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Bad To The Bone
(Now)
It rains. Spider-Man and Marrow hang over the Brooklyn Bridge. Marrow has jumped off and Spidey grabbed her just in time before she killed herself. Marrow commands Spidey to let her go, but he of course refuses to do that. Marrow wants to kill herself. Spidey tries to talk her out of it, but Marrow slams with a bone hard on Spideys hand, this making him accidentally drop her. Spidey tries to catch her with his webs, but Marrow dodges them all and falls into the wild river below them. Spidey thinks about what happened.
(Twenty four hours earlier)
Peter and his Robby are at a hot dance club. Robby can’t keep his eyes of the many pretty girls around, but Peter obviously isn’t thrilled to be here. Randy tries to make Peter understand that Mary Jane would want him to move on. Peter realizes that, but doesn’t see this as a place where he would hang out. A beautiful girl shows up and picks Randy to dance with her, not giving him much of a chance to say no. Randy tries to apologize but Peter says it’s fine. The waitress shows up with their drinks and Peter has to pay 13 dollars! And that’s U.S. dollars.
The waitress laughs and tells Mr. Parker that the drinks are on her. She wants to pay Peter back for everything he did for her. Peter doesn’t remember her, so the girl introduces herself as Sarah Rushman. She explains that Peter was a Grad student at E.S.U. last semester and guest lectured on transbio-sensitive micro toxicology. Sarah recalls that Peter was more than smart on the subject. He was passionate and very inspirational. The waitress walks away. Peter tries to follow her, but loses her in the crowd. Another waitress thinks that Peter is talking to her, and makes a coffee date with him. Peter blushes, and Robbie and his girlfriend joke about it.
Later outside, Peter recognizes a famous model, Veronica Crandle, and snaps some quick pictures of her. While walking in her car, she suddenly screams! Peter has noticed her staring into an alley. He runs to it, and snaps some pictures of a dead body, pinned to a wall with bones! On the body, something’s written in blood. “Two left.” Peter recognizes the bones from somewhere, but can’t place them.
Some bystanders look up, and notices a person shrouded in shadows staring at them from a rooftop, triumphantly. They wonder who she is, but Spider-Man recognizes Marrow. Peter dons his Spider-Man costume on, unfortunately realizing that his date with Sarah is officially over. Marrow fights the webslinger, and mentions something about a deal and that the night belongs to her.
A defending Spider-Man jokes about it, and recalls how vicious Marrow was the last time they met. Spidey shoots some webs at her, but Marrow slashes them through, saying that no one can trap her. Peter notices something weird, as Marrow seems to act like they don’t know each other. Marrow is glad that she’s free, and graciously jumps over a roof! She mentions that she’s bad to the bone, and throws a water tank below to the streets! She tells Spider-Man that he can play the hero part now. Spider-Man just in time catches the tank, and manages to throw a few thick webs over it, so that it won’t fall down and that the police can further handle it. When he turns around, Marrow is already gone. He tries to catch up with Sarah, but thirty minutes later realizes that she has already left.
Next day, at Empire State, Peter teaches his class. A smart student tries to outsmart Peter by asking him to justify a science theory, but Peter of course can do that with ease. The other students laugh at the freshman, and Peter recognizes himself in the boy. After class, Peter is met up by Sarah! But his spider sense tingles wild. She apologizes for not being their last night, but she left after the craziness began. Peter offers her to go for the coffee now, and she gladly accepts. As they leave, Peter’s Spidey sense still goes off, but he doesn’t see any danger.
Later, at the coffee house, they talk. Peter asks Sarah about her life, but she claims that there’s not much to it. She reveals that she’s from the Midwest, an only child and has simple parents. Peter’s fine with it, and they further on spend the night telling jokes. After the date, Sarah tries to lure Peter into her bedroom, but he hesitates. Sarah understands, and they say goodnight to one another. On his way back home, Peter thinks about Mary Jane. Suddenly, he hears someone screaming. It’s Sarah!
He quickly puts his Spider-Man costume on and jumps into her apartment, where he finds Sarah grabbed by two muscled thugs, carrying guns. Spidey quickly defeats them, and he and Sarah introduce each other. Spider-Man grabs Sarah and tries to web-sling away, but an army arrives and they shoot his webs through, and they fall down. S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Sharon Carter steps forward, and orders Spider-Man not to get involved into S.H.I.E.L.D. business, and to just hand Sarah over to them. Spidey doesn’t trust them and warns Sarah to stay behind him, but she doesn’t answer. And his spider sense goes off again.
Suddenly, Marrow is in Sarah’s place, and she throws a bone at Sharon! Spidey catches the bone with his webs, and realizes that Sarah and Marrow are the same person. Marrow escapes. Spidey jumps in Sharon’s plane, and they begin the search for Marrow. Along the way, Sharon explains that there never was a Sarah Rushman, and that not even the X-Men know Marrow’s real name. Sharon has learned that Marrow used to hang out with them, but for some reason left and thinks that something must have happened. One of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents found Marrow, scared to hell, in a sewer in Manhattan. She thinks that the X-Men must have beaten her for leaving the group. Spidey defends the X-Men, as he knows them and that they don’t work that way. He knows that Marrow must have made a decision on her own, but Sharon doesn’t really believe that.
Spidey asks about the Sharon Rushman identity. Sharon explains that it’s an implanted memory. Sharon asks Spider-Man to believe her because, if he saw Marrow as Sharon did, he would know that they were only being humane. Sharon just wanted Marrow to know some peace. Spidey thinks about the murders, and rather believes that Carter just wanted someone to do her dirty work for them. Sharon angrily shouts that’s not true, as they would never let anyone carry out such missions. She explains that Marrow was send out to just kill some rough Life Model Decoys, and that she was a robot killer.
Spidey asks what the “two left” remark meant, which was written on the dead person’s body. Sharon shouts that the injection would have kept Marrow confused. On message, as it were. Though without it, Sharon fears that Marrow is a menace to everyone and, according to the S.H.I.E.L.D. files she has read about Marrow, her being raised in a hostile alternate reality doesn’t help her case much. She wants to find Marrow before she finds them.
But they’re too late. Marrow jumps on the Brooklyn Bridge, and is ready for a fight. Sharon wants to pull back, but Spider-Man realizes that Marrow really is a danger in her current state, and wants to stop her before she harms an innocent person. He and Marrow fight, but Marrow gets the upper hand and knocks Spidey down. She goes to sit on him, and holds one of her bones high up, ready for the kill. She shouts that there can only be one person: Marrow or Sarah. She pulls the bone down, hitting it on the ground behind Spidey. She jumps away from Spider-Man, leaving him confused.
Marrow tries to jump off the Bridge. Spidey tries to catch her, but Marrow cuts the webs loose and falls down.
(Now)
Spider-Man sights, but confidents himself that at least he tried to help Marrow. But from what? Herself?
(One week later)
Peter cleans up Sarah’s apartment, but wonders why he does it. He does it for a friend who never existed. She finds Sarah’s passport, and looks at the picture on it. When looking at Sarah’s smile, Peter can’t believe that there isn’t more love buried inside of Marrow than she even knows. But Peter is certain that she’ll find it someday. He leaves the apartment, closing his first date post Mary Jane. He wishes Sarah Rushman a goodnight, wherever she is.
Elsewhere, Marrow lies alone in the sewers. Someone behind her welcomes her back. The mutant called Hemingway hugs Marrow, and tells her that they haven’t been the same without her.


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Stuff Of Legends
Somwhere, in a dark room…
As a bright light shines in his eyes, Spider-Man, not wearing his mask, admits he doesn’t know where to start telling his story. There’s just so much… and it’s a strange tale. Even for him. He doesn’t know how to make the story make sense to his interrogator. In the end, it all comes down to one simple truth: he is Spider-Man.
Sitting right across of Peter on a table, while his Spider-Man mask lies on it, the interrogator jokes it’s quite obvious Peter is Spider-Man. But Peter disagrees with that. His identity is supposed to be a secret. Which is a big part of why his life is so completely messed up and he’s sitting across the interrogator like this. He stops talking when he sees the questioner placing an hourglass in front of him, and asks about its meaning. The person says it’s the exact amount of time Peter has to make himself clear. And perhaps he should start at the beginning. “Right,” Peter sighs, “the beginning…”
Earlier…
Just a couple of days ago, things were normal. Or, at least the kind of thing that passes for that in his life. As his alarm clock goes off, Peter, still wearing the pants of his Spider-Man costume, gets out of bed and heads for the living room. There, he eats some breakfast cereal and watches some TV. He was happy. And sad, when he reads in the Daily Bugle that the war on terrorism escalates. When he stares at a picture of Mary Jane, he was happy and sad at the same time. Like he said… it was a normal day.
Peter takes a shower, during which he signs the song “Roxanne.” Getting dressed and putting his Spider-Man costume underneath his regular clothes, Peter gets a phone call from Aunt May. She just wanted to remind him about dinner next Sunday. And she doesn’t want to hear any cancellations. If Peter plays his cards right, she might even bake a pie. Peter wouldn’t miss it for the world. “Good,” Aunt May smiles on the other side of the phone, because that’s the excuse Peter normally uses. She mentions she’ll see Peter at eleven and hangs up.
Peter concludes that, if he knew then what the day was going to bring, he would have crawled back into bed right then and there.
Later, at school…
Peter explains to his students what the membrane does, making a comparison that it’s kind of like the whole Billy Bob/Angelina Jolie thing. Kelly Cox, the school’s new and cute assistant principal, interrupts Peter’s class. She just got a package that came for him and thought it would be best she brought it by herself. Silently, Peter reminds himself Kelly is still young. And he has to focus on that part really hard when Kelly gently touches Peter’s hand when she delivers him the envelope. Peter feels something tingling, and it’s not the spider-sense. Kelly whispers to Peter that she took the liberty to throw her phone number in the envelope, in case he has any questions. It’s her home number.
Peter opens the envelope and finds a scrapbook of pictures of himself in his civilian clothes, pictures of him as Spider-Man and photos of Mary Jane and Aunt May. And there is also a note in it, which reads “Meet me on the roof, Mr. Parker.” Kelly notices how distracted Peter suddenly looks and asks if there is something she can do… anything at all. Peter takes advantage of it and runs away, asking Kelly if she can watch the class for him. Before Kelly can refuse, Peter is already gone, and all of the students gape at her.
