and Felicia are inside the building acting like patrons looking around to find many people at the slot machines and some are digging the buffet, they're more focused on the cameras above everyone's heads, they have eyes everywhere, they even check out the craps table as one of the casino patrons is listening to something in his ears, meanwhile a couple of casino security came by and took away the man for cheating and escorting him to the security station, they realized this casino can detect any kind of frequency and spot out cheaters.
"You weren't kidding, security here is very tight, they got eyes and ears everywhere." Peter said.
A shady man walked past them and said "Excuse me." they then turn their attention to the elevators to see that it's well guarded, must be an private elevator, one of them is that guy, Felicia pulls out her phone and uses the camera to record, holding it to her ear pretending to be on the phone chatting, not knowing the camera is facing towards the elevator with the guys face in plain sight, this guy is pulling out a keycard in his coat pocket and tap it on the screen, the elevator opens up and allowed him access as he enters it.
"Okay, he's in." Peter said.
Felicia stopped recording and puts away the phone, she and Peter learned that the private elevator needs a keycard, but they also noticed that the elevator itself is guarded by two men.
Peter sighs. "We need one of those keycards for access, but even if we do, we still got two guards to deal with."
"Okay, we got what we needed, let's go." Felicia said.
Peter and Felicia are leaving through the slot machines after gathering enough intel on the casino, they did their best to avoid attraction to themselves until they bumped into a brunette woman wearing sunglasses.
"Oh, sorry." Peter apologize.
"It's fine... though, you both look too young to be at the machines."
"Oh, we're not here to gamble." Peter said.
"We were just at the buffet, you know, all you can eat." Felicia made up an excuse.
"I see... well, enjoy your stay in Atlantic City."
The woman walked away as Peter and Felicia could tell there's something strange about her, but that's not their concern as they're leaving the casino together after getting everything they needed for their heist, they passed by a couple of Elvis impersonators on their way out.
Meanwhile up at the top floor, Madame Masque is coming back into the room to find Black Fox all out cold from the torture he endured and Hammerhead all exhausted as he grabs a towel to wipe the sweat off his head and the blood off his hands, Madame Masque took a closer look at Black Fox with his eyes closed and still breathing, but his face is seriously bruised from the beat, one of his hands has all five broken fingers.
"Did you overdo it?" Madame Masque said.
"Nah, I only broke five of his fingers, he still has five working fingers left." Hammerhead said.
"Good, but I still need him alive to talk, let him rest for the night, tomorrow we'll try again only this time do his teeth." Madame Madame said.
"Fine, I'm all tired out anyway and I feel dirty." Hammerhead said.
"Let's go." Madame Masque said.
Hammerhead walks out of the room with Madame Masque as they closed the door behind, leaving a tortured Black Fox tied up to the chair to rest and recover his strength as they're not done with him.
Later around 6:30 PM, both Peter and Felicia are doing surveillance just outside of the Golden Mask Casino, they then spotted the same guy who went into the elevator and walking away from the casino heading towards the boardwalk as Peter and Felicia are following, keeping their distance to see where he's going, about 15 minutes later they all arrived at the Boardwalk where the place is packed full of people walking up and down, the pair still has their target in sight as he's going into a bar, they stopped to take a peak inside as the guy is sitting down and ordering a drink and puts it on his tab.
"Looks like our guy has a favorite place to go for a cold brew." Peter said.
"Okay, we know his habits, let's go." Felicia said.
Peter and Felicia are walking away from the bar after learning where the guy goes on his break, they continue strolling down the boardwalk.
Peter sighs. "I'm feeling hungry."
"Yeah, me too." Felicia said.
Peter spotted a pizza parlor on the boardwalk as he's getting the itch.
"I'm in the mood for some pizza, you?" Peter said.
"Sure." Felicia said.
Peter and Felicia enters the pizza parlor to get some food.
It's now 8:30 PM back at the Roulette Casino and Resort, at the suite Peter, Felicia, Gwen, and Mary Jane are all together having pizza and cans of ginger ales the pair bought from the boardwalk as they all got everything they need to plan the heist, discussing how and when to pull it off using the intel Peter and Felicia gathered casing the Golden Mask, Gwen shows everyone the blueprints of the Golden Mask she got from Ganke Lee.
"Okay, this is the entire building schematic of the Golden Mask, our friend Ganke Lee came through as always." Gwen said.
"Gotta say, your guy's got a real gift in computers, maybe I should ask him to join a new crew for future heists." Felicia is impressed.
"Let's hope it never comes to that. What do we got?" Peter said.
Gwen types. "This is the floor where the office is locate as we already know, Madame Masque made the whole floor into her personal living quarters, now right there is an isolated room, no windows and surveillance of any kind."
"Looks like a perfect place to hold someone hostage." Mary Jane said.
"That's where they're holding Black Fox." Felicia said.
"Okay, we know where, question is how do we get there? From what we've seen, it won't be so easy, there are two guards guarding the only elevator that goes up to Madame Masque's floor, not to mention they got eyes and ears everywhere." Peter said.
"What exactly are we talking about here?" Mary Jane said.
"There are cameras above everyone's head, watching everything, possibly throughout other parts of the casino itself, they also seem to have detectors all over the casino floor picking up any kind of frequencies to spot anyone using any comm devices to cheat." Peter said.
"In other words, we won't be using earpieces on this heist, they'll detect us in an instant and the heist ends immediately." Felicia said.
"Now the elevator we talked about can only be accessed by a specific keycard, we'll need to get our hands on one of those." Peter said.
"And we just happened to know someone who carries it, he's probably one of Madame Masque's lieutenants, we know where he goes on his break, that'll be our way to get the keycard." Felicia said.
"Okay, getting the keycard is the easy part, sneaking around the Golden Mask will be the hard part, we still need to deal with the surveillance system, which is unaccessible to the outside." Peter said.
"Hold on, there's a security station on the ground floor where all the surveillance is being done." Gwen said.
"We know, we saw security dragging the cheater there." Peter said.
"Maybe we can use that to our advantage." Felicia said.
"What do you mean?" Mary Jane said.
"If we can somehow plant a device in that station, we can hack their surveillance, making it play on a loop, that'll allow us to sneak around without raising any suspicion." Felicia said.
"Yeah, that could work." Gwen said.
"But we still need to deal with the two guys guarding the elevator, how do we draw 'em away?" Peter said.
"Don't worry, you're with a master thief, I've pulled off major heists with some help, between the four of us, I'm sure we'll pull this off, together, just give me some time to figure it out." Felicia said.
"Okay... so what do we do in the meantime?" Mary Jane said.
Felicia smiled. "Do some catching up."
(Later)
Around 10:24 PM, everyone had already finished up eating as they're all in the living room spent almost two hours chatting and discussing things that happened while Felicia was away for two years, including the upcoming wedding between Peter and Gwen.
"Still can't believe that you and Spider are getting married. I thought for sure he'd still be a bachelor, attracting all the pretty babes like always." Felicia said.
Peter smiles. "You're not the only one, don't get me wrong, I do like the idea of dating women, but I love being with Gwen more."
"That's wonderful... so when's the big day?" Felicia said.
"June, we're still picking out a date." Gwen said.
"I see, how about you Red? What's your story?" Felicia said.
"Same as them, graduate high school, decided to pursue acting, so I applied for Juilliard, but I was turned down financial aid one summer, hit a big of a snag, so I had to work as a barista at the Coffee Bean during the fall, Peter and Gwen were kind enough to give me their spare bedroom so I'd have a place in the city." Mary Jane tells her story.
"That's nice, tell me the part on how you've became a model?" Felicia said.
"Well, it was last January, I applied for financial aid again, but I was turn down again. One day I ended up meeting someone, her name is Millie the Model, she told me that I got great potential for the model world, that I should try modeling and I did. Now I'm making more money than I ever did as a barista, finally taking acting class in Juilliard." Mary Jane said.
"That's wonderful, so what's next of the fabulous supermodel?" Felicia said.
"Lately I've been planning on moving out and getting a place of my own. I've just spotted this luxury apartment in Upper West Side available for rent, I'm actually thinking about getting a lease on it when I get back." Mary Jane said.
"Sounds like a good plan." Gwen said.
"How about you Felicia?" What have you been up to since we've parted ways?" Peter said.
"Well... I've spent about a year and half hiding out with my mother, living very comfortably in Vermont under new names, gave me plenty of time to practice on my skills, but it started getting too... boring, then last summer I got the word that S.H.I.E.L.D. completely dismantled the entire 1400 club, all of it's members are captured and locked away, so there's no reason for me to keep on hiding anymore, I got sent to England and attended Oxford, but in my spare time I started re-embraced my old nature bit by bit and became the Black Cat again." Felicia said.
"Let me guess, that meant going back to your old thieving ways, right?" Gwen said.
"It's who I am, but... that doesn't mean I'm a bad person." Felicia said.
"Never said you were, I know who you are Felicia, not just a thief, but a woman who's got heart, I've seen it." Peter said.
"He's right." Gwen said.
"You're also a great friend." Mary Jane said.
Felicia smiles. "Thanks, you three are great friends too. This is great, the four of us back together again."
"This takes us back to Christmas, we all worked together to save your mother from criminals, now we're here helping saving someone very dear to you." Peter said.
"I know the risks you're all taking, taking on a very powerful mafia is very bold." Felicia said.
"Hey, taking on mobs are our specialty." Peter smiles.
Felicia smile. "If we play our cards rights, we'll get back all the money they stolen and deal a big blow to the Maggia in the process."
"Here's hoping." Felicia said.
Peter yawns. "I'm feeling tired out, I'm gonna call this a night."
"Sure Tiger, goodnight." Mary Jane said.
"Goodnight Spider." Felicia smile.
Peter waved to the girls as he heads into the room he's staying, Gwen is looking as she's getting the idea what Peter's gonna do before heading into bed. Inside the bathroom, Peter is taking a shower with the hot water raining down upon him, bathroom door opens up as someone is sneaking around bare feet, she approach the shower door and carefully opens up as Peter turns around to find his fiancée Gwen Stacy standing naked outside the shower with a smile.
"Mind if I join you?" Gwen flirts.
Peter smile as Gwen enters the shower and the hot water is raining upon her, getting her all wet as she and Peter both leaned their bodies against each other and kisses each other very passionately, Peter leans Gwen's back against the glass frame as they continue on kissing til Peter started kissing down Gwen's neck as she smile and giggles upon feeling his lips on her neck, the two are in a moment of passion.
It's April 6th in Atlantic City, New Jersey, time is 6:45 AM in the morning, at the boardwalk some people are jogging early working up a sweat, among them is Mary Jane Watson all dressed in a sports top and shorts with sneakers as she's jogging down the boardwalk while some male joggers are eyeballing a beautiful redhead jogging and working up a sweat, her sports outfit is tight and showing off all her assets, particularly her behinds, Mary Jane kept on jogging for about 45 minutes until she jogs back to the Roulette Casino.
Sometime later, the elevator opens up as Mary Jane got off and walks towards her suite. Inside the suite is Felicia Hardy already awake and pouring in coffee from the K-Cup coffee maker into the casino mug, she drinks it up as the suite door opens up and Mary Jane comes in looking all tired and sweaty from her morning jog as she spotted Felicia awake and having a cup of coffee.
"Morning Red." Felicia holding a mug.
"Hey Felicia, I see you're up." Mary Jane feeling exhausted.
"Coffee?" Felicia asking.
"Please." Mary Jane said.
Felicia puts in another mug and loads another K-Cup pod into the coffee maker as it's brewing and pouring down into the mug, afterwards Felicia hands Mary Jane a mug of hot fresh coffee.
"Thanks." Mary Jane took it and drank.
"I see you're already up and went out on a morning jog." Felicia drinks her too.
"Yeah, I'm a model now, gotta stay in shape, not all of us has superpowers." Mary Jane said.
"Touché, thought that outfit you're wearing, it's too tight, showing off your sexy figures as you jog, especially your dump truck ass." Felicia teasing.
