[Hideout]

  Frank was fixing his car when I stepped into the hideout as usual. A beer bottle was on the ground and he was uhe car. I looked around. Not much has ged except that this pce looks a bit . The cars that we secured back then were all there, lined up in a row. Frank covered them with a white cloth, probably for prote.

  "Still fiddling with that junk?" I asked as I walked to the fridge and took out a soda .

  "Not junk!" Frank said as he pushed the cart he was lying, out uhe car and sat up, "Vintage, Spidey." He corrected me with a serious expression.

  ", look around you, man, there are nine cars lined up around you, two vintage models too... A, you keep fiddling with that one. How many hours have you spent w on that car alone?" I asked exasperatedly.

  "Let's just say this one holds some good old memories and it's special," Frank said as he sighed nostalgically while taking a sip from the beer, his eyes fixed on the vintage Honda CRX.

  "If you say so." I shrugged nontly. "So, how have you bee into any trouble while I was gone?"

  "Just..." His face turned somber as he looked at me, "I'm gd to see you alive. And speaking of trouble, that new officer Yuri Watanabe keeps getting in my way... Way too frequently. Lady put out a warrant on my head st month..." He sighed with a frustrated expression. "So, you gonna tell me how you survived that explosion and came back after almost a year?"

  So, I told Frank everything that happened after that explosion day when Norman's dead body blew up in that warehouse filled with explosives along with me. Took quite some time to expin, but he listened patiently to it till the end without interruptions. He even stared in disbelief a couple of times hearing a particur part.

  "...So, that's the full version of how I survived," I finished expining with a tired sigh, leaning against the sofa behind me.

  "That girl from the docks save you, huh? And Kamar Taj... Figures... It was a good choice to let her go instead of handio the cops," Frank nodded uandingly while resting his back against the hood of the car.

  "I wao tact you and my family, but I wasn't ready back then. I knew I had to master my power without any distras or anything. I couldn't let another i like that happen. So, I suppressed my emotions and pletely focused my mind on learning magid my Spidey power. Then when I thought I was ready, I came back," I said after emptying the soda and throwing the in the dustbin at the end of the room.

  "Damn, boy... Your life never gets b, does it?" Frank chuckled with amusement as he tinued. "Well, I also kept myself busy as usual. Took down Tombstone's gang, but then the new dy stopped the war. She's now trolling everything in pce of Kingpin. Her name is Emma Frost. Lady's a mutant, a powerful o that. Rumors have it that she's an Omega-level mutant." Frank nodded gravely.

  "Emma Frost, huh! She's gonna be an annoying oppoo deal with. Telepathy, Psioniergy, Telekinesis, anic diamond body... Seesh... She'll be a tough one," I said, remembering her details from the id movies.

  "And you know about her power... Why am I not surprised?" Frank snorted with a sigh.

  "Never meet an enemy unprepared, Frank. The first rule in battle is to never uimate an oppo, no matter how strong or weak you are. I just happeo e across some cssified data in the past, now, it'll e in handy. Anyway, she wait, right now, we are going to track down a bigger fish," I said as I walked toward the table on which a couple of energy guns were lying.

  "Which is?"

  "Bck Cat broke into Baxter Building and took some data. Now, she's going to meet up with whoever hired her. We are gonna nab whoever that it is before that unknown person does something stupid with that data. Oh, and Ben and Wanda are gonna join us this time," I expined while pig up a couple of bsters.

  "Really? A team-up..." Frank looked surprised.

  "Yep," I nodded while examining the psma gun, "Ben is just a temporary ally as for Wanda, I'm thinking of addio our team. She's good and I wao enjoy outside life a bit more...Show her around the ropes," I told him about Wanda.

  "Fine by me. But we are gonna need a car good enough to fit ihing," He said while ing his greasy hand on a cloth.

  "Who said we are going by the road?" I asked him with a grin as I moved my finger in the air, drawing a magiscription, "We are going to jump right in the middle of the party and crash it," I said as a circle appeared, before disappearing with a flicker.

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  [3rd Person POV] [Jersey- stru site]

  Bck Cat arrived at the meeting location iime. It was a stru site from the outside, but iy, it was Kingpin's hideout. Two days ago, his men shifted him there. There were armed guards around the pd some cameras that overlooked the street. Gangsters dressed as civilians were all around the pce, keeping their eyes alert for any sneak attack or dahat might put a surprise on this meeting. There were also drones deployed in the surrounding area.

  Felicia was sitting in the waiting room and w who this person was who paid her that much moo steal the data. She has already pointed out the escape routes on her to the top floor, just in case they try to silence her and she has deployed multiple button-sized explosives around the pce while the guards were esc her to the top floor through the stairways. A small push of a button on her wrist is all it would take t this pce crashing down.

  And if these precautions aren't enough, then she'll just have to do it the old-fashioned way.

  After a few minutes, a tall man in a suit and gsses ehe waiting room. She raised a brow wheiced him ehe room. At a single gnce, she could tell that the man before him is unarmed and weak as fuck. She smirked in amusement.

  "James Wesley," the man introduced himself as he entered, "I represent a group that had put forth a...signifit financial reward, as you are no doubt aware," He told her casually as he moved across the room.

  "So, which little corporation do you work for, huh?" She asked him mogly with a slightly mog smile as she ied him from top to bottom, "Baron Siebberen? Kingpin? Sable?" She guessed with a bored tone.

  "Well, I think it would be better if we keep our business retions within a certain limit. We pay, you deliver," James told her with a simple smile and a business-like tone as he took a seat in the chair in front of her.

  Felicia snorted. "Fair enough... The fsh drive," She took out the fsh drive and pced it oable, "Where's that thing? I assume we are fialking now, and I want that blue diamond, as per promised." She answered with an impatient voice.

  James only smiled and waved his hand. At his signal, three muscur bodyguards wearing bulletproof armor entered with a bck briefcase on a wheeled table. He flipped the tches and opehe suitcase revealing a single blue glowing diamond, surrounded by multiple anti-theft meisms. The table was locked down with a keypad, and a cage sealed the precious gems.

  Her smile turned a lot wider upon seeing the thing. She leaned forward as James unlocked the security meism.

  "A moment, please," He took the fsh drive and put it in his datapad, and checked the data. After ten minutes of examining the data with his experts online, he gave her a nod.

  Felicia took the diamond in her hand as she stood up and held it near her eyes, fag the light, to see how pretty it was, before putting it into her pocket.

  "You t on a repeat of business," Felicia replied.

  "Do excuse me for a moment," James got up as his ph a he windows, not giving Bck Cat a moment of care or importance.

  'Run!' A familiar voice echoed in Felicia's mind. She threw a smoke grenade. James' men immediately got down. Bck Cat leaped out of the flrappled onto the building and began running on the rooftops.

  Before the smoke even started to spread, a big portal opened on top of the building...

  "It's clobberin' time!" The Thing jumped down the portal, crashing through the roof and nding into the room.

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