Chapter 49: A Tangled Web We Weave Part II

Chapter 49: A Tangled Web We Weave Part Two:

In an instant, Spider-Man tried to shake the cobwebs from his head, as he pieced together what happened.

“The X-Men are in trouble, great, just great, of all the nights for that to happen, it would have to be this one!” shouted Spider-Man as he threw his hands into the air, as he saw the Hypno Hustler make a clean getaway.

“Can’t worry about him now,” thought Spider-Man. “The Brotherhood, the X-Men must really be slacking. I mean, Kitty did say that Magneto was missing, whatever that was worth, so they’re just a bunch of mutant thugs without him. Oh well, I’ll figure that out right now.”

Spider-Man swung across the city in an instant.

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The school was evacuated when they had realized their musical act was in fact a criminal and his henchmen. From what everyone was able to piece together, Spider-Man had managed to defeat the Mercy Killers and had went after their leader. At least that’s what they saw, the effects of the hypnotism took quite some time to wear off.

“Hey, look, Spidey’s going somewhere in a hurry,” remarked Flash Thompson as he and a crowd of onlookers looked at the web head going across the city in a hurry.

Gwen stopped as she watched. She wondered where Peter was going in a hurry. She cringed when she realized that Peter had left his cell phone at home because if he got into some kind of trouble, there would be no way to track him down.

“Hey, where did Pete run off to?” wondered Harry.

“Yeah, wasn’t he right with you?” asked Liz to Gwen.

“Yeah, I guess, no wait, right before he went to the restroom,” said Gwen. “He mentioned that it might take him a while, something didn’t agree with him or something, yeah that’s it.”

“Hopefully Peter didn’t get hurt when he was in the restroom,” remarked Mary Jane as she walked up, saying the last three words as if she was skeptical that Gwen was telling the truth but Harry or Liz did not really pick up on this and nothing else was said on the matter.

“I really hope he didn’t either,” thought Gwen. “Where did he go?”

Gwen paused as she heard more talking from another group.

“Spidey just turned around and stopped chasing that guy, before he went in another direction, I saw it!”

“Why would he do something like that?”

“Why indeed?” muttered Gwen to herself so no one else could hear her.

“Looks like they want us out of the school,” said Mary Jane as she walked around. “What a bummer, calling off prom for something like this.”

“Well, that guy and his goons crashed the place, they don’t want any lawsuits,” argued Harry. “People could be held liable.”

“Maybe someone should look for Peter, in the restroom,” said Mary Jane. “To let him know that everything’s been called off.”

“No, I’m sure if he’s still in there, someone in the school will find him sooner or later,” said Gwen quickly. “If he hasn’t went after Spider-Man that is, to get photos when we weren’t looking.”

That seemed to be a good enough answer, at least for the time being.

It was a bit of a mess as order was restored. Meanwhile Spider-Man had long since swung away from the area.

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“Commander Fury, someone has thrown SHEILD base off course!” shouted a voice as Fury managed to recover, to find himself locked in the cell that he once kept Rogue. Right beside him was a self conscious Professor Xavier.

“Let me out, so I can deal with it,” grumbled Fury, as he was let out and he moved over, before he pulled back a panel on the wall and began to press a predetermined set of commands. “They did a number on the base, I’m going to have to override it manually and…great Darkholme changed the access codes.”

Fury now had very little time to hack into his own system to override everything. Given the nature of the information he had received just moments before the base’s security was breached, he felt he had very little time period. It was rapidly running out.

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“There’s something you should know,” said Rogue suddenly to Mystique. “Bits and pieces that ah grabbed from the telepath’s mind, we should be expecting company.”

“She managed to send out a distress signal then,” said Mystique.

“To someone called Spider-Man, whoever that is,” said Rogue in confusion.

“Ah, not, Spider-Man, anyone but that guy!” moaned Toad hysterically. “He’s fought goblins and octopi and giant lizards and all kinds of strange stuff. And he helped the X-Men knock us around pretty good last time.”

“I fail to see what is so terrifying about a common insect,” remarked Mystique coldly.