"Hey!" Mary Jane felt annoyed.
Coming out of one of the rooms is Peter and Gwen, both dressed in their regular clothes, Peter in a white t shirt and blue jeans and Gwen in a black turtleneck top and blue jeans, they're both fully awake and feeling happy together as Mary Jane and Felicia got a sense of what they did last night.
"Well... morning!" Felicia smiles.
"You two are the last ones to wake up this morning." Mary Jane smile.
"Yeah, we... pretty much stay up last night." Peter smile.
"Ohm the whole hotel heard you stay up last night!" Felicia smiles.
"Oh." Peter looks shocked.
"Told you you were loud." Gwen smile.
"Sorry..." Peter felt a bit embarrassed.
"Don't be, it's nothing new to me." Mary Jane smiles.
"Though I am surprised how long you two can stay up and still..." Felicia said.
"Yeah... we... kinda got carried away." Peter said.
Gwen coughs. "So... coffee?"
"Oh, sure, coming right up." Felicia said.
Felicia is brewing two cups of coffee as Peter and Gwen sat down on the couch as Mary Jane sat at one of the seats with her mug of coffee, Felicia came by with two mugs in her hands as she hands them to Peter and Gwen.
"Thanks." Gwen smile.
"Thank you." Peter smile.
Felicia went back to fetch her mug as Peter and Gwen are drinking their mugs of coffee to get a caffeine boost, Felicia came back and sat at the seat next to Mary Jane's as she and MJ are drinking their coffee.
"Okay, what do we have plan for today." Peter said.
"I've thought up of many scenarios for each of us to play out that could work, though we still need to get our hands on that keycard from that guy." Felicia said.
"We know where he'll be going after work, this bar at the boardwalk, though we'll have to think up a way to get it from him without raising any suspicions." Peter said.
"Let me worry about that... tonight will be the opportunity for us to go, for now, let's just relax. Speaking of which, I have some good news." Felicia smiles.
"Please don't leaves us in suspense, spill." Mary Jane is eager for the news.
"Fine, I was able to book us a reservation at this casino's spa at 9 AM." Felicia smile.
"Whoa!" Gwen is amazed.
"Now we're talking." Mary Jane smile.
"Sounds great." Peter smiles.
"Sorry Spider, this is our little bachelorette retreat, just us girls only." Felicia said.
Peter frowns upon this news. "Ahhh... so what am I suppose to do in the meantime?"
"I got something for you, I need you to head out to the Golden Mask and case the place a bit, see if we missed anything, also check out any events happening there that could work in our favor." Felicia said.
Peter sighs. "Fine... I guess I could hit the breakfast buffet before I head out, worked up quite an appetite last night."
"Yeah, you go do that, in the meantime, us ladies have an appointment to get to, so let's get ready to relax." Felicia smiles.
"Sure, I gotta hit the shower, worked up quite a sweat. See ya Tiger." Mary Jane said.
"See ya MJ." Peter said.
"Hey Pete, I'm sorry that you have to..." Gwen said.
Peter smiles warmly. "It's okay Gwen, you go and have fun, I'll see you later."
"I love you." Gwen smile.
"I love you too." Peter smile.
Peter and Gwen kiss each before he heads out for some breakfast as Gwen watched him leave with a smile on her face, she turns to see Felicia smiling, feeling happy for them, Gwen says nothing as she just heads to her room to get ready.
Later around 9:30 AM at a spa here in the Roulette Casino, Gwen, Mary Jane, and Felicia are in a sauna room wearing only their towels as they can feel the heat in the room and all the sweat is building around their skins.
"Ah, this feels nice." Gwen smile.
"Nothing but the best for my friends." Felicia smile.
"This takes me back to Japan." Mary Jane smile.
"You mean that time you and Pete shared a hot spring." Gwen said.
Felicia looks surprised. "Whoa... you and the Spider! Wow, how did that happen?"
"Come on, it's not that big of a deal." Mary Jane said.
"Too late, the gossip is out now, so spill." Felicia smile.
Mary Jane sighs. "It happened last month... I was kidnapped by the Yakuza and brought to Japan, Peter flew over there to rescue me and he did, afterwards we stopped by a hot springs resort, we both ended up in the same bath and we ended up being very surprised seeing each other."
Felicia smiles. "Mmm, I'll bet."
"Relax, we just shared a bath, that's all, nothing else happened... I swear." Mary Jane said.
"I believe you." Gwen said.
"Okay, what about what happened around Christmas? The night you two were intimate." Felicia said.
"It's not what you think." Mary Jane said.
"Then talk to me." Felicia said.
Mary Jane sighs. "It happened when Peter got himself frozen by a supervillain, we thawed him out but he was suffering from hypothermia, that same night Blizzard cause a massive blackout and the whole city was without power, Peter will still feeling cold and I had to do something to keep him warm, so... I strip myself and used my own body to warm him up his body, I've kept him warm throughout the cold night."
"Mmm, sounds romantic, being in bed together, naked bodies snuggled against each other." Felicia smiles.
"We just stay warm, nothing else happened, just like the hot spring bath." Mary Jane said.
"If you say so... but just curious, in both those times you've seen him, did you happen to see his... you know." Felicia said.
Mary Jane sighs. "Unfortunately, and both times he's seen all of me."
"Wow, you were lucky enough to be intimate with him, and she's gets to sleep with him on more sexual level, if anything I envy you both, I never got to share anything with him beyond a kiss." Felicia said.
Gwen and Mary Jane could tell that this whole intimacy thing is still getting to Felicia as she still has some feelings for Peter like they both do.
"Well... I'm feeling too heated up, why don't we go cool down." Mary Jane suggested.
"Yeah, I'm all too sweaty." Gwen said.
"Let's go." Felicia said.
All three ladies got up and walks out of the sauna room, eventually they came up to a pool of non chlorine cold water as Felicia is the first to step up and undid her towel as it dropped to the floor as Mary Jane and Gwen caught a glimpse of her naked figure, hers is on a whole totally different level, she enters the cold water and feels relaxed with a smile on her face feeling the cool water around her skin as she look up at her friends still standing.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Felicia smile.
Mary Jane and Gwen both smile as they're a bit nervous doing this, but they eventually worked up the courage to undo their towels and shows off their bodies as Felicia got a good glimpse at both woman, they're both beautiful and got wonderful figures like hers, she likes what she sees, Mary Jane and Gwen enters the pool as they're feeling very relaxed feeling the cold water cooling down their warm skins.
"Ahhh... I feel cooled down." Mary Jane smile.
"Me too." Gwen smile.
Felicia smiles. "Spider is one lucky guy, he's still a dork and yet he keeps pulling in babes like us. He's luck to have you both."
"He's lucky to have you too Felicia, you're still a lot to him." Gwen smile.
"Honestly, he's lucky to have us." Mary Jane smile.
Felicia feels happy being among her friends as they told her that she's still an important part of Peter's life.
Later around 2:34 PM at Roulette Casino, at the buffet where it's all you can eat, Peter just came back as he's strolling around with a tray in his hand picking up his choices to add to the plate, he picked from spaghetti with a meatball, a garlic bread, and two slices of pizza, he's still deciding what else to add to his meal as someone is behind him for him to notice.
"I'd try out the crab legs." Felicia's voice.
Peter turns around to see Felicia here with a tray in her hands.
"Hey, I thought you're still with the girls." Peter smile.
"We've just ended our session, they're resting a bit back at the suite. I thought I'd stop by here and try out the crab legs, care to join me?" Felicia smile.
Peter smile. "Why not?"
About 25 minutes later, the pair are in the dining tables as they just finished eating their meal as Peter is astonished by how much Felicia was able to eat as she noticed him looking.
"What?" Felicia said.
"Nothing, just amazed how much you can eat and not show any ounce of fat. Where do you put it all?" Peter said.
Felicia smile as she leans her cleavage in view. "Take a guess."
"Oh." Peter figured it out.
"Besides, I got a fast burning metabolism just like you, remember? So any fat inside me will be burned out of my body by now" Felicia explains her enhanced physiology.
"Right. Peter smile.
"So anything new on the Golden Mask we should know about?" Felicia said.
"Well, there's an Elvis Convention for the weekend in Atlantic City, tonight the Golden Mask is gonna be hosting so there's gonna be a whole lot of people attending, watching Elvis impersonators singing." Peter explains.
"Good, a lot of people will make it easier for us to blend in undetected, security will hardly notice us sneak around." Felicia said.
"Still, it would help if we could do something about those two guys guarding the elevator." Peter said.
"Don't worry, I've already devised up a brilliant plan." Felicia said.
"So... how was the spa?" Peter is curious.
"Went well, we sweat it out at the sauna and later cool down in the cold water, we feel all relax, we got to chatting and discussing everything I've missed. Especially Red, she had a lot to say." Felicia said.
"Really? Like what?" Peter said.
"Well, she told me... everything." Felicia smile.
"Everything?" Peter is confused.
"Yeah, what happened around Christmas and that one night in Japan, everything." Felicia smile.
Peter looks at Felicia's smiling expression that she knows a too much and where this is going, he finally figured it out.
"Oh, you mean..." Peter looks surprised.
"Yeah, 'that' everything. *giggles* I had no idea you were juggling both these beauties." Felicia teasing.
"I wasn't juggling... anything." Peter stated.
Felicia sighs uneasy. "Honestly, I envy those two... I'm probably the only one in the trio who hasn't gotten naked or even slept with you."
A few patrons turn their heads towards Peter and Felicia, feeling disturb upon hearing those words as Peter could see all the attention they're getting by it.
"Sorry..." Peter smile and waves to the guest, then turns to Felicia. "Could you like not say it out loud."
"Oops." Felicia felt a bit embarrassed.
"It's fine, it's already out. Let's just stay focused on tonight." Peter said.
"Right, saving Black Fox is all that matters to me, but if I get the chance, we'll take down the Maggia too, for everything they've done, especially to me." Felicia said.
"What do you mean? Is there something I don't know that you haven't told me yet? Felicia, me and my friends are risking our lives helping you. But I need to know how personal this is for you, we at least deserve to understand." Peter said.
Felicia sighs. "You're right... when I was ten years old, I went out with my parents to Coney Island, had some cotton candy and enjoyed the rides, I felt so happy cause I had everything, a wonderful life with good parents, those were the good days, my dad felt a bit sick after riding the Cyclone, he went home earlier to rest up and me and mom stayed and have some fun, then we return home later that night, we found a blood trail... that's when we found my dad, lying on the ground, dead, murdered... it still haunts me."
Peter felt sympathetic. "I'm sorry."
Felicia felt sad. "My whole life changed that night, I couldn't stop crying cause my father was taken away from me, I felt sad and angry this happened to him. For years I didn't understand why someone would kill him, until I found some of his stuff and I learned that my father was living a double life, he was a master thief, when I was thirteen I wanted some answers and I knew that Black Fox was the only man who could give me some. He told me that my father stole from a major criminal organization that stole a lot from good people, even though my dad is a thief, he had a good heart, so he stole back everything the Maggia and gave them back to the people, but the Maggia wouldn't stand for this, they ordered the hit and murder my dad in retaliation."
"My god... when I met you all those years ago, when you stole from Silvermane, you didn't just do it to help people, you wanted to get back at the Maggia for all they've done to you." Peter said.
"Not just to me, they didn't just destroy my family, they destroy a lot of families, these mobsters continue to get away with everything they've done, destroyed a lot of lives and they never faced any consequences... no more, once we save Black Fox and get that computer, we'll use all the information it contains to deal a big blow to the entire Maggia organization, they'll soon pay for everything they've done... so yes Peter, this is very personal for me, I don't expect you to understand." Felicia said.
Peter sighs. "No Felicia... I do understand, that anger you're feeling, I felt it too."
"Because of what happened to your uncle." Felicia said.
