Issue 7: Rumble in Hell's Kitchen Part II

Matt looked at the two heroes jumping off of his patio and sighed before saying, "I guess I should get suited up."

He moved to the closet in his room and brought out a locked trunk. After changing into his Dare Devil outfit, Matt met Peter and MJ on the roof before he asked, "So what do I call you two?"

Peter pointed to himself before announcing, "I'm Spider-Man and she's..."

MJ held her hand in front of Peter's face before she chimed in by saying, "Spider-Woman! Dig the costume by the way."

"Okay, but why spiders?" Daredevil asked.

Peter smiled and answered in a jokingly tone, "We were bitten by a super-spider that gave us our powers! How'd you get yours? You get bitten by a radioactive devil-bat or something?"

Matt chuckled before he said, "Close, it was a chemical spill accident that fell on me when I was a kid"

"How is that, close?" MJ asked while shaking her head in confusion.

"I'm not sure, but I think the chemicals were radioactive," Daredevil answered.

This time it was Peter's turn to laugh, "Did the devil of Hell's Kitchen just make a joke?"

"What can I say? I'm in a good mood. Kingpin is behind bars, and I'm sleeping like a baby these days. So, Spider Couple, what's that plan?" Daredevil asked.

"Ooh, Spider-Couple! I'm keeping that one!" MJ said before she giggled.

"I'm thinking that you know every dirty scumbag in this neighborhood. You point them out, while Spider-Woman and I kick their butts until they confess, and if we're lucky enough, we catch them doing or speaking about something illegal." Peter threw a burner phone to Matt. "Press and hold 1 to contact me, 2 for Spider-Woman and 3 to record."

Daredevil put the phone away and led them to their first group of thugs. They lucked out and managed to overhear them confessing their boss's misdeeds.

Spider-Man and friends crept by a nearby window and watched as a group of Irish mobsters sat around their table playing poker.

"Can you believe that moron Fisk has finally been put away? What a dumb ass! Who gets caught by the police by a regular dude in some devil mask?" Lackey-1 said.

Lackey-2 then asked, "Hey that devil guy, think he's a competitor?"

Lackey-1 said in response, "Nah, who'd dare compete with the boss?"

Lackey-3 looked at the pile of cash on the table and smiled before saying, "Do remember that dame and her family we killed a couple of months ago? Man, I wish I could have had a taste before the boss offed her."

"How could I forget? Everyone was there, even the boss's sons. Dude, that undercover pig died in a lot of pain. I mean, killing his whole family in front of him, I'm telling you, I ain't never been that hard before," Lackey-4 said before he laughed in a sadistic tone.

Lackey-3 smiled as he threw out a wad of cash, "I've saved my commission from that job and I know you guys have some money left over too; so quit holdn' back!"

"You're bluffing!" Lackey 1 Claimed.

Spider-Man, who had snuck inside, slowly slid down from the roof on his web-line and said, "No I don't think he's bluffing he's got 4 Aces. So, tell me Lackeys 1, 2, 3, and 4, is there anything you'd like to add before going away to prison for the rest of your life."

Spider-Man kept the recording camera lens on his phone pointed at them as Lackey-1 shouted, "How? Who the hell are you?"

"I'm that which goes bump in the night. I'm the voice for all the victims that couldn't speak out against their oppressors. I am, Batman!" Peter said as he landed on the table.

"Get em, boys!" Lackey-1 shouted as the room filled up with local thugs, all of them holding weapons, such as bats, chains, and golf clubs.

Peter had a bunch of knives pointed at his face when he said, "You guys wanna hear a joke?."

"Who are you and where did you come from?!" Lackey-2 shouted at Peter.

"No? Are you sure you don't want to hear my joke?" Peter said as he pointed to the window.

Spider-Woman flew in from a window and kicked a guy through the wall, she landed in the center of the crowd, she turned to the Lackies and said, "You should have listened to his joke, it was a real kicker."

Peter laughed as the thugs began jumping towards MJ.

Spider-Woman lept off the ground started kicking and punching everyone near her, every strike she made targeted their nerves and weak points, making it easy for MJ to knock them unconscious with a single blow.

Next Dare Devil suddenly busted down the door and started kicking the asses of every thug he could get his hands on. Matt's martial arts and combat senses were in peak form. He made sure to knock them out as many as he could with a single attack and preserve his stamina as much as possible by throwing the heavier opponents towards the Spider-Couple.

Peter went around the room tapping the thugs on the shoulder and nailing them with a Venom Blast that would keep the unconscious for hours.

The Lackeys were about to reach for their guns when Spider-Man webbed them to their hands to their chairs. He then stood on the table surrounded by the lackeys and webbed the mouths of everyone but Lackey 4.

"You're going to tell every little bad thing you and your boss have ever done!" Spider-Man said staying at the Lackey

"I ain't telling you shit!" The Lackey shouted in defiance.

Spider-Man turned off the camera and placed his hands on the thug's shoulders before squeezed until the man screamed.

"You're going to tell me what I know, or you're going to experience what it's like to have all 360 joints individually dislocated."