“I beg your pardon, boss lady, but spiders are technically arachnids….” Stated Toad but Mystique angrily cut him off.

“Whatever he is, he won’t interfere with our plans, in fact I should be able to deceive him to keep him away long enough,” said Mystique before she turned to the Brotherhood. “Pyro and Avalanche, you know your job, give the signal once you have liberated what we’ve come for. Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Rogue, and Blob, stand by in case Spider-Man isn’t fooled and Toad….try not and get in the way.”

The Brotherhood all were made aware of their plans.

“How are you going to fool the web head?” grunted Blob.

“With a friendly face,” said Mystique, as she morphed right into the duplicate image of Charles Xavier, before she unfolded a spare wheelchair from the corner.

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The Danger Room began to cackle to life, as the X-Men began to recover.

“Everyone look alive now!” shouted Jean suddenly as the Danger Room began to blink.

“What’s happening?” grumbled Kitty as she gave her head a shake.

“The last thing I remembered,” said Bobby but then he paused, when the room began to hum, issuing smoke, as several weapon systems and traps retracted from the walls and the ceiling above them. “Uh, this is new.”

“She’s activated level one ninety eight,” said Hank in a mixture of awe and horror.

“Not level one ninety eight!” shouted Bobby in absolutely horror when it had clicked in his mind.

“Um, what is level one ninety eight?” asked Kurt, as everyone but the original five seemed rather baffled.

“The most dangerous level of the room,” explained Scott as he tried to shake the cobwebs off, but found that he was pretty much immobile. He dug through his pocket and by sheer luck, the Brotherhood had not taken the extra visor that he had kept on him. Carefully, he slipped it on. “One that not even Logan would attempt.”

“Well if something’s too dangerous for even Logan, than that’s really encouraging,” said Kitty sarcastically.

“There has to be a way to shut it down,” suggested Ororo.

“Afraid not,” said Hank as the entire group tried to pull themselves together. “Its very adaptable.”

“Wouldn’t that be a good thing?” asked Kitty. “I mean, we should be able to figure it.”

“I meant the room is adaptable to what we do in this level, more so than normal,” clarified Hank as several orbs of energy began to fire up.

“Fun,” said Kitty dryly.

“You know, it might be a good idea to skip the Q and A until after we survived this!” shouted Jean, as the lasers began to fire all simultaneously, and a shield appeared around the entire group, that quickly was sliced through. The group just managed to barely scatter.

“We need to find a way out of here and fast!” shouted Scott. “Everyone stand clear!”

A full powered optic blast from his eyes had obliterated several of the laser blasters on the wall but when they fell to the ground, they morphed into miniature robotic walkers.

“I see what you meant when you said highly adaptable,” said Kurt grimly, as the walkers began to advance on the group, as they backed off, but spikes began to shoot from the wall. “There’s got to be a way to shut it down.”

“Without outside help you can forget about it,” said Warren as he cycled around the room, directly the laser fire from the walls to blow the spikes to smithereens as it followed them.

“That’s not going to work for long,” said Jean. “And I managed to send a telepathic distress call.”

“So you managed to get in touch with Wolverine,” said Scott. “I never thought I’d say this, but he couldn’t get here soon enough.”

“Not Wolverine unfortunately, I had to lock onto the nearest capable person and I just managed to get the message through, at least I hope I did,” said Jean.

“Who?” asked Scott, as now the floor was shooting electrified cables out from underneath it, to try and ensnare the group.

“Spider-Man,” said Jean. “Providing he got the message. He had some kind of natural barrier towards telepathy that I had to take down before I could get through.”

“It must have been a byproduct of the spider that gave him his extraordinary powers,” said Hank. “Fascinating.”

“Yes, thrilling,” said Warren in a bored voice. “I’ve heard about this Spider-Man, but do you think he can beat the Brotherhood, even when they’ve improved.”

There was no time to really discuss this matter, as the Danger Room continued to assault the X-Men with its brutal level.