Peter runs into the hallways and believes this is bad. He means, this is the kind of bad that’s so bad you almost don’t feel it. This is Trickle-Down Economics bad. This is sand-in-the-swimsuit bad. This is Detroit Tigers bad. Hell… this is Phantom Menace bad. Peter runs up some stairs until he is on the roof, where he recognizes a familiar face… but isn’t exactly pleased to see… Nick Fury!
Fury, standing on the rooftop overlooking the city and smoking a cigar, jokes that Peter was probably expecting to see Santa Claus. Fury apologizes for yanking Peter out of his class. Now to the point: there is a matter of national security that needs to be attended to. Peter mocks that’s very unfortunate for Fury, but Fury wants Peter’s help in solving it the problem. His country needs him. Peter thinks Fury just means that he needs him and not the country. “Chicken and the egg,” Fury points out. Fury talks into his headset to another SHIELD agent: “Fury to Magic Momma: put some clothes on,” to explain they’re ready to go.
A huge, white SHIELD spacecraft appears above the school out of nowhere, and Peter is stunned by the magnificent view. Fury wants Peter to hop in, as they need to talk.
Now…
Noticing his time is almost up, Peter asks his interrogator if he could get some water. The person gets up and puts some water in a glass. And while his back is turned, Peter turns the hourglass upside down so he has more time to tell his story. He admits that, hearing himself tell this story, he guesses he wouldn’t know what to think if he would be the interrogator. He means, it all seems ridiculous. The person gives Peter the water and agrees with what Peter just said.
In his defense, Peter imagines it feels like to accidentally stick or something. Or get your butt kicked by a nutbag with metal arms. Or have to worry about what temperature to wash your tights in so the red doesn’t bleed with the blue. And he won’t even mention the clones. The interrogator reminds Peter he’s wasting time. The person wants to know about Nick Fury. This amazes Peter, causing him to spit out the water he just drank. With a serious look in his face, Peter thinks that, the only thing his questioner needs to know about Nick Fury, what anyone needs to know, is that the guy is cancer. Your only option is to face it head-on, then pray it never comes back.
Earlier, aboard Fury’s ship…
Fury explains the deal to the webslinging hero. There’s a government asset missing and Nick needs Peter to bring him back in. The plane lands in the hangar of the Helicarrier and, as pliots do a checkup on the plane, Fury and Peter step out of it, while Peter wants to know why Fury would think he’d to this for him. Fury tries to light a cigar, but a tiny mechanic arm coming from the walls yanks it out of his mouth, and puts it out. Fury quietly whispers he hates the taxpayer dollars. He explains to Peter this comes with the costume. And that’s why Nick isn’t wearing one. He rips open Peter’s jacket, revealing his Spider-Man costume beneath.
Nick opens a door and promises to explain what he can. They enter a large room with a big window. Fury looks through it and overviews the city below. He reveals this thing doesn’t technically falls within Fury’s jurisdiction… yet. If it did, Peter wouldn’t be here. The world’s a strange place these days… he knows Peter reads the papers. America isn’t much into the idea of jumping into conflicts that don’t directly involve it, and what stuff it is in deep. It doesn’t have much time for extracurricular activities. Especially as concerns a group of folks that got powers America can’t get their head around. But dandified policy doesn’t change the fact Fury has a job to do. By the time it take the politicians to agree on this thing, the whole deal will be even less manageable than it is right now. Truth to be told, Peter is already in this. Fury just needs to hear the words.
Peter looks disappointed, and asks Fury what will happen if he refuses. Fury picks up another cigar that lies on a table, and reminds Peter that blackmail is a very ugly word. He leaves, leaving Peter alone to think about it.
Now…
“No.” That’s what Peter wanted to say to Fury. For once, he wanted someone to figure out their own problem instead of just pointing a finger at him. But every time he has that thought, something he heard a long time ago plays over and over again in his head. The interrogator asks what it is. “Great power,” Peter concludes, “Great responsibility.”
Earlier, Fury’s ship…
Peter puts on his Spider-Man costume and a parachute on his back. Fury asks if he’s ready. Peter wants to hear his mission again. Fury wants him to find the camp, find the hostage and then a way out. Peter jokes Nick makes it sound so easy, but he promises it won’t be. Peter wants to know how he’ll recognize the hostage. Fury thinks he’ll stick out. He ask if they’re clear now. “Whatever,” Peter responds. Before he leaves, Peter wants to know if this place he’s going to, if Fury has ever been there. Fury smiles he has, but never when it wasn’t on fire. He pushes Spider-Man out of the ship and he skydives below…
Later that night, on a privately-held island off the coast of Japan…
A squad of soldiers are partying around a camp fire, while they’ve tied their hostage against a tree. On a hill nearby, a lone soldier stands guard. The soldiers’ leader steps forward to the very hairy hostage. In Japanese, he tells the poor guy he has built an empire for this day. He asks the hostage how long it has been now… twelve years? He gives the hostage a few hard punches in his face, and shouts out it has been twelve years since he disgraced…
Suddenly, a small rock is dropped on the leaders’ head. He looks up, and finds Spider-Man hanging upside down on a web. Spidey sarcastically asks the leader what wears a ridiculous suit covered with spiderwebs. The leader doesn’t know. Spidey answers the riddle for him: “Liberace.” Oh… and the leader himself, of course. Spidey captures the leader into some webs and jumps in front of the hostage. He tries to negotiate with the other soldiers, but they immediately open fire on him. He jumps on a tree and sticks to it, and from above can see a camera on the ground. He finds that weird and fires some webs at the soldier holding it. He also throws webs on the remaining soldiers, but then his webshooters get empty. “Ruh-Roh,” Peter jokes.
The hostage asks Spider-Man to untie his hands. Spidey jumps back down and replies that he doesn’t think there is time to do that. He kicks the small tree apart, which frees the hostage though his hands are still tied up. The hostage repeats his earlier demand, and Spider-Man agrees to do it. More soldiers arrive and point their guns at him, causing Spidy to make jokes about it. However, the hostage, calling Peter “bub,” asks him to shut up for a moment. A “snikt” sound is heard, and Peter realizes who the hostage is… a heavily tortured, and naked, Wolverine!
Now…
The interrogator wants to know what happened next. Peter honestly couldn’t tell the mysterious person, because it all happened so fast. They’ll have to ask… Wolverine himself. Logan appears out of the shadows, smiles and takes his hat off.


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Earlier in Japan, night…
It was really very simple. Adamantium claws, heightened instincts, and no great love of rich guys pushing dope on poor people made it more so. Takeshi Kishimoto was dirty. Drugs were his main deal but, if he could turn a buck fronting for something illegal, he was into it. Normally, this kind of stuff, Wolverine deals with… directly. But where Takeshi was from, the shame of being prosecuted and jailed in an official capacity was something far worse. All Logan needed was proof.
So, after smashing Takeshi’s window in, Logan broke into the guy’s compound, and found enough dirt to bury all the bodies left in his wake. One good thing about psychotic control freaks… they keep fantastic records. Like Logan said: simple. Just in and out…
However, Logan wasn’t alone in the compound that night. He heard someone bathing. Logan went to check it out, and found a beautiful, naked woman in the showers. In Japanese, she told Logan to “come.”
Now…
Wolverine sits alone in the dark. The interrogator asks what happened next, but Logan just says that’s another story. The interrogator understands and doesn’t even care to hear it. So, to reiterate: if Mr. Parker’s story is to be believed, Wolverine was emaciated, hideously tortured and surrounded by what sounds like an entire army. Add to this testimony that the man in charge of said army was once jailed on Wolverine’s account. It all sounds awful grim. “Welcome to my world,” Wolverine coldly remarks. The interrogator wants to know… whatever did they do next?
Earlier, Japan, after Spider-Man rescued Wolverine…
A furious Wolverine attacks the soldiers, killing some of them with his claws.
Now…
Logan answers the question that he did what he does best. Peter cuts in, smirking that what Logan does isn’t nice. By which, he means he killed a whole bunch of people before Peter could even stop him. And he swears, if he ever hears Logan say that again… Logan recalls that Peter didn’t mind his methods when they were saving his butt. Peter and Logan call each other names, but the interrogator points the two’s attention to the half full hourglass, reminding them they have no time to bicker. The person wants to know what further happened in Japan.
Earlier, Japan…
Spider-Man’s spider fluids are still empty, and he panics as he’s constantly getting shot at and can’t defend himself now. And he also misses buildings to stick on. And them being made out of steel. He pulls some vines off some trees, sticks them into his web-shooters and voila… the Amazing Spider-Man is back! He webslings across some trees and rejoins the battle. Or not. He notices a still injured Wolverine sitting on the ground, trying to recover from his wounds.
Peter lands next to Logan, asking if he’s okay. Logan says he is but Peter disagrees, because he literally has bullet holes into his chest. Logan’s wounds start to heal and the bullets drop out of his chest once that is done. Peter thinks he’s going to be sick because of it. Suddenly, his spider-sense goes off. Both Peter and Logan look up and see a helicopter flying above them. Out of the copter’s door comes a soldier, who opens fire on the two.
Wolverine and Peter go hide behind some trees and Peter asks what Logan did that could have pissed them off so much. Logan mentions it involves Takeshi’s daughter. Peter understands, but is a bit surprised all this is about a girl. Logan remarks it’s always about a girl. But that was fifteen to twenty years ago, maybe twelve with good behavior. Logan’s got to handle it to Takeshi, though. The little man knows how to carry a grudge. He tells Peter to use his webs.
Peter hates the idea, because he saw the episode where Uncle Jesse takes on DJ’s entire fifth class in a tug-of-war to impress his girlfriend of the weekend, and it doesn’t end well. But, he does as told and fires a web at the copter, which sticks on it. Logan grabs the end of the web and as the helicopter flies higher, so does Logan. However, Peter is left below.
In the helicopter, Takeshi freaks out when he sees Wolverine following them and shouts he wants Logan dead. He orders a soldier to shoot at him, but the poor guy is scared to death. A furious Takeshi in turn throws the soldier out of the helicopter and takes his gun, and starts shooting at Logan. However, he isn’t hit once and climbs aboard. In Japanese, Logan wants Takeshi to answer him a question: what size does he wear? He snikts out his claws.
Below…
Peter, left alone in the dark jungle, tries to make sense out of all this. This coming from a guy wearing pajamas in Japan and surrounded by a hundred dead bodies. He tries to figure out what Reed Richards would do in a situation like this. Because Peter would know what he would do if he were in those stretchy shoes. And it involves Sue Storm and Richards’ very specific abilities and loads of dairy products. He finds a broken camera on the ground and picks it up.
