Felicia was running as fast as possible to get away from the building and didn't pay attention to the things going on behind her. Her main focus is to escape that area and y low for a while. She got what she came for, so their business is done. Now, if they die or live, it's none of her matter. But that voi her head... That voice... It was so familiar.

  "There she is, don't let her escape!" The thugs from below began to shoot at her. She could dodge and evade them most of the time. A couple of bullets grazed past her stomad arms, but one bullet struck her right thigh and one in her right shoulder bde, as she jumped from the roof and was about to grapple onto the building. Her tration on the hook shots faltered when the bullet hit her leg, making her lose trol of the swinging rope and was going to fall. "Damn it!"

  Luckily, a shot of webbing caught her right in the middle before she could crash onto the building. But that web was strong enough to pin her down to the wall.

  "Argg!" She tried to rip apart the web using her super strength, but a couple of more web shots restrained her in pce.

  She could see the thugs on the ground gathered around her, aiming their guns at her. But before they could realize what was happening, a yellow portal appeared behind them and two web bombs shot out. Both of the bombs exploded in mid-air, sending yellow electric shockwaves in all dires along with a barrage of sticky webs. Every thug that was in a five-meter radius was immediately thrown backward as they lost sciousness and were encased within the web.

  Spiderman jumped out of that portal.

  "Yo! you believe it? We are meeting again ihan 24 hrs. Such a small world, huh?" Spiderman webbed onto the wall and stuck beside Bck Cat. He could hear police sirens nearing their location, "Want a lift?"

  Bck Cat frowned, "Trying to turn me in, are you?"

  Spiderman raised his hands while saying, "Trying to help you. If not for my warning, you might still be trapped in that falling building." He poioward the six-story tall stru building that The Thing crashed through. Bck Cat also remembered the voi her mind.

  "That voi my head, yours I assume?" She narrowed her eyes as she gred at Spiderman.

  "Guilty as charged," He shrugged nontly, before saying, "Police will be here in no time and you're wounded. Need help or not? Your call." He noticed that the flesh wounds had already healed up, and the bullets in her body didn't pierce that deep and he could actually see the bullet ohigh. "Super healing. Iing." He used his magic to pull out the bullets and throw them on the ground. Her wounds instantly healed.

  "Well, it would seem I didn't need your help," She retorted as the sound of approag sirens became closer. "What now? I'm at your plete mercy, Mr. Spidey," she sighed and wondered who it was uhat mask as she gnced sideways at the red-masked hero.

  "I doubt that. You have already cut through my web and freed your hands," He replied sarcastically.

  "Whatever," She cut through his web and freed herself, jumping over to the other building. Her cws pierced through the crete of the wall as she looked toward Spiderman, "Why did you help me?" She asked, fused, still looking at him questioningly.

  He shrugged, "Because I want to recruit you to my team."

  "A team?" She asked, looking amused at the answer.

  "Yeah. Why waste your ability to it crimes when you do somethier? Still stuck with your daddy plex, trying to prove you are better than him?" Spiderman's words earned him a scowl from Felicia, aiced that. He webbed over to her aly pced his hands on her cheek. "Just accept it. You are not like him, you are just trying too hard to copy his as."

  "You know nothing about me," She looked the other way but didn't run away.

  "I know enough, the reason you are trying to get close to Kingpin's men... That baldy is the oo kidnap you and your dad and use his knowledge to create a new SSS," Spidey stood up on the wall and looked at her, "He tested it on you, didn't he?"

  "Well, someone did his homework. And what makes you think I'd walk straight into the lion's den of my own free will?" She ughed mogly.

  "To finish the job of course. Killing Kingpin and removing the threat ond for all. Who knows when he will target you again? And I'm pretty sure you heard the rumors of Kingpin being gravely injured and all. So, you took the ce. That USB stick you gave Wesley, if my guess isn't wrong, you've put a bug in it to find his real locatiht?" Spiderman answered smugly.

  Felicia stiffened for a bit, but didn't say anything, not firming nor denying his statement.

  "Bck Cat, you don't have to do this job alone," Spidey stopped walking on the wall and looked at her, "I'll help you get to Kingpin. You do whatever you want with him for all I care. But after that, you either join me or live your life as a blond chatterbox." He took out a phone from his suit and gave it to her, then webbed away from the area as soon as the police cars began to surround the area.

  Felicia used her grappler to grapple onto the building and ran away to a certain distahen she dropped into an alley and transformed bato her blond self. She took off her bck suit, revealing her regur dress underh. Thehrew it into the dumpster and disappeared within the crowd that formed due to the sudden explosion in the nearby stru site.

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  Back at the stru site...

  The Thing puhe guards around him, hard enough to break their bones, but they were still alive. Frank took the ground floor and for the first time in his life, he was forced to just disable the threats, not kill them. As for Wanda, she rounded up the ones hiding among the civilians. Everything was ed up within ten minutes or so.

  All the criminals were rounded up he gate and the cops quickly arrested them.

  Spiderman webbed down before them.

  The crowd, reporters, cops...everyone was shocked to see Spiderman standing before their eyes. The hero who was supposed to be dead is back after a year.

  "SPIDERMAN!"

  "Here, Spiderman, may I ask you a question?"

  "Over here, Mr. Spiderman..."

  "He's alive!"

  "I k! I told you all, he's alive. A little explosion ain't enough to take down our hero."

  Everyone rushed toward him. The cops were trying their hard to maintain the barricade.

  "Oh, boy," Spiderman scratched his head with a smile under his mask. He webbed a microphone from a reporter's hand and jumped up on top of the wall, "Sorry, everyoook a while to heal up. I was in a a, so couldn't let you all know, but as you see, I'm still alive. And just like my bro said, a little explosion isn't enough to keep this friendly neighborhood hero away from our beloved city." He announced as the crowd cheered and his words were recorded and broadcast on the news.

  Spiderman tio pull the crowd's attention toward him, gaining massive popurity again.

  Watg the se from afar, Frank and Wanda were watg.

  "There he goes bragging," Wanda whispered.

  "I believe there's nothing called bad publicity." Frank shrugged.

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  [Daily Bugle]

  Jonah felt kinda bad when he learhat Spiderman died in an explosion while trying to stop the mass murderer Green Goblin. He even put his pride aside and posted a very special article titled 'Bravest Hero In New York.'. Which made the whole city proud of him.

  But his headache grew even bigger as the sales of Daily Bugle went down and tio fall even lower and lower, while the circution of Daily Globe and some loeers started to skyrocket. Without Spiderman, Jonah began to pte ging the dire of his neer. But things didn't go as pnned as it was already too te. He tried to find faults in other heroes, but that too didn't work out in his favor.

  Just when things were looking bleak and he finally decided to close Daily Bugle down...

  His office door flew open...

  Liz Alered his room and turned oV, "Look, who's back from dead."

  She decided to bee a photographer and freencer and works for Daily Bugle from time to time, helping out old Jonah at her father's request.

  Jonah watched the TV as Spiderman's live interview was being showched the news without speaking a word. As soon as the interview was over, he jumped up from his chair, "I k! That bug was hiding somewhere, plotting his crime. I k. Spiderman is a menace. He blew up that entire building, destroying the hard work of poor workers, and n to be a hero. Liz, I need new photos of Spiderman. The front page should be, Menace back from his grave..."

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