Chapter 16 - Masked Bankers

All of Sarah's (AI) speaking will be with these symbols { }

Example {Hello Peter, how are you feeling?}

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~Peters POV~

" *SNIFF* I love the smell of a new suit" I say to myself.

{Peter there is an active hostage situation at a bank nearby} Sarah tells me.

"I'm on it, bring up its location and all possible exits" I say swing towards the bank.

"WE HAVE THE BANK SURROUNDED COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP!" I hear someone say into a megaphone.

{Peter there is a vent on the backside of the bank} Sarah tells me.

"Thank you, Sarah." I say swinging to the back of the bank while remaining out of sight.

Spotting the vent, I pull it open and crawl into it. "This vent is surprising clean" I say to myself.

{Take the left up ahead Peter}

"Got it"

Taking the left, I begin to hear voices coming through the vents. I believe said voices belong to our dirty criminals.

Crawling deeper into the vent, I finally come across a vent where I can see through. I spot a group of 5 men each wearing different mask.

One has a gorilla mask,

another has baby mask,

one has a Jason mask,

one has a pig mask and

the final one is wearing a skull mask.

"It wasn't supposed to be like this" The man wearing a gorilla mask says. "It was supposed to be in and out. That's what he said"

"What do you want me to do about it! He got the timing wrong" The baby masks man answers him.

"How are we supposed to get out with this place surround?" The Jason masked man asks.

"Don't worry, I was given a little something special in case something like this happened" the with the skull mask says, who I now believe is the leader. "Pig go stay with the hostages"

"On it boss" Pig mask answers.

"I shall go negotiate. Go guard the entrances for cops" Skull mask dude orders the other three.

With all 5 men gone, I gently slip out it the vent and crawl on the roof towards where Pig mask man went.

I spot the vault door open, with pig mask man standing in front of the vault entrance. 'So that's where the hostages are'

I silently crawl directly above the pig mask man. Unsticking my feet, I hang just behind him and let go of the roof.

Just as I land in the ground, I strike the pig mask mans head with my elbow knocking him clean out. Catching him before he hits the ground.

Placing him gently on the floor, I turn to look into the vault to see 13 hostages all tied up and with duck tape over their mouths.

Placing a finger in front of my mouth in a shushing, I get nods in return showing that all the hostages know what I want.

I quickly web the pig mask man up tightly. I walk to the nearest hostages and free her from her bondage.

"Stay quiet, free everyone else. Then stay in here, you'll be safe" I tell her.

"Okay" she whispers back.

Nodding, I walk out of the vault and towards a nearby exit to take out another one of the masked men.

Crawling back in the wall and onto the roof, I silently close in on another of the masked bank robbers. This is wearing the baby mask, he appears to be watching the windows.

Crawling above him, I shoot a web a few meters away from him to get him away from the windows. As soon as he leaves the windows, he receive's his express ordered flying kick to the back of his head.

Webbing the Baby mask man up, I made sure he's secured. I leave to find the other three masked robbers.

Thankfully Sarah having hacked into the security cameras, tells me that two of the masked men are guarding the back exit, while the Skull masked man is at the front.

Crawling to the back of the bank, I creep up upon the Jason and gorilla masked Robbers.

"Do you think the boss will use the new weapon he got?" Gorilla Masked man asks his partner.

"I doubt it. There's only cops out there, they are not worth it" Jason masked man reply's.

"I hope Spid-" He never got to finish as he was rudely interrupted by my fist hitting his temple.

"What-" before The Jason masked man can truly react I quickly give him an uppercut to knock him out.

With both man down, I web them up and make sure they can't escape.

"4 down 1 to go" I say moving to the front of the bank.

"I want 5 vans delivered to the back of the bank" Skull masked man requests.

I don't hear what the negotiator says back. But I do drop down behind the skull masked man.

Only for my Spider sense to start blaring out. As quick as possible I lean to the side to get out of the way.

*Smash*

*Thud*

"Argh, shit" I say allowed as I get hit by what ever my Spider Sense was warning about.

Putting a hand to my side, I see that not only did it penetrate my suit but also my tough skin.

"I'm bleeding" I whisper in slight shock, having not experienced actually bleeding in quite some time.

"Spider-Man" I hear a voice grit out, taking me out of my thoughts.

"Hey wassup. I'll be right with you" I tell him. As I web up my injury to atleast slow down the blood loss.

"I should've known you'd show up" Skull mask man continues.

"Yeah well. Hero" I point to myself. "Bad guy" I point to him.

"It's kind of obvious, I'd show up man" I tell him with a shake of my head.

"Yes it is" Skull mask says. "That's why I got this" he pulls out a small metal object.

"What does it-" I begin.

*Slam*

"FREEZE GET ON THE GROUND AND PUT YOUR HANDS UP" The swat team shout busting through the doors.

"Oh officers, how nice of you to join us" Skull mask says.

"DROP THE METAL OBJECT AND PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR HEAD" The Swat leader says.

"If you say so" Skull mask man says tossing the Metal at the Swat team.

*Beep* Beep*

I quickly zone in on the Metal device, it's deeping slowly getting faster.

Shit it's a bomb or something.

I quickly leap up into the air, ignore the pain I'm in. I web the Metal device that's still flying in the air and pull it towards me

It gets within a few meters before it blows up.

*Boom*

But instead of a fiery explosion, it releases a wave of intense force out in all directions .

Still being in the air, I get sent flying into the nearby wall with enough force to kill your average person.

"Urgh" blinking back the dizziness I slowly start to get up. I look around to see and even the Skull mask dude and the Swat team were lifted from the ground.

The masked Skull man was first to get up. He begins to run towards the back of the bank, but before he can make much head way.

I shoot an web at his feet and pull him back. Standing up full now, I walk over to him and web his hands to the ground.

Doing a quick scan I see all the of the Swat team is beginning to get up.

"My work here is done" I whisper leaving the bank.

~Scene Change~

~Spider-Man HQ~

"I can't believe I got shot" I grit out still stitching myself up.

*Ding*

"I knew you'd be down here" Ned says coming next to me. "Here let me" taking the needle out of my hands.

"Here Peter are we doing anything for the Stark Expo?" Ned asks.

"Hmm if you ..AH... what too" I tell him.

"Hmm I'm sure MJ will agree to help us aswell" Ned states.

"Got any ideas?" I ask curious.

"Not really no" Ned tells me. "Too busy"

"I suppose that's true. I guess we'll think of something" I tell him.

"There and done, all stitched up" Ned states putting down the stitching needle.

"Here take a look at these" I tell Ned grabbing the bag for of the impulse grenade.

"What's is this?" Ned asks in slight wonder.

"The Tinkerers newest creation I believe" I tell him. "Can you help analysis the components?, they might help us track the tinkerer down"

"Of course, leave it me" Ned reply's already getting to work.

Meanwhile I begin to analyse the bullet that found its way into my body.

"Man, this is fascinating" I mumble, after getting the full specs of the bullet.

It's got high penetration power along side it's incredible velocity. This bullet fired from the right gun might be able to penetrate a tank or do some damage to the Iron Man armour.

"The Thinkerer is really out doing himself" I say to myself. "Ned! What you got for me?"

"Near nothing, these parts are all have to be custom made. There's no way The Tinkerer would be able get his hands on these unless he's Tony Stark himself" Ned explains.

"Okay, so The Thinkerer is a super engineering genius. But to create weapons like these He or she would need years of experience" I say my think out loud.

"True, they would also need both wealth and a workshop, capable to make these" Ned agrees.

"I'll get Sarah to set up a search file, using these specifics" I tell Ned.

~End of Chapter~

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