บท 15: The Black Spiders part 2
Well I think it's safe to say that whoever this guy is…he's definitely no master mind' Peter thought as he was able to catch up to his unknown assailant after a couple of blocks and followed him towards what seemed to have been his safe house in the Bronx that was just down the street from the Bronx zoo
Peter was able to see the man enter the room that he seemed to have set up shop in that was filled with a wide assortment of weapons and ammunition that could supply a squad of Marines and was about to make his move to capture the guy again when he heard someone land on the rooftop he was occupying. Peter quickly looked over his shoulder and was greeted to the sight of a young woman in a black suit with a large red Black Widow symbol on her chest that had a red line at the top that reached her throat and one at the bottom that then split off and wrapped around her waist. Her eyes were covered by what appeared to be a domino mask with reflective white lenses toped of with a red jacket
Peter stared at the woman in surprise who looked equally shocked to see him
"…"
"…"
"…Uh hi?" Spider-man gave her a small wave
"…Hi" the woman responded with a wave of her own not sure how to really respond at the moment
"I'm uh…Spider-man" Peter said as he watched the woman with wide eyes under his mask, he knew who this was and was having a hard time resisting the urge to hug this person and run as far away as possible
"I'm Black Widow…" the woman revealed as she scratched the back of her head a little shy all of a sudden at meeting an actual member of the Justice League
"…Kind of figured" Spider-man said with a nod towards the widow hourglass on her torso "The uh hourglass is kind of a dead give away…"
"Right" the woman said with a cough
The reason why Peter felt so uneasy being around this woman was because the Black Widow was an agent of the CIA, one of their best if not the best in fact…but she was also Teresa Parker…his alternate baby sister
'This is not how I thought my first meeting with my alternate reality family would go' Peter thought as he scratched the back of his head, a nervous habit he thought he outgrew years ago now coming back with a vengeance
"So why you here?" Spider-man asked
"I'm here for the Black Spider or at least one of them" Black Widow revealed as she nodded towards the building the man was taking residence in at the moment
"He about my height, faster and stronger than he looks and as silent as the grave? His all black suit has armor plating on it" Spider-man guessed
"That's not him" Black Widow said with a frown "But the one you've described has been seen with him so he might know where to find my target"
"Whatcha gonna do when you catch the guy I'm chasing down?" Spider-man inquired
"Bring him in for questioning on the whereabouts of his teammate" Widow said plainly
"What'd he do? The guy you're after I mean. Steal sensitive info, try to kill some politician, trying to regain his memories after he was double crossed" Spider-man probed
"Classified" Black Widow responded with a blank tone
Spider-man gave her a look of disbelief "Really? We're going that route?"
"Yes" Widow said with a frown
Spider-man let out an obvious sigh "Okay than…since we both seem to be after this guy, me because he shot at me earlier and you because he knows something about the guy you're really after, how about a team up?"
The CIA operative shot Spider-man an odd look "Why?"
"Well we'll have a better chance of catching him if we work together…plus were both spider heroes. By the laws of the universe we have to work together to stop the villainous spiders" Spider-man said with a shrug "I don't make the rules I just follow them…most of the time"
"I'm not a hero, I'm an agent for the United States Government" Black Widow said as she placed a hand on her hip
"Does your job involve protecting innocent people be it indirectly or directly from bad guys that want to cause death and destruction?" Spider-man asked with tilt of his head. Black Widow's annoyed silence was all the confirmation he needed "See, you are a hero! Better yet you're a hero in denial which are the best kinds. You act like you aren't a hero but deep down you are and when the time calls for it you answer it without hesitation!"
The woman let out a sigh "Look let's just get this over with and we can get on with our lives" Widow said as she brushed past Spider-man and looked at the apartment her target's ally was staying in apparently
Spider-man came to stand by her side and started to stroke his chin "So what should we call ourselves? The Ultimate Spider duo, the Spectacular Webslingers, or-"
"How about we call ourselves the Forever Quite Duo?" Black Widow gritted out in growing annoyance
Spider-man looked at her for a moment before he snapped his fingers "Wait I got it!"
"God why me" Widow muttered quietly to herself as she began to regret taking this mission
"We're call ourselves…The Amazing Web Warriors!" Spider-man said with a grin behind his mask
"That's-" Widow was about to say 'childish' when she saw the man tense for a moment and before she could react, he grabbed her and leaped off the building just as a hail of gunfire tore up the concrete they were standing on
"Hang on!" Spider-man yelled over the wind as he gripped her securely before he shot out a web line and the two swung mere feet over the traffic and right back up towards another rooftop.
Spider-man let go of the web line and the two landed in a crouch and turned to see that it was a man dressed in a suit similar to the Black Spider he faced earlier only it was purple and black with what looked like silver goggles on his head and they were armed with some sort of assault rifle
"Who's that? The guy you're after?" Spider-man nodded towards the man with a narrowed gaze, not liking the fact the guy had just tried to shoot his alternate baby sister 'Oh buddy, you're in for it now'
Black Widow eyed the man carefully "No that's not the Black Spider I'm hunting…but at least I'll be able to bag two of them after tonight"
"How many of these guys are there anyway?" Spider-man asked with slight surprise at hearing there were three Black Spiders running around.
Black Widow nodded as she saw the man that Spider-man was likely tracking earlier emerge from the apartment armed with several pistols and a shot gun "The Black Spiders are an assassination team that originated in east Asia several years ago. So far we've identified two of the four members of it. But a new guy has joined them a little over six months ago after he killed one of the original members. The one I'm after…"
"So, who are these two then?" Spider-man pointed towards the two regrouping assassins
"The black and purple is Eric Needham. The all Black armored one is Johnny LaMonica" Widow said as she reached for her belt and pulled out two high tech bracelets and slipped them on and activated them
These were her affectionately named 'Widow Bites', these bad boys allow her to electrocute enemies by making contact with a pair of electrical probes that could at full power either incapacitate a man or even out right kill them if hit in the head
Peter saw the devices and let out a low whistle of approval "Nice bracelets, what can they do?"
