Reviews:

AnimeFan13579 : That would have been a funny idea.

Neotono: Was that a Spiderverse reference? And yes, you are right about Harry and Shield. As for project unity, I'd say it's basically like what young justice is to the justice league (or as you put it, baby avengers)

Fire turtle: I mostly just respond to them randomly, I don't want to respond to a specific person all the time because then that's favouritism and if I reply to everyone then I get accused of padding the word count more than I already do.

Mewtwo-TheLoneShadow: Not in this story unfortunately.

Chapter 54 -

"Just be sneaky, just be sneaky," Harry quietly sang to himself after landing on top of a very large building that was still under construction. Harry - dressed in his Spiderman uniform ("No, it's not a costume, Felicia") - crouched down and looked around, he couldn't see anyone there. Just some construction equipment, and several large crates, including one that was big enough that you could stack two hippos in it. He briefly wondered how they got one so big up here.

"You are a master of stealth," Gwen's voice said through his earpiece, sounding as dry as sandpaper

"I am," Harry said in an agreeable tone as he slowly made his way forward, examining all the equipment around him. "Most of this doesn't look used, it's all covered in dust."

"Are you sure?" Felicia's voice spoke up next. "Isn't there supposed to be a lot of dust around there? You know, with all the work they do there?"

"I'm positive, some of this stuff looks like it hasn't been touched in years," He replied thoughtfully. "Like Dumbledore's genitals,"

"What was that?" Peter asked.

"Nothing," Harry said quickly before pausing. "Hold it," He said, tilting his head slightly. "Somebody's coming," He said, leaping up and performing a back flip and sticking to the side of a crate. Taking a quick look around, he spotted a pile of boxes that seemed to provide an adequate place to hide. Quickly making his way there, he hid behind the boxes.

"Just be sneaky," Gwen encouraged him in a mock whisper.

"Zip it, Stacy," He replied just before two men walked into view. The first was a large man, dressed in a dark grey suit. He had slicked-back hair, a ring on each finger and a large silver watch on his right hand. Each hand had bruised knuckles, his teeth were slightly yellow and his suit jacket was open enough that Harry could see the holster at his waist and the gun in it. Walking a step or two in front of the man was a comparatively more normal-looking man, dressed in black shoes, trousers, a shirt and a leather jacket that was also black. He had dull blue eyes and spiky blonde hair.

"You think it wise to meet here?" The bigger man asked with a Russian accent. His black eyes roamed around the whole place, before lingering a few moments on the large crate with an almost longing look.

"Yes," The blonde said, also with an accent, pulling a cigarette out and holding it up in the air. No less than two seconds later, the bigger man pulled out a lighter and lit it for the man. "And that is why," He said, gesturing to the big crate before putting the cigarette in his mouth.

"Ah," The bigger man said with a sadistic grin. "I see, and I am to be the one who will use it, yes?" He asked hopefully as the pair walked towards the crate and stopped just in front of it.

"You may," The blonde confirmed.

"You are such a wonderful boss," The bigger man said as he placed a hand on the crate.

"I am," The blonde agreed before continuing to smoke. The two remained quiet for a good while, long enough for the blonde to finish his cigarette, wait a bit and then finish another. Thankfully for Harry's extremely limited patience, something finally happened and a group of people walked in.

Three men, in matching black suits, walked just behind another man who was dressed exactly the same but was clearly the leader. The man had combed hair and expensive-looking glasses along with what appeared to be a Rolex watch. The men walked forward and stopped a short distance.

"Vladamir," The leader said, greeting the blonde.

"Of course, the evil Russian is called 'Vladamir'," Peter let out a disappointed sigh.

"Wesley, you're looking rather tired," Vladamir noted. "Busy days?"

"Hectic," The leader - apparently called Wesley - said dryly. "The Spider has been causing problems for us all,"

"Ha," Harry barked out a laugh under his breath.

"Many of my men...in prison...or hospital," Vladamir said in a less than pleased tone. "The 'Devil', he's a man, he cannot throw cars or hang from the walls. He is a pain that we've not yet captured, but the Spider, he's something else. He's dangerous. Does Fisk have a plan for him?"

"Fisk?" Harry whispered.