On that moment, Wolverine appears behind him, wearing Takeshi’s clothes. Peter is so glad Logan managed to find something to wear, and he specifically likes the sweater. “Funny,” Logan smirks, especially coming from a guy wearing underoos. “But enough with the wit,” Peter says. Now, the question he asked earlier, in addition to being rhetorical, wasn’t about the camera. It was about a smaller thing attached to it. Logan asks what the little green thing is.
Peter explains it’s a transmitter. He’s guessing satellite but that isn’t exactly his era of expertise. Bottom line, Takeshi wasn’t having his Kodak moment alone. He was sharing the magic. Logan’s torture wasn’t just being recorded… the signal was being bounced elsewhere. Logan explains Takeshi was above all the other business men. He never cut one deal where he could cut five. “Was,” Peter notices Wolverine saying, which Logan confirms. Peter believes that, in that case, the chip is all they’ve got. He imagines Logan would like to find whoever it is on the receiving end of the signal and maybe have a little talk with them. “Something like that,” Logan adds. Peter doesn’t blame him. But it’s going to happen on only one condition… no more killing.
Logan stares in disbelief at Peter. But he’s serious. None of the killing. Logan smiles that since he doesn’t tell Peter how to do his job… Peter interrupts, joking he doesn’t have to listen to Logan rationalize. He already gets enough of that in his life. But it’s usually from the guys he catches, not those he works with. So he wants Logan to do them both a favor and save it. If Logan wants in on this thing, he’ll have to do it his way. He can either take it, or leave it. Peter offers his hand to Logan, waiting for him to accept.
Now…
Logan grins that he had his fingers crossed. Peter asks Logan if he just tried to be funny. “No,” Logan answers… he did. “Oh,” Peter sighs. The interrogator wants to get this straight. They were stranded in the middle of nowhere. No food, no water. No way of knowing exactly where they were, or how far from civilization. Both Peter and Logan confirm it. In that case, the questioner wants to know how they got back.
Twenty minutes later…
Peter finishes his long explanation of how they got back: “and so I said, “That can’t possibly be the going price for a llama in such are pressed market.” And the guy was all smug to them and stuff which is when his partner (and Peter uses the term loosely) next to him got involved in the negotiation process. And before they knew it, they were looking at one reasonable priced llama. And Peter asks the interrogator if he knew llamas could swim, because he and Logan didn’t until…
The interrogator asks a rambling Peter to stop, and asks Wolverine if any of this is even true. Logan wishes he could say no to that. So, Peter says, to make a long story short, they made their way to a thriving metropolis, by which he means the place had a phone.
Earlier, the Baxter Building, NYC…
Sue interrupts Reed, who was working on an experiment that includes a tank filled with some sort of green fluid. She has a call for him on the private line. And a collect call as well. Reed wonders who it would be at this hour. That’s the thing, Sue says, as their caller won’t say his name. Reed doesn’t understand. Sue explains the guy said Reed gave him the number after he pulled Dr. Doom’s tin-can butt off him on top of the GW Bridge last summer. That’s a direct quote, Sue is saying. Reed agrees to take the call. Sue tells the caller that Reed will be with him in a minute, and concludes the call by saying she doesn’t keep any Cool Whip in the fridge.
Three minutes later, in some Japanese village…
Peter thanks Reed for the help and jokes that, whatever Sue tells Reed later, he didn’t say it. He hangs up, and Logan jokes that was a very mature thing of Peter to say. Peter smirks he is what he is. He mentions Reed traced the feed using the transmitter’s serial number somehow. It was being bounced via satellite to a civilian addressed in Paris. And Peter has that address now. Logan is impressed, though he has one question. He asks Peter if he’ll go to Paris looking the way he does now, wearing a big shirt and a wooden hat over his costume. He asks because nobody will be fooled that way.
Peter won’t go like this. He pulls off his mask, and Logan is surprised by this move. They look at each other in silence. Finally, Peter introduces himself and reveals his true name to Wolverine. After thinking it over, Logan does the same thing. He then adds that they’d better get a move on it, because there’s a storm coming.
Now…
Peter wants to tell the interrogator what that storm was made of, but the person says that won’t be necessary. What will be is for them to explain what they uncovered in Paris. And please, the person begs, they need to be brief. Peter jokes that brief is Wolverine’s department. The interrogator allows Wolverine to go for it. Wolverine tells the interrogator that his real name is Logan and can be called that way. And Paris was, in one word… crap.
Earlier, Paris…
While Spider-Man webslings away, Wolverine gets hit by a speeding car…


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Peter asks his interrogator if he really needs to tell him about Paris. Because he’ll tell everything a person needs to know about France. One: they don’t like Americans. Two: they really don’t like Americans. Three: they love Jerry Lewis. Everyone can draw their own conclusions on that. The interrogator asks Mr. Parker if he needs to be reminded about what’s at stake here. “No,” Peter answers, but Logan would sure like to know. “Well then,” the interrogator jokes, the faster they talk, the faster they’ll know. And they were somewhere in Paris. “Right,” Wolverine sighs. Paris. But it wasn’t half as bad as Peter makes it out to be. Then again, Logan is Canadian…
Earlier, Paris…
Wearing civilian clothes, Logan and Peter stand in front of an old house in the middle of the street. Logan asks Peter if this is it, which he confirms. But the building isn’t much to look at. “Hello pot? It’s the kettle calling… you’re black,” Peter jokes. Logan gets the idea but isn’t amused. Peter wants to know what the plan is. Logan wants to knock on the door, see who answers it and then hit him, he guesses. And repeat step three as necessary. Peter asks Logan to wait, as he can’t go in there looking like this. He means, not with what’s inside his backpack. Logan doesn’t care and smirks he wishes Peter good luck finding a phone booth. He walks towards the house, leaving Peter behind.
Logan snikts his claws open and rips through the fence in front of the house. He goes inside the house, which is completely dark. Logan walks up some stairs, and finds a small light coming out of a room, its door slightly ajar. Logan decides to check it out and goes inside, where he finds an abandoned lab. Logan wonders what it is with him and secret labs.
Meanwhile outside, Peter has jumped on a balcony and tries to get his costume on. But the balcony is full of cigarettes, and Peter constantly has to push them away.
Inside the lab, Logan has begun checking it out, not yet noticing that there is a time bomb inside, that is about seven seconds away from going off.
Outside, Peter’s spider sense is tingling! (And he quips to himself that he hardly gets to say that anymore)
Inside the building, Wolverine, standing in front of a giant tube, finds some food nearby. He smells that it’s still fresh – the guy eating it was just there. It’s coffee and chocolate and cigarettes. And he also smells something else on the guy’s fingertips. Something chemical. Thermite. Military grade. Stuff they use to make… bombs. Wolverine checks the device out and, at the end, indeed finds a bomb! Right on that moment, Spider-Man web-slings inside. Logan wonders what’s going on, but Peter says there is no time for that now, and quickly grabs Logan.
The force of the explosion, along with Spider-Man’s swift action, throws Wolverine and Spider-Man out of the building. Luckily, both are still alive. Logan tells Spidey he could have managed to get out without him, but Peter doesn’t believe it. And now their only clue has blown up with the rest of the building. Logan is certain he’ll think of something, but Peter just makes more jokes about it. Suddenly, Logan smells something… gas.
A red, speeding car comes out of nowhere and drives straight to the heroes! Wolverine pushes Spider-Man away, albeit violently against a wall. Logan keeps standing where he is, and defiantly unsheathes his claws. Peter’s spider-sense goes off and he panics. A loud noise is heard, and Spider-Man jumps on a wall to safety. Below, the car drives off, with Wolverine nowhere to be seen. Spidey quickly jumps down, tending to Wolverine because, if he doesn’t act soon, there won’t be anything left of him. And the guy driving that car is so dead.
Now…
The surprised interrogator asks if Wolverine was really run over, which Logan confirms. The questioner can’t believe it. Logan was run over. By a car. Logan doesn’t get the point. Peter interrupts that “run over” doesn’t do their situation justice. Logan got pancaked. Bosworth’d. Pressed flatter than Rosie O’Donnell. The interrogator wants to know, if this is true, how Logan can be still alive. Logan explains he’s got this thing. Some people call it a healing factor. It basically knits him back together as fast as anyone or anything can unravel him. Peter reminds Logan not to forget about his metal skeleton. Logan knows. He further explains his skeletal system’s laced with adamantium, the strongest metal in the known world. But that’s kind of a long story. The interrogator is certain that must be the case. They can continue with their story.
Earlier…
Wolverine has used his claws to stick underneath the still speeding car. He slices the breaks and the gas tank apart, causing the car spin out of control. Unfortunately, Wolverine realizes his mistake when he notices a truck containing flammable tanks. Fearing he’s going to die now, Logan is suddenly and spectacularly rescued by Spider-Man, who picks up the car with his webs and swings the vehicle, himself and Wolverine into the air, causing lots of people to come out of their houses and watch in awe. Even Wolverine himself is amazed and quietly admits, “Wow.”
Now…
The interrogator wants to know what happened next. A bit ashamed, Peter admits he passed out right after that. Wolverine smiles that led to a real graceful sort of landing. He jokes to Peter he should have seen that; it was real impressive. Peter mentions to Logan he heard him saying “wow” when he rescued him, but Logan just wants to get on with the interrogation.
Earlier…
Wolverine has pushed the driver of the car against a wall and points two of his claws towards the guy’s head. Nearby, Spider-Man wakes up and complains about the heavy landing. He thinks that, besides killing the guy, they should perhaps better ask him some questions so they get a little information on who he works for. Wolverine smiles that the guy already told him everything while Peter was asleep. What he’s doing now is just for grins.
Wolverine slaps his “prisoner” on his head, believing they better run away before the cops show up. He notices Peter’s shoulder seems dislocated, and deftly places it back in place, more than surprising Peter by the maneuver. Changing subjects, Logan asks Peter if he knows anything about Switzerland, causing the web-head to ask why…
Later…
Standing in a phonebooth, Peter calls Kelly Cox at his school, asking her if she can fill in for him until Monday. Though she’s furious at the request at first, Peter agrees to make it up to her by taking Kelly to dinner when he gets back. He hangs up and meets up with Logan who’s waiting for him outside a restaurant. Logan mentions that he thinks their boy in Switzerland is an American soldier, meaning he won’t give up so easily and probably knows they’re coming. Peter hates that idea.
