[3rd person POV]

  Unknown to the danger lurking behind her, Gwen drove away happily. She dropped her dad at NYPD and then made her way toward the mall. She'd learo cook and couldn't wait for Peter to taste her first cooked dinner. She's gonna buy some ingredients and then practice. He'll be bae in three days and she 't wait to impress him.

  The drone followed her to the mall, watg her every movement from a safe distance.

  "Oh, e on," Gwen looked around for a parking spot, but could not find a free space to park her car. In the end, she decided to park in the blo the underground parking. As soon as she got out of her car after parking, a dart came flying at her and hit her arm. "Wha-?!" Her visio blurry the moment she felt a slight sting. Befwen's knees gave out, she quickly threw one of the two spider bugs that she always carried as a memento under her car and swallowed the other one before falling to the ground.

  'What's going on?' She wondered, her sciousness fading away fast. She didn't have much time as another dart flew through the air and struck her. She mustered every ounce of her strength and pulled out one of the darts before she lost sciousness pletely and her body went limp.

  A van screeched to a stht beside her limp body. Two figures in a bck cloak jumped out and opehe back doors. They dragged her unscious body into the back of the van and made a hasty retreat...

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  [Frank's base]

  Frank was busy ing his guns when suddenly his tab suddenly fshed with a beeping wasn't supposed t ever again sihis is the tab he used to tact Spiderman, exclusively. Spiderman figured it for a safe line of e. But he died months ago in the Green Goblin's hideout, then how the heck is it beeping? He put his gun down and walked up to the desk.

  He has been charging it every now and then... Maybe in the hope that one day it'll beep again. But he'd given up on that hope, at least, till now.

  Frank touched the locked s, and the device sed his fad fingerprints and then unlocked itself, allowing him access. The map of New York opened and two signals from Spider bugs showed up. One was somewhat close to his pce. While the other one was just starting to move.

  His eyebrows kogether in fusion.

  Who is it? His heart jumped with hope. The guilt that was eating him away for months due to his failure has once again assaulted him.

  "Spidey, is it possible...?" Hope filled his voice even though his logic screamed, 'It isn't him.' Still, his hands hovered above the two blinking signals for a couple of seds.

  His hands were trembling.

  Frank ched his fists as he strapped on his armor and put on his regur clothes above it. Theook his handguns and rushed to the garage. He won't be failing this time. Even if his senses screamed it was the enemy's ploy, and it may have been foolish to fall for it so easily, he has decided to leave no stourned and make sure by his own eyes before drawing any clusions.

  He opehe door of his Mustang and jumped in the driver's seat. As he ighe ehe tires screeched to the ground as his Mustang raced through the streets and out of the city.

  He followed the bea to the parking lot and found the bug under a car. He searched the car and found Gwen's ID.

  "Gwen Stacy, Gee's daughter!" Frank mumbled as he searched the car, but didn't find anything iing, "Why do you have a spider bug, Gwen Stacy?" He looked around the area. "Humm..." His eyes caught a small dart-like object lying nearby. He bent down to check. He picked the dart up and exami.

  Sniff! Frank she dart. The st ing out of it was familiar. He oftehis type of dart tranquilizer during his solo runs. One is enough to knock out anyone and the thugs from the underbelly of NY use that stuff to kidnap or rob someohout raising a. He then walked toward the entrand noticed tire burns on the crete ground.

  He touched the burning tire marks, the freshold him the trail was still hot and they weren't that far.

  Frank pyed the sario of what happened here in his mind. He could clearly imagine someone shooting darts at Gwen and kidnapping her afterward.

  "Damn," Frank hurriedly rushed to his car and began to track dowher spider bug, leading to her location.

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  Frank followed the bea across the river to Brooklyn.

  There was some kind of drilling woing on that was making an annoying noise. And this area had a lot of trees growing ihe premises which provided good cover. Frank decided to park his Mustang far enough not to catch the guards' attention and walked the rest of his way to his destination on foot.

  His brows furrowed as the track led him to an abandoned industrial area, which beloo Octavius Industries and was abandoned after a failed experiment caused a massive explosion. But they have been building this pce again.

  He looked around and saw the stru woing on. The trucks are ing and going, carrying some heavy materials and work equipment. He turned his eyes to the abandoned building. The whole area was barricaded to keep anyone away and the gate was heavily guarded. The guard checked the truck's papers ahem inside before closing the gate.

  "Noould Otto kidnap Gwen? This doesn't make any sense," Frank looked around and started sneaking inside from a gap in the barricades.

  The guards patrolling the area were gossiping among themselves every now and then.

  "Just how long do we have to put on these weird ass clothes," One of them grumbled while scratg his arms.

  "Till our payday," Anuard mumbled.

  "We don't eve free booze?" The first guard muttered. "Tsk. So stupid."

  "What?"

  "Huh?"

  "Nothing."

  "This guy!" The uard sighed and shook his head and they resumed their patrol duties.

  Walking among the stru equipment, Frank finally hid under one of the vans while the guards ged positions, giving him a window to sneak past the sed e.

  Using the stru vehicles for a cover, he silently ran, hid, and avoided the security details patrolling the ground. After successfully arriving at the sed e, he hid behind a crete blod waited for the guard to pass by his location. The security was too tight and it's even harder to sneak in the m when there are more people around. He just needed an opportunity to go deeper inside.

  "Have you seen the boss? I tell you, he isn't normal. I mean, those tentacles-like arms on his back... Eeww! It's like one of those tentacle hentai stuff. Creepy and disturbing at the same time. Makes me uke my guts out," One of the two guards pined.

  "You tell me. Those freaky arms are strong as hell. They crush metal bars like toothpicks. And those long razor-sharp cws... I hear he killed one of his men after the act. Maybe he lost it," The sed guard said.

  "Oh, I didn't know that. But, something fishy is going on in there. I mean, why the heck did he go as far as to kidnap a girl? She's Gee Stacy's daughter. If the NYPD learns about this... they'll e knog on our doors. And I don't want to stick long enough to get caught by those cops. The payment is supposed to be tonight. I'm getting out of here tonight with or without it. I ain't taking any ces," The first guard sighed.

  "Dude, same. I hope I don't get sucked by the octopus-man. Though, his pay isn't so bad," the sed guard chortled. "But then again, there's a new chi town, her name's Yuri Watanabe. News is, she took down several of Hammerhead's deals and hideouts. I just don't wao sniff around here and enter us in the name of justice."

  They passed by Frank's location. The moment they stepped into his peripherals, he made his move and attacked them. His punches smmed their heads against each other, instantly knog them out cold.

  After dragging their unscious bodies under a stru tent. He removed their clothes and repced them with his own. These clothes will help him disguise aer the base.

  Frank walked around, takial notes, he preteo search the area as if he were patrolling the area. But he was the guards' as, memorizing the position of every surveilnce camera, and their patrol routes, so he could get out in case things get out of hand.

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