Hell’s Thugs...

It's a few days later and I'm currently walking through an alleyway hoping to bump into a certain someone because my entire plan to help Peter hinders on it and seeing as my other plan didn't work out this is what I'm banking in otherwise I can't do anything to help him and I made a promise to Mary Jane that I would but unfortunately when I eventually cornered Peter in his room a few days ago when I visited the Parker house he was just so dense and no matter how many hints I dropped or nudges I gave him he just ignored them and continued to chat away about what was happening at Midtown High since I left like I gave a fuck and every time I talked about superheroes and stuff which eventually leads to the new hero Spider-Man and I inform Peter of my observations of the hero such as that he is an inexperienced guy who got powers and doesn't know how to use them nothing actually got through to him that would actually make him improve himself as he just got very defensive of Spider-Man whenever I made comments like that and when I talked about Captain America not being as good a hero if he didn't have all that training and prowess Peter just agreed with me without actually taking anything on board and I even went as far as to blatantly say 'Those powers are wasted on Spider-Man, if Hawkeye or Black Widow or someone actually trained and experienced had those powers than they would be a much better superhero than him' but even then Peter missed the entire point and got really defensive over it staying that he was probably just starting out, after that he got quite frosty with me since from his point of view I was just continuing to roast Spider-Man and criticise him so when we got to a lull in the conversation I knew I had overstayed my welcome as the atmosphere was awkward and so I had to leave without actually achieving my goal and I know that that Avenue wouldn't work to improve Spider-Man.

It certainly didn't make matters better when I saw MJ later and she asked me how I had progressed in what she had asked of me and when I told her I was working on it I could see the doubt and worry on her face but once I reassured her she was fine but she still worried and so after once again assuring Mary Jane that I would help Peter I set out to find some way to do that but no matter how I thought about it there was actually no way for me to actually help him since I couldn't help him in anyway whatsoever without telling him I knew his identity in the process so I wouldn't be able to potentially provide him with samples of tech which he could copy and make for himself in the future and I can't help him learn how to fight properly because even now I'm not that good or qualified enough to teach someone and I don't think I would be able to anytime soon as Earl has gotten up in his years and can no longer teach me and anywhere I do want to learn from would have to be pretty advanced and all of those places came with conditions and consequences so I have decided to instead do what I can manage on my own and keep my anonymity so there is no way I can help Peter there either but who says I have to be the one to help him and it's because I came to that conclusion that I have been patrolling these streets these last few days, currently it's after dark and I'm wandering around the dark dangerous streets of Hell's Kitchen looking for a certain someone who had claimed this area of New York as his own turf but it doesn't seem to have mattered because for the last few days I've been wandering around I've been accosted several times by different thugs trying to mug me or in one case trying to murder me for no reason but I easily put them all down making sure to limit myself to the strength that someone of my build and stature would have but even then it was easy to take down these thugs as just because I was using merely human strength I was still using my enhanced senses and so it was child's play to beat these guys down and I'm surprised that all they had was there hands and some shitty melee weapons as I would have expected at least one of them to have a gun given that this was America but surprisingly all they had was some melee weapons and even the guy who came out of nowhere and tried to kill me for no reason only had a bloody knife.