On that moment, a bright light appears and Logan mentions their ride has just arrived. Peter looks up and is surprised to see the X-Men’s Blackbird plane, and Logan jokes to Peter he isn’t the only guy with favors to call in.
Three continents later…
Logan is in his X-Men costume and asks Peter if he’s ready. Peter, wearing an original X-Men uniform, thinks his suit is a little large. Wolverine explains that the suit belonged to the Beast, to which Peter jokes that that explains the fur in it. He then snipes about Logan’s costume and he punches him in the stomach.
Cyclops contacts Wolverine over the radio, explaining to him he’s over his LZ and green for jump. Scott asks Logan if he’s sure he can’t help him with this, but Logan thanks Scott for the offer, but some things a guy just has to handle on his own.
Now…
Peter wants to know why people keep throwing him out of planes, to which Logan jokes that Peter just has one of those faces. The interrogator remarks that the two sure have been in a lot of countries, and now Switzerland follows. And for the record, for a guy with a healing factor, the interrogator doesn’t think Logan looks like one, noticing the many scars on his face. Logan mentions he was just getting to that.
Earlier, Switzerland…
Lurking over a hill in the snow, Wolverine uses his binoculars and checks the landscape. He explains to Peter everything he sees below: the mountains, the lake… it’s all a fake. Peter doesn’t understand. Logan says it all looks real, but… before he can finish his explanation, he hears something.
Soldiers wearing ski uniforms and masks appear out of nowhere, their guns already aimed at Peter and Wolverine. The leader of the soldiers, also wearing a mask, shows up, and Logan demands to know what’s going on. “The thorn in my side,” the leader claims. The leader takes off his mask and is revealed to be… Nick Fury?!
Fury explains that time is short, so he’s going to make his point as quickly as he can. He takes out a gun, and… shoots Wolverine! He asks Peter if he’s got any questions.


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The interrogator asks Wolverine what does a man who’s just been shot in the neck say. Wolverine admits he has a line for that, but he didn’t get a chance to say it, because Fury had too much to reveal.
Earlier, a story about the past…
Across town, people are attacked by huge, flying, green, dragon-like creatures. Thor soars into rescue and heroically fights the creatures. Below him, Thor doesn’t notice a kid is playing in the middle of the street with his ball, while his mother calls after him to come to safety. The child loses his ball and doesn’t listen to his mom. One of the dragons spits fire at Thor, who evades it but instead the flames hit a nearby building. Bricks shatter off the structure and fall on the mother… killing her! Thor sees it all happening and quickly finishes off the monsters. He then tends to the boy, who of course cries inconsolably for his loss. When he looks at thor, though, his eyes are full of anger.
Switzerland…
Wolverine also feels bad about the story, though it doesn’t explain the dart Fury just shot in his neck. Fury corrects that’s exactly what it means. Or, Fury jokes, did Logan really think he would just shoot him like that? He knows better. Logan smiles he does and then Wolverine snitks out his claws, yelling that he doesn’t care about the reason. He just never wants Fury to muck with his life again. To this, Fury reminds Wolverine about all the rifles pointed at his head, but again Logan doesn’t care, confident he’ll survive the bullets.
Fury again disagrees, claiming that, if Logan even so much as blinks, the guns will be fired and he’ll be one dead mutant. When Fury realizes that Logan is staring at him in disbelief, he says he knows a way to change his mind. He scratches Logan with another dart on his shoulder, and Logan thinks Fury must be really sick of living. Fury asks Logan to look at his wound. When he does, Logan is stunned when the wound… doesn’t heal? Intrigued, Wolverine agrees to let Fury talk.
“Stuff of Legends,” Fury exclaims. It’s the codename of a black-level SHIELD operation project both Spider-Man and Wolverine are the charter members of, despite the fact they don’t know about it. It’s also the reason Logan’s healing factor is currently disabled, as it will remain for the next twenty-four hours, until it’s able to compensate for and overcome the formula Fury has introduced as an object lesson. He reveals it wasn’t long after Wolverine and his kind started leaping tall buildings in single bounds that people (them that don’t glow in the dark) all had the same question on their lips: how do they stop one of those super people, if it ever comes to that?
One of the agency’s top secret scientists, Doctor Edward Brecker by name, proposed an answer. The response Brecker received from the brass was… enthusiastic. Officially on the fast track, Stuff of Legends quickly reached its final stage: field testing.
Wolverine gets angry, but Fury tells Logan to get some perspective. What would he have them do, if he ever truly lost it? Or worse, turned on them? Fury thinks Logan can’t tell him the offer has ever been made to him, and can’t really tell him he never considered it, if only for a moment. Wolverine promises he would never hurt innocents. Not ever. Especially for being different. Fury tells Logan, for what it’s worth, he believes him. He truly does, but this isn’t about what he believes. Or wishes for. Or prays to some invisible thing up in the sky before they go to bed, it’s about dealing with what is. Fury is sorry Logan and Peter are in on this thing. If they can bring themselves to believe it, Fury fought against their involvement, but none of that matters now.
Peter thinks Fury is only telling them this much is because he needs them. Unless, of course, it’s all just out of the goodness of his heart that he seems to have misplaced somewhere back around the Secret Wars. Peter wonders why Fury just isn’t straight with them for once.
Explaining, Fury further reveals that a group of SHIELD agents has gone rogue. If reports are accurate, and they are, both Spider-Man and Wolverine have already encountered one such agent in Paris. The splinter group is led by none other than Edward Brecker, the mastermind behind Stuff of Legends, and he was also the child in the unfortunate story he told them earlier. Wolverine smiles to Peter that it’s like he told him: it’s always about a girl.
Needless to say, Fury continues, Brecker’s got no great love for the genetically unique. A raging hatred for mutants and those with powers, to be precise. Frustrated by the agency’s… ambiguous stance on the subject, and coupled with a healthy dose of good-old fashioned greed, Brecker’s decided to take matters into his own hands. And he clearly has no qualms about betraying his own country if he does so. And as they can imagine, this creates all sorts of problems for Fury, the foremost being Brecker could well start World War III.
Peter feels Fury’s being a little melodramatic here. He wants to know what anything Fury just said could possibly lead to World War III. Fury agrees to answer that question: Wolverine will! The response: Huh?!
Fury continues. With Peter, obtaining the genetic material necessary for the program was as simple as following him around with a mop and bucket and waiting for the next slobberknocker. Blood, sweat, skin, hair, cells, they even found fingerprints on occasion. Fury warns Peter he really should be more careful. In this day and age, that kind of stuff, well… it tells people like SHIELD a lot about the man under the mask. Wolverine is a different case, him being the reclusive type. Fury tells Logan not to get him wrong but, when he does poke his head out of the sand, there’s usually plenty of blood to be found, and most of it is not Logan’s. Obtaining a clean cell proved to be impossible.
But lucky for SHIELD, Logan’s prone to disappearing for weeks if not months at a time without so much as telling anyone, including the team of twenty year old something X-Men. So they waited. And the next time Logan went Kerouac, collapsing after drinking a lot of beer, SHIELD extracted him. Fury doesn’t know the particulars of the “mickey” that was slipped into Logan’s beer himself, outside that it cost the country a couple million dollars to engineer and tastes like strawberry. Brecker was on that extraction team. He put in to oversee the op personally. Given his standing with the brass, no one said no. He was running tests the second the chopper carrying the unconscious Wolverine was airborne.
It went on for days. Fury promises Wolverine was never conscious for any of it, because he demanded that. And, when all was said and done, Logan’s short-term memory was “scrubbed” and he was scheduled for insertion the very next day. If all went to plan, Logan would have nothing than a nasty headache to show for it the next morning. But Brecker had other ideas. Seems, in studying Wolverine’s genetic stuff, Brecker hit on something, something he believed he could replicate.
Peter is shocked by the story, and Logan recalls he thought that beer tasted funny. Fury also says you need money for the kind of science Brecker had in mind, and his window was short. So, he hacked SHIELD’s database and started calling up Spider-Man’s and Wolverine’s enemies, of which there are no shortage. Pretty soon, he found himself a winner in Takeshi Kishimoto, whom Fury understand “died” recently. It’s win-win for Brecker: Kishimoto ponies up the cash for Brecker to play God and gets to torture him to death afterward, which doesn’t go poorly for the doctor either. Brecker uses the money to convince a handful of traitorous SHIELD agents that government money isn’t cutting anymore, they abscond with people’s unconscious butt. It also allows him to hide, and well. He uses the time to formulate some bastardized form of Wolverine’s healing factor, a formula he clearly intends to sell on the international black market.
Giving Kishimoto that satcam was Brecker’s only misstep, if a necessary one. By the time SHIELD’s surveillance cameras could pinpoint the field, they were pretty sure Wolverine’s torture had been going on for a straight week. Wolverine doesn’t understand the point, but Peter believes it’s a commercial. A living, bleeding advertisement for the kind of punishment anyone shot up with Brecker’s formula could take. And any nation with the cash to spend and utter lack of morality to do so would no doubt become welcome to sit at that table. The number of which Peter is guessing is about half the world.
Fury quietly laments that Peter always was an optimist. But that is what brings them all here. As they speak, Brecker’s inside the mountain facility, running an infomercial for every country that has a couple of million to rub together. Peter wants to know what Fury is waiting for. He’s going in, right? But that’s the thing… Fury can’t. This project is so dark it doesn’t even officially exist. As it stands at the moment, Fury is not even here right now. Brecker chose his spot very carefully. Were American forces to engage as is on Swiss soil, it would very clearly be an Act of War. Half of the countries even they’ve monitored arriving to hear Brecker’s pitch are officially America’s allies. So, until Fury gets the authorization from the top to mobilize, and Fury should say if, his hands are tight.
Peter can’t believe this. Fury makes all this mess… he does, and the president won’t even allow him to clean it up? Fury claims this thing is on so many levels above the president he sincerely doubts the man can count that high. But Peter and Logan, Fury has no jurisdiction over. If they were to act, he wouldn’t technically be at the liberty to stop them. Wolverine angrily snikts his claws out, and tells Fury to shut up. With furious red eyes, he says those with souls left have work to do.
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Wolverine adds that it was at that point that he came up with a plan. Peter corrects Logan that it wasn’t his plan alone. “Fine,” Logan admits, it was “their” plan. But it was a brilliant one. Peter mocks he can’t wait to hear what happens to them next. First step, Logan says, they needed to create themselves a diversion.