"No, cause of what happened to my parents... last year I learned my parents weren't who I thought they were, they were both Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., spies, and I found out who was responsible, the terrorist organization HYDRA were the one who carried out that hit, my parents didn't die in the plane crash I was told to believe all these years, they were both assassinated." Peter said.
"My god... I'm so sorry, I had no idea." Felicia is stunned and all sympathetic.
"HYDRA may have carried out that hit, but someone else was behind it, pulling the strings, someone who ordered their deaths." Peter said.
"Do you know who?" Felicia said.
"No, that's what I've been trying to find out, all I know is that he's responsible for supplying HYDRA and other criminal and terrorist organizations with deadly weapons such as a biological weapon called Devil's Breath, he's even into creating living weapons like Molten Man, he's destroyed a lot of lives and killed any who stood in his way, whoever he is, he's a true sociopath, someone completely devoid of any morals or scruples. But on the plus side, I've crippled his businesses in the past, so much that he even tired sending people to kill me." Peter explain.
Felicia could see how personal this is for Peter. "I see...You're not going to let this go, are you?"
"No, if I ever do find him, I'll take him down and bring him to justice, for my parents and any lives he's ruined... I only hope I can give them justice." Peter said.
"You will... I know you'll do your parents proud one day." Felicia smile warmly.
Peter smile. "You know, for years I resented my parents for never being around, for keeping their double lives from me, but eventually came to realize that what they did was to protect me, so that I could have a normal life."
"My dad did the same for me, he wasn't perfect, but was still a great father, he everything he did was because he loved me." Felicia relates.
"I'm proud to be their son." Peter smiles.
Felicia reach out and got a hold of Peter's hand as the two are bonding in ways they've never done before, the spark that once shine between them is still there in their hearts, the look in Peter's eyes are the same as Felicia's as he does understand her, they learn about how personal losses and tragedies shaped their lives, but it's more than just that, they share something much more, something romantic from the first night they've met, but they eventually came to their senses and decided not to pursue any further in their feelings.
Peter coughs and feels nervous. "We should... get going."
Felicia is also nervous. "Right, we got a big night ahead, time to plan the heist.'
"Let's go." Peter said.
Peter and Felicia got up and walks away from the table and heads on back to their suite to begin planning the heist.
It's 4:34 PM at the Golden Mask Casino as Madame Masque is walking around her personal floor in the company of Hammerhead carrying a toolbox, they approached the lock door as two armed thugs open up the door and enters the dark room with the pair, turns on the lights to find Black Fox still tied up to the chair and still bruised, Madame Masque walks up to the guy as Hammerhead sets the toolbox aside and opens up, Madame Masque got a hold of Black Fox's hair and raised his head up.
"Hey, wake up!" Madame Masque said.
Black Fox felt weakened. "What is it this time... more broken fingers?"
Hammerhead strolls through the toolbox. "No, this time we're gonna try something different." He pulls out a plier and clamps them for show. "Today, we're playing dentist."
"We gave you time to rest you, but your time is up." Madame Masque said.
"I'm done playing nice, by boss needs that money now and he's out of time, so last chance... tell us where your partner is, make her undo the encryption and give us access to the money, if you don't, then you're not gonna be smiling with all your teeth, ever again." Hammerhead being more threatening as he holds up a plier.
Black Fox being all fearless. "Do what you have to do... I'll never help the Maggia, if I have to die to see you all screwed, then I'm willing give it up."
Hammerhead sighs. "Looks like my boss isn't gonna get that money anytime soon, at least I'll have the pleasure making you suffer before you die."
"Time to play dentist, and please do it slowly... I gotta go, I have a casino to run, have fun." Madame Masque said.
Hammerhead chuckles. "Gladly... open his mouth."
One of the thugs came up close and got a hold of Black Fox's head and opens his mouth widely as Hammerhead has the pliers in his hands, Madame Masque exits the room and closed the door behind as loud screaming is happening in the room.
It's 5:45 PM at the Roulette Casino, up on high at the suite, Felicia is explaining everything about the heist they're about to pull off later tonight and explaining the roles each of them will be playing to pull it off, the room got a board with pictures of the Golden Mask, a list of individuals working for the Maggia including the man who got the keycard, building schematics of the ground floor and the private floor on top.
"Okay, we all know our roles to play, right?" Felicia asking.
"Yeah, me and Gwen will provide the diversion you'll need to get to the elevator." Mary Jane said.
"Will be a good opportunity to put those acting skills to good use. Okay, after you get the attention, security will come and take you both to the security system to be locked up for disturbance, if we play it right, they'll take possession of your items, including the device plant inside the phone, since there's no detectors in the station, it won't be noticed and the device will remotely connect, disrupting surveillance, the images will be played on a loop." Felicia said.
"We can do that, what will you two be doing?" Gwen said.
"Will security takes you the station, we'll be using the keycard we'll soon acquire to gain access to the elevator, it'll take us up to the floor where the office is located, that's where we'll find the laptop, in the office safe, and if we get the chance we'll try to find Black Fox and rescue him. But the important thing is getting that laptop first, even if we can't save Black Fox, we can still use it as leverage." Felicia said.
"We're gonna save him Felicia, one way or the other, I promise." Peter said.
Felicia smiles. "Thanks... okay, we know what to do, we get in, sneak to the top, get the laptop and get out before anyone noticed, we play it right we disappear with the laptop and hopefully with Black Fox... we're all in agreement?"
Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane all nodded their heads together.
"Alright, let's get to work. Spider, time to go get a keycard, we'll meet you both at the shop later." Felicia said.
"We'll be there." Gwen said.
"Okay, let's go Spider." Felicia said.
Time is 7:01 PM at the bar at the boardwalk, the lieutenant from the casino is sitting at the table having a fancy drink alone after a day of working, he's feeling pretty burned out until someone came by, a tall white hair female wearing sunglasses in a white tied crop top showing off her sizable cleavage and wearing only jean shorts as she got his attention.
"Hey there, stranger." Felicia smile.
"Well hello there, don't think I've seen you around here."
"I just came into town, wanting to see all of Atlantic City, check out the casinos, know any good ones?" Felicia said.
"As a matter in fact, yeah, I happen to work there, maybe after I'm done with my drink, I'll be glad to give you the exclusive tour."
The guy is flirting with the woman but all of a sudden someone in a black hoodie and sunglasses came in and caused a commotion around here, getting everyone's attention, including the guy as Felicia slips a little something into his drink while he doesn't notice it being distracted.
"Hey, watch it!"
"Sorry!"
The bar man is escorting this guy out of the bar and out of the boardwalk as the lieutenant turns back.
"Tourist... I don't mean you, I meant..."
"It's okay, so... care to finish your drink so we can get out of here." Felicia flirts.
The guy smile as he took his drink and drank it all up not knowing that it's been tampered with, he finished the last drop and puts down the glass.
"Let's go."
Felicia and the guy are leaving the bar together as they're walking around the boardwalk, they kept on walking down as up ahead is the guy in the hoodie, this guy is none other than Peter Parker waiting as Felicia is paying close enough attention to the man to notice the effects are starting to kick in.
"Ah, I think I might've went a little overboard with the drink, I don't quite well in the head."
The guy can barely keep his thoughts together as he's starting to get sleepy, Felicia got a hold of the guy.
"Ah, can someone help out?!" Felicia with the man's right arm around her shoulder calling out.
Peter came up and help the guy on his feet, putting the man's left arm around his shoulder. "I can... okay, easy buddy, we're gonna help you."
Peter and Felicia are dragging the guy around until they spotted an alleyway for them to hide in, they went there with the man and laid him down, leaned his back against the wall, the man is all asleep.
"Whoa, what did he have?" Peter looking at the guy.
"One Belvedere Martini with benzodiazepine, this should keep him under for a few hours. Sorry about this, we just need to borrow something from you." Felicia digs through to the guy's jacket pocket, she pulls out a keycard. "Got it."
"You never cease to surprise me, is there anything I don't know about you?" Peter said.
"At lot... speaking of which, we... never got to finish explain what you saw that night on the rooftop in New York." Felicia said.
Peter knows where this is going. "You mean you and Tamara..."
"Yeah..." Felicia said.
"Listen Felicia, it's okay, really, if you have a preference for woman, then that okay, I'm glad that you have someone." Peter said.
"Thanks... just so you know, just because I'm into women, doesn't mean I'm not still into guys." Felicia stated she's bisexual.
"Noted." Peter said.
"You seemed pretty cool by all this, I thought you'd still be shocked by this discovery." Felicia said.
"A bit... also, I met someone recently, part of your community, well one of them at least... his name is Bobby Drake, he calls himself Iceman, he's part of team of mutants called the X-Men, he's... into men, he even admitted to having a thing for me." Peter smile.
"Whoa." Felicia said.
"Yeah, whoa, I felt the same reaction like you did." Peter smile.
"And this doesn't bother you at all?" Felicia said.
"No, if anything it doesn't change my views on him, he's very brave, from being the mutant and being true to his sexually, he's probably one of the bravest people I've ever known, someone I'm proud to call friend." Peter smile.
Felicia smile. "You really are a great man, Peter, I'm lucky to have you in my life."
"I'm lucky to have you in my life too, you're a wonderful woman, Felicia." Peter smile.
Peter and Felicia are smiling in each other presences as they're having that moment again, then eventually came back to their senses.
Felicia coughs. "We should get going, our friends are waiting."
"Right, let's not keep 'em waiting." Peter said.
"Time to do some shopping." Felicia said.
Time is 7:55 PM at a local shop in Atlantic City, Peter has came out of the men's fitting room wearing a black tuxedo with a bow tie around his neck he's gonna wear for the heist, he's waiting around outside the women's fitting room as Felicia Hardy is the first one to come out wearing a black cross neck dress with an opening showing off her cleavage, her hair is tied up as Peter is amazed how stunning she is.
Felicia noticed Peter staring. "What?"
"Nothing, you look... amazing... though, don't you think it's a bit too much?" Peter noticed the provocativeness.
"Hey, it's helps me blend me with the crowd. Besides, every women knows there are ways to make sure nobody is paying much attention to your face." Felicia showing off her cleavage.
"I can pretty well confirm that, but..." Peter said.
Coming out of the women's fitting room is Mary Jane Watson in a red one shoulder satin dress with her hair tied up as Peter notice how beautiful she is.
"Well, how do I look?" Mary Jane showing off.
"Spectacular." Peter smile.
Mary Jane smile. "Thanks Tiger. You're not so bad yourself."
Peter sighs. "I look like a penguin in it."
Felicia smiles. "Suck it up Spider, this is for a good cause."
And last but not least is Gwen Stacy all dressed in a light blue strapless dress showing off her exquisite figure, her hair is also tied up like the others, Peter is way astonished seeing his fiancée all beautiful in the dress.
"Gwen..." Peter is stunned.
"Pete, do I look great?" Gwen showing off.
"You look... very astonishing in that dress." Peter smile.
"Thanks... don't get use to it, cause later when this is done, this dress is coming off." Gwen flirts.
Peter likes where this is going, but they heard a cough as they turn their heads to Felicia and Mary Jane looking at the couple.
"Sorry, got carried away." Gwen felt shy.
"It's fine, it's nothing new." Mary Jane smile.
"If everything goes well, you'll both have plenty of time to shag before the night is over. So, let's get going." Felicia said.
Mary Jane is the first to walk past Peter showing off her figure as Peter is amazed, Gwen passed by next as she winks her eye at Peter as he's stunned with a mouth open, Felicia came up walking in her sexy dress.
"Close your mouth Spider, you'll catch flies." Felicia smiles.
Peter closes as he follows the ladies out of the shop heading out to the casino.
It's 8:25 PM just outside of the Golden Mask Casino as a lot of people are coming in, from casino patrons coming to gamble to fans of Elvis Presley attending the convention of Elvis impersonators, coming up to outside the entrance are Felicia, Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane all fully dressed and ready to pull off the heist, they see some guards at the entrance letting people in without checking.
"Okay, this is Black Cat, everyone ready?" Felicia said.