“Duh, this is so obvious, I should just phase through the floor and get out through the basement,” said Kitty mentally slapping herself for overlooking such an obvious solution.

“Wait, Kitty, no!” shouted Scott when Kitty tried to sink through the floor but she only got halfway, before some force propelled her upwards, causing her to hit into the ceiling, where cables wrapped around her. Concentrate as she might, she could not get out and she screamed, when several buzz saws and flame throwers popped out of the ceiling.

The other X-Men were fighting their own pratfalls but Ororo summoned heavy winds to blow several traps away. Pointing to the side, she managed to blow out the flame throwers, before she rocked the saws from their foundations.

“I shall have you out of there in a moment,” said Ororo but the floor beneath her had rumbled, causing a panel to erupt upwards with her on it. She was caught off guard and another slid out of focus. A small pit appeared and she fell right into it.

An electric forcefield appeared over the area. It trapped Ororo in the conclosed area. Her loud screams echoed throughout the Danger Room, as she tried to free herself from the enclosed area.

“It’s studying us, almost like science projects,” said Hank as he swung around, disabling as many of the traps as he could manage.

“Yeah, something tells me its going to dissect us before too long,” remarked Bobby, but he managed to freeze several weapons. This tactic only worked for a matter of seconds before they shook loose and began firing with a vengeance.

The forcefield was short circuited and Ororo sprung up, breathing heavily, but she managed to compose herself long enough to compose the team.

“Remind me again, was there a way to beat the Danger Room at this difficulty?” asked Warren.

“No,” said Scott in a resigned voice. Xavier had told him in secrecy that there was unable to be a failsafe to be encoded into this final level because of a computer anomaly. The X-Men continued to fight and pretty soon they would be fatigued, but when normally the program would be shut down, the only way that it would be stopped as if the entire group died or if it was actually was defeated.

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Spider-Man swung right into the lawns of the X-Mansion, before he carefully walked forward, looking from side to side anxiously.

“For a place that got attacked by a group of hostile mutants, everything seems a bit quiet,” thought Spider-Man. “Got to be careful, they could be setting a trap for any visitors. Of course, I never saw the Brotherhood as a group who could set their alarm clock. Still got to be careful.”

The door opened and immediately, Spider-Man was tense, but he relaxed ever so slightly, as Professor Xavier wheeled out.

“Spider-Man, this is a surprise,” said Xavier. “What brings you to the mansion tonight?”

“I heard a telepathic distress signal,” said Spider-Man carefully, as he looked at Xavier. “Jean said that the Brotherhood was attacking, thought it sounded important.”

“I’m afraid you must be mistaken, Spider-Man,” said Xavier. “There has been no attack and everyone here has been deep asleep for quite some time. Rest assure that I will investigate this manner. There might be a renegade telepath that is trying to mislead you.”

“If you say so, Professor,” said Spider-Man. “If you find out anything, please contact me. You know where to find me.”

Xavier nodded but there was something rather unsettling about the look on his face and it clicked in the web slinger’s mind.

“You were right Professor, the X-Men weren’t in danger,” continued Spider-Man. “In fact, it appears that our conversation woke them up and they’re behind you.”

“Xavier” leapt from the chair suddenly in surprise. There was no way that they could have escaped the Danger Room in their condition.

A punch right to the jaw brought “Xavier” back to reality.

“Where is Xavier?” demanded Spider-Man but the imposter expertly took Spider-Man’s legs out from underneath him with a legsweep, before slamming him against the wall.

“At the bottom of the ocean if I’m lucky,” said Mystique as she morphed back into her normal form. “Along with Fury and the rest of SHEILD.”

“What…SHEILD?” asked Spider-Man but Mystique threw him right to the ground. Spider-Man picked up the wheelchair and attempted to launch at Mystique, but she used expert agility to dodge it. “Just who are you anyway?”

“Mystique but that won’t matter for long, as you won’t interfere in my plans,” said Mystique as she knocked Spider-Man around but Spider-Man managed to dodge an assault. “Quicksilver, take out the trash.”