Earlier…
As they climb up a mountain, Logan asks Peter if he’s up to this. Peter jokes that, for as long as the mad scientists they’re about to fight aren’t making any clones in his lab, he should be fine. Logan stares inquisitively at Peter, who simply jokes that’s a loooooooong story. Logan doesn’t care and just wants Peter to put his costume on.
Inside Brecker’s lab…
Brecker’s sensors pick up Wolverine’s presence and one of the soldiers informs Brecker, who wonders what Wolverine is doing. The soldier explains that it appears Wolverine is just standing on a mountain, and… is giving them the finger. “How very cultured,” Brecker gloats. He orders all of his operatives to intercept. It’s about time they earn their keep. They are to shoot on sight, using the ampules prepared specifically for Wolverine. The lethal ones. Nothing must interrupt the infusion. However, Wolverine’s dead body has to be brought to him, as he has a special place in his curiosities cabinets for Logan’s skeleton. When the guard asks what they’ll do to Spider-Man, Brecker orders them to let the web-slinger come to him. He’s quite certain he’d be interested in seeing the science behind his work for himself. As it will kill him, of course.
Outside…
A hatch opens in the cave behind Wolverine, and soldiers run through it. Wolverine says he is ready to get it over with. The guards open fire, but the X-Man dodges all of the bullets and runs away. The guards report to their boss that they’re in pursuit. Meanwhile, still standing on a mountain nearby, Spider-Man watches the battle. Another hatch in the cave opens, and Spidey quietly enters. He immediately notices a lever to open and close the hatch, and destroys it.
Outside, Wolverine has run to the end of a mountain, and a it’s a deep fall below him. A dead end. In the cave, Spider-Man finds a lab in which a scientist is operating on a man. Both heroes don’t know for sure what to do. As the soldiers catch up on Logan and order him to give up, Spider-Man jumps into the lab, though Brecker smiles he made it just in time for his presentation. On that moment, Spider-Man is in complete agony! Brecker apologizes for what the gas this room is pressurized with is doing to him, and explains the gas is without doubt shutting down the web-slinger’s central nervous system as they speak. So, Brecker will be brief in what he’s about to say.
He finds the gas to be amazing. And Brecker thinks a man with Spider-Man’s background can surely appreciate the science he’s experiencing. He wonders if Spidey can actually feel the gas breaking his cellular membranes down, and that they’re liquefying his guts. However, Brecker adds, it was Spidey’s genetic material that became bonded with that radioactive spider, and it did so completely. He wonders if Spider-Man even knew that. That he’s only ever scratched the surface of his genetic potential. He dug deeper. And so, he gave Spidey the radioactive spider’s venom now.
While Spider-Man continues to reel in great pain, the scene is being watched by several people behind a safety glass. Brecker wants Spider-Man to indulge a hypothesis of his. He calls the web-slinger a mistake. All of the heroes. He thinks they’re all accidents. And just because their helices twisted their ways when their genetic soup knit itself together, because of their cells’ inability to replicate properly, the “heroes” all think they’re gods. But Brecker realizes that isn’t enough for them, because a god requires worship. So they don ridiculous costumes and fight one another, choosing sides as children will. But it’s not for good or ill as the heroes make everyone believe. Brecker believes that’s too easy, and thinks the heroes do what they do to make sure they aren’t alone. To know there are others every bit as abhorrent as themselves. He thinks it was only a matter of time until someone put heroes under the microscope, as Brecker thinks it’s where they all belong.
Brecker holds a scalpel close to Spider-Man’s face, knowing what he’s probably thinking right now: “This isn’t how this is supposed to work.” And about now, Brecker is supposed to take a header into a vat of acid. Maybe shoot himself up with some bizarre genetic cocktail of his own creation, or start sprouting limbs. But then, he wouldn’t be able to give Spider-Man back what he needs most… his humanity. To die as he lived his human life: alone, awkward and as an outcast.
Suddenly, adamantium claws snikt out of Spider-Man’s gloves… and stabs Brecker! “Spider-Man” takes off his mask… and is revealed to be Wolverine! Logan mocks Brecker must have mistaken him for someone else. Logan tells the people watching the scene that should leave now, so they won’t bleed, and live good lives. The crowd starts panicking, screaming and others run away as told.
Outside, the actual Spider-Man outmaneuvers the soldiers behind him by web-slinging away. He makes it back in the lab and hopes he reaches Brecker before Logan does. He finds a huge, closed door and tries to pull it open, while behind the door Wolverine tries to do the same to get out. After a short while, the two succeed and, when Spidey goes inside and finds the doctor apparently dead, he is shocked. A distraught Wolverine promises Spider-Man that Brecker will live, though won’t be doing jumping jacks anytime soon.
Peter sits down and is relieved it’s all over now. Wolverine isn’t sure that what Brecker put in motion here ever will be. A thing that’s fuelled by hate tends to have a long reach. Despite that, Peter thanks Logan for keeping his word. Logan smiles that’s what makes them good guys.
Nick Fury bursts through the ceiling and compliments the men on their victory. He tells them that there is a transport waiting for them outside to bring them back home. Fury apologizes for not gaining the authority to interfere sooner, but he had politics to deal with. When Spidey then asks if this means that “Stuff of Legends” will be shut down after this, Fury makes it clear that decisions like that are made above him. If he even knew who it was making those decisions, he could state his case, but since they gave him a solid here, Fury smiles he’ll see what he can do.
On that moment, the base erupts in an explosion! Peter smiles at Fury, who asks if there is anything else he can do for them. Peter hits Fury in his face, who jokes he’s feeling better already. Wolverine laughs that he and Peter are going to have themselves a pop now, and it will be his treat.
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Peter continues the story by explaining that, so, they hop on this plane-like thing and fly halfway around the world without a movie and the turbulence sucks and his costume smells like Wolverine now, but they finally made it back to New York. And this stuff with Fury, it happened in… Wolverine interrupts, adding it all happened in the last twenty-four hours. Peter agrees, saying that after their victory he and Logan went for that drink, and it was at that moment that Peter realized he had no idea what day it was, much less the time. And when he found out he and Logan ran, and he means ran, back here as fast as they could.
Logan jokes he never saw Peter move that fast. And he has seen Peter get shot at. And the bottom line is, Peter sighs, he still screwed up. He tried so hard this time but stuff just happened like it always does. And he knows it sounds lame but, really, this was beyond his control. But that doesn’t matter. What matters is that he is really, really sorry.
And not a moment too soon, the interrogator says, as the hourglass is completely empty. Her roast would have burned if the story took any longer. The lights go back on, and the interrogator is revealed to be none other than… Aunt May! May wants Peter to understand that an aunt just likes to know she’s appreciated once and a while. That she’s remembered, and the fact Peter is Spider-Man doesn’t change that. So there is no need for the outrageous stories he whips up. A simple apology will be enough next time he’s late.
When she asks who’s hungry, Peter begins licks his fingers. Logan notices and puts his hat back on, mentioning he’d better leaves now. However, May refuses to let Logan go now, informing him that she even made a pie. Peter also wants Logan to stay, so Logan agrees. He snikts out one of his claws, and starts cutting the roast.


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The Hammer Strikes !
At the independent non-corp town Randall, the residents are quite happy that so far they have been left alone by Alchemax and other corporations. However today their lives might change, as they see the floating city of Valhalla in the sky. It is shaped like a big giant hammer.
In Valhalla, the newly emerged Norse gods, Thor and Heimdall, have taken over the place and tell the assembled scientists and technicians that the city belongs to them and they will have to leave. Only a select few will be allowed to stay to serve as guards “lest Ragnarok take us unawares“. Spotting the beautiful Dana in the crowd, Thor announces that she might stay and witness their triumph, however Miguel interrupts. None of them will leave; Alchemax and not these Norse gods, whoever they are supposed to be, built the city. Thor says that he only hears protests from him and not the lady, but Miguel taunts him that if he is Thor then he should be with Sif. Thor gets angry. He says that his lady is currently absent, and then he threatens Miguel not to annoy him. Miguel however, claims that Thor couldn’t even blow his own nose, and finally Thor lashes out with his fist. Yet Miguel stops it with his own arm, much to Thor’s surprise. Thor then grabs Miguel and tosses him away, over the edge of the floating city. Dana gets mad. She believes her lover killed and accuses Thor of murder. The god pushes her back towards the crowd, stating that the Aesir are not gods for the soft undisciplined masses, but for men. He then says that Dana is not worthy and she will have to leave among the rest.
Once Miguel was out of sight, he shot a webline to a building and used it to swing down under the floating city. Sticking to it, he changes into costume. He knows that Dana must be crazy with worry, but there was no other way to get changed. Looking at the area below the floating Valhalla, Miguel realizes that the city is flying towards New York. He wonders if that is coincidence or on purpose.
At the Wellvale Home, a doctor is about to leave, but is suddenly knocked out from behind. It was Conchata O’Hara who hit the doctor with a brick. She apologizes to the unconscious man and searches his body for his keys. Then she drives away with his car.
By now the Alchemax scientists and technicians are leaving Valhalla in many small transport crafts. Aboard one of them is Dana in tears. One of the men tells Dana to be quiet. He says it was her fault that Thor got mad, what other response should a god have shown? Dana angrily replies that he should shut up and that that guy was definitely not a god. Above, Heimdall has overheard and tells Thor that one of the crafts carries a disbeliever. Thor thinks about destroying the ship for such calumny, but before a decision is made, Spider-Man appears behind them, demanding to know where the woman is. As the two Norse gods say that she has left the station, Spider-Man says that he will follow her, but Thor denies it and is out for a fight.
He creates a lightning bolt with his hammer and Heimdall hurls his sword at Spider-Man, who barely evades both attacks. Leaping around, Spider-Man manages to grab the sword and starts a fight with Thor. At first he manages to block Thor’s hammer with the borrowed sword, but finally Thor beats it out of his hands. However unexpected, Spider-Man has attached a webline to it, and pulling the sword back it hits Thor’s head from behind, cutting him at his cheek. Now Thor is really angry, the blood of an immortal has been drawn. He calls up his full might, grabs Spider-Man and hurls him through several floors of the city. He attacks Spider-Man in the name of all people who have linked themselves with the Norse gods, and Miguel replies that he in fact, did choose to not believe in Thor and the Aesir. Spider-Man tries to land a few more blows, but Thor is unharmed and grabs him by the throat. Thor then tosses Spider-Man away and sends his hammer after him, so that when the many humans see what is left of their hero, they will know who the true gods and heroes are. Spider-Man is hit in the gut by the hammer, which continues to propel him onwards. Heimdall asks where Thor has sent him, and he answers to a place of public humiliation.