"Spider-Man ready." Peter said.
"Ghost-Spider ready." Gwen said.
"Jackpot ready." Mary Jane said.
"Jackpot?" Felicia is confused.
"Yeah, you think you're the only ones who get cool codenames?" Mary Jane said.
"Fine, Jackpot it is." Peter said.
"Right, everyone knows their roles to play?" Felicia asking.
"Yeah, we've all memorized it." Mary Jane said.
"We got this." Gwen said.
"Okay, wish us luck." Felicia said.
"Good luck." Mary Jane and Gwen said in unison.
"Thanks, let's get to work." Peter said.
Felicia came up and locks her arm with Peter's, leaning against him in a flirty manner. "Anything for you, boss."
Felicia and Peter entered together as Mary Jane and Gwen both looked and felt disturbed by Felicia having Peter all to herself, they then follow into the casino. The two pairs split up, Gwen and Mary Jane are the first one to roam ahead to the elevator guarded by two men, Peter and Felicia walks around to check out the casino, some are watching the stage of an Elvis impersonator singing and the crowd cheering and other patrons playing at the slot machines and the poker and craps tables, betting and gambling their chips.
"Mmm, I do like what I see." Felicia smile.
"Too bad we can't gamble, age limit and all." Peter said.
"What? You never played poker before?" Felicia said.
"I have actually, me and some heroes would often get together one night and play poker in our spare time, it's kinda our thing." Peter explained about an event.
"Hmm, maybe you should invite me over sometime." Felicia said.
"Maybe I will." Peter said.
Peter and Felicia looked at the private elevator to see it is opening up as a black haired woman is coming out in a red dress escorted by her bodyguards, this woman is Whitney Frost.
"That's her, that's Madame Masque." Felicia looking at the woman.'
"Except without the Masque." Peter looks too.
"A golden mask on her wouldn't blend in with with a crowd of guests, I'm guessing she's just looking legit in her spare time. But this is good, with her here, she's not at her office, this is our opportunity to make our move." Felicia said.
"Wanna signal our friends?" Peter said.
Felicia then turns to Gwen and Mary Jane nearby the elevator as they look at Felicia giving them the signal to make their move, Gwen nodded her head as she then shoved Mary Jane back as some people noticed it.
"What the hell is your problem?!" Mary Jane acting angry.
"You know exactly what's the problem?! I know that you and my fiancé had something last week, confess!" Gwen acting mad.
"And what if we did? I don't blame him, he's probably gotten tired to you, being all innocent and boring." Mary Jane acting.
"You..." Gwen acting angry as she shove Mary Jane.
Mary Jane was shove a bit in front of everyone as she looks back with fake anger in her face.
"What were you saying about me being all innocent?" Gwen acting with a mock.
Mary Jane moved ahead as did Gwen, the two are catfighting here in the casino as Peter and Felicia are watching from a distance along with everyone else as they're causing a disturbance here, which displeases Whitney Frost as she's demanding a radio from her bodyguard, he hands it to her as she takes steps to contain this situation, she radios the men at the elevator.
Whitney Frost uses the radio. "You two, don't just stand there, stop them!"
"But Madame, we can't just..."
"Those two are causing a scene and disturbing our guests, stop them right now, DO IT!" Whitney Frost demands it.
The guards by the private elevator are moving to stop the two woman from fighting, the got there and got a hold of both Mary Jane and Gwen, pulling them away from each other, they're now dragging the two bickering ladies away from the casino and heading towards the security station as Peter and Felicia watched, everything is going as planned.
"Those two are good." Felicia is impressed.
"I love them." Peter is also impressed.
"Let's go quickly and time this right, pray the device works." Felicia said.
At the security station, the guards are taking possession of their purses, including their smartphones and puts them in a room next to the surveillance system, Mary Jane and Gwen are being put in a cell as the guards closed it tight and left them locked up before walking away. Mary Jane and Gwen looked at each other still giving off a mad look until the guys are gone, they then smile and giggled in private.
"That was impressive!" Gwen smile.
"Guessing those acting lessons I've been taking are finally paying off." Mary Jane smile.
"It's like something out of a soap opera, you're definitely made to be an actress." Gwen smile.
"Let's just hope the device does it work, if not, we're gonna be stuck here for a while longer." Mary Jane said.
Meanwhile elsewhere in the security station, the phone inside Gwen's purse is activating as it's connected to the surveillance system via wireless signal, the screens watching everything happen at every floor of the casino are giving static for a bit as the monitor guys noticed it, but it all went back to normal and they just assumed it was a glitch of some kind, not know that the imaging they're seeing are being played on a loop.
Back at the casino floor near the elevator area, Felicia looks at her watch to check out the time, she figures that the device is in place and is connected to the surveillance system messing with the feed.
"Okay, time to beat the house." Felicia said.
Peter pulls out a keycard he and Felicia obtain from the lieutenant earlier, the pair walks up the private elevator as he tap the keycard onto the scanner, it accepted and the elevator doors opens up, they quickly enters the elevator and quickly closes the door before the guard makes it back to their post after dropping off the ladies at the cell, the doors closed up as Felicia press the button for the private floor, they're now heading up while listening to the music.
Felicia sighs. "Okay, once we're up at the top, we'll head down to the office, no doubt there's few security on the floor patrolling the halls, if they spot us then they'll raise the alarms and we're screwed, let's do this quietly and without being spotted. Got it?"
"Got it." Peter said.
Eventually the elevator made it to the top, to Madame Masque's floor as the elevator doors open up, they took a peek to see the hallway are empty and no sign of any security patrolling around.
"It's all clear, but they'll be back, let's move fast." Felicia said.
Felicia and Peter are moving around until they spotted one of the rooms opening up as they quickly went into a room to hide, they took a peek to see Hammerhead coming out with a couple of men as he looks very exhausted.
Hammerhead sighs all tired out. "This guy's one tough son of a bitch, let him a rest a bit, I don't want him to die out on me, I plan to make him suffer as long as possible. I'm gonna head down to the buffet for some grub, keep an eye on him."
"Yes Mr. Hammerhead."
Hammerhead is walking down the hallway as Felicia carefully closed the door, she and Peter are still in hiding hearing footsteps passing by, Hammerhead passed by unaware of anyone's presence, he made it to the private elevator and taps his keycard as the doors opens up, the elevator itself is already here.
"Huh? That was quick." Hammerhead looks surprised.
Hammerhead enters the elevator and goes down to the ground floor, meanwhile two guards are still outside the door holding a hostage inside, a small device is rolling up on the floor towards them as it stops, it then flash a bright light as they're both blinded, coming out of the room are Peter and Felicia as they're rushing to the blinded thugs and wrapped their arms around their neck tight, cutting off their oxygen till they pass out unconscious but alive.
"Have a nice nap." Peter holding the guy.
Peter uses one of his hands to open the door as he and Felicia are dragging the unconscious thugs into the room and laid them on the floor, Peter took the opportunity to use zip ties to tie up the thug's hands together as Felicia then sees someone very dear to him, it's Black Fox all tied up to the chair, his face is all bruised, blood from his mouths, one of his hands has all five broken fingers, the floors has some teeth with bloods on them, this whole sight terrified Felicia seeing him all tortured.
"Oh my god... " Felicia is all stunned and terrified.
Black Fox looks up all weak to see someone very familiar. "Felicia... is that you?"
"Yeah, it's me..." Felicia looks at Black Fox and the terrible state he's in. "What did those bastards do to you?"
Black Fox sighs all weaken. "Tamara?"
"She's okay, wounded, but okay, she told me what happened, I came here for you." Felicia said.
"I see... and him?" Black Fox looking at Peter Parker.
"It's okay, he's a friend, he's here to help." Felicia vouches for Peter.
"The laptop, it's... " Black Fox said.
"We know, but let's get you out of here first." Felicia said.
"No, get the laptop first, the money inside, it cannot stay in the Maggia's hands... Felicia, if they unlock the encryption, it'll be gone for good, all the pain I endured, all the sacrifices I've made, it would've been for nothing... please, get the laptop and then come back for me." Black Fox said.
Felicia sighs. "Okay, wait here, we'll get the laptop as fast as we can, then we'll come for you, I promise."
Black Fox nodded his head as he stays in the chair as Peter is checking out the thugs as he found a couple of radios on them.
Peter shows a radio in his hand. "Check this out."
"Take one, we'll need to get ears on them." Felicia said.
Peter kept one radio and puts it on his belt as he crushed the other radio in his hand easy, the pair got out of the room leaving Black Fox behind to wait, they're heading towards the office where the laptop is. They enter the office and looks around to find the place without any lights on, they look towards the wall where the safe is behind a painting.
"Okay, time to get cracking." Felicia said.
Peter came up and took the painting off the wall, Felicia came up to the safe and the keypad.
"Still got the code from Tamara, this so be easy money." Felicia said.
Felicia types in the a six number code into the keypad, but it reject it.
"Shit!" Felicia cursing.
"What's wrong?" Peter said.
"They must've changed the codes, it's useless now." Felicia said.
(Casino Floor)
Whitney Frost is chatting and greeting her guests until she got an alert on her phone, she pulls out to see someone tried accessing her office safe but failed, she asking one of the bodyguards for his radio as he hands it to her.
Whitney Frost uses the radio. "Hammerhead..."
(Office)
Peter and Felicia are trying to figure out how to open the safe until they heard Madame Masque's voice on the radio Peter took off the thug, she's calling out to Hammerhead.
"Yes Madame." Hammerhead said.
"Where are you?" Whitney Frost said.
"I'm here at the buffet, I got hungry after spending hours torturing our guest." Hammerhead said.
"Well quit eating and head back up to the office immediately, someone attempted to access my safe, I need you make sure nobody is messing with it again." Whitney Frost said.
"On my way." Hammerhead said.
"He's coming back, we have to go now." Peter said.
"We can't, we need the laptop inside, hold on." Felicia said.
Felicia pulls out her makeup kit from her purse as Peter is confused.
"What are you doing?" Peter is curious.
"I thought you have spy training, I'm gonna dust the pad for prints, see which numbers she's been using." Felicia said.
Felicia applies the dust on the digits as it's showing off prints on certain numbers.
"Okay, we got the numbers, but in which order? There could be like 999,999 combinations." Peter said.
"A specific order of numbers are usually memorable, she'll want to stick to something she can easily remember. We just need to figure it out." Felicia said.
Felicia is thinking on what would Madame Masque uses as a code, what is the most memorable in numbers.
Felicia thoughts of something. "I got it, let's pray this works."
Felicia then types in a code she though might mean something to Madame Masque, the safe accepted and unlocks itself, they finally have access.
Felicia smile. "Eureka!"
"What... did you put in?" Peter is curious.
"Her birthdate, figured it's easier to remember." Felicia said.
"Clever. Shall we?" Peter smile.
"With pleasure." Felicia smile.
Felicia opens up the safe to see the laptop Madame Masque put in yesterday.
"There it is, take it." Felicia said.
Peter reached out and took possession of the laptop and closed the safe, Peter puts the painting back to cover the safe as they rushed out of the office as fast they can, meanwhile in the private elevator Hammerhead is going up to the floor to check out the disturbance on the safe. Back on top, Peter and Felicia are in the other room helping untie Black Fox from the chair, afterwards they gently help Black Fox up on his feet as he's still in pain and feeling weak from the abuse Hammerhead inflicted for two days.
"AHHH!" Black Fox in pain.
"Easy, we got you, let's get out of here." Felicia said.
Peter and Felicia each got Black Fox's arm around their shoulder as they're helping him for support, Peter's got the laptop in his arm as they're about to move out of the room and down the hallway until they've spotted the elevator about to reach the floor.
"Take him into the next room, quickly." Peter said.
Peter and Felicia helped Black Fox into the next room and closed the door to hide, at the same time the elevator doors opens and Hammerhead is coming out and walking down the hall towards the office, Peter took a peak out the door to see Hammerhead entering the office.
