Spider-Man: Duty and Loss Chapter 62: Unexpected Duo Part 1

Peter ran into one of the stalls and quickly grabbed out his costume, it had been a long time since he had started donning the costume, where it used to take him nearly a minute even with his speed. 5 years later he had been able to get it down to 8 seconds.

Seconds later, Peter popped his head outside of the stall to make sure no one was around. He had already checked for security cameras and usually Crystal would deal with them. Seeing no one around, he quickly webbed the bag to the wall and locked the door.

No one would be stealing his bag before he got back, or he hoped so. Sprinting out the door, it slammed in to the wall from how fast he was going. Running around the corner, he stopped for a second. "Is that AC-DC playing?"

Talking to himself he resumed his run towards the destruction, but he was distracted. Someone had cranked a loud speaker to max volume and was blasting 'high way to hell'. With his enhanced hearing it was actually very annoying.

Realizing that the music was getting louder as he made it closer, he rolled his eyes and spoke to crystal. "Crystal, I don't care what's playing that music, if you can, turn it off." Crystal replied in a second. "Yes Peter." After another second the music stopped and Peter was about to round the corner to where the destruction was going on.

"Hey who stopped my music?! Jarvis what happened?" An enigmatic voice spoke loudly as Peter finally heard the whining of thrusters. *Bang* A repulsor blast sounded out as Spider-Man came to a halt. "Ahh that would be it." His eyes rising behind the mask, Peter was truly shocked. "I don't know sir, someone has hacked our systems." "WHAT! But that's not possible, I created the firewalls myself!"

Peter crept back slowly, as he bent down and kept low. Looking at the wall next to him, he started to crawl up. It was very unusual for him to see another super hero during his fights. Sure he would run into Iron Fist, Power Man, Jessica and Dare Devil. But to find someone like Tony Stark, aka Iron Man fighting one of his 'Street level' criminals, was truly weird.

Peeking his head around the corner, Tony was still arguing with his AI as he fired over and over again at the Rhino. Standing at a whopping 9ft tall, Aleksei was one of Peter's oldest enemies. Involved in an experiment to create a super soldier, something that wasn't as rare as it sounded, Aleksei's whole body was grafted to a suit of super metals and alloys, which had 5% of it made up of Adamantium, as well as the horn on his head containing 3% of it, he was a walking tank.

Combine that armour with super strength, stupidity and a resistance to bullets, missiles, sonic weapons, not much could make a dent into the man's new skin and he was a dangerous foe. The draw backs from the experiment were prominent though, as his brain was affected by the bonding process his IQ had dropped massively and he had the mentality of a child. Some Peter always took advantage of.

Somehow keeping the innate want to rob banks and create mayhem the first time they had clashed it had nearly killed him. Peter had taken him down more than a year ago, before the battle of New York, he had been taken by shield to a specially made prison for such criminals.

Peter truly didn't think he would be seeing them again for a long time, especially with shield taking the responsibility of keeping him behind bars. 'But shield was hydra, and they just came crashing down.' Peter face palmed as he thought of what happened a few days ago.

The fight continued to rage on as nothing Stark did could take the hulking figure down. The small cafes and shops around the fight had been totaled with the mall beginning to shake. Thankfully there were no bystanders that were in the vicinity; Peter could focus on the fight.

Watching the fight for another few seconds, with banter going back and forth between Stark and Aleksei, Peter couldn't take it anymore, they were causing so much destruction. Hell he was a person that liked to banter and joke while fighting, but he took his guys down fast.

He didn't want to ruin people's lively hoods. "Ok Crystal, give tony back his music, just turn the volume down to 1 while the fight is going on." "Affirmative." A short few second after crystal spoke, Stark raised his hands in the air in triumph. "See I told you I could get it back!... But why is the volume not going up!"

Dodging another blow, Peter finally revealed himself. "Hey Yellow, Red and Rich, how long is it going to take for you to take Rhino down?" "Huh? Spider-Man?" Stopping in surprise at the new entrant the Iron Man armour floated in air as he turned to look at him.

Chapter end