"You know not to use his name," Wesley glared with the intensity of the sun.

"There is no one hear that does not know who he is, what's it matter?" Vladamir shrugged.

"You never know who is listening," Wesley sneered at him. "As for my boss's plans, I know nothing besides what he tells me. Now, the reason I have called you here is to discuss your taxes."

"I paid the agreed amount already," Vladamir said, sounding slightly confused.

"And for this month, that is satisfactory," Wesley continued. "But next month there will be a ten percent increase,"

"The rich man says what?" Vladamir blinked. "An increase? For what?"

"Thanks to the Spider, we've lost multiple, valuable sources of income," Wesley began explaining calmly. "So far, your gang is the least touched, so your tax has been increased by ten. Everybody else's has also been increased,"

"That is..." Vladamir looked lost for words. "That is 'the bullshitting!', you increase my tax because other fuckers lose money?!"

"Everyone's has been increased," Weasley repeated himself. "Besides, the increases have been made with the consideration of how much money you are bringing in. If you weren't lying on your reports then you surely will have enough money to still make a profit, even after the increase."

"That is a bull! There will be no increase!" Vladamir spat angrily. "Fisk agreed to -"

"Don't say his name!" Wesley cut him off.

'I'm getting Voldemort vibes here,' Harry thought to himself.

"Fisk!" Vladamir yelled. "Fisk agreed to the amount I'm paying! I'm not paying more!"

"You are refusing to cooperate?" Wesley drawled, staring at Vladamir with an unimpressed look on his face.

"Aleksei!" Vladamir barked, the big man with him nodded gleefully before turning around and walking around behind the crate.

"What is he doing?" Wesley demanded as his own men aimed their guns at Vladamir.

"Original amount or nothing," Vladamir said, pulling out his own gun.

"I would be very, very careful right now," Wesley warned him, taking several steps back until he was standing behind his own men. "You are one wrong move away from diving head-first into a grave."

"You first," Vladamir grinned before the crate behind him fell apart. Standing up and reaching a height of fourteen feet, was a grey and bulky mechanised suit. A large horn was on top of the head which added another few feet of height to the suit, it looked big and sharp enough to pierce through the Hulk. If the suit wasn't scary enough then it also had a pair of glowing red eyes on top of it, there was also a large machine gun fitted to each arm and on each shoulder appeared to be a pair of rocket launchers.

"That's a motherfucking rhino," Harry whispered, gaping under his mask.

"Now, Aleksei," Vladamir spoke up. "Finish it,"

"As you say, Boss," The man in the suit - Aleksei - said before taking a step forward and stepping past Vladamir, Wesley's men tensed while Wesley simply looked bored and raised his hand, signalling his men to relax.

"That eager to die?" Vladamir asked Wesley.

"I don't know, are you?" Wesley asked. Vladamir opened his mouth to speak but found himself cut off as he was suddenly impaled by a very large horn, a gasp escaped him before he was suddenly tossed into the air and landed hard on the ground a few feet away with a very large hole in his body.

"Oh shit," Harry whispered under his breath, his thoughts being echoed by his friends through his ear comms.

"I hope..." Aleksei turned around and faced Wesley. "...that you will be providing me enough bonus to clean this," He said, gesturing to the blood on his suit. "Oh...and...killing my boss as well," He added as an afterthought.

"It'll be done," Wesley assured him. "I'll make sure my boss appreciates your efforts, perhaps control of Vladamir's gang will be sufficient?"

"I want to talk to Fisk myself," Aleksei replied.

"I said don't..." Wesley paused and let out a deep sigh. "...You don't just get to meet with him."

"Look at me," Aleksei said, gesturing to himself. "I am strong, I am powerful, I will take over the gangs of New York. All I ask is a place in his empire. Imagine, the 'Kingpin' and me, the 'Rhino'."

"Sounds like a shitty name for a band," Spiderman said as he landed nearby. "Alright, you cunts, I am performing a citizen's arrest. I am arresting you all on the suspicion of being world-class dickheads. You do not have to say anything and it would be greatly appreciated if you didn't...you cunts."