"Okay, go, go, go!" Peter whispers.
Peter and Felicia are heading towards the elevator with Black Fox, they made it as Peter pulls out the keycard and taps on the scanner, it opens up and they quickly got inside it, Felicia pressed the button and the doors closes. Hammerhead is inside the office as he took off the painting and types in the new code to the safe, it opens and Hammerhead takes a look to see the laptop is now gone. He slams the door in anger as someone already took the laptop, he then noticed something odd as he was in the hall, he rushed out of the office and towards the other room where Black Fox was held, but he found the chair empty and his men are tied up and unconscious.
"SON OF A BITCH!" Hammerhead is upset, he got a hold of the radio. "Madame, someone broke into the safe, they got the laptop!"
"How did this happen?!" Whitney Frost said.
"Not sure, but that ain't all, they also freed Black Fox, he's escaped." Hammerhead said.
"Find them, they couldn't gotten very far!" Whitney Frost said.
Hammerhead is leaving the room as he tries to figure out how they got onto the floor in the first place until he realized something, he walks up to the private elevator to see someone is already using it and it's going down.
Hammerhead got on the radio. "Security, shut down the private elevator!"
"Sir?"
"The thieves are inside the elevator, shut it down now!" Hammerhead gave an order.
Inside the private elevator itself, Peter, Felicia, and Black Fox are heading down until it made a sudden stop, they got worried as Peter is pressing the buttons but nothing is happening.
"It stopped, which means they know we're inside." Peter said.
"Not good, we need to get out now, we're sitting ducks in here." Felicia said.
"Relax, we're gonna get out." Peter remains calm.
"How?" Felicia said.
Peter looking up. "We improvise."
Felicia looks up too to see a roof hatch as she knows where he's going with this, Peter jumped up and pushed the hatch open.
"Okay, let's go." Peter said.
Peter and Felicia helps Black Fox but he flinches in pain as he's too weak.
"NO... I can't make it." Black Fox still in pain.
"Yes you can." Felicia said.
"I'm too weak, I'll only slow you down... you must leave without me." Black Fox said.
"What?! No, we're leaving, together!" Felicia protests.
"Felicia, you must take that laptop and leave with the money, make sure all those good people get every cent. Besides... I promised your father I'd look after you, I won't be the reason you get killed, you must go now... please Felicia." Black Fox pleaded.
Felicia tearing up in sadness. "I'll find a way to save you, I'll come back for you, I promise!"
Peter jumps up to the top of the elevator as he reached out his hand. "Felicia, we have to go now!"
Black Fox looks at Felicia. "Go!"
Felicia is struggling as she reluctantly takes Peter's hand and got pulled up to the elevator shaft, they closed the hatch down as Peter looks around as he look down and spotted another elevator on another floor, Peter got a hold of Felicia as he jumps down the shaft. Meanwhile the elevator doors open up as Maggia thugs have their guns aimed at anyone inside, they only found Black Fox here alone without the laptop, the thug calls on the radio.
"Boss, we only found Black Fox, but no sign of the computer, it's gone."
"How is that possible? How could any of them escape?! Listen carefully, have every men at every stair access and elevators." Hammerhead said.
At the same time going down in another elevator are Peter and Felicia as they still have the laptop in their possession, Felicia is still tearing up as Peter is worried for her.
"You okay?" Peter asking.
Felicia wiping her tears. "Yeah... I'll be okay."
"Listen, we're still getting him back, as soon as we get back to the suite, we'll suit up and come here hard and fast, I promise, we'll save him." Peter assured.
Felicia finished wiping her tears with a smile. "Thanks..."
"Attention everyone, watch the stairs and elevators, if anyone come out of either, detain them!"
"Great, if it's not one thing, it's another. As soon as they see us, we're both dead." Peter said.
Felicia smiles as she thought of something crazy. "Maybe not... we do what we do best, Spider, we improvise."
Peter is confused as to what Felicia has in mind, the elevator is going down to the casino floor where a couple of security guards are waiting for one of the elevators to arrive, they have their guns ready, the elevator finally made it down and opens as they aim, only to find a couple inside, Peter and Felicia are kissing passionately and fooling around, Felicia has her hands on his head and back with her right leg wrapped around his left, Peter got a hold of her right leg as Felicia kept on kissing until she opens up and finds casino security aiming their guns at them.
"OH GOD!" Felicia acted scared.
"Hey, what the hell are you two doing?! This ain't a motel!"
"Sorry, we were just..." Felicia smile.
"Get the hell out of here, get a room! What's wrong with you two!"
Peter and Felicia are getting out of the elevator as security is disturbed seeing them make out in a public elevator, they kept on walking until they reach a safe distance as the two are relieved and stunned upon everything happened altogether, Peter is being quiet as Felicia has her finger on her lips upon kissing them with Peter's.
"That was... close." Felicia smile and blush.
"Yeah... too close." Peter blushes too.
"Hey, what happens here stays here, kay?" Felicia said.
"Yeah, this ain't Vegas Felicia." Peter said.
"Potato, Patato, let's go, our friends are waiting." Felicia said.
(Private Floor)
Meanwhile up at the top, Whitney Frost got off the elevator with her bodyguards as she walking straight to her office not looking too happy, she finally arrived to find Hammerhead with his men and Black Fox all tied to a chair again, Hammerhead could tell by the look on her face she's not taking this break in too well as she walks up to him.
"Madame, I..." Hammerhead suddenly got slap in the face.
Whitney Frost did the slap. "Idiot, how did they get by our security and gain access to this floor?!"
"We don't know, my guess they gotten their hands on one of our keycards, and they've managed to tamper with our surveillance, the streams were playing on a loop." Hammerhead said.
Whitney Frost sighs. "Check out the footages from earlier, before the looping, see anything out of the ordinary."
Hammerhead grabs a radio. "Security, transfers footages from 30 minutes ago to the office."
"Yes sir."
Hammerhead got a remote and uses the television as multiple footages from earlier shows up on screens, he and Whitney Frost are watching to find something out of the ordinary until Hammerhead spotted someone, a brown hair male around 18 years old in the company of a white hair woman of same age eyeballing the private elevator, but that guy looks very familiar as he recognized him from somewhere
"Son of a bitch..." Hammerhead is stunned.
"What is it? You know who he is?" Whitney Frost said.
"Yeah, that's Peter Parker, he's from New York, he's a photographer." Hammerhead said.
"I don't know why you're so concerned about some kid." Whitney Frost said.
"That kid and his friends took down Fisk, he also happens to be close with Spider-Man, it can't be a coincidence he's here." Hammerhead said.
"If that's the case, find him and bring him to me, along with anyone else he's with." Whitney Frost said.
"Yes Madame." Hammerhead said.
Whitney Frost walks away as she plans to get changed, Hammerhead pulls out the radio to notify security.
(Casino Floor)
Coming out of the security station are Gwen and Mary Jane as they're being let go and told to leave the casino immediately, they spotted Peter and Felicia waiting for them.
"Hey... did you guys get it?" Gwen said.
"Yeah, it's tucked behind in my tux." Peter said.
"And what about this Black Fox guy? Isn't he with you?" Mary Jane said.
Felicia sighs. "He was, but we couldn't escape with him."
"Don't worry Felicia, we're gonna come back for him, one way or the other." Peter said.
The radio on Peter's belt is still on, Hammerhead's voice is calling out. "Attention security, be on the look out for a caucasian male, brown hair, brown eyes, around 18 years old wearing a suit, standing at 5' 10", he's probably in the company of a white hair female in a black dress, same age, same height, see anyone with either of them, detain them and bring them upstairs."
"Oh shoot, that's us." Felicia said.
"Ah..." Mary Jane pointing out.
Peter, Gwen, Felicia and Mary Jane look ahead to see some casino spotted the four of them together as they're about to move.
"We're in trouble." Peter said.
"Only if we're together, they can't catch all of us if we split up." Felicia said.
"Okay, let's scatter and meet back at the suite. Agreed?" Peter said.
"Agreed." Felicia, Gwen, and Mary Jane all said in unison.
"Okay, go!" Peter said.
Peter, Gwen, Felicia, and Mary Jane all split up in different directions as security noticed them scattering and escaping, each of them are split to chase down one, Gwen ditched the heels and is running towards the entrance but she spotted one of the security men at the entrance as he noticed her, Mary Jane was heading towards it until she noticed Gwen is about to be in trouble, Gwen is about to be detained but all of a sudden stacks of chips are tossed at the guy as he turns to see Mary Jane is the one who threw them, she runs away as the guy chases after her and ditch the entrance, Gwen could tell that Mary Jane gave her an opening to escape, she took it and left the Golden Mask.
Mary Jane is still running until two more security came up and blocked her way, she's stopped and turned to see another one, she's cornered with no way out, she's been captured. Felicia is still running towards the back through the casino kitchen, passing by all the cooks as she found a entrance to the loading bay, but more security were waiting as she stopped, she tires to turn around only to find more security blocking her way, she's trapped as they got guns aimed at her. Coming out of the kitchen are security dragging Felicia Hardy as a few patrons noticed trouble here as another security also drag Mary Jane, one of them is a brunette woman in a dress as she could tell that something big is going on here.
Peter ran past the crowd attending the convention as the security team are losing in him the crowd, they're trying to move on pass the crowd as Peter made it to a hallway and ran down, but he heard noises up ahead as he figured more security is coming, he quickly went inside the dressing room as he's hiding and feeling trapped with no way out, he knows that it's only a matter of time til he's discovered but he look around the dressing room and got a crazy idea. Coming running down the hallway are security, someone is coming out of the dressing room dressed like Elvis Presley as they got their guns on him as he raised his hands up in the air.
"Whoa!"
"Put your weapons down, it's just an impersonator, have you seen someone in a tux run by?"
"Ah, I think he just ran past me, I was just heading out to sing."
"Fine, go on ahead, and good luck at the convention."
"Thank you, thank you very much!"
The Elvis impersonator is allowed passage as the security heads down the hallway onto to run into another team.
"Did you see him?"
"Nah, he must be in the room."
The two teams converge on the door as they open up and aims their guns only to find the dressing room empty, nobody is here as they look around only to find a tux Peter Parker was wearing on the ground.
"Our guy was wearing a tux like this. Question is, how did he get pass by us?"
"Oh shit, we just let by, come on!"
The security teams ran out of the dressing room and down the hallway upon realizing that Peter Parker switched clothes, he's dressed up as Elvis Presley, they made it out of the halls to find the convention still going on, they're moving through the crowd to get a beat on Elvis.
"There!"
They spotted someone in a Elvis suit as they rush to catch up, they managed to catch him and have their guns on him.
"Oh Sweet Jesus!"
They got a good look at this Elvis, he's older, it's not their guy.
"Wrong Elvis"
"Look, there he is!"
"No, there he is!"
Two guys pointing out to two different Elviss, but there are other Elvis here in the casino, all dressed alike, they can't tell which is which, this frustrates them greatly. Meanwhile walking out of the Golden Mask through the entrance is Peter Parker still dressed as Elvis Presley as he managed to escape capture, he takes off the sunglasses with a smile.
"Sorry, Elvis has left the building." Peter smile.
Peter Parker is heading towards the Roulette Casino, meanwhile coming out of the entrance of the Golden Mask is a brunette woman in a dress as she walking in the other direction, she's on the phone talking with someone.
"Listen I need a tactical team ready, I think something is about to go down here at the Golden Mask, we need to be ready."
Later it's 9:15 PM at Roulette Casino, inside the suite is Gwen Stacy waiting all alone for her friends and fiancé to come back, she's getting worried something bad has happened to them, but all of a sudden the suite door is opening up as she rush over to see her fiancé Peter coming in wearing a Elvis Presley suit, she hugs him feeling relieved he's okay, he too is relieved his fiancée is alright.
"Peter, thank god you're alright..." Gwen smiles as she stopped hug and looks at him all confused. "And why are you dressed like Elvis Presley?"
