The Black Spiders part 3

Peter let out a sigh of relief as he stood up and ripped off the now destroyed web cape 'Good thing I made this thing fire resistant. And good thing I improved the durability of this suit with that money that I sto-borrowed from Wayne'

Bruce Wayne through Wayne Enterprises makes hundreds of millions a year, Peter's sure that the man never noticed Peter hack into his system and took a little under three million dollars to help jump start his then small time company that he and Miguel were running

'Considering all the crap he pulled with me over the years and after he threw Diana to the wolves because of Lord…the bastard's lucky I only took that much' Peter thought still a little bitter towards the man that often was the center of Diana's affection despite the numerous times he's hurt her in the past and betrayed her trust. Thankfully Batman has yet to show any sort of interest in Diana so he's willing to lay off the guy for the most part

Doesn't mean he won't annoy him still, it's just too fun in his opinion

"Well that could have gone better" Black Widow said as she pulled the bullet out of her bi-weave Kevlar suit and tossed it aside before standing on shaky legs, the surprise gun shot to her torso and the grenade nearly killing her had left the normally tough as nails spy a bit shaken

"Could have gone worse" Peter commented as he scanned the rooftop and the surrounding ones to see if he could find the now missing two Black Spiders "Hmm…we seem to be down two poorly dressed spider villains my amazing fellow web warrior"

Black Widow growled at the comment before she also noticed the two men's disappearance and groaned "Great…there goes my lead to my target"

"Not necessarily" Peter said as he quickly brought up his holographic map and saw that the tracer on Black Spider was still working. The dot was moving away from him and Widow at high speeds heading north "Planted a tracker on LaMonica earlier when I first encountered him, guess he never realized it and even if he did, it's so small you would need a microscope to see it"

"Impressive" Black Widow commented as she and Spider-man watched Black Spider's signal moving north before it turned east "Come on, if we leave now we can he-"

Widow was interrupted by a buzzing sound coming from Spider-man who chuckled sheepishly before turning his back to her and activating his com "You've reached the Amazing Spider-man, how can I help you today?"

"Spidey, it's uh…what's a good code name for me? You know so no one knows who I am if I have to call you when you're doing the whole hero thing and their listening" Miguel spoke in a slightly out of breath tone

"Relax" Spider-man said with a roll of his eyes "You aren't on speaker and the person I'm with won't be able to hear you. So, what's up? Get a lead on what's happened yet?"

"Uh kind of" Miguel said "I think I met the guy who killed Arthur"

"Really?" Spider-man said in slight surprise "Who was it? Actually, how the hell did that happen?"

"He was waiting for me in my suite, luckily I was able to get away. As for who it is, he was dressed in like a black and blue suit with a red spider on his mask. Guy also liked to throw knives" Miguel said the last part dryly

"You okay?" Peter asked his friend in concern

"Yeah I'm good. Though I will be revamping my security after this whole thing is over" Miguel said with a chuckle before a crashing sound was heard followed by a curse from Miguel

"What's going on?" Spider-man asked with his eyes narrowing at the sounds of what sounded like something being broken

"The evil looking spider guy is trying to tear his way into the elevator I'm on. Get here soon!" Miguel said before the call ended

Peter's eyes narrowed at that and quickly turned towards Widow who was watching him with curiosity "You said that there was four of these guys right?"

"Yes" Widow nodded

"Well a friend of mine has just met Black Spider numero tres" Spider-man said as he quickly reloaded his web shooters and prepared to leave

"Which one was it?" Widow asked with narrowed eyes

"Black and blue suit with a red spider on his mask" Spider-man revealed "Is he the droid you're for?"

Widow sighed at that "No and to be honest I think he's giving me the run around at this point…my boss is going to be pissed"

"Maybe" Spider-man shrugged "You want to help me catch this guy at the very least?"