"Eat a dick!" The fourth lackey spat in Peter's face, only to watch Spider-Man dodge before gently pinching his left arm out of its collarbone socket.

The criminal let out a scream of pain that made Peter roll his eyes and said, "We already have you fessing up to murdering an entire family. Why not just give us the information and save yourself some pain?"

"Go to hell! Freak!" The lackey shouted out before Peter sighed dislocated his right arm, "You know the funniest part about this? I'm so skilled at pulling your joints out, that I'm not doing any real damage to you."

"Ouch! Talk about disarming your foes!" MJ shouted, making Peter laugh a little.

"Hey, I'm the one who's supposed to tell the jokes. Right?" Peter said with a humorous tone.

The man screamed for aid, but no one came to help.

Spider-Woman started tying up the crooks while Peter worked on the villain. Daredevil supplied her with various items they found in the building such as ropes and chains.

"You see the fun part about pulling your joints out is that they can be put back in, just like this!" A loud snapping noise was heard as Peter put both of his arms back in their sockets.

"Arrggg!" The lackey cried out in pain.

"And now that it's back in, you get to experience the whole thing all over again." After Peter threatened to dislocate his arm from the fingers up, the lackey couldn't help but cave in after the first finger.

After resetting his bones, Peter smiled underneath his mask and said, "Okay, now tell me everything about your little gang."

The rat spilled his guts and began confessing to a handful of crimes that almost made Spider-Man puke under his mask. Peter almost felt guilty about saving the lackey's life and felt that they deserved the Punisher's wrath.

Sighing, Spider-Man stopped the recording and threw the phone to Daredevil.

"So is this enough to put them away?" Peter tied up the last guy's mouth and knocked the four of them out.

Walking over to the pile of unconscious crooks, Daredevil kneeled over their bodies as he said, "I think we have more than enough."

Peter smiled as he clapped the dust off his hands, then he moved to the window, and cracked his knuckles before saying, "Next gang, Daredevil. I plan on making a clean sweep tonight."

That night the three took down 5 different gangs, each belonging to the Irish, Italians, Mexican Cartel, and Yakuza. While they were working on the leftover thugs from Kingpin's group, Peter was tying up a group of crooks when his Spider Senses started suddenly ringing.

As he jumped up to dodge, an albino man in a fancy suit charged through a wall and missed his attempt to grab Spider-Man by the throat.

"Tombstone!" Peter shouted internally.

"You think you can move in on my turf just because the boss is away at the moment?" Tombstone glared hate at the three heroes.

"OMG! Look at that suit, it's the walking monument of MC Hammer!" Spider-Man joked while jumped in and hit Tombstone square in the jaw.

Tombstone's body flew into the wall while Peter felt a stinging sensation sting throughout his arm and shouted, "Man what the hell is your chin made out of granite, no maybe marble, after all, a good tombstone is so hard to come by these days."

Tombstone pulled himself out of the wall and spit up a little blood before saying, "Been a long time since I felt pain."

Tombstone then wiped the blood from his chin with his sleeve when Spider-Man said, "Get ready for some more. Because my fist is about dent the words R.I.P into your forehead."

"Babe, desecrating a tombstone is a crime. But what the heck, we'll pay the fine," MJ joked as Peter webbed his feet and pulled him towards his fist.

After sending him flying again, Matt pulled out his walking stick and separated it before he wrapped the thin wire inside the parted pole around Tombstone's throat and flipped the villain upside down.

Spider-Woman responded by webbing up her fist with the cement-webbing and punching Tombstone directly in the face with a fierce uppercut.

The force from MJ's attack caused Tombstone's body to shoot right back up while Spider-Man used a slingshot maneuver with his webbing to slam his feet into Tombstone's gut.

The villain then flew towards the wall while Spider-Man shot a web-line on his chest and pulled him back towards the three heroes.

Matt, Peter, and MJ all threw out their fist and hit Tombstone in the face, knocking him out cold as he hit the floor, smashing the wooden planks like they were made of cardboard.

Spider-Man tied him up with a bunch of reinforced chains and made sure he was well secured. Tombstone was a beast in his own right, boasting super powered durability, enhanced strength, and senses. Peter didn't want to take any chances, and he wrapped the villain from head to toe.

Spider-Man wasn't joking when he said he felt like he smacked into a wall of concrete. Tombstone; originally known as, Lonnie Lincoln, wasn't born superhuman powers. He gained his abilities through artificial means that was the result of a mutagenic reaction to an experimental preservative gas that had been absorbed into his bloodstream.

He possesses physical strength that has been increased beyond his original limits, reaching superhuman levels. His reflexes, speed, and stamina are likewise heightened beyond a range attainable for normal human beings.

Tombstone's body is also highly resistant to physical injury and is capable of withstanding extreme temperatures, great impact forces, high caliber bullets, and toxic gases without sustaining injuries, making him a royal pain in the ass to take out.

Luckily, he knew this beforehand and didn't hold back as much normally does.

Peter made sure to take some blood samples as he finished up his interrogation. After heading out, they called in the cops and waited.

Peter figured that if sending one or a group of them to jail, the politicians the Hand has ties with would let them back out on the street in no time, but if he sent them all at once with supporting evidence, well let's just say, city hall is gonna be busy as hell for the next few months.