"Oh, long story, good news though..." Peter pulls out the laptop from tucked behind his pant. "I still have the laptop... where's MJ and Felicia?"
"They haven't returned, you're the only one who came back." Gwen said.
Peter sighs. "Which means they didn't get away, they're still at the Golden Mask. We need to go back." Peter said.
"How? It's not gonna be easy, security is more tight than ever, especially now that we've just broken in and escaped with their prize." Gwen said.
"We have to try Gwen, you didn't see the state Black Fox was in, he was tortured and mutilated, if we don't get back there very fast, Hammerhead will do the same to MJ and Felicia, especially given the circumstances." Peter said.
"What do you mean?" Gwen said.
"If Hammerhead figures out that I'm Peter Parker, it won't be long until he figures out who Felicia Hardy is, since she's the daughter of Walter Hardy, someone who once crossed the Maggia in the past." Peter said.
"If he figures out her connection, then he'll soon find out that she's the Black Cat." Gwen said.
"Exactly, we have to save them and protect Felicia's secret in the process." Peter said.
"How?" Gwen said.
Peter sighs as he thinks up a solution to protect Felicia's secret from getting out, he then looks at Gwen's figure as he thought of something crazy, Gwen noticed him staring at her.
"What?" Gwen look confused.
"I might know a way, we're gonna have to take a page from last year's playbook." Peter smile.
Gwen has no idea what Peter has planned for her.
Around the same time back at the Golden Mask Casino, the private elevator arrived at the top as security is dragging both Mary Jane and Felicia towards the office where Hammerhead and Madame Masque dressed in her attire showing off her golden mask, Black Fox is all tied up again to the chair as he looks back to see Felicia captured by the Maggia, the thugs drag them to chairs and sat them down next to Black Fox and tied them up.
"Welcome to my casino, do you both know who I am?" Madame Masque said.
"Should we? It's kinda hard to tell with mask and all, can't tell if you're happy or upset?" Mary Jane said.
"You sound chipper considering your situation." Madame Masque said.
"Not the first time I've been held against my will." Mary Jane said.
"We know exactly who you are... Mary Jane Watson, you were one of the people who got kidnapped by Fisk years ago, you and your friends even testified against him and sent him to prison. I know that you didn't come alone, where's your friend Parker?" Hammerhead said.
"Peter? How would I know? I'm not his keeper." Mary Jane said.
"Really?" Hammerhead reach out and gripped her jaw.
"Hey, get your hands off her!" Felicia protests in angry.
"Someone come into this office, manages to steal from my employers and now I catch you and your friends snooping around, I don't believe in coincidences. See that man next to you, unless you want your pretty face to end up like his, you better spill." Hammerhead being intimidating.
"Hey! You think you're all thought! You want to pick on someone, pick on me!" Felicia protests.
Hammerhead chuckles. "Oh, I plan to... Ms. Hardy... What? You think we didn't check you out, Felicia Sara Hardy, 18 years old, apparently you've been off the gird for a while, with is pretty unusual. But then I ask myself, the name Hardy, why does it sound so familiar? I remember someone else named Hardy, he was a master thief who stole from the Maggia about eight years ago. Then I remember another thief who robbed me and my boss about three years ago, a young teen with white hair... you never forget the thief who stole and screwed up your life... at long last, I've finally have you before me, Black Cat."
Felicia is stunned that Hammerhead finally figured out that she's the Black Cat as he walks over and stands before her clenching his fists.
"I'm gonna enjoy this, making you suffer slowly, it's payback time Black Cat." Hammerhead smile sinisterly.
But all of a sudden coming in swinging and crashing through the windows are Spider-Man and his partner Black Cat, surprising everyone right before their eyes.
"Did someone say my name?" Black Cat/Gwen smile.
"Black Cat?! How?! She's..." Hammerhead looking very confused.
He looks at Felicia still tied up as she too is confused along with Mary Jane and Black Fox, there's another Black Cat in the presence of Spider-Man, none of them know that she is in fact Gwen Stacy dressed as Black Cat, dressed in Felicia's suit, showing off her cleavage and wearing a white wig with dark lips.
"You idiot, that's the Black Cat." Madame Masque said.
"In the presence of Spider-Man no less... good, I also have a grudge against him too, cause of those two, we lost everything and we had to go into hiding like rats." Hammerhead holds a grudge.
"If I remember correctly, you've always been a rat, Hammy." Spider-Man insults.
"And cats eats rats, I see a bunch of mob rats here and I'm feeling pretty hungry." Black Cat/Gwen insults.
"I never imagine I'd ever get to face Spider-Man, especially here in my city." Madame Masque said.
"Well Madame Destro, if you did the crime, you're gonna do a lot of time in prison." Spider-Man said.
"I don't think so..." Madame Masque pulls out her pistol. "Kill them all!"
Madame Masque, Hammerhead, and the Maggia thugs all aim their guns as Spider-Man and Black Cat took evasive action, they split up in separate directions to confused them as they open fire, Spider-Man is running and firing off his webbing at the guns, jamming up the barrels, Hammerhead dropped his gun and processed to charge in for a tackle, Spider-Man can see Hammerhead using his head like always, he jumps over him and proceeded to fighting off the thugs, Madame Masque kept on shooting at Black Cat who is moving too fast as she managed to dodged the bullet and got close enough to pull out her claws, she slice the gun into pieces as she then executes a spinning hook kick and knocked Madame Masque off her feet as she crashed against the bookshelf. Afterwards she went up behind Mary Jane and uses the claws to cut the ropes off, she moves to Felicia and does the same with her ropes, she cuts her free.
"You're free now, go!" Black Cat/Gwen said.
Felicia is stunned. "You?"
Black Cat/Gwen winks with a smile. "It's me, go!"
Black Cat give Felicia the keycard as she then quickly cuts off the ropes holding Black Fox as she went back and joins Spider-Man, while the two are keeping the enemy occupied Felicia and Mary Jane are helping Black Fox up on his feet as they're carefully dragging him away, Mary Jane and Felicia look back at their friends fighting.
"GO! Get him out of here, we'll hold them off." Spider-Man said.
Felicia nodded her head as she and Mary Jane are taking Black Fox out of the office and heading towards the elevator, Felicia uses the keycard to access the elevator as all three enters quickly, Felicia pressed the button to close the doors and go down to the casino floor, she then spots a fire alarm on the panel, she pressed it.
(Casino Floor)
All the patrons inside the casino floor all heard the fire alarm being tripped as everyone heard it, they're starting to evacuate the building quickly, rushing out of the casino as fast as they can, meanwhile outside of the casino itself is a city maintenance van parked across the street as people inside it including the brunette woman are doing surveillance and noticed a lot of people exiting the casino with hast.
"Something is going on in there, have the tactical team ready to move in."
(Private Floor)
Back at the office, Spider-Man and Black Cat are still in a fight against Hammerhead and his thugs, Madame Masque is looking around to see Black Fox has escaped along with the two hostages, she attempts to get up and chase after them, but Spider-Man noticed as he fired webbing at the door opening and formed a web around it, blocking her way out of the office, Black Cat push kick Hammerhead hard as fell down and got ticked off.
"Enough of this! Toss me my Tommy gun!" Hammerhead demands.
One of the thugs opens up the gun safe and tossed Hammerhead his personal Thompson machine gun with drum magazine and grip, he got it in his hands and cocks it as Spider-Man and Black Cat spotted the villain armed with a gun.
"Oh dang!" Spider-Man is stunned.
Hammerhead started firing off rounds as Spider-Man summoned his web shield and as he pulls Black Cat in and protect himself and her from the bullets, Hammerhead still kept on firing rounds, a few more thugs are rearming up with automatic weapons.
"We can't wait until he's out!" Black Cat/Gwen said.
"Time to go!" Spider-Man holding up the web shield.
Hammerhead's Tommy gun jammed up as Spider-Man and Black Cat took the opportunity to escape by jumping out together as the thugs started shooting, they're both falling down outside the casino as Spider-Man got a hold of Black Cat in his arms as he fires a web line at a window and lowers himself down to the ground, but Hammerhead and his thugs are leaning out the window and kept on shooting at the pair, they eventually made it to the bottom as they rushed back to the casino, unaware that they're being spotted by an unknown party. Spider-Man and Black Cat ran down to the elevator as it finally made it to the bottom of the casino floor, the door opens up as Mary Jane and Felicia are dragging Black Fox out.
"How'd you two get here before us?" Felicia said.
"Seriously?" Black Cat/Gwen said.
"Right, stupid question." Felicia said.
"Let's not stick around, let's go." Mary Jane said.
"Follow us." Spider-Man said.
Spider-Man and Black Cat are leading the three through the casino to the entrance but instead they find more Maggia thugs armed with guns blocking their way out, they stopped and turned around only to find more thugs with guns behind them, including more to their left and right, they're cornered on all sides with no way out. Another private elevator came down as Madame Masque and Hammerhead are coming out with more thugs with guns.
Hammerhead chuckles. "Well, well, well, trapped like rats, this must be our lucky day. I know you're fast, but even you're not fast enough to dodge all these bullets at once."
"What're you gonna do? Kill us all in cold blood." Spider-Man said.
Madame Masque aiming her pistol. "Since you're all trespassing on my property, we can shoot you all and not be arrested."
"I've waited a long time for this moment, this time it's death by firing squad. Say goodnight Insect, you too Kitty Cat." Hammerhead aiming his Tommy gun.
All five are surrounded and have no way out as Madame Masque, Hammerhead, and all the Maggia thugs are aiming their guns ready to fire, killing them all off, but all of a sudden they heard gunfire coming from the entrance of the casino dropping a few thugs as a group of men in tactical gear came in armed with automatic weapons like M4 rifles and MP5 submachine guns, their uniform all have FBI on it, a woman came in wearing a vest is leading the operation, the same brunette woman who was around the casino a couple times is none other than Agent Dakota North of the FBI, the heroes realized it's an FBI op and they walked right in the middle of it.
"FBI, we have a warrant, all of you, drop your weapons and put your hands in the air!" Dakota North aiming her gun.
"Shit, Feds." Hammerhead is spooked.
"Don't just stand there, shoot them!" Madame Masque yells.
The Maggia open fire on the FBI as the agents took cover and return fire against the Maggia, the heroes all duck down and took cover behind the craps tables as a war erupted in the Golden Mask Casino between the Maggia and the FBI.
"Stay here, we're gonna go and back up the Feds." Spider-Man said.
"Okay, go get 'em Tiger." Mary Jane said.
Spider-Man gave a thumbs up as he and Black Cat got up and joined the fight against the Maggia, Spider-Man fired off some webbings at the thugs, immobilizing them as he's swinging around attracting the attention of Hammerhead as he fires off his Tommy gun in the air, Spidey is taking evasive action avoiding the bullets, Madame Masque is still shooting until she's out of bullets as she ran while reloading, Dakota North spotted the woman in charge of the crime syndicate making a run for it.
"Cover me!" Dakota North said.
Dakota North moves in to apprehend the criminal mastermind and fires her pistol at the woman as she's taking cover behind the pillar, one of the thugs is firing at the agent but Dakota North shot him with perfect accuracy, he dropped down next to Madame Masque as she reloaded her pistol, but she puts it away and lowers down to pick up the thug's automatic weapon, she started shooting at Dakota North as the agent took cover behind a pillar, Madame Masque took cover and Dakota North returned fire, shooting off a few rounds before taking cover behind the pillar. Madame Masque waited behind the pillar to make the move, Agent North did the same, she took a deep breath and came out firing, Madame Masque fired back her rifle as one of the bullet hit Agent North in the vest, she went down as Madame Masque came out aiming her rifle at the injured agent in charge.
Madame Masque chuckles. "Someone should've told you that I'm not a woman to be trifled with."
"What are gonna do? Killing a federal agent is very serious crime." Dakota North down on the ground.
"My life is already over, you'll never stop coming after me, least I can do is put you out of your misery." Madame Masque said.