A blur shot by and grabbed Spider-Man running him out of the front door, before running several miles up the street, before depositing him in an open dumpster many miles away from the X-Mansion in the blink of an eye.

“Wow, this reminds me of my Freshman year,” thought Spider-Man, as he pulled himself out of the dumpster. “Okay, don’t know what just happened, but I know that I’ve got to get back there.”

Spider-Man once again swung, but suddenly, he returned to an X-Mansion that had been put into complete lock down. Once he took a step forward, the mansion’s defenses began to fire right on him. Spider-Man dodged behind a tree.

“Okay, not going to get in the front door this time,” thought Spider-Man. “I’m going to have to find another way in, somehow.”

Spider-Man shot his webbing, wrapping them around two of the weapons, before spinning them, causing them to blow each other up. Quick as a blink of an eye, he managed to scale up the side of the mansion.

“No window here, let’s see that window’s covered, so is that one, and that one and that one, and well pretty much all of them,” thought Spider-Man before he made his way up to the top of the mansion, where the metal paneling stopped at a chimney. “And this is the only part that isn’t covered…no, no, I’m not going to try to enter the Mansion this way…this is too ridiculous even for me.”

Spider-Man looked around, but much to his horror he found that there was no other way in.

“I feel like a complete and utter tool for even trying to get in this way,” thought Spider-Man, as he pulled himself to the chimney and tried to push himself inside, but found that it was a tighter fit than he could imagine.”This could take a while.”

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“Great, we’re going to crash into the Atlantic at this rate,” grumbled Fury as he continued to work with headquarters. “One chance, have to work quickly.”

It was all Fury could do to steer headquarters back into position. By now, the intruder and the kidnapped prisoner would have gotten a head start. Still, much to his relief, he had managed to get everything back on course, at least for the most part.

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Toad hopped around the house, bouncing from wall to wall, as Blob moved towards the refrigerator.

“I can’t believe you’re thinking of eating at a time like this,” complained Toad.

“Hey, fighting the X-Men makes me hungry,” said Blob.

“Everything makes you hungry,” argued Toad.

“Just trying to get a light snack,” said Blob, as he built a large sandwich that reached the ceiling. “The mustard’s got to be in here somewhere.”

“Man, this sucks, I get my butt kicked for the team, and Mystique just threw me on the bench,” said Toad. “Magneto never did this.”

“No, he just threatened to kill you if you screwed up,” said Blob in between bites. “Seriously, maybe now, the Brotherhood will get respect.”

“Yeah, right,” said Toad sourly, as his tongue snapped up, grabbing a fly but Pryo walked in.

“Blob, Mystique needs your girth to lift something, we believe we’ve found it,” said Pryo. “Avalanche can’t do anything to move what’s there and I can’t melt the floor. We hit something.”

“Out of my way, whatever it is, I’ll take care of it,” grumbled Blob.

“Good, I’ll stick around and entertain Toad,” said Pryo, as he shot a blast of fire right over Toad, who shrieked, as it burst a bookshelf into flames. “Ah the smell of burning literature, isn’t it grand?”

“Yeah,” said Toad. “But watch where you pointed that think, you nearly barbequed me.”

“Relax, I wouldn’t barbeque a teammate,” said Pryo with a grin as he shot small ball of fire into the air, whirling it around the air, in amusement.

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“Pietro, stop that before you wear a hole through the ground,” said the Scarlet Witch in an irritated tone of voice, as she watched her twin brother pace up and down the hall at the speed of light.

“Sorry can’t help it bored out of my mind can’t believe Mystique has us here on guard duty I mean how long does it take to lift one little thing out of the ground,” said Quicksilver quickly not pausing to take a breath, talking about as fast as he moved.

“Slow down when you’re talking, that drives me up a wall!” shouted the Scarlet Witch, which caused several windows to rattle as she glared at her twin.

“Whoa, calm down,” said Quicksilver more slowly as he stopped watching his sister taking calm breaths, before her powers had ripped a hole right in the middle of the neighborhood.

“I’m sorry, it’s just that we haven’t gotten close to our father,” said Scarlet Witch. “Mystique said that if we helped her, she would help us track him down.”

