The Coffee Bean late the next week; in the afternoon and Mary Jane and Eddie were sitting together with their coffee orders. "So... Did Peter get back to you on the offer to come and join us?" Mary Jane asked as Eddie shook his head looking irritated.

"We give bro some space and he says that he could be too busy when we want to get back to hanging out with us... Seriously; it's like this year, he's been too distracted or bailing on us too much..." Eddie replied shaking his head as Mary Jane frowned.

"So... You two have been friends since..." Mary Jane asked as Eddie put down his irritation.

"Since like forever... We have been as tight as tight can be... He before always had my back... I needed his help and he was there; I needed an alibi and he supplied it... I want to try and get a story, he would support me..." Eddie replied as Mary Jane gave him a look.

"Alibi?" Mary Jane asked as Eddie shrugged.

"Let's not get into that... Point is; he was always there for me and I know you have some stories when you were both neighbours... Now it's us hanging out together and studying together..." Eddie said seeing Mary Jane's hands on the table and reached out for one slowly as she pulled away. "Oh... Sorry... Don't know what I was doing there..." Eddie said as Mary Jane gave him a look.

"Not interested in you like that Eddie; if that's what you are thinking..." Mary Jane told him sternly as Eddie looked defensive.

"I legit understand..." Eddie said before thinking to try and change the subject. "But this year has been a lot and not just because of Pete's behaviour... Its the trouble of that Spider-Man..." Eddie then said sounding serious as he brought it up but Mary Jane shook her head.

Mary Jane then told him "You should stop with that grudge on Spider-Man; he is protecting the city..."

Eddie then shook his head and retorted "He's bringing trouble to the city; now there's that Prowler following his lead and..." Eddie said as he had his phone alert go off. He looked and saw a live news video of Spider-Man chasing a large man with a mechanical orange shell on his back and clawed gloves on his hands. The man then rolled into a ball like an armadillo and chased Spider-Man but he dodged it and the man then went through a construction site with Spider-Man using webs to get the workers out of the way.

"See... He brings these villains here with his existence and basks in the glory with his antics..." Eddie said looking vindicated as Mary Jane wasn't able to argue there.

Peter was quite tired as in his Spider-Man suit; he was overlooking the man calling himself Armadillo who was lying down defeated. He did not go down easy and he felt tired; plus Armadillo left a mess in the construction site. He then noticed police arriving as well as civilians and reporters.

He came up and had reporters coming up to him:

"Spider-Man; what can you tell us about the latest supervillain?"

"Do you know where they are coming from?"

"What do you say about the damage that you fight has caused..."

Then a limo arrived and out came a man in a suit; the man had been admiring his reflection in the window before arriving. "Spider-Man. We meet and I must say that; you give a conundrum to me. I have a dim view of vigilantism; I had personally prosecuted Frank Castle and if it were up to me, the man known as the Black Cat would have had a task force to bring him to justice. However I am forced to concede that the PDNY is inn-equipped to deal with these unusual criminals that you fight." the man then said as Peter stared at him.

He then asked "and you are..."

However out from the limo there was also Fisk that Peter soon noticed; Fisk and the man had reporters asking them both questions. "I am sure that New York's District Attorney can deal with prosecuting this dangerous criminal. I think we all owe a debt of gratitude to our city's mysterious defender. I must thank you as this menace brought the lives of the workers of my construction company at risk." Fisk then told him out loud as Peter then stared at him.

"No need for thanks Mr Fisk... Wonder where they are all coming from..." Peter then answered knowing that he had to play it cool; Fisk made it clear that his resources and public image made him hard to bring down without some serious evidence. Peter then web slinged away hoping that things would become simpler again soon.

That night at Stryker's Island prison; a group of masked mercenaries were jumping down from a helicopter. "The security feed will be down; you have a long enough opening to get to his specialised cell. Don't waste time." said a voice in their comms.

"Relax Microchip... We're professionals; just make sure that the rest of our money will be wired." said the leader of the mercenaries as they descended upon a secret entrance in the complex. The guards were dealing with reports of the security being down; the mercenaries then made it to a specialised small cell and used their stun guns to take the guards down there.

In the cell was large well built man with long hair and a beard with his hands in binds with his heels binded together was well. "I see you are in his cell; they had to make this specially for him. Not even a week after his welcoming in the prison; some corrupt guards arranged for him to be alone with a room filled off criminals. It backfired and left most of them dead; only a small amount of guards survived before reinforcements came to subdue them. However they were left with painful injuries." Microchip said in their comms as the leader then used a special EMP device to shut down the electronics in the room.

They went to the prisoner and used a sedative before getting his cuffs and heel bindings off. Carrying the prisoner; they then rushed back through as more and more guards were coming but they fired at them with their stun guns. The jet flew down and and they got on with it taking off.

New York's District Attorney was in his bed with a beautiful supermodel; his phone was going off and he was forcing himself to wake up as he got the phone from the bedside table. "What is it... It had better be good..." the DA demanded frustrated wanting to just go back to sleep when the call was over.

"Word from Stryker's... A breakout was staged... Castle is loose..." said the person on the other end and that got the DA up wide awake with a look of panic and horror on his face.

The escaped prisoner got up and found himself in some sort of room filled with computers; lying on top of a mattress and there was an obtuse man with a five o'clock shadow and glasses. "Frank Castle the Punisher himself... I have to say I'm a huge fan..." the man then said as Castle then got up and him up lifted by by his shirt. "You should be grateful... I just hired some tough guys to break you out of Stryker's... 15 years eating the lunches there and you don't have to anymore..." the man said as Castle scoffed at him.

"Who the hell are you?" Castle demanded as the man didn't look too chalant about his situation.

"I'm Microchip... I'm a hacker... The best... I was only 19 when I managed to hack into the President's personal emails and next thing I know... Men in suits took me to a place that didn't exist and I was forcibly recruited into the NSA... Really honed my skills there and they gave me this codename that grew on me... I staged my escape from there and now I have staged your escape to fix the crime in your city..." the man then explained as Castle stared at him.

"Why should I trust you?" Castle demanded as Microchip smirked.

"Besides the fact that I could just leave you to yourself; you could probably build back up with only your prisoner's jumpsuit. I however have gotten a new military styled armor for you with your skull logo and everything... Plus military grade hardware for you to use..." Microchip then retorted as Castle slowly put him down but kept his hands on his shirt.

"Not only that but you may have heard about Spider-Man... Well you see the Big Man of Crime running the crime rings in New York... Has been commissioning the mayor to create them to distract Spider-Man... Wilson Fisk; You may remember him as Don Rigoletto's right hand man... Rigoletto had him in charge of front companies but after you killed the don off and got arrested... Fisk took over his operations and transformed the front companies into big legitimate businesses and now has the mayor as a partner..." Microchip said as Castle let go of him and was in rage.

"Fisk led the attack on my family!" snapped Castle as Microchip smirked.

Microchip then said "I did some digging and and here is some news... Rigoletto ordered the attack on your family to please a prosecutor on his payroll. The man is now the DA..." Microchip said getting a newspaper which had on the front page a photo of the New York District Attorney. Castle looked at the photo of the smiling DA as Microchip explained "there's the guy that wanted you and your family dead; New York's DA Billy Russo..."

I was thinking of introducing Microchip as an antagonist of a story here as a vigilante hacker who would be like a non murderous version of the Riddler from Matt Reeves' the Batman with him being known as 'the Hacker' with it being revealed who he was later as a case of Canon Character All Along.

Plus on that last reveal of who the DA is... DUN! DUN! DUN!