"Not even Fury would be able to sweep this incident under the rug." Peter thought to himself.

Hearing the sirens approaching, the three Heroes left the scene of the crime and dropped the evidence they had gathered off with a few mob bosses that had a note taped to their foreheads.

When the cops read it out loud a few of their officers chuckled, "Compliments of your Friendly Neighborhood Spidey Couple and the Angelic Devil of Hell's Kitchen."

Peter and MJ landed on top of Matt's house as the sun was starting to rise. Noticing this, Peter looked at his watched and cried out, "Oh! Man! We are so grounded!"

Peter then grabbed MJ's hand and got ready to web away, when Matt asked, "Wait! How can I contact you if something like Tombstone comes up again, I may need a hand. Superpowers like that are kind of hard to deal with on my own."

Peter smiled and tossed him one of the burner phones and said, "Just press one to call."

"And two for me!" MJ followed up.

Peter then pulled MJ close to him and lifted her over his shoulder before he said, "Oh yeah! Matt, give me a call if you spot any Ninjas, and don't do anything crazy!"

With that, he swung away carrying a laughing MJ through the city. Matt looked a little puzzled about the whole ninja comment, but, decided that Spider-Man was just joking. After pulling off his mask he then chuckled before he headed inside to get some rest, unaware of the coming Hand issue.

As Peter swung through the city, MJ stifled her laughing and said, "What are we gonna say to our parents?"

Peter smiled and said, "Damn I knew your ass was talented, but it can talk too?"

MJ slapped the back of his head and said, "I'm serious! You know my Dad, he'll never buy that we were doing something normal all night."

Peter grunted as he tried to come up with a good excuse, "How about we got locked in a Library, that happens right?"

"I don't know about that one Tiger." MJ said as she repositioned herself into his arms, she then looked him dead in the eyes and asked, "Got anything better?"

Peter fervently tried to come up with a plausible excuse when he suddenly had an idea and said, "I got it, let's just sneak into my Lab! We can act as we slept in there all night going over the patent for your clothing line. I keep the lab locked when I work and when I'm out so they might not notice we've been out all night. If they ask why we didn't hear them pounding on the cellar door, just say we were exhausted. You could even show them the products you've been working on."

MJ smiled at the idea and purred before she said, "Now that's my Tiger!"

"Are you sure I'm the tiger, after all, you're the one purring." Peter joked as MJ puffed up her cheeks and jumped out of Spider-Man's grasp.

She then webbed out a line and shouted out, "Last one back is a rotten egg!"

Peter grinned as the two took off in a blur of speed, jumping and bouncing off of the building the whole way back.

When the two returned to Peter's house, they snuck into his Lab before switching into their civilian clothing. They didn't need to worry about messing their appearance up as they were already tired and messed up hair could be explained away as bed head.

They put on their lab coats then took a nap for a few hours before coming out of the hatched off cellar and headed into the house.

When the opened the door, they noticed Aunt May and Ben were sitting on the couch across from MJ's mom.

As the parents saw their children's appearance they all stood up shouted, "Where on earth were you two?!" at the same time.

Peter and Mary flinched when Peter waved his hands in front of him in a defensive manner said, "We were in the lab! We were working on something late last night when we fell asleep!"

MJ was holding a bra in her hand and said, "Peter came up with a solution that could make some neat fabrics. This is our, well my first product."

Everyone in the room paused, Madeline looked over the bra and pulled a few times to notice it return to its original shape without any wearing on the fabric, "Smooth, feels a bit like a cross between cotton and silk. I love the design. Did you make this, Mary?"

MJ nodded her head before she said, "Peter thought up the formula, the design and production of the bra was my doing. Since I wanted to get a job we've decided to sell the products to a clothing company. We worked so much that we exhausted ourselves and fell asleep. I don't think a mob of gangsters shooting guns would have woken us up."

Peter almost laughed at the whole mob of gangsters bit before he turned his head and hid his expression.

Madeline then pulled MJ into a hug and said, "My baby has an eye for fashion! This is going to make you some money, now I want you to be responsible with it and start saving up for college!"

Peter saw the happy expression on MJ's face and could relate to her, it was nice when parents acknowledged their children's hard work. Peter nudged MJ's elbow with a grin on his face and said, "I told you science can be fun."

May raised her eyebrow, and turned to Peter, and asked, "That doesn't explain where you went this morning! Where did you go and why didn't you leave a note or something?"

Peter slapped his forehead as he said, "I was so engaged in my work that forgot! I'm sorry I didn't let you guys know what I was up to, but I was just so excited!"

Peter then smiled and looked at everyone before saying, "I managed to score to big sponsors that will help me patent the adhesive I came up with. After the first month, I can expect a big paycheck, combined from the two sponsors I landed; I'm looking at around $60,000 for my first payout."

Everyone's jaw dropped, MJ's included before she asked loudly, "Who did you get as a sponsor, Tiger?!"

"The only people I think I can trust with my materials, the Heroes Tony Stark and Reed Richards," Peter answered with a big shiny smile.