"And along came the Spider," Aleksei chuckled. "This is good, ya, the Spider versus the Rhino,"

"It'll be a good audition at least," Wesley said thoughtfully. "Kill him and I'll see what I can do for you," Wesley said before turning and walking off.

"Oh, you're not getting away," Spiderman muttered before leaping towards Rhino. He ducked under his wild swing and leapt off Rhino's back and towards Wesley's men. They raised their guns but weren't quick enough to stop Spiderman who kicked two of them before hitting the third with a punch to the face, knocking all three out. He leapt towards Weasley, and the two crashed onto the ground. "Where's your boss?!" Spiderman demanded. His spider-sense chose that moment to start blasting his head, he looked up in time to see Rhino walking towards him. "We'll talk later," He told Weasley, shoving him away before rolling sideways to avoid the large fist that left a crater in the ground. One hop to his feet and a quick backflip left him at a safe enough distance. "So, 'Rhino' huh? You...uh...you spend long thinking up that name?"

"Longer than it would take to kill you," Rhino said before aiming his left arm at Spiderman, the machine gun on the arm started humming and Harry didn't need his spider-sense to tell him to get out of the way. Leaping up into the air and swinging away to avoid the large amount of bullets that Rhino was shooting out. "Stay still, little spider," Rhino said as he continued firing at Spiderman who was frantically jumping, leaping, swinging and dodging to avoid the army of bullets that were coming at him. "Fine, I'll hit you eventually," He said when the gun on his left arm was empty. He stepped forward and aimed his right arm, only to blink when he saw Spiderman was no longer there. "Where'd he go?!"

"Let me know if you find him," Spiderman's voice reached his ears just before Spiderman landed on Rhino's arm. He slammed his hand into the gun and ripped out something that looked appropriately important. "You want to try firing that now, please?" He asked just before being thrown through a crate. "Ow," He said dryly, getting up to his feet.

"What did you do to my gun?!" Rhino demanded.

"You see...I know a fair bit about a lot of stuff," Spiderman chuckled. "And that gun...I've seen it before, it's from 'Hammer' Industries," Anyone who knew anything about Hammer Industries, knew that it pretty much just tried its best to rip off whatever its competitors have made. According to rumours, the owner even tried to make an Iron Man outfit."

"So?!"

"So, if you wanted quality then you should have gone to Oscorp..." He paused. "...Or Stark, I suppose."

"Are you seriously advertising right now?!" Gwen's voice demanded.

"Oscorp and Stark are respectable weapons manufacturers," Peter replied reasonably.

"I will crush you!" Rhino yelled, charging at Spiderman who used some webs to try and stick his feet to the ground, but Rhino wasn't stopped and simply ended up ripping bits out of the ground.

"Sugar honey iced tea!" Spiderman blurted out, dodging a punch from Rhino and responding with one of his own, Rhino was shoved a couple of feet back, but still managed to grab Spiderman, clapping one hand around his neck.

"Such a big headache for such a tiny spider," Rhino growled before slamming him face-first into the ground, leaving a small crater there. "Looks like there's something on your face," Rhino grinned before lifting him up and slamming him again.

"Yeah," Spiderman coughed as Rhino lifted him up into the air. "It was pain. Looks like you got some web on yours," He said, shooting a web shot right into Rhino's red eyes.

"Aargh! You think you're so clever, Spider?" Rhino demanded shaking him. "I do not need to see you to smash you."

"Title of your mum's sex tape?" Spiderman asked lightly, only to let out a yelp as he was tossed away with great force. He quickly recovered in mid-air and shot a web, he swung around the construction sight and threw himself at Rhino's back just after the villain managed to pull the webs off of his eyes. He hit him with a vicious dropkick that knocked the mechanical rhinoceros onto his face. Rhino spat out several words that Harry was going to assume to be Russian curses, Rhino quickly got up and charged at Spiderman.

"I will crush you! Smash your bones into dust!" Rhino roared as he threw several wild punches at Spiderman who leapt, dodged, ducked and jumped to avoid all of them. After dodging a narrowly close left hook, he leapt into the air and tried to roundhouse kick Rhino in the face, unfortunately, Rhino managed to catch his leg. With a yell, Rhino raised him high in the air before slamming him down, hard.