"Considering you're the only one at the moment who can track one of the Black Spiders, I'd be an idiot to say no. One's better than none" Black Widow said as she approached Spider-man "So how do we do this? Do I like hang on or-"

She didn't get to finish her train of thought as Spider-man scooped her up and launched them into the air. Peter couldn't help but laugh at the shriek Teresa let out as they swung through the skyscrapers of New York at a fast pace

"NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!" Widow yelled over the roar of the wind

"NO PROMISES!" Spider-man shouted back in amusement

…

"Look can't we just talk this out?" Miguel said as he slowly backed away from the blue and black Spider themed assassin

Miguel was luckily able to get out of the elevator before the man could get in and was able to make his way down to the disturbingly empty lobby and looked like he was about to make it outside when the knife wielding killer cut him off

"I mean if it's your money you after I got plenty, seriously I once spent like an entire day at the most expensive restaurants and clothing stores in this city and bought a really stupidly expensive pent house and not even make a dent in my income" Miguel said with a sheepish grin but saw that the masked killer wasn't stopping

Miguel swallowed as he prepared to try and web the guy down again only for the Black Spider to throw a knife at his hand, piercing his palm and damaging the pressure pad

"AGH!" Miguel yelled in pain and clutched his now bleeding hand

He tried to take the knife out but Black Spider's fist making it's way into his face stopped him and sent him flying into the a nearby table that broke under his weight, cutting him from the bits og glass in it

"Okay ow…" Miguel gritted out as he tried to rise only to have a foot press down on his chest and force him into the ground. Miguel looked up to see Black Spider's gaze burning into him and a knife in each hand

"Should have taken the money ya Spider-man reject" Miguel growled out as Black Spider prepared to stab both knives into the CEO's head…only for Spider-man to swing through the doors and zap him away with his venom blasts

ZZZZAZZT!

"AAAHHHH!" Black Spider howled in pain as he was sent flying into the wall with thousands of volts of bioelectricity coursing through his body

"He's right" Spider-man said as Black Widow appeared behind him with her Widow bites activated "You should have taken the money"

"Bout time you showed up" Miguel said with a hoarse voice as he picked himself up "Was starting to think that was it for me"

"Sorry" Spider-man said with a hidden grimace as he approached his friend and grabbed the knife's handle "This is gonna hurt, so get ready"

"Okay" Miguel said with a shaky nod "Just give me-AHH SHIT!"

Miguel let out a pained yelp as Spider-man tore the blade out of his hand and quickly wrapped the bleeding wound up with his web fluid. Miguel gripped his hand in pain and shot his secret boss a glare of annoyance "Could have warned me"

Peter shrugged "I could have, but it's best to treat these things like a band-aid"

While the two men went back and forth, Black Widow approached the still downed Black Spider and checked to see if the man was conscious. Sadly, he wasn't but at least she now had a possible lead to where the one she is looking for might be. She quickly began to disarm the man of his rather large number of knives and other dangerous gadgets while Spider-man made his way over to her

"So now what? We go after the others or see if we can use him as bait?" Spider-man asked as he webbed up the unconscious Black Spider's arms and legs to keep him from escaping

"First I want to question him on the Black Spider I'm looking for. Afterwards, we can move in on the last two" Black Widow said as she secured almost two dozen knives and a collapsible machete

'Why the hell would he need this?' Teresa thought in slight bewilderment as she clipped the weapon to her suit

"Assuming the other two stick around long enough" Spider-man pointed as he brought up an image of the other two's location "They could bail once they here that their friend here is out"

Black Widow frowned at the thought, while she was tasked with bringing in only one, her mother had also hinted that she'd prefer if all of the Black Spiders were taken care of…one way or another

'Though I doubt that Spider-man here will let me do so…' Teresa thought as she watched Spider-man heft Black Spider over his shoulder and began to make his way towards the door

"You coming?" Spider-man looked over his shoulder at Black Widow who responded with a nod and quickly followed him

"What about me?" Miguel asked as he watched the spider duo leave

"Have the paramedics take a look at that hand of yours and let me know how things are going afterwards" Spider-man said as he saw several police cruisers and an ambulance on approach

"Yippy for me" Miguel sighed as he rubbed his hand that was still throbbing a bit in pain

…

Half an hour later Spider-man and Black Widow were on a distant rooftop with the restrained form of Black Spider between them. Peter made sure to double check the man for any other weapons that Widow may have missed before he secured the man's arms and legs with webbing designed to hold the likes meta humans with strength levels close to a hundred tons