Dakota North is too hurt and powerless to do anything as Madame Masque aims the rifle at the agent ready to shoot, but Black Cat came in and uses the claws to slice the rifle in half as she saved Dakota North's life, Madame Masque pulls back as she draws out her pistol and started shooting as Black Cat ran and took cover behind the craps table, Madame Masque kept on shooting until her gun ran out of rounds, Black Cat came out onto the table and kicked the gun off Madame Masque's hands. Meanwhile in another part of the casino, Hammerhead is still shooting his Tommy gun at Spider-Man until his gun ran out of ammo, he dropped the gun down as Spider-Man took the opportunity to come down swinging for a drop kick, but Hammerhead quickly got a hold of Spidey's ankle and swings him around and crashed him against the slot machines, the hero was caught by surprise by Hammerhead's improved strength.
"What the..." Spider-Man said.
"Surprised? I went through some improvements, added some cybernetic implants to increase my strength, some of my bones are reinforced with adamantium, just like my plate in my head, do some real damage." Hammerhead explains.
"Having all that metal in your body can't be good for you." Spider-Man said.
"It was worth it, I came prepared for our next encounter." Hammerhead said.
Hammerhead came in for a tackle as Spider-Man quickly moves in, he got on the ground and executes a new ground kick he learned recently, he raised his leg up and kicked Hammerhead hard as he was sent and crashed his back against a slot machine, it's rolling down and all triple '7's showed up in the same role, the slot machine is acting up as Mary Jane and Felicia are watching.
Mary Jane looks amazed "Wow Tiger, you really just hit the jackpot."
Spider-Man looks down at Hammerhead. "Like that move? I learned it from a friend, he calls it the Manji Kick, very effective."
Hammerhead is looking hurt and pissed. "You're despicable."
"Thank you! Thank you very much!" Spider-Man does the Elvis Presley impersonation.
Hammerhead looks around to find one of his thug's gun and picked it up, he aims it at Spider-Man but then he spotted Black Fox taking cover behind the craps table with the two ladies and looks above their heads to find a chandelier, he fired off some rounds as Spidey dodged them and they flew up to the chandelier, hitting the support holding it up.
"You missed!" Spider-Man said.
"Did I?" Hammerhead smile.
Spider-Man looks up at the chandelier as it's about to fall down on top of them, he quickly rushed to them as it started falling down on top, Spider-Man forms up a web shield as it took a step further and forms itself into a web dome around him and the three, the chandelier came crashing down onto the web dome, Hammerhead took the opportunity to escape as Spider-Man is still under the web dome, he then activate the second function of the dome as it dispersed and unleashed a powerful wave around, the chandelier was taken off and all four of them are safe and unharmed.
"Are you girls okay?" Spider-Man said.
"We are, thanks to you Tiger." Mary Jane is grateful.
"Spider, look!" Felicia pointed out.
Spider-Man spotted Hammerhead getting away.
"I'll get him, you two, get him out of here, go through the back." Spider-Man said.
Spider-Man rush to chase after Hammerhead while Mary Jane and Felicia are helping Black Fox up and dragging him carefully to the back of the casino, Hammerhead is still running attempting to escape as he noticed Spider-Man coming his way, he spotted some thugs still standing.
"Cover me!" Hammerhead yells.
Maggia thugs spotted Hammerhead running from Spider-Man as they all turn their guns at the hero chasing after him, Spider-Man took evasive action avoiding the bullets as he can't proceed ahead while pinned down by gunfire, they're just buy Hammerhead time to get away as Spider-Man will have to deal with them first before going after Hammerhead. Meanwhile Black Cat is busy fighting off against Madame Masque as she's got some parkour and fighting skills, Black Cat does a roundhouse kick but Madame Masque flips over the table and kicked the poker table as it's sliding towards Black Cat, she ducks down underneath it and came out only to be kicked by a roundhouse kick from Madame Masque and fell down to the floor.
Black Cat/Gwen wipes the blood from her lips. "I see you know some moves."
"I am woman of many talents. You really think I'd just let my people do all the dirty work?" Madame Masque said.
"Honestly, the thought had cross my mind." Black Cat/Gwen said.
Madame Masque pulls out a switchblade as she's swings down as Black Cat quickly jumps back and dodged the blade swing, Madame Masque is still moving in attempting to pierce and cut Black Cat, since Gwen is doing her best fight as Black Cat since she's using some of her gear and no web shooters for this, she continues doing backflips avoiding the blade as she jumps onto the roulette table, Madame Masque is coming in as Black Cat picks up the roulette wheel and uses it to shield herself from the knife as it got stuck, Black Cat then push kick Madame Masque hard as she fell down. She's attempting to get back up on her feet, Black Cat tossed the roulette wheel as it knocked Madame Masque in the head, she back on the ground and her mask gotten loose to show her face, she's out cold.
"Ha! Looks like I beat the house!" Black Cat/Gwen teasing.
Black Cat spotted Felicia and Mary Jane escorting Black Fox making their way towards the back of the casino as she moves to aid them, meanwhile Spider-Man has taken down the last remaining thugs as he rush to find Hammerhead somewhere around the casino floor, he swings around to look around until he spotted someone wearing a suit resembling Hammerhead, he jumps down and tackles this individuals, only to see he's got the wrong guy, he looks like an Elvis impersonator wearing Hammerhead's suit.
"OH MY! SWEET JESUS!"
Spider-Man looks confused. "What the... Hey pal, did you happened to see someone wearing a suit just like the one you're wearing?"
"Yeah, he told me to switch suits with him, he made me wear this."
Spider-Man sighs. "Where did he go?"
Coming out of the casino entrance is someone dressed like Elvis Presley as agents are letting a few civilians that were inside leave the casino, unknown to them Hammerhead is the guy dressed like Elvis and they just let him go free without know it, Hammerhead smile as he's gotten out and now is on the loose. Spider-Man realized that Hammerhead is long gone by now, but right now he's got other concerns as he knows a few people who needs his help. Black Cat is helping Felicia and Mary Jane escort Black Fox through the back until she noticed they're about to have company.
"Get him into the room quickly and hide!" Black Cat/Gwen said.
Felicia and Mary Jane took Black Fox into the room to hide as two FBI agents are coming in the hall and spotted only Black Cat as they raised their guns at her.
"FREEZE, PUT YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR!"
Black Cat is cornered as the FBI agents are attempting to apprehend her, Felicia and Mary Jane are still hiding with Black Fox but they know it's only a matter of till they're all discovered, but Spider-Man came in and intervened.
"HEY! STAND DOWN! SHE'S WITH ME, SO STAND DOWN! STAND DOWN!" Spider-Man yells.
"Can't do that, Spider-Man! We know exactly who Black Cat is, so stay out of it or we'll arrest you for obstruction!"
"Go ahead, I won't back down... You both better think your next moves very carefully." Spider-Man being serious.
FBI agents have their guns on Spider-Man protecting Black Cat and he's throwing an ultimatum at them, the agents all lower their guns and retreated back to the casino as they don't want to mess with Spider-Man. He and Black Cat waited as the agents already left and it's safe for their friends to come.
"Okay, coast is clear." Spider-Man said.
Coming out of the room is Mary Jane and Felicia dragging out Black Fox as they're relieved none of them were discovers as they came too close to being arrested for aiding Black Fox.
"Thanks Spider." Felicia said.
"And Hammerhead?" Black Cat/Gwen said.
"He's long gone... we should be too, let's get out of here." Spider-Man said.
Spider-Man and Black Cat are escorting Mary Jane and Felicia helping Black Fox leave through the back after their mission is complete, back inside the casino itself, there are a number of casualties, most the thugs are down including several agents, some are wounded as the one left alive are arresting the remaining criminals including Whitney Frost as she's being personally arrested by Dakota North, the Nefaria Crime Family of the Maggia has been defeated and Madame Masque is finally in custody, justice has been served.
It's 11:03 PM just outside of the Golden Mask Casino, a number of fire truck, police cruisers, and ambulances are outside along with number of press are recording as the FBI are dragging out Whitney Frost along with members of her Maggia faction in handcuffs, putting an end to the Maggia here in Atlantic City. Meanwhile up on high of the Roulette Casino at the suite, in one of the rooms, Black Fox is laying on the bed with his broken fingers in ices as Mary Jane is bandaging him up, Felicia came by and hands him some pills, he swallows them and she hands him a glass of water, he drinks it, in the living room is Gwen sitting on the couch in the Black Cat suit with a white wig next to her and still has dark lips, Peter is in his Spider-Man suit talking on the phone with Coulson on this unfortunate situation.
"This is very uncomfortable position you've put me in, Peter." Coulson said.
"I'm sorry Coulson, we were on a rescue mission, we didn't expect the FBI to show up unexpectedly." Peter said.
"Well, the Bureau wasn't exactly happy your little operation happens to conflict with theirs, you can't imagine how embarrassing it was to clear up this whole misunderstanding." Coulson said.
"And... what did you tell 'em?" Peter said.
"I told their director that you and Black Cat were in an undercover op for S.H.I.E.L.D., trying to take down the Maggia in secret, it's the best cover story I could come up with." Coulson said.
"And they believe it?" Peter said.
"Who knows, right now the Bureau is more happy that Madame Masque is finally in custody after so many years, it's a big win for them. And what of the embezzled funds?" Coulson said.
"Not to worry, we got the laptop, Felicia will call her friend to come down to AC tomorrow morning, she'll unlock the encryption on it and we'll be able to return all that money back to the owners." Peter said.
"That's good, normally I wouldn't condone it, but it was smart letting Black Fox escape, would've been a bigger mess to explain to the bureau, but you help dealt a big blow to the entire Maggia's money laundering operation and everyone who lost that money will soon get their lives back, so everything worked well in the end, I'll be sure to keep the bureau off your back, and Parker... you did good." Coulson said.
"Thanks, but I had some help." Peter said.
"Then they have my thanks as well, tell 'em for me." Coulson said.
"Will do." Peter hangs up the call.
Felicia is coming out of the room along with Mary Jane after finishing treating Black Fox.
"How is he?" Peter said.
"He has a least five broken fingers on ice, some busted ribs, a bruised face, a several molars yanked out from his jaws, he's been through a lot, but he'll be fine, we left to rest." Felicia said.
"That's good, I'm sorry I couldn't catch Hammerhead, I would love to put his butt in jail." Peter said.
"Me too, if I ever see him again, he'll pay big time." Felicia said.
"I'll be sure to add torture and mutilation to his rap sheet, he can't hide forever, one day we'll get him." Peter said.
"I'm just glad to have Black Fox back safe and sound, thanks to all of you, especially you, can't believe you're wearing my suit." Felicia looking at Gwen.
Gwen still dressed as Black Cat. "Yeah, we had to think of a way to protect your secret, and we did. Thanks to this, Hammerhead and the Maggia bought it, they don't believe you're the Black Cat, your secret is safe."
Felicia is grateful. "Thanks Gwen, you're a great friend."
"It's actually thanks to her, that I was able to escape and come back, nice work... Jackpot." Gwen said.
"See, I'm not just a damsel in distress." Mary Jane said.
"Never said you were." Peter smile.
"Still, thanks for coming to my rescue as always, Tiger." Mary Jane smile.
Mary Jane came up and hugs Peter before giving him a huge kiss on the cheek, Felicia came up and hugs him too.
"Thanks Spider, for coming back for me and Black Fox, I'm so grateful." Felicia kiss him on the other cheek.
Gwen smiles. "Hey, hands off my man. You've already locked lips with him earlier."
Felicia looks surprised. "You told her?"
"I don't keep secrets from Gwen." Peter said.
"Except for that time you once kiss Betty Brant." Gwen smile.
"Are you still on that?" Peter said.
"Oh, I gotta hear this story some other time." Felicia smile.
Gwen sighs with a smile. "Seriously Pete, what is it that makes girls go crazy over you?"
"Come on Gwendy, you know there's only one girl who's ever captured my heart, I'm looking at her." Peter flirts.