Spiderman uttered out several of his own curse words as he found himself thrown through three concrete floors before landing on top of a work table that promptly collapsed under him, to top it all off, a bucket full of metal dropped onto his head.

"O...wwwww," He said in a forcibly dry voice as he pushed himself up to his feet, he shook his head and looked up.

"COMING SPIDER!" Rhino yelled as he leapt down through the hole that Spiderman had forcibly created. Spiderman leapt back as Rhino crash-landed in front of him and fell through the floor to the floor below. He was still for barely more than four seconds when a giant steel beam was thrown from the hole below. He jumped back and off the construction site to avoid getting hit, shooting out a web he swung down to the floor below, only to be met with a vicious headbutt from Rhino, sending him right off the building. He fell down several floors before he managed to shoot out another web and stop his fall. "Getting tired?" Rhino leapt off the building, cutting the web with his horn and the two fell down to the ground.

"This guy just doesn't quit," Harry muttered before shooting another web and swinging to the ground.

"You need to come up with a plan," Peter told him.

"I got one," Harry said a second later, just as Rhino crash-landed and caused a crater a short distance behind him.

"And that would be?" Gwen prompted as he turned around to face him,

"I'm going to hit him really, really hard." He said, grinning under the mask. It wasn't often that he could hit people with full strength, but it looked like the Rhino suit could take it.

"You're a goddamn genius," Felicia told him dryly.

"I know," Harry nodded agreeably before charging at Rhino, Rhino roared and threw a wild punch at Spiderman who dodged and hit him with a vicious uppercut that sent him flying up into the air. He shot two webs out at a nearby wrecking ball, he pulled and the ball swung down just as Rhino fell and hit him in the back. Spiderman didn't stay still and jumped right after him, landing on Rhino's back before the man could even hit the ground. Four red spider legs shot out of Rhino's back and pierced through his armour.

"Aarrgh!" Rhino screamed. "Get off of me!"

"Feeling the fear, Rhino?" He asked as his legs pulled out and then slammed once more into the armour, this time with the help of his own fists. Rhino roared before he suddenly rolled, squashing Spiderman on the ground.

"You like down there, bug?!" Rhino yelled.

"No...you stink!" Spiderman grunted out before retracting his legs and tossing Rhino off. Rhino recovered quickly and charged at him as soon as he had got to his feet, a vicious punch sent him up into the air and straight at a nearby crane where he landed on top. "Damn, I'm going to feel that in the morning."

"It's already morning," Peter couldn't help but point out.

"You need to get out of there," Felicia told him.

"Nah, I got him right where I want," Harry said, shaking his head.

"But-"

"Don't bother, he's too stubborn," He heard Gwen say in a resigned tone.

"Time to finish this!" Rhino said, priming the two rocket launchers on his shoulders, he took aim and fired them straight at Spiderman. The two rockets charged through the air with a frightening speed.

"I hope this works," Harry whispered to himself before raising his hands. The rockets reached a frighteningly and very uncomfortable close distance before he discovered that his plan had worked. The missiles stopped in midair and rose high up into the air before freezing in place.

"What?!" Rhino blurted out.

"I'm a magical ass Spider!" Spiderman grinned before he leapt off the crane, he shot out two webs that grabbed onto the rockets, he spun in midair and threw them both straight at Rhino. Spiderman dived down, following the large explosion and landed on the side of the construction building. Once the dust had cleared, he saw Rhino standing there, his suit all damaged and looking like a stiff breeze could knock it over. Bits of the suit was missing, it was covered in burn marks and it was making high-pitched noises that it was definitely not making before.

"This...this is not possible!" Rhino croaked, looking down and apparently hadn't even noticed Spiderman was behind him.

"You have no idea what's possible," Spiderman swung down and kicked Rhino down to the ground before landing next to him. "You coming out or do I have to break you out?" The back of Rhino opened and Serski reluctantly climbed out.

"I hate you," He said, glaring at him.

"I bet you do,"

"And...how did he do?"

"He beat him, Director Fury, he also showed off a new ability. It's all in the files,"

"Hmm, I've made my decision,"

"Sir?"

"Bring him into 'Project Unity'.