Carried by the hammer, Spider-Man sees the skyline of New York approaching. He tries as hard as he can and manages to twist himself around the hammer, and then lets go of it before he hits one of the skyscrapers. With his last strength, Spider-Man creates a parachute of his webbing to survive the fall. However once on the ground, the hammer still targets him, and crashes into Miguel. Lot’s of debris is hurled around.
Elsewhere, at Miguel’s penthouse, the holo-agent Lyla welcomes his brother Gabriel. Gabriel demands to know his brother’s whereabouts, but Lyla doesn’t know it herself. The holo person is very kind and offers him something to eat, but Gabriel says he has no time for this. As he gets impatient and annoys Lyla, she transforms into a bulky version of herself and threatens him. She then offers him to have something to eat again, and he quietly accepts, still in shock over her change.
At the impact site, Spider-Man manages to dig himself out of the rubble. He is barely able to move, and suddenly a gun is pointed at his face. It’s the Punisher, who tells him not to move. Miguel, still aching, replies, “Don’t worry“.


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Bizarre Love Triangle
A few years ago on Monster Isle, as the Fantastic Four (Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, the Thing, She-Thing and the Human Torch), the “new” Fantastic Four (Ghost Rider, Hulk, Wolverine, and Spider-Man), a cadre of Skrulls and their captive De’Lila prepare to leave, Mole Man emerges from the ground on the back of one of his giant monsters. As he does, he tells everybody present that they have invaded his home, wreaked untold havoc. Now they have to pay the price!
One of the Skrulls says he knew they couldn’t trust a human. He then tells them to do their worst, misanthrope. They’ll find Skrulls do not die easily. Spider-Man turns around and tells them to slow down and asks what’s with the action-movie clichés all of a sudden? He thought everyone agreed to leave peacefully. Mole Man tells Spider-Man not to be an idiot. He didn’t want open warfare in his underground kingdom. But now that they’re on the surface, the aliens must answer. For seizing control of his subjects. Trespassing on his domain. Attempting to destroy it with their infernal bomb. If he lets them go, who’s to say they won’t do it again?
Invisible Woman steps up and answers that she does. He has her word and her promise. She doesn’t agree with their methods, but these Skrulls are their world’s police. They came there to stop a terrorist, De’Lila. She’s a rebel bent on assassinating the Skrull emperor. She came there to steal a weapon of mass destruction and she did it by impersonating her. De’Lila is a low-level telepath who can mesmerize others, especially men. She convinced Spider-Man, the Hulk, Wolverine and Ghost Rider that the Skrulls had killed Reed, Johnny, Ben and She-Thing and then tricked them into helping her “bring them to justice.” She was really after the ultimate Skrull weapon, an indestructible robot life form called the Technotroid. But the newborn Technotroid imprinted on one of the Mole Man’s creature.
Mole Man agrees. It considers her its mother. And he’s no fool; he knows these aliens will return, in greater numbers, to retrieve so powerful a resource. Susan asks why bother? Once it’s chosen a parental figure, the Technotroid will never obey anyone else. It’s useless to them. And the Skrull Empire doesn’t take kindly to failure. So it’s in the best interests of the Skrull soldiers to go home and report the Technotroid destroyed. She’d imagine that’s the only way they’ll avoid agonizing torture and execution.
One of the Skrulls says that there is wisdom in her words. They shall do as she suggests. Sue then tells Mole Man that he gets to keep the Technotroid, the Skrulls get to keep their prisoner, who’s in a trance suffering the torments of Ghost Rider’s penance stare and she gets to go home, break out a pint of Haagen Dazs, and hope chocolate can burn the sight of her husband kissing that Skrull witch out of her brain.
As she talks, Reed uncomfortably pulls his collar away from his neck. Sue asks Mole Man can’t they agree that’s fair or does he really want them (Ghost Rider, Wolverine, Hulk, the Thing and She-Thing) running wild in his house. Lamenting, Mole Man tells Susan Richards that she is a formidable woman. He warns that if any of them violate his kingdom again… Spider-Man finishes his sentence – yeah, they know. With the monsters and the destruction and the vengeance.
Once Mole Man departs, Reed turns to one of the Skrulls and says to him that they should go over what he’s going to tell his emperor. It has to sound credible. He’s got a few ideas on how the Technotroid could have been destroyed. The Skrull tells him that he will listen and then orders two of his Skrull soldiers to get the prisoner aboard and prepare for departure.
Inside the Skrull ship, two Skrulls talk amongst each other. One of them says that he has no right to talk to them that way. He hears he only got his job because he has holo-vids of the general indulging his disgusting fetish for Kree females. The other Skrull replies he doesn’t know. He can see the appeal. They’re the enemy, forbidden fruit. And you know what they say – once you go blue…
As they talk, in the back of the ship, Dr. Doom appears and makes his way towards De’Lila. He tells her that sorcery has brought her to this sorry state and sorcery will set her free. With that, Doom touches De’Lila’s face and she is free. Once she frees herself and begins to make her way to the front, one of the Skrull pilots asks his buddy, Dr’zzt, if he heard something.
Just then, outside the ship, Ghost Rider informs the others that innocent blood has been spilled. Spider-Man asks him what? Where? Is he talking, like, the mainland or…? Ghost Rider replies these souls cry for vengeance nearby and points to the aircraft. Turning to the Skrulls, Thing tells them to stay there. This could get… ugly…
At that moment, De’Lila emerges from the ship and exclaims no… beautiful. She then tells them to look at her and asks is she not their heart’s desire? Don’t they want to do everything she says? Don’t they burn with the lust to kill each other? Unleashing a force field blast, Sue is able to take De’Lila out. Once she does, she asks if everyone is all right. Spider-Man replies that he’s peachy, his spider-sense warned him to look away. Ghost Rider replies that he’s the spirit of vengeance; her charms are useless against him. She-Thing adds she’s fine, put it down to girl power. Turning around, Spider-Man asks Thing, Hulk, Human Torch, Mr. Fantastic and Wolverine if they are doing okay. When they reply only in guttural roars and yell out “Kill You!” Spider-Man quips that he hates men and then asks what happened to “Clobberin’ time?” He liked “Clobberin’ time.”
As it becomes Ghost Rider, Spider-Man, Invisible Woman and She-Thing vs. Wolverine, Hulk, Thing, Human Torch and Mr. Fantastic, the Skrull warriors take the opportunity to rush the ship. From inside her protective force-field bubble, Sue mentions to Ghost Rider that his flame freed the Skrulls from De’Lila’s influence earlier. Ghost Rider replies yet it fails against the Human Torch. The Skrull witch’s power has been magnified somehow.
As She-Thing gets attacked by both the Hulk and Thing, Sue calls Spider-Man over to her. Once he gets there, she says to him that their side is drastically out-powered. Their only hope is to outsmart them. And that’s up to him and her. Ghost Rider’s a loose cannon, and it’s all She-Thing can do to keep Ben and the Hulk from killing them, plus she’s clearly distraught at having to fight the man she loves. After Spider-Man asks her “Aren’t you,” Sue admits that it hurts but Reed and her have been together a while. This isn’t the first time this has happened. Their love’s strong. If they can survive, so can their marriage. Spider-Man remarks that she just gave her an idea. Alien hoochie mama mind-zapped him earlier. He knows what it feels like. She uses their love to manipulate them so he’s gonna steal her gimmick. He then tells Sue to drop her force-field.
Once she does, Spider-Man narrowly dodges Wolverine’s claws. While he does, he tells him that’s the last time he’s on a team with him. After Spider-Man slides underneath She-Thing’s legs and simultaneously shooting his webbing into Wolverine and Hulk’s faces, She-Thing tells him that they’ll tear off his webbing in no time. Spider-Man replies hopefully they won’t need that long and then asks her if she can knock Ben back for a second. Punching the Thing, She-Thing answers sure, but she can’t hurt him. Even if she could, she can’t.
Pulling his mask up, uncovering his mouth, Spider-Man tells her she won’t have to, not physically anyway. Making his way over towards her, Spider-Man says he apologizes to her and a certain redhead back home. She-Thing asks him what he’s doing but before she gets an answer, Spider-Man kisses her. After Ben watches them kiss, he angrily slams his fist into the ground, narrowly missing Spider-Man. Leaping out of the way, Spider-Man remarks great, it didn’t work. Holding back the Thing, She-Thing tells him that she doesn’t know about that.
Enraged, Thing yells at Spider-Man and calls him a back-stabbin’ two-timin’ girl-snatchin’ gigolo. He’s gonna moiderize him. He’ll clean the gutters ‘a Yancy Street with his face. Spider-Man apologizes to him and tells him he can “moiderize” him later. But if he’s himself again, they need his help. Slamming into the Hulk, the Thing tells Spider-Man that he’s still gonna get clobbered. Spider-Man replies that by the time he’s done, he’ll have to get in line.
Leaping over to Sue, Spider-Man tells her that he thinks she knows what has to happen. Believe him, if there was any other way… Walking over to him, Sue tells him to stop apologizing and kiss her. When she does, both Mr. Fantastic and Human Torch snap out of their trance. Holding his face, Johnny Storm exclaims that his eyes are shut but he can’t stop seeing it. It’s burned into his brain! Reed tells him to calm down. Spidey and Sue were clearly doing it to shock them into their right minds. Sue adds that they’ve still got a couple of huge problems who really don’t care who’s swapping spit with who. The Hulk’s bad enough, but if they can’t stop Wolverine soon, he’s liable to kill someone.
Ghost Rider interjects and tells Sue to allow him. Now that he is free of distractions, he believes he can end this, though not without suffering. His penance stare forces a man to experience the pain he has inflicted on others. And Wolverine has dealt much sorrow in his long, long life much of it warranted. Thus he hesitates to take this step but he sees no other way. He will be merciful. He shall feel the agony he caused on just one day during World War One.
Just then, Wolverine grabs his head and yells out in pain. Putting his arm on his shoulder, Spider-Man asks Wolverine if he is… Wolverine tells him to get off, he’s fine. Nothin’ he don’t live with every day. She-Thing asks if she can point out they still have a rather large loose end. Ben tells her not to worry ‘bout nuthin’. He, bashful Benjy just got hisself an idea. That Skrull chick wants the spaceship so she can lam outta there, right? With that, She-Thing and Ben tackle Hulk towards the direction of the ship.