“She will, trust her Wanda, please,” said Quicksilver.

“I trust Mystique as about as far as I can throw the Blob without my powers,” said Scarlet Witch blandly.

“I don’t trust her either,” admitted Quicksilver. “But, she has to help us. If she betrays us, then what. What are the Brotherhood without our powers? You heard what they were when Magneto was around, before we joined. A bit of a joke.”

Quicksilver just paused.

“Besides, knocking about those X-Men were great, I mean they think they’re so high and mighty because they live in a mansion,” said Quicksilver. “Not to mention I threw Spider-Man out the door on his face in a dumpster. I mean, I think I did great.”

“Yes, with a black eye, you did so well,” said the Scarlet Witch dryly. “How does it feel to be teleported into a wall, by the way?”

“Hey, he got lucky,” protested Quicksilver. “Not all of us can throw hex bolts at people and have their powers conveniently fail.”

“Listen, it took me years to master that and with your feeble little brain, that kind of power will melt it,” said Scarlet Witch. “Plus, running at the speed of light, that’s really easy. Be anywhere in the world in a matter of seconds. You can leave when you want and never be late.”

“Please, like my powers are that good,” said Quicksilver. “Everyone is too slow I mean I have to slow down and wait for anyone. It’s a wonder that I’m not insane.”

“Look, I don’t care, I just want to find our father and find out why he abandoned us,” said Scarlet Witch shortly, not wanting to discuss this manner a second further and Quicksilver appeared to have gotten the message.

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A loud crashing sound echoed throughout the room that Toad and Pryo were in.

“There’s something in the walls,” said Toad.

“Maybe this place has mice?” suggested Pryo, but the fire wielding mutant stood carefully, as the rumbling echoed through the area of the fireplace.

“I don’t like this, maybe we should call for back up,” said Toad.

“Nah, I think whatever’s in there, we should great it,” said Pryo. “Wouldn’t you think our guest would like a nice warm fire?”

Before Pyro could do the deed, the fireplace burst open, causing bricks and rubble to fly everywhere, before he was kicked right into the face by a very dazed Spider-Man. Pryo landed right on the ground with a thud, as Toad stood, before he hopped into battle and quickly got webbed against the wall.

“You wouldn’t believe what I had to go through to get here,” said Spider-Man.

“Well, you’re going to be going out of here soon,” said Pryo, as he shot two large bursts of flame right towards Spider-Man, but Spider-Man dodged it.

“Are you crazy, you’re going to set the entire mansion on fire if you’re not careful!” cried Spider-Man but then he got one good look at Pryo and the crazed look on his face. “Oh, right, stupid question.”

A fire construct moved towards Spider-Man. The web head was nearly run over but his quick thinking, not to mention careful maneuvering, caused the web slinger to dodge them. Swinging around, Pryo was caught right in the face with two kicks but he rebound quickly.

“Stand still, ya wanker!” bellowed Pryo as two more flames went towards Spider-Man.

“Starting to get too hot to handle,” thought Spider-Man. “Got to cool down fire boy here, before he causes some real damage.”

Spider-Man moved around, before he dodged the attacks from Pryo. Two lines of webbing shot out, wrapping around two nails in the wall, before Spider-Man used it to propel him. With a loud crash, Pryo was slammed right into the ground. Quickly, Spider-Man drained the lighter fluid from Pryo’s costume, so he could not make any of his dangerous constructs. The mutant was hurled right into the wall, before he was webbed upside down.

With that, Spider-Man turned his attention to Toad.

“Um, hi, Spidey,” said Toad meekly.

“Where are the X-Men?” demanded Spider-Man.

“Well, they’re around, alright,” said Toad but Spider-Man grabbed him. “Alright, alright, easy, Mystique threw them all in that Danger Room thingy that they have and set it to some super uber setting that will kill them…I don’t know, that’s all I swear, I swear.”

Toad was thrown down to the floor, as Spider-Man made sure the other two mutants were in place, before he scaled up the wall.