Usually after all this beat downs I would just leave the guys in the streets unconscious as they were only by themselves or at most in groups of three or four plus they gave me an option to hand over my wallet before they even got their weapons out and even after they got their weapons out they still gave me a chance and since I don't know what their circumstances were that they would have to turn to crime I honestly didn't care either so I left them on the street since I'm not a hero and I don't think they would actually seriously harm anyone plus they might have a change of heart after I had knocked them out but unfortunately the crazy guy who tried to kill me for no reason could not be held under the same banner and once I had easily knocked him out after he came at me with a knife I noticed that his knife was bloody with some older dried blood on it as well and so I mustn't have been the first person this guy had attacked and so it was with a heavy heart that I decided to rap this guy up in some cable I found nearby and then called the police to alert them to his location and I had no doubt the guy would be indispensable due to the bloody knife I left with him as well as his clothes that were sprayed with blood as well and so I left him there tied up for the cops after I called them and that's because unlike those other thugs this guy was just murderous and he was far more dangerous so I couldn't in good conscious leave the guy there to wake up and go attack someone else and since I'd already knocked coed him out I just had to inform the police of his arm re-evaluate before quickly escaping the scene, my day wasn't made any better the next day when I discovered that the guy had made it onto the news and it's been reported that the guy was a serial killer who has apparently been connected to eleven different murder investigations but the media was reporting that the man was claiming that there were dozen more murders and it looked like the guy would eventually be sent to Rykers Island for eleven consecutive terms though that was still out for the jury but it still grinds my gears that a guy like this was out on the street and it took me who isn't even a hero to capture him and I'm regretting that I didn't do more damage to the guy but I can at least be comforted by the fact that the guy isn't a super and so he would most likely stay in prison and die there but the name Cletus Kasady continued to ring in my head and I felt like I had heard it somewhere but no matter how much I pondered over it I just couldn't make any connections and so it mustn't be that important if I could forget about it.

There was no mention of me or someone capturing the guy and then informing the police about it and it seems that the police were withholding that information and seemed to be taking credit for his capture though they didn't explicitly say that but I'm guessing that they would rather have it known that they captured the serial killer instead of it being known that he was captured by and given to the police by a unknown person which I suppose I could understand since they want people to trust the police and since most crime was being solved by heroes nowadays this would look good for the police department and probably help them out and I didn't really give a shit but unfortunately it seems that for one reason or another Kletus Kasady was being transferred from one place to another for some reason and the press found out about it and I don't know whether it was Kasady trying to be a dick or it simply made sense in his twisted mind but he shouted for all the world to hear that he wasn't captured by the police and he was instead captured by some guy and then he proceeded to give a description of me before the police could stop him or shuffle him into the building and so it was no surprise that a high profile case like this (because the police were making a big deal out of it to improve their image) already had a lot of attention and so I was flabbergasted to hen on the news the reporters were talking about a new possible vigilante/superhero who captured the serial killer that the police couldn't and they even had a description of me, thankfully I took precaution every time I went to walk the street of Hells Kitchen and wore black pants, black boots, a black t shirt, black gloves and a black hoodie over that to hide myself and I had the hood pulled up and stuck to my head using my sticky powers so as to completely shadow my face and not reveal anything so all the press had right now was a white man completely covered in black and that was it which I'm grateful for since I'm not a hero and I'm not about to let the media brand me one either but still this vague description of me was enough to rattle me and so this time when I travelled around Hells Kitchen I decided to where casual regular clothes instead of all black although I still had a hoodie on and my face protects by my stick me powers keeping the hood shadowing my face.

It seems to be working as well since I've been walking around Hells Kitchen for a while and the few people that saw me didn't give me another glance so I must be in the clear and so it was with a relieved mind that I continued to prowl the streets of Hells Kitchen looking for a certain man who could help me with my Peter situation but it seems it wasn't to be tonight since out of nowhere while I was walking down an eerie silent street with no one in sight a whole bunch of thugs began to pour out of the alleyways surrounding the street both in front and behind me and it wasn't long before I was surrounded on all sides by around thirty thugs who were all holding baseball bats and crowbars menacingly and when I took a closer look at them I realised that I recognised a few of them as some thugs that trie to mug me who I proceeded to beat the shit out of before leaving them in the gutters.

"You may have changed your clothes vigilante but we can still tell that you're the same bastard who was fucking with us, you shouldn't have done that. Now the tables have turned and your gonna get yours, LET'S GET HIM BOYS!" One of the thugs step out from the crowd to make their little speech and it seems this guy is the leader of these rabble rousers, this'll teach me not to be nice and leave guys unconscious in alleyways...

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