Smythe opened the fight with a powerful lunge, Spider-Man dipping down low with a bend of his right knee and slamming an uppercut into Smythe's left side, the attack sending the genius doctor spinning off to the side, the heaviness of the exoskeleton making it impossible for him to stay on his feet.

While Spider-Man seemingly waltzed through his fight with Smythe, Widow and Alexis were engaged in one of the most heated battles he'd never seen.

"You're good with a gun girl-" Widow said, delivering three lashing kicks to Alexis's knee, side and neck, each one being blocked by the side of her arm only to have her grab the last one and attempt to twist Widow's leg over.

Widow moved with the turn, flipping over and kicking Alexis in the back of the head, causing her to let go of Widow's foot.

"But you don't hold a candle to me in combat" Widow snarled, landing on her hands before flipping over forward, turning around to catch a swing from Alexis by the wrist, yanking her forward and bringing her knee up into stomach.

This attack however was caught by Alexis crossing her arms in a X pattern over her stomach before turning her hands over, grabbing the underside of Widow's thigh and lifting it straight up, driving her own knee directly into Widow's crotch.

A pained yell came from Widow that was silenced and deafened by the sound of her nose breaking as Alexis drove her forehead into it, blood splattering down her face and onto the once-clear forehead of the pale woman.

The two backed away from each other, Widow now on the receiving end of the fight as they squared off and assumed fighting stances once more.

"We'll see about that Romanov" Alexis growled, cracking her knuckles before running at Widow.

She opened the second bout with  a leaping kick, this being caught by Widow's gloved hands, the Russian elite turning around and attempting to throw the shorter woman only to have her bend her leg in and wrap her other leg around her throat, landing several powerful punches to her eyes in face before Widow released her, the white warrior rounding off before standing on her feet.

"What's the matter Widow?" she taunted playfully "Slowing down in your old age?"

Widow spat a globule of blood from her mouth before wiping away the residue, standing up straight again and growling.

"What the hell have you been doing for the best few years?" she asked angrily "You've never been this good of a fighter"

"Remember Shang Chi?" she asked with a smug grin "He's always eager to help a paying student"

Widow ended the conversation there, playing this fight smarter from that point on and not rushing into things.

She approached slowly this time, keeping her hands at the ready and her feet equal distance apart as she eyed up Alexis, the white-haired woman having a hand placed on her cocked hips with a smug, blowing a kiss at Widow before an interruption came that neither of them expected.

Alexis spotted it first, her eyes wide with horror in the second it took for Smythe's battered body to fly towards her, knocking them both off their feet and into a heap on the floor.

"Bullseye!" Spider-Man yelled, landing in a low crouch next to Widow.

He looked at her, then back to the others before quickly double-taking, standing up straight and looking at her.

"You're hurt" he stated, placing a hand on her shoulder.

"I noticed, does the blood go well with my hair?" she asked with a grin.

"It looks delightful my darling" Spider-Man nodded, breathing a sigh of relief "I can see you on the cover of-"

Spider-Man was interrupted by his Spider-Sense blaring, warning him of an immediate danger behind him.

He didn't try to turn around to look, he merely bent his legs and threw himself down to the floor, the sound of a gunshot blaring for longer than a normal human should be able to hear before the bullet whizzed right over him.

He pushed himself up and everything sped up again, his arm lashing around and webbing the gun away from Smythe's hand, grabbing it and pulling it apart.

"Oh, nice going jackass, why didn't you let me take the shot?!" Alexis demanded before Spider-Man webbed her mouth shut.

"Ah, ah, don't swear" he said with a wag of his finger "It's very unbecoming of a lady"

"Right, are we done here?" Widow asked, pressing a finger to her ear and Codec calling Fury "Sir, we've secured the Gear model as well as arrested apprehended Smythe"

"I wouldn't be so sure" Smythe growled, hitting a button on a watch he wore and pretty much brought on the end times.

There was a loud whirring noise before Ray started to move behind them, the entire ship shaking as the colossal beast unfolded its wing-like blade compartments and opened it's mouth, releasing it's signature metallic-screeching noise.

"What!?" Widow demanded, diving out of the way of one of the enormous chains that fell as Ray tore itself loose "I thought this thing needed a pilot?"

"It does..." Spider-Man said before his mind flashed back to the plans he'd read "But the other, smaller Ray models are unmanned remember... they work on either A.I or remote-controlled commands... it's only the original, biggest Ray that would need to be piloted"

"Are you trying to tell me that-"

"This one isn't the real Metal Gear Ray!" Spider-Man yelled, Ray's swords emerging from their hidden compartments and puncturing the ship's hull, the freezing salt water now beginning to pour into the lower bowels of the vessel.

"Smythe, control that thing!" Alexis yelled only to be punched in the face by the mad scientist, knocking her unconscious.

Spider-Man grabbed for Smythe only to be swatted aside, the taller man hitting another button on his wrist before calling up to the Gear.

"Collect me!" he yelled, the Gear bending down and opening his mouth, revealing that it did indeed have a cockpit.

Smythe leaped into the machine, it closing and airlocking the cockpit before Smythe entered another command, this time for the ship, that bolted and deadlocked the doors, leaving all three of them trapped down there.

"Smythe!" Spider-Man bellowed, leaping up at the Gear's head and beginning to pound fiercely on the armour but to no avail.

"Sorry to have to part so suddenly, but your little disruption has pushed my plan along further than I wanted it to be" Smythe's voice said from the Gear's hidden speakers.

It shook its head, it's armour being a non-stick material, and Spider-Man was thrown the twenty feet down to the floor, landing on his hands and dropping down low, Ray cutting through an enormous parts of the ship that caused more salt water to pour in as well as bringing the roof down between Spider-Man and the Black Widow.

"Kid!" Widow yelled, wading through the now waist high waters and banging on the metal shelf "Kid!"

There was no response and the room was filling up fast, Spider-Man, Alexis and Ray were all still on that side of the ship and Widow knew the second Ray made its escape the tanker was going down.

"Smythe!" Spider-Man roared again, throwing several barrels at the Gear in hopes it would do something "You're not getting away!"

"Too late!" Smythe's voice roared "I'm taking you down Snake, along with this tanker!"

Widow called Fury again, issuing a command.

"Sir, get Carol down here now!" she bellowed She's got two minutes to get here before we all fucking drown!"

There was another metallic roar from Ray before he jumped through the hull, tearing the ship in two and the water pushed down on them all, the ship sinking to the bottom of the Hudson with them all trapped inside. Next Chapter: Rescue Operation Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 44 Minutes