“You know, all those times I’ve been to this Mansion and all the times Kitty’s whined about training, I’ve never been clued into where the Danger Room is,” said Spider-Man. “Okay, figure it out Spidey, if you were a giant room with a destructive training program that can be used to kill mutants, where would you be? Yeah…not as easy as it sounds. Boy, if I only found a way.

Spider-Man clung to the wall confused, before once again, the same sensation he felt earlier with his spider sense going off and then being disabled.

“Peter, this is Jean, from where you’re at, right, left, right, up the staircase, to the right, second door on the third hallway, and please hurry, we’re losing badly. You need to unplug it from the outside…got to keep from getting killed, bye.”

Spider-Man hung from the ceiling, shaking his head.

“Alright, telepathy is just plain creepy,” thought Spider-Man. “Yes, I’m quite aware you might have heard that thought, but it’s true. I’ll be there as soon as I can, if you can hear this.”

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“I really hope he got my directions,” muttered Jean to herself but seconds later, it was obvious he did, when she had got an echo of Spider-Man’s quip, mentally arranging herself.

“I don’t know how much longer we can hold this out,” called Bobby. “I mean, we’ve been knocked around for ages.”

“Just a few more minutes, we’re going to have to hold it off long enough for Spider-Man to get here,” said Scott, as he blasted another trap.

“I’ve got an idea!” shouted Kitty suddenly.

“Great, we’re doomed,” said Kurt which caused Kitty to give him a dirty look.

“No, I’ve got a plan, you said it yourself Kurt, the Danger Room’s just like one big video game,” said Kitty. “And I’ve never lost in a video game.”

“I wasn’t serious!” yelled Kurt suddenly, as he teleported out of the way, but his teleportation had put him in line for two more traps, that he just narrowly avoided. “It was just to…”

“No, I think this is going to work, but first you’ve got to keep these overgrown floor buffers away from me,” said Kitty, as she watched the machines that had just spawned out of the floor.

“It might buy us some time,” agreed Hank. “Until Spider-Man manages to get here and unplug the room.”

The group had little time to argue, as Kitty phased her hands right to the floor but was careful not to go any deeper.

“There’s got to be some kind of cable or something I can use,” muttered Kitty, but a blast of laser fire had caused her concentration to break slightly but she continued to dig through the floor and managed to pull a large thick cable, which caused the lights in the room to flicker. “I’ve got something.”

“Great, whatever you’re doing keep it up, its stopping it,” said Bobby, as he was able to leisurely take out several weapons.

“No, it’s still attacking but they’re much slower,” said Ororo as a lighting bolt took out one of the launchers.

“We’re not out of the woods yet, they’re still plenty of traps,” cautioned Hank. “We could be lured into a false sense of security.”

As if on cue, the Danger Room stopped fighting and appeared to resume to normal.

“Yes, we’ve beat it!” cheered Kitty but the senior members of the team gave her dark looks. “What, the Room stopped firing at us, that’s a good thing?”

Suddenly red lines began shooting around the Danger Room walls and on the ceiling as well.

“Time until Danger Room self destruction, T Minus One Hour. All who remain inside will be irradiated.”

Kitty just shrieked and put her head in her hands, as a few members of the team gave her dirty looks at what she just did.

“We’ve got to get out of here!” shouted Bobby.

“No, touch the walls or the ceiling and the room automatically explodes,” said Scott. “It can only be shut down fro the outside for sure now and it has to be done in one hour.”

“Then, Spidey better get here soon,” muttered Bobby, as the others nodded grimly, as the Room began to flash.

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“I’ve just about got it up, it was jammed up pretty time,” grunted Blob, as he pretty much had to tear the entire floor up.

“It’s here,” said Mystique gleefully, as she had saw it was right there, a large metallic structure. “Buried underneath the Mansion, incredible, the last place anyone would think to look, I doubt even Xavier in all of his wisdom would even think. We must extract it carefully. Avalanche, begin to take it that wall but don’t scratch it whatever you do.”