'Over kill yeah but with these kinds of guy's it's better to overestimate them than underestimate them' Peter thought as he took a few steps back and went to sit by Widow and wait for the man to awaken while also checking to see if the other Black Spider was in the city still

Thankfully he was and seemed to be holed up in a warehouse down by the docks, likely with the other Black Spider

'We're move in on them after we see what their friend here knows' Peter decided as he closed the map and let out a sigh

"How long until he awakens?" Black Widow nodded towards the now unmasked Black Spider

The man had short black hair, a narrowed sort of nose and a strong jaw line. Though to be honest the guy, in Peter's opinion anyway, looked like a part of the crowd kind of guy. No distinguishing marks or characteristics that would have him stand out much, plus the guy was average in height

Peter eyed the man closely and listened to his heart beat and breathing to determine of the man was still out of possibly faking it. He's gotten pretty good at seeing if someone is trying to pull a fast one over him and can tell that this guy was well and truly out

"Hmmm based on how powerful of a blast I gave him and assuming he doesn't have a healing factor at superhuman levels...I'd say maybe another ten minutes." Peter shrugged

"How can you be so sure?" Widow asked skeptically

"Been doing this a longer than most would think" Peter said with a chuckle as he laid back a bit "But even if he was faking it, I'd just shock him again after ten minutes. If he wasn't awake by than then, that'll do it"

Widow chuckled as she leaned back a bit and looked out towards the city and let out a content sigh. Several minutes of silence passed with the two spider themed heroes waiting for their prisoner to awaken before Spider-man finally spoke

"So how's a girl like you end up in the CIA?" the red, white and black themed spider asked with a quirked head

Widow smirked a bit "Kind of a personal question, isn't it?"

"Yeah but were both spiders, so in a way we're kind of family by " Spider-man snickered

Widow gave him a amused look and nodded towards Black Spider "And him? What's he?"

"That" Spider-man looked towards Black Spider for a moment before returning his gaze to his sister "Is the relative that ends up in jail"

"Hmhmm" Black Widow nodded at the answer before she began to fiddle with her Widow bites "Kind of a stupid reason I joined to be honest"

"What was it? Following in one of your parent's footsteps or something?" Peter guessed, already knowing the answer but feigning ignorance

"…Yeah kind of" Widow said as she pulled her knees and rested her elbows on them

"Oh, well that's not so bad" Spider-man as he patted the young woman on the shoulder "Hell that's a lot better reason to be doing what you're doing than mine"

"What's your reason for being…" Widow gestured towards the suit that made the one she was wearing look like it was from some discount Thrift store

Peter let out sigh that had a hint of regret and bitterness in it "To make up for past sins really…"

"Past sins?" Teresa said in confusion "What do you mean by th-"

She was cut off by the groan that Black Spider made as he began to stir. The two spider themed individuals quickly stood up and approached the man who looked at them with a glare of contempt

Spider-man crouched down beside him "How's it hanging sleeping beauty?"

The man growled at Spider-man before he saw Black Widow and hissed at her as well, which earned a bemused look from the femme fatal

"Hissing really? You sure we shouldn't be calling you Black Cat or something?" Teresa teased before she kicked the man in the head

"Oh for the love of god, please don't joke about Black Cat's" Peter groaned as images of his old flame surfaced in his mind 'Wonder where she is anyway, haven't even found a trace of her existence anywhere yet…'

Black Spider spat out a mixture of saliva and blood before glaring at Black Widow "Hmm so director Fitzpatrick sent her little errand girl to catch us…I feel a mix between insulted and pride"

Black Widow growled and was about to kick the restrained man again when Spider-man held an arm out in front of her "Before I let my lovely assistant here kick your teeth in for that, I have to ask. Why did you try to kill Miguel O'Hara and out of curiosity did you kill a member of the Alchemax board earlier?"