Noticing this out of the corner of her eye, De’Lila stops battling the Skrulls and calls out to them to stop. They’ll wreck it. Flying over to them, De’Lila calls Hulk a monster and tells him to calm himself before he destroys her only way off this miserable mudball. Sue thanks De’Lila and says to her that she hopes she’ll continue to show good sense and accept that her little jailbreak is over. Looking around, and realizing her situation, De’Lila hangs her head and surrenders. As she does, the proceedings are watched by an unknown individual.
Shaking Reed’s hand, one of the Skrulls tells him that De’Lila will be kept under constant guard. He then adds that he thanks all of them, unofficially of course. Officially, they are enemies of the Empire who must die screaming. Reed replies of course. Making his way over towards Spider-Man, Ben Grimm slaps him on the back and says to him that he just wanted ta say no hard feelins for smoochin’ on his gal. ‘Course, if he tries it again, it’s clobberin’ time. Spider-Man tells him point *urf* taken.
Turning his attention to the rest of the heroes, Ben tells them that the “new FF” guys were pretty decent pinch-hitters. If they ever get laid up again… Hulk tells him to stop right there. He better hope that never happens. Spider-Man remarks the big guy’s right. If this crew ever gets back together, it’ll mean things have gone completely off the rails. Walking away, Wolverine adds amen. It’s time to get outta there. He has another team-up… with a case ‘a beer.
After they leave, Spider-Man turns and tells Mrs. Richards he just wanted to say… Sue tells him that he can call her Sue, the way he always has. She then adds that she really hopes he won’t feel strange around her just because they shared… Well, let’s face it, the most awkward kiss in the history of mankind. Spider-Man tells her that he is so relieved to hear her say that. He means, no offense, but it was just weird. Not that she’s not beautiful and all…
Sue thanks him and says that he’s… Well, his costume covers him from head to toe, so he has no idea what he looks like. Spider-Man replies that in his world, that’s a compliment he’ll gladly accept. It’s just, he’s usually a little, well, uncomfortable around women. After Sue smiles and tells him she never would have guessed, Spider-Man says “zing.” Sue tells him no. She means it. He’s always been perfectly at ease with her. Spider-Man says that’s just it. Ever since he met her, she’s been with Reed, so he never thought of her that way. He means, she knows he hits on her that time, but it was really only to annoy her brother. Sue tells him that she never would have guessed. That was her being sarcastic.
Spider-Man tells her seriously, though, it’s been nice. Because they got to become friends without any of the usual sweaty palms and sudden-onset-Tourette’s he gets around girls. And probably not coincidentally, from day one she’s treated him like a man, not an annoying kid or a loser or a menace. Just to pick a few words at random. It was just cool, that’s all. Sue tells him that she knows exactly what he means. When Spider-Man asks really, Sue tells him that she’s always appreciated the way he approaches her as an equal, not just equal to him, but to the rest of the Fantastic Four. Spider-Man replies well, duh. She’s the most powerful member of the team. Sue says maybe. But the boys, to them, she’s wife, sister, mother. She’s family. And she wouldn’t have it any other way. She loves that they want to protect her and keep her safe. But she also likes that she has something different with him.
After a brief moment of silence, Spider-Man asks Sue if he can still hit on her sometimes to irritate the Torch. Sighing, Sue answers “sure.”
Deep underground, Mole Man watches everybody on the surface through a periscope. While he does, he says at last, they’re all leaving. He’d hoped they might kill each other but he supposes small victories are victories nonetheless. As Mole Man and his subterranean followers depart the area, an unknown individual takes a sample, unnoticed, from the Technotroid.
Elsewhere, elsewhen, Dr. Doom stands in his lab and says to begin recording. Mission log #622. Success. While those idiots were distracted, he was able to retrieve a sample of the newborn Technotroid’s indestructible shell before it had fully hardened. At last he’s assembled all he requires to achieve his goal – the total subjugation of the Fantastic Four!


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Shadow Games – part 2: Shadowclash
Fabulous, Spider-Man thinks to himself. Stuck in suburban Washington DC in the middle of your basic super complex and your basic super-battle. He doesn’t have time for this! he protests. What’s the matter, Spider-Man? X-Factor leader Havok asks, as he uses his blasts to attack the opposing Shadow Force. Suddenly remember another fight he is supposed to attend in New York?
Spidey begins to explain that one of the Shadowforce clowns is a homicidal maniac! He’s on the loose and, unless Spider-Man stops him before he gets to Manhattan, an innocent man may die. Got it, Havok replies. How can X-Factor help? Just keep those guys occupied while he gets Mirrorshade, Spidey replies. Strong Guy tells him to go, they’ll keep his butt covered. Spidey somersaults over him and Oversize and jumps through the roof window.
Appreciatively, he thinks to himself that, despite X-Factor’s recent bad reputation, they are pros. He doesn’t know why they are here and hates to desert them in the middle of a fight but he has no choice. They can handle Shadowforce.
Elsewhere, General Sharpe is informed that Spider-Man left the complex carrying classified data. That’s not acceptable, Sharpe decides and orders a voice link into bay six. He addresses Shadowforce: Forget X-Factor! Spider-Man’s their target!
Shadowforce leader Hardtime orders Airborne, Firefight and Oversize to carry out maneuver 6-Alpha. Airborne and Firefight rip out a chunk of the floor and the giant Oversize uses it to shove back X-Factor hard. With the mutant team down, Hardtime orders Shadowforce to take their platform positions. He creates hardshell constructs under them which Airborne lifts to move them out.
Soon, X-Factor gets up again. Well, that was humiliating, Guido decides. Wolfsbane couldn’t have kept her balance and scouted after them? I was buried under Madroxes, you great lummox, she snaps. What’s his excuse? He’s a great lummox, he replies. Now let’s brush off the dust and…
And nothing, Carosella, General Sharpe, surrounded by armed soldiers, tells them. He reminds them that they are federal employees. And he’s ordering them to cease and desist… on federal authority! He’s ordering them? Havok asks in disbelief. He kidnaps Spider-Man, tries to kill him, to kill them and he’s ordering them? He begins to glow with cosmic energy: All right, X-Factor, he tells his team, let’s take this show on the road.
Outside in the woods, Spidey has caught up to Mirrorshade. It is weird to see him move like Spider-Man himself. He just looked at him and shifted into that bizarre mirror image. It wouldn’t be a problem if that was all he did, but he apparently also mirrored Spidey’s momentary irritation with Flash Thompson and now he’s out for blood!
Spidey jumps on Mirrorshade’s back. However, the creature is strong and wriggly. Kill that Flash, Mirrorshade repeats as he shakes Spider-Man off and continues on his way. Unfortunately for Spider-Man, there are no buildings to swing from. At least he manages to tag him with a Spider-tracer. He follows jumping. How does he get himself into these things, he wonders before deciding this kind of thinking is counter-productive.
Soon he finds himself at Union Station, having followed the Spider-tracer he put on Mirroshade. However, the psychopath caught a train and it’s too fast for Spidey to catch up with it. The time it would take him to get to an airport… wait for a plane… fly to New York and then get from LaGuardia or Kennedy to Manhattan, he might as well be on the moon as in Washington, DC!
He grabs an employee and asks him when the next train to New York is due. Schedule information is available in the main hall, the man begins. When? Spidey shouts. Metroliner leaves in three minutes, comes the reply.
He makes it only just, clinging to the train’s roof. As he peers inside through a window, he sees Shadowforce is inside. Three guesses who they are looking for…
He hasn’t got the time for another brawl, he decides. He peers through an open window and uses his webline to steal a coat. And so, soon Peter Parker enters the compartment.
Not far away, Shadowforce’s scanner tells them the missing disk is on the  train, but they don’t know where. Having eavesdropped to their conversation, Spidey realizes this is how they are tracking him. He should have given the disk to Havok. He and X-Factor would know what to do with it.
Aboard their jet, Polaris asks Havok why they are flying to New York. Havok explains they know that this is where Mirrorshade is heading and Spider-Man is chasing him, whereas Shadowforce are chasing him. So while they wait for Forge to track down more information about those paramilitary weasels, the Big Apple is where the action is.
Meanwhile, General Sharpe is given the latest issue of the Daily Bugle by one of his men. It shows a picture of Shadowforce with the headline Who are these people? He’s getting calls from the Armed Forces Committee, the Joint Chiefs, he is informed. And Higgins wants to know why experimental subjects were used in unauthorized field exercises. He can handle it, Sharpe decides. Let them call…. He can make a few calls of his own…
Aboard the train, Peter threatens a fellow traveler into lending him his cell. Peter tries to call Flash but only gets an answering machine. Peter tells him to stay home when he gets there and wait for his call. No wait, he tells himself, Mirrorshade could easily get his address. No, don’t, meet him at Peter’s place or… meet him where the Coffee Bean Barn used to be… it’s important.
If only Flash had been more responsible, Peter thinks. If someone else dies because of him, if he can’t save Flash… He didn’t save Uncle Ben. He couldn’t save Gwen. He’s not going to let it happen again!
Hardtime has had enough. He decides to flush Spider-Man out. He fires his gun at the ceiling, ordering Spider-Man to come out and play, or he will start ventilating more than the ceiling.
Getting into his costume, Peter thinks he should have realized something like this was going to happen. He has to do something and he has to do it before someone gets hurt!
Stop it! he shouts and reveals himself. He’s here. He webs up Oversize before he can attack, then swings up through the damaged ceiling atop the train’s roof.
The members of Shadowforce follow him as he makes his way to the front of the train. The flying Airborne fires blasts at him. He gets down and separates the wagons to get rid of the bystanders who have gathered in the back of the train.
Hardtime realizes what he’s done. Decoyed them. Got them out in the open and lost them potential hostages. Very professional. Very controlled. Which is more than he can say for them so far. This is a moving train. It’s just gotten a lot smaller and there are that many fewer places to hide. They outnumber him five to one. He orders Shadowforce to fan out. Search pattern delta. He wants to know his position and he wants to know it five minutes ago!
The train conductor looks out of the window, having heard gun fire. What happened to the other coaches? He happened to them, Spider-Man tells him, hanging down in front of him. He orders him to jump, promising he’ll see to it; he’ll land okay. He already took care of the rest of the engine crew. The driver doesn’t understand and Spidey pushes him out. The panicked man lands across a webbing cushion.