“Right,” said Avalanche as he began to carefully cause the ground beneath him to shake from side to side. The wall began to crack, loosening from the structure and the vibrations caused the entire room to shift.

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Spider-Man scaled the sides of the wall, holding his breath, as he passed the hallway where Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch stood. With each passing moment, he was closer to the Danger Room, but the staircase that he needed to ascend to get up there was right behind them.

“Typical luck,” thought Spider-Man but suddenly the walls began to rock. “And this is my luck as well…oh crap!”

Spider-Man landed right in front of the two mutants who were shocked for a moment but they quickly recovered.

“You, I thought I took you half way across town!” shouted Quicksilver in surprise.

“Yeah, well I’ve never been one to take a hint,” said Spider-Man and Quicksilver stepped back, as he began to rush towards Spider-Man.

“This guy’s as quick as my spider sense,” thought Spider-Man but somehow, he just by the narrowed of margins, threw himself out of the way. He nearly cracked his head on the wall in the haste.

“I don’t know how you dodged that, Spider-Man, I’m the quickest person who ever lived,” said Quicksilver.

“Well no wonder you’re with the Brotherhood on a Saturday Night, can’t get a date because of your quickness,” quipped Spider-Man and it took Quicksilver a few seconds for his brain to register that, long enough for Spider-Man to shoot lines of webbing. Quicksilver dodged the webbing, as they wrapped against a wall.

“Quicker than you, come on, that was too easy, that was too simple,” said Quicksilver as he zipped back and forth, taunting Spider-Man. “Too slow too slow come on get me hit me come on you can’t catch me you can’t you can’t”

Quicksilver was caught and webbed right to the floor suddenly.

“What the….” Started Quicksilver but he was stuck right to the floor. The amount of webbing that Spider-Man shot at him the dozens of times he zipped around had built up and created a very powerful adhesive. “Wanda, don’t just stand there, help me.”

“If you insist,” said the Scarlet Witch, who was watching the fight with amusement and a bolt shot right towards Spider-Man.

“Missed,” said Spider-Man as his spider sense registered and he dodged but it hit the wall right behind him, causing a shelf to slide off and once again, he avoided it before it landed on his head. Spider-Man bounced all around. “So, you really think those little techno color lights can really hurt me.”

Scarlet Witch refused to respond. She needed complete concentration when using her powers and speaking was not a luxury she could afford to have.

“This is too easy, I can dodge these little bolts all day,” thought Spider-Man but suddenly, a bolt ricocheted off the wall. He dodged it, as they bounced off the walls. “What the, the walls are slick, I can’t grab onto them.”

Spider-Man lost his balance and got blasted. The pressure of his web shooters built up, exploded and wrapped him into a cocoon of his own webbing.

“That’s what they do, Spider-Man,” said Scarlet Witch as she watched her brother’s struggles. “You seem to be in a sticky situation, Pietro.”

“Very, funny, just get me out of here,” said Quicksilver and a bolt caused the webbing to dissolve.

“Tell Mystique we have a bit of a pest control problem,” said Scarlet Witch, as Quicksilver zipped upstairs.

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“Well this is bad, trapped in your own webbing, not the first time this happened, Magneto, yeah and now it’s happened again,” thought Spider-Man. “And normally webbing being so strong would be a good thing, but not with me any it. Oh well, it’ll dissolve in an hour. Not like anything life threatening is going to happen in an hour.”

Almost on cue, another telepathic distress call had interrupted Spider-Man’s thoughts.

“Peter, are you on your way here?”

Spider-Man was still caught off guard.

“Well, I was, but I ran into a little complication. I swear, I’ll be there as soon as I can.”

“Just thought you’d like to know the Danger Room is programmed to blow up in less than hour with us inside and the backlash will kill everyone inside the Mansion.”

Spider-Man’s eyes widened, as he tried to break through his own webbing, but he had made it too well. He heard footsteps and he knew it could only be the members of the Brotherhood, perhaps ready to dispose of him when he was caught in his own webbing.

A boot had connected with the back of his head, as he managed to free himself, knocking him completely loopy.

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