"Wouldn't you like to know" Black Spider sneered only to receive a kick in the face from Black Widow

"Look buddy I like to think I'm a patient man, but if you keep pushing it than getting kicked in the face by the Black Widow after being tazed with several thousand volts of electricity all in the span of an hour will be the least painful thing in your entire life" Spider-man said with his voice getting notably darker the longer he went on

Black Spider gave the arachnid an unimpressed look "Riiiiight- WHOA HEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"

The reason for Black Spider's sudden duress came when Spider-man grabbed him by the front of his suit and dragged him over to the edge of the building and held him upside down with one arm. Black Spider paled a bit as he saw that they were almost ten stories up

Spider-man couldn't help but snicker a bit at this "Aww where the tough guy act go?"

Black Widow came to stand next to Spider-man before grabbing Black Spider's head and forcing him to look at her "Now we are going to have ask you some questions, and if you lie to us or give us the run around…well Spider-man here is feeling awfully tiered and I don't know how long he can't keep a hold of ya"

"Your bluffing, Spider-man won't kill me. The Justice League wouldn't let someone like that on their team" Black Spider said in an unwavering tone despite the sweat building on his brow

"Honey…" Black Widow said with a giggle "You really think the CIA is incapable of making sure the public and the League never knows about this? Spidey here could slaughter a neighborhood of animals like you and no one would ever know thanks to us"

"She's right" Spider-man said as he let his grip on Black Spider slip slightly which caused the man to shriek "Hmm starting to feel the burn here Widow, don't know how much longer I can hold him"

"That's alright" Widow said in a dismissive tone "Worse comes to worse we question his friends, you're still tracking them, right?"

"Yep" Spider-man nodded as he loosened his grip again "So I guess we don't need him, do we?"

"Nope" Widow said as she began to turn

"WAIT DON'T!" the man said in horror as he felt Spider-man's grip loosing again

"Oh, something to say?" Spider-man said as he tossed the man in the air and caught him right side up and brought his face in close to his masked one "Spill!"

"Okay yes! The Black Spiders were hired to take out the Board of Directors for Alchemax" Black Spider said

"By who?" Spider-man questioned

"I don't know man, our new leader that came in and took over choose to this thing" Black Spider said

Peter's eyes narrowed at that and was about to question the man further when-

BANG!

Peter didn't so much as flinch as the man he was holding had a hole blown in the side of his head and sprayed Peter's masked face with his blood, brains and bits of skull. Peter simply turned his head towards the direction the bullet came from, a building adjacent to his and Black Widows

And on it was a figure cloaked in dark colors holding a rifle with it still aimed at Peter and to some extent Black Widow. Teresa didn't hesitate to draw the small side arms she had concealed in her jacket and immediately opened fire on the figure who dodged the bullets with a disturbing amount of grace and fluidity that Peter realized, rivaled if not surpassed his own

He quickly set the corpse of Black Spider down and activated his thrusters in his suit and shot towards the figure who immediately broke out into a sprint across the rooftop and leaped over the edge of the building they were on. Peter reached out to grab the person with a web line, who he saw was clad in an all-black suit that was even darker than Johnny LaMonica's suit, only to gape as the person seemingly vanished into thin air!

"What the hell?" Peter said in shock before he came to a stop and hovered in the air briefly and used his suit's scanners to try and detect the unknown man. He used his thermal imaging, spider-sense, enhanced senses and even sent out a small pulse of with his venom blasts to see if the person was still around but found nothing

Peter made a sound of annoyance and flew back towards Black Widow who looked less than pleased about the death of this Black Spider but the escape of his killer

Peter eyed her for a moment before speaking "Was that-"

"The Black Spider I was sent to find? Yes, it was…" Black Widow let of a sound of frustration as she looked back at Black Spider's bleeding corpse "Looks like he was covering up loose ends"

Peter nodded at that and looked towards the body of one of the Black Spiders and frowned as something occurred to him

'My spider-sense didn't go off…' Peter thought with realization 'Even if I wasn't in danger it should have still gone off because of the danger Black Spider was in!'