Shadowforce realize Spider-Man is in the engine. Correction: he was in the engine Spider-Man tells them as he stands on the roof opposite them. Okay, he tells them. He has things to do. It’s just them and him now. Anyone wanna try for just him?
He webs Oversize’s face and jumps at Airborne, then jumps into Oversize’s face. But enough of that he figures. It’s Hardtime that does their thinking for them, so it’s him he wants to tango with.
Oversize agrees. Hardtime pointed out how Spidey dodges really well, but in the middle of a brawl even he can’t dodge in every direction at once. He kicks Spider-Man in the back, getting him in position for Hardtime to hit him.
The cavalry is coming though: the X-Factor jet. The team members jump out and Polairs orders Shadowforce to surrender. They are outnumbered an outflanked. They are only making it worse for themselves. They know they were press-ganged into this. They can help them get out.
Spider-Man shouts at them not to bother talking to Shadowforce, they are under some heavy duty brain-washing. It’s a wonder they can walk and attempt murder at the same time! Hey, Guido and he do the jokes here! Madrox protests.
Guido lands on the train’s roof, breaking though. Physical humor is their specialty, he adds sheepishly.
Hardtime suddenly moans that the commands have stopped. They are out of range! He orders Airborne to rattle Polaris and Firefight to take the ship. Firefight protests that’s not the tactics they… Just do it! comes the order and they comply. Take to the car, he continues. He’ll explain the new strategy when they are out of there. With the cars separated and X-Factor’s members groggy, they get away.
Havok notes what they said about not being controlled anymore. Yeah, Spidey agrees. They used to be dealing with a hostile military controlled superteam, but now what they’ve got on their hands is a bunch of vicious superpowered convicts with no one at all controlling them. And worse, they’re on the part of the train that’s got an engine, so the heroes are twiddling their thumbs while they join their buddy in New York.
In New York, Flash Thompson calms one member of his boys club that none of the supergoons are here. Another boy asks if Spider-Man will be all right. Flash assures him that Spidey is the best. He can take care of himself, he hopes, he adds silently when the boys are gone.
Mirrorshade crouches in the shadow nearby. Flash Thompson… kill that Flash Thompson…


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Shadow Games – part 3: Shadowfall
What in the name of William Randolph Hearst is going on down there? J. Jonah Jameson shouts into a phone. He wants to know and he wants to know now!
The person he is talking to is his reporter, Joy Mercado, whom he sent to Washington DC. She suggests he ease up before he gives himself a coronary. He didn’t send her down there to worry about his health, he retorts. What has she found out?
She just got here, she replies but things are definitely popping. She looks at a building in front of which people are gathered. It seems some military research project gave a bunch of convicts superpowers. Yeah, the guys fighting X-Factor and Spider-Man. The buzz is it’s unauthorized but the trail may lead all the way up to General Macauley Sharpe, head of the project. Right now, they are stonewalling something serious, but it can’t last. No one’s got any hard proof, but the heat on this is so… Uh-oh, she breaks off. What is it? he asks. It’s bad is what it is, she replies ominously.
New York:
Spider-Man is hurrying not for his life but for that of a friend. Walking in the streets of Manhattan, Flash Thompson suspects nothing untoward as the unstable Mirrorshade is about to attack him, only to be tackled by Spidey at the last possible moment.
Spider-Man lands, warning Mirrorshade to back off. He’s not killing anyone today. Flash is relieved to see Spidey is all right after being kidnapped. Kill that Flash Thompson Mirrorshade announces.
Spider-Man tells Flash to get away. In case he hasn’t noticed, the wacko is out for his blood! Flash follows the suggestion and Spidey, joined by X-Factor, turns his attention back to Mirrorshade,.
Mirrorshade’s power is to “mirror” others, replicate their appearance and powers but X-Factor proves too much fro him. One person at a time must be his limit, Spider-Man figures.
That moment, somebody snatches Mirrorshade from above while gunfire keeps the heroes back. It’s Airborne and the other members of Shadowforce. Havok orders Polaris after to follow her. Does he think Polaris is fast enough to catch them? Spider-Man asks. X-Factor is no one-trick-pony comes the reply; they’ve got other resources. While Polaris gets at least a hint of where they are headed, they’ll see if there is any other news.
X-Factor contact Forge who informs them there is news all right! It’s just not good news! While they were around waltzing with Shadowforce on the metroliner, the villains apparently broke free of their programming. So what was one a shady government operation with questionable approval and a suspicious agenda is now a gang of completely uncontrollable super-powered felons. But it gets better.
Shadowforce has returned to Virginia and they’ve taken over the Project: Homegrown Complex. They’ve released all the staffers but they are sitting on an incredible pile of weapons technology and top-secret data and, cliché as it may sound, that place was built to hold off an army.
What do they want? Havok asks. They want their various sentences commuted to time served for a start. They also want no persecution for their acts as Shadowforce and free passage out of the country. They are claiming they were coerced. They’ve got a point, Havok admits. Not that it will matter.
They got away, Polaris announces as she joins them. Last she could see of them, they were doing about 190 clicks headed south. Headed for Washington, Havok realizes, so that’s where they are flying.
In the Project: Homegrown complex, Airborne joins Hardtime, telling him there are guards around this place three feet deep. But they let her through just like he said. How’s Mirrorshade? he asks, they may need him? He’s fine. He’s reverted to his basic form, but no damage. What’s going on? Exactly what he though would happen, comes the reply as he watches the screen. They yanked them out of prison, brainwashed them, sent them to do their dirty work and, now that they are no longer under the government’s control, they are blaming them for everything that happened.
In interviews, Sharpe refers to them as a dangerous group of supervillains that invaded and took possession of a peaceful research facility without any provocation whatsoever. These are terrorists and must be dealt with firmly and permanently!
Forge waits some distance away as the X-Factor jet lands. What’s the situation? Havok asks. No change, he is told. The Shadowforce is alone in the complex and General Sharpe is covering his butt with the press. He’s more concerned with spin-doctoring than problem-solving. So who needs him? Spidey asks. Let’s bring a little action to the criminal faction, guys and gals, he announces.
Forge orders a secret service agent to get out of their way. Sorry, they are not cleared, comes the reply. Federal authority. Like his boss told them last time they met, Havok retorts, they are federal. Polaris!
At the mention of her name, Polaris levitates all the soldiers with all the metal they are wearing, belt buckles, rifles and such. Strong Guy grabs the tie of the agent who talked. How would he like to be levitated by that? he suggests.
The team walks in. So do they have a plan? Madrox asks. Here’s the way he sees it, Spider-Man begins. They know Project: Homegrown was only able to induce temporary superpowers. So the Shadowforce must be continually reenergized by some kind of power source. That’s the only reason they’d take over the complex instead of just fleeing the country. He bets the way this place is constructed in rings the powercore is at the center of the complex. They find it, shut it down, end of story.
Very logical, comes the voice of Hardcase, except they are not going to live to reach the powercore. Shadowforce attack and the heroes find themselves part of the battle. Havok notes that X-Factor are working like a smooth machine, backing each other up, trading opponents. With any luck, they will hold them here and Shadowforce won’t notice what he noticed right at the start of this.
As they planned, Spider-Man ducks out of the room. He’s headed for the power core and it’s up to X-Factor to keep them tied up until he gets there. Spider-Man crawls across the ceiling, reaching the power core in the center. It’s more advanced than anything outside FF HQ, he has to admit admiringly, but power fundamentals are power fundamentals. He should he able to shut it down.
Judging from the basic design, the main activator switching unit should be right about… That moment, his Spider sense tingles. The core is wired to explode! He jumps out of the core, the explosion following. They’ve wired the whole complex! It’s setting off a chain of explosions that will tear the place apart! But why? And are his spider-reflexes enough to keep him from getting blown to bits?
Going somewhere? Talon asks as she attacks. He realizes that Shadowforce somehow disconnected themselves from the core. These things on their shoulder are battery packs. She announces that they are willing to risk death rather than be captured. Is he that committed to bring them in?
Elsewhere, Guido tries to bring down Oversize but has his blows stopped by one of Hardtime’s hardshells. Mirrorshade is set to copy Jamie Madrox, so Madrox multiplies several times and Mirrorshade breaks downs when he tries to copy that power.
Spider-Man joins them, explaining that his power is controlled by his energy harness. When he tried to split in two, the harness fractured and he died. Madrox is horrified.
Talon intends to kill Spidey and Havok gets her off his back. Spider-Man explains that they are powered by the battery packs on their shoulders, allowing Polaris to take them out, while bitching that she’s the only one who’s carrying her weight around here.
All of Shadowforce falls, save for Hardtime, as she can’t get at his battery pack through the hardshell and he stands between X-Factor and the way out.
Spider-Man suggests there is a better way. Better than letting them all die when the whole complex goes up. Surrender and let them help him instead of fighting!
Not going to happen, Hardtime replies. He’s not going to be the fall guy for Sharpe. Then he’s dooming himself, Spidey replies. The explosions have already destroyed all the evidence that could prove what Sharpe has done. Everything except the diskette he’s got. Sure, Hardtime can survive the explosion and walk away, but Sharpe will be able to blame him for whatever he wants and Hardtime won’t be able to do a thing about it.
The complex explodes. And Forge fears X-Factor and Spider-Man are lost.
Sharpe immediately tells the reporters that X-Factor have sacrificed their lives.
Button it, Havok orders him. Hardtime encased all of them in a hardshell field at the last minute. They are alive and well and they are going to expose Sharpe. They can’t do that, comes the reply. Who’s going to stop him? Havok asks. He’s going to stop himself, Forge replies. This is a federally backed team and there are costs that come with that. They have to follow orders and he’s been given one. Nobody talks.
Oh yeah? Spider-Man pipes up. He forgot the guy with the goods is strictly freelance. He tosses the reporters the disk. Sorry about that, Forge tells the general with a smirk. It seems they have a civilian in their midst. He thought he’d see it that way, Spidey agrees. X-Factor may have rules and regulations, but they are an okay bunch. A pleasure working with them.
And so later Peter Parker tells Flash Thompson his version of the story. He was chasing all the way to Washington, Flash asks, just to get news photos? A general getting dishonorably discharged and maybe facing criminal charges… He’d call that newsworthy. He was always very responsible, Flash tells him. Speaking of which… he’s been meaning to apologize for running out on him at the boys’ club.
Peter laughs. Flash can be taught. Will wonder never cease? Next thing they know, he’ll get over being starry-eye over that awful Spider-Man. Now stop that! Flash tells him.