"Mmm, lucky me." Gwen flirts back.
Peter and Gwen walks up closer and kisses each other passionately, they stopped as Peter gazed upon Gwen in a Black Cat suit.
"Gotta say, looks great on you." Peter likes what he see.
"You think so?" Gwen smile.
Felicia coughs. "Don't get any funny ideas, and I'm gonna need that suit dry cleaned."
Peter and Gwen smiles as Felicia and Mary Jane all felt happy tonight was a huge success, they nabbed the laptop, rescued Black Fox, and took down Madame Masque along with entire organization.
It's April 7th, time is 10:31 AM in Atlantic City as Black Fox is still resting in bed, in the living room Peter, Gwen, Mary Jane, and Felicia ordered room service and having freshly cooked breakfast such as pancakes, waffles, toast, cereals, eggs, sausages and bacons along with having drinks of hot coffee as they're watching the local news on last night's incident concerning Madame Masque and Hammerhead.
"Last night approximately 11:03 PM outside of the Golden Mask Casino, federal agents were dragging out Whitney Frost, the owner of the casino suspected in being in charge of a local crime family, using the casino as a front of their money laundering operations, a massive shootout between the feds and gangs erupted resulting in casualties on both sides, but after years of investigating, Ms. Frost is finally in custody, however her accomplice Hammerhead is still at large, a massive state hunt is underway tracking the fugitive, he is considered to be very dangerous, if you spot him, notify the authorities..."
"If I know Hammerhead, he's already long gone." Peter said.
"I'm surprised the feds didn't come for us since we in the middle." Mary Jane said.
"We returned back to the Golden Mask after we escorted you two out, we've erased any footages on the drives before the feds get their hands on them, so you both can relax, you're all safe." Gwen said.
"Thanks." Felicia smile.
They then heard the door knock as Felicia is the first one to walk up to the doors as Peter and Gwen both have web shooters strapped to their wrists as they're being cautious after last night, Felicia took a peek through the eyehole as she opens up the door for Tamara Blake walking in wearing glasses in a pink tank top with a bandaged shoulder.
"Tamara, you're finally here. It's okay, she's a friend." Felicia vouches.
"Thanks, and they are?" Tamara asking about them.
"They're my friends too, I trust 'em with my life." Felicia vouches for her friends.
"Any friends of Leesh are friends of mine, nice to meet you all. And Black Fox?" Tamara said.
"Follow me." Felicia said.
Felicia leads Tamara around the suite towards the room, she opens up as Black Fox is still resting in bed, Felicia coughs loudly to get his attention, he walks up to find Felicia with Tamara who is stunned in tears upon finding him alive again, he smile as Tamara smiled back too as she walks up and hugs him right there, Felicia smiles along with Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane, the two are reunited once again.
Later in the room, Black Fox is eating an oatmeal as breakfast as it's the only thing he can have for now in his condition, in the living room Tamara is sitting down on the chair with Madame Masque's computer on her laptop as she's decrypting the encryption she put on it, Peter, Gwen, Mary Jane, and Felicia all waited as Tamara does her work and uses her computer skills to decrypt the computer, eventually she succeeded and the entire laptop has finally been unlocked, it's all in there, the embezzled 100 million in cryptocurrency, banking information, wire transfers, secret offshore bank accounts, everything.
Tamara smile. "Voilà, it's done, the money they stolen, it's all in there, and much more."
"What do you mean?" Peter said.
"There's a website, looks like Madame Masque was going to transfer the funds into an oversea account, to a bank in Palermo." Tamara said.
"That's gotta be where Silvermane is hiding out." Gwen said.
"I think you should give your agent friend a call, you have info on Silvermane's whereabouts." Felicia said.
"I'm on it." Peter is making a call to Phil Coulson as he walks away.
"Now my work is done, what you do with that money is up to guys." Tamara said.
"We'll make sure everyone has ever cent returned to their accounts where they belong. Thank you so much." Gwen said.
"It's the least I can do, thank you all for saving Black Fox, I'm in your debt." Tamara smile.
"Me too." Felicia smiles.
"Thank so much Coulson." Peter smiles and hangs up the phone, he turns to the group. "Good news, Coulson's contacting his friends at Interpol, they'll head to Palermo to find Silvermane, he's about to go down very soon."
"Finally, he's about to face justice." Felicia said.
"And what about the other info, what do you plan to do with it?" Tamara said.
"Not to worry, I know some people who'll put this information to good use." Peter thought of a solution.
It's 12:34 PM at the Ocean Casino Resort, the FBI are using the rooms as their temporary headquarters during their stay in their investigation against Whitney Frost, opening up the door is Dakota North with a cup of coffee she gotten from the streets as she finds her agents on the phones with smiles on their faces.
"Agent North, there's good news, we've gotten calls from everyone who got swindled by those dead Wall Streeters, they all received their money back."
Dakota North is confused. "How?"
"We don't know, the money just showed up in their accounts all of a sudden, the exact amounts they've lost, they have it back, every cent."
Dakota North is stunned with a smile. "That's wonderful... What of Ms. Frost? Has she talked?"
"No, not a single word, we've interrogated her, but that woman is so ice cold."
"She can stay silent all she wants, she's still going down, I only care about getting information on her other accomplices, the ones who owns the money she's helped funnel through her own casino... have our agents search the casino top to bottom til they find a smoking gun, anything useful. I'm gonna head back to my room, let me know if there's any updates on the case." Dakota North said.
"Yes Agent North."
Dakota North left the agents and walks back to her room, she uses her keycard to open up the door to her room, she walks to the bed only to find a laptop laying on it along with a folder on top. She's confused as to what this laptop is doing in her room, she leans down and picks up the folder, it reads "FROM YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN!" She opens up the folder to find printouts on the casino's books, wired transfers to overseas bank accounts, large amounts of illegal money in each account, she figured that they all belong to the people Madame Masque works with, she plans to put this to good use.
Later around 2 PM just outside of the Roulette Casino as Tamara and Felicia are escorting Black Fox wearing a regular suit through the entrance where a taxi cab is waiting, Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane are waiting, Tamara came to the group as she's pulling out a couple of passports for herself and Black Fox.
"Here, I took the liberty of getting these for us." Tamara said.
"Nice work, Tamara." Black Fox said.
"Are you both set?" Felicia said.
"We are, we got a charter plane waiting for us to fly us anywhere." Tamara said.
"I'd advise you both to lay low for a while, with Hammerhead still on the loose, he'll come for you and he's not the type to forget or forgive." Peter said.
"Not to worry, I don't think I'm up for some action any time soon, I'm thinking about taking a long vacation." Black Fox smile.
"After everything you've been through, you earned it." Tamara said.
"I am forever in your debt, all of you, I know the big risk you all took, especially letting someone of my line of work go instead of turning me in." Black Fox said.
"Someone once told us that life isn't always black and white, sometimes there's grey in it too. I've known a lot of bad guys in my life, but you're not one of them." Peter said.
Black Fox smile. "Thank you."
"It's actually you we should be thanking, thanks to your hard work and sacrifices, all of those good people got there money back, they finally have a chance to get back their lives." Peter said.
"That's not all, thanks to the info on the computer, the Feds have the list of all the offshore bank accounts the Maggia controls and use to save their dirty money, soon all their accounts will be frozen and seized, cutting them off financially, they're about to feel the big sting when they find out all their money is gone." Peter said.
"Not enough to take down the entire Maggia, but it's a start, without their money, they'll be more vulnerable than ever." Felicia said.
"And Interpol is moving in to Palermo, they're about to arrest Silvermane, he's gonna face justice." Peter said.
"That's wonderful, it's a big win for all of us... we should get going, we got a flight to catch... why don't come with us Leesh?" Tamara said.
"I love to, maybe one day I'll come see you, but for now my place is here, with my friends." Felicia said.
"I guess this is goodbye." Tamara said.
Tamara and Felicia both hugged each other goodbye, Felicia pull back and turns to Black Fox as she did the same for him, he then looks upon Felicia.
"Thank you so much Felicia, I knew I made the right decision training you, I know that it's not what your father wanted, but... I know he'll be very proud of you, to be honest I am too." Black Fox said.
"Thank you too, for coming into my life when I felt lost, you made me into the woman I am now, cause of that, I got to meet some of the best people in my life." Felicia said.
Felicia turns to Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane as she was talking about them, they're all the best people in her life.
"You're lucky to have them... we should go, I'll see you again someday, Felicia."
"Someday." Felicia said.
Felicia gave Black Fox one last hug before he climbs into the cab with Tamara Blake, the pair are waving to Felicia and her friends as the cab drives away from the casino as the group all waved goodbye, the cab is on the way to the airfield to catch a flight, they're now gone as all four are still here in Atlantic City.
"Okay, our work here is complete, now what?" Mary Jane said.
Felicia smile. "Since we're still here... let's relax."
(Later)
At the pool area of the Roulette Casino, Peter, Gwen, Mary Jane, and Felicia are relaxing and laying back in chairs, Peter is wearing a blue swim trunk with sunglasses, Gwen is wearing a white bikini wearing sunglasses, Mary Jane in a red bikini wearing sunglasses, and Felicia in a black bikini wearing sunglasses as some guys around her are amazed by three beauties here, they kinda envious one guy is hanging out three hot babes.
"I see you ladies are being eyeballed by some admirers." Peter smile.
"Too bad I'm already taken." Gwen smile.
"So this is your idea to relax? Laying on our backs by the pool?" Peter said.
"Don't complain, at least you get to relax with three of the hottest woman in your life. We saved a good man, took down a crime family, and we've returned all the money back to their owns, we deserve a break." Felicia said.
"She's right, it's not everyday we come to AC, let's make the most of it." Mary Jane said.
"You know what?" Felicia get up on her feet. "I could go for a swim, anyone care to join me?"
Mary Jane gets up. "I could use a swim. Gwen?"
Gwen gets up. "Sure. Pete?"
"Nah, you girls have fun." Peter stays on the chair.
Mary Jane, Gwen, and Felicia all jumped in the pool together and are relaxing in the cool water, Peter watched as the girls are having fun in the pool, Gwen is coming up to the edge.
"Pete, can you hand me that bottle?" Gwen still in the pool.
Peter reached out and picked up the bottle next to him, he gets up from the chair and walks over to the pool, he bend down and hands Gwen her bottle of water.
"Here you go." Peter smile.
Gwen got the bottle, but she also got her hands on Peter's wrist and pulls him into the pool by force, he fell down into the water and came out as the girls are laughing at Peter splashing around the pool. Peter smile as he splashes water on the ladies as they splash back, they're all staying in AC and having some fun before heading on home to New York, they all deserve a big break.
It's April 8th, time is 9:34 AM in the region of Sicily, a large island in Italy, in the city of Palermo, Hammerhead just returned back the hideout owned by the Maggia after escaping the states, he's in the company of a few of Madame Masque's men only to find the place trashed and no sign of Silvermane, but a few of his men are here as they're surprised to see Hammerhead is back in Italy.
"Hammerhead... you're back."
"What happened here? Where's the boss?" Hammerhead said.
"Interpol happened, I don't how they found out, but they raided the compound and took out most of our guys, Silvermane got captured, he's in their custody... but that's not the worst of it, we got word from the other crime families, all their accounts got frozen up, all the money they had, it's all gone."
Hammerhead sighs. "Spider-Man... go figure."
"What do we do, we've got no money, we're very low on manpower, we got nothing."
"I'll tell you what we'll do, we'll rebuild, we can always find more money and we'll recruit more men, this isn't the end gentlemen, this is only the beginning." Hammerhead said.
Hammerhead walks up around the table towards the head chair, he takes his seat and sits down, the remaining thugs from both Madame Masque and Silvermane's families each took a seat as Hammerhead has established himself as the new head, form his own crime family, he plans to rebuild the Maggia from scratch and come back more stronger than ever, Hammerhead smiles as he's now the new boss, finally taking his rightfully place in the Maggia.
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