Peter quickly walked over to where he was standing and holding Black Spider and followed the apparent projectile's trajectory and saw that the bullet would have imbedded itself in the wall of a building that was slight taller than there's

He quickly hopped over towards the building in a single bound, ignoring Black Widow's questioning gaze and scanned for the bullet's impact but found none

'I know that it hit here somewhere, so where is it?' Peter thought as he looked for the impact zone of the bullet

After several moments of looking he let out a sigh and quickly hopped back over towards Black Spider's corpse and examined the head wound and frowned at what he saw. The hole in the head was a perfect circle, no torn flesh or burns from a bullet traveling through it. He had his suit scan the wound and ran a search to see if there was any bullet that could do such a thing

"What is it?" Black Widow asked as she looked down at what Spider-man was examining

"The head wound, doesn't match any known bullet and I couldn't find it in the wall over there" Spider-man gestured towards the building he was on. He then looked towards Black Widow "Seen anything like this before?"

Widow looked at the hole in the dead assassin's head for a few seconds and searched her memories for anything like it and came up blank. She shook her head "No nothing like that before…"

"Great" Spider-man said with a sigh as he activated his com and contacted someone he was slightly hesitant to do so, but didn't see much of a choice really

After several seconds a gruff voice answered "What do you want Spider-man?"

The voice was Batman, the leader of the Justice League, at least in this reality. In Peter's original reality it was technically Superman that led the Team more often than not while Batman and Wonder Woman acted as the sort of tied second in command. He couldn't help but chuckle at the fact that here, he was no in a sense second in command to the team

'Kind of fun to order Hal, Barry and even Clark around…' Peter thought with a silent chuckle before he cleared his throat

"Bat's I may need some help with something" Spider-man said as he stood up and glanced back towards the building the other Black Spider was using

"What is it? I'm busy" Batman stated

"Guy I was questioning just got his brains blown out and there's no visible bullet and yes before you ask I did look for an impact zone. Hell, the entry and exit wounds are perfectly symmetrical, like to the point that a computer would be green with envy with how good it is" Spider-man said as he began to pace while Widow watched him with her arms folded

Batman was quite for a moment before he answered "Send what you have over and I'll take a look when I'm done with my current investigation"

Spider-man made a sound of acknowledgment and did what the Dark knight asked "The guy who did it is part of the Black Spider hit squad, maybe that'll help"

"Which one was it?" Batman asked, having met the infamous death squad once earlier on in his first few months as the caped crusader. He quickly discovered that they were someone to challenge lightly

"New guy, like past few months new" Peter revealed "CIA is tracking him and they got more on Bigfoot then they do on this guy

Batman made a humming sound before responding "I'll look into tomorrow and let you what I find"

He ended the call abruptly causing Peter to sigh 'Same old Bat's, cant bother with a see ya later alligator. How rude!'

"So now what?" Black Widow asked her partner

"Now?" Spider-man said as he turned towards his younger sister "We go find the other two before their killed"

…

On the other side of Manhattan island the two Black Spiders of the now three man team were preparing for their assault on two of the Alchemax board members who were currently at a party being hosted by the new Mayor of New York City…

John Jonah Jameson Jr, former owner and chief editor of the Daily Bugle

"Where's Derrick?" Eric asked as he saw that their fellow assassin has yet to show up "He should be here by now"

"Forget about him" Johnny said as he loaded up on ammo clips and a few grenades. The extra firepower wasn't for their targets, it was for when Spider-man and Black Widow appear again and he knows they will

Eric was about to speak when suddenly another voice, one that was British from the sounds of it interrupted him and caught both men by surprise

"Now that's just rude mate"

Both spider assassins turned and aimed their weapons at the person who was able to sneak up on them and were surprised by what they saw

A man in a black leather jacket, white shirt underneath, grey jeans and a pair of dark brown boots. The man had lit a cigarette and looked at both men with a smirk "Not normally I don't do this sort of thing but…"

He was interrupted by the two men who opened fire on him only for their bullets to stop in mid air

The two assassins gaped at the sight while the man spoke with a sort of sheepish grin "…But I was sort of ordered to do this since the man my boss wants to meet is after you"

"The hell are you?" Eric said as he backed away, not in fear, but to keep his distance from the possibly dangerous man

"Me?" the man pointed to himself before he shrugged "Name's Constantine…John Constantine"