"You're about to find out" the Black Widow said as she and Spider-man watched the two assassins take aim at them and open fire
…
Not too far away on a distant rooftop a lone figure cloaked in shadows was watching the spider themed teams fight each other with a narrowed gaze.
"Hmm…he may be what she's looking for…" the figure whispered darkly as they followed Spider-man's form as he engaged the all black spider assassin while the woman faced the black and purple one
The made a noise at the back of their throat as they turned on their heel and walked back into the shadows "Only time will tell…if he will be worthy of her"
…
Spider-man quickly shot a web line at the armored Black Spider's shot gun and yanked it out of the man's hands and crushed it in his grip. The man didn't hesitate to draw a pair of pistols and fired them at Spider-man's from
Peter skillyfuly dodged the bullets before he shot a venom blast at the man who cursed and quickly jumped out of the way into a barrel roll and came up just in time to have his face meet Spider-man's fist
KRAAK!
"GAH!" Johnny yelled out in slight pain as he felt his nose break from the force of the punch
"Whoops my bad" Spider-man gave the assassin a sheepish smile "Oh by the way, I now know your name and I have to say, I completely understand why you went the route of a killer"
The man growled in rage as he sent a series of skillful if slight out of control punches at Spider-man who dodged them all with ease while he kept talking
"I mean with a last name like LaMonica I'd feel pissed off at the world too. If your high school was anything like mine back in the day than the insults must have been brutal. You don't strike me as a guy who was in the popular crowd" Spider-man joked
"Would you shut the ever loving hell up!" Johnny yelled as he sent another punch that went to far and allowed Spider-man to grab his wrist in one hand and send a venom coated jab into his arm
The hit caused Black Spider to yelp in pain before he felt all feeling in his arm vanish, the limb falling to his side uselessly. He gaped at it before he slowly rose his head in shock and anger
"W-What did you do to my arm?!"
Spider-man tilted his head "Oh that? Don't worry about it Johnny, you'll regain feeling in it in like an hour or two tops"
Black Spider stared at him for several long seconds before he did something that surprised Peter…
The man's hand glowed yellow and he reached up and touch his arm for a second and faster than Peter could react even with his spider-sense the man back handed him away with surprising strength and speed
"AGH!" Spider-man yelled as he felt his jaw nearly crack under the blow, it felt like he took a punch from Aquaman!
Black Widow, who was fighting and overwhelming her opponent was momentarily distracted by her temporary partner's sound of pain and allowed her Black Spider to take a pot shot with his pistol into her abdomen before he quickly kicked her away and regrouped with his teammate
"We're leaving" Johnny told Eric before he pulled out a small grenade like device and threw it towards Black Widow
Spider-man seeing this narrowed his eyes and quickly with a burst of his spider speed leaped over to his stunned sister and activated his web cape that quickly covered them just as the grenade went off
BOOOOOOOOM!
…
Miguel had to stifle a yawn as he was making his way towards his pent house suite. He was finally able to leave work after meeting with the other board members to discuss Arthur's passing who will take his place. Thankfully the overall decision was up to Miguel or more specifically Peter but the rest didn't need to know that
'Still hard to believe that I'm sort of the CEO of a growing enterprise when not even six months ago, I was a struggling geneticist that was just laid off from LexCorp' Miguel thought as he remembered how crappy his life was going
Like he was strongly considering putting a barrel in his mouth and squeezing the trigger after drowning his grief with some really strong liquor. Thankfully Peter had stumbled across him or sawt him out and offered him a rather interesting proposition
Become the face of a company he was quickly putting together and enjoy the perks of the job that included more money than he's ever physically seen in real life, travel the word, and even receive funding for his own projects that he was hoping to complete
All in all, Miguel would have to be an idiot to say no and it wasn't like he had anything better to do with his life.
'So glad I said yes to his offer now' Miguel thought as he approached his door and was about to open it when he noticed something off about it
It was partially opened
Miguel narrowed his eyes and slowly peeked through the crack into the dark room only to see no one there. He figured that's because they were hiding and decided to take a deep breath
'Okay Miguel, you can go in there and see who's in your apartment and hope you don't end up like Arthur or…' Miguel began to back away from the door, making sure to keep an eye on his surroundings '…Or you can decide to not go in there and simply call Peter and let him know about this'
Miguel has seen enough horror movies to know it was never a good idea to enter your home where you find the door open slightly in the middle of the night, especially when someone close to you has just been found dead under mysterious circumstances
He isn't some drug using sex craving teenager after all…least not anymore
Just as Miguel was about to reach the elevator when the door to his suite shot open and a man clad in dark blue and black suit with what looked like a red spider on his face and red lenses came barreling out and threw several knives at the startled man
'So glad I didn't go in there now!' Miguel thought as he narrowly ducked under the blades as the elevator door opened.
He quickly ran inside and began to hit the down and close door buttons as the mysterious spider themed man ran towards him with another knife at the ready. Miguel narrowed his eyes at him and reached for something in his coat and quickly strapped it on his wrist just as the man launched himself at the CEO
Miguel raised his arm and pressed down on a small trigger pad on his palm with his pointer and middle fingers and shot out a net of web fluid at the shocked man and pinned him to the floor. Miguel let out a sigh of relief as the doors closed to the man's struggling and leaned against the wall
"Yep…definitely glad I took this job…" Miguel said as he reached for his phone to contact Peter "Looks like we found out who killed Arthur…"
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