Twilight watched as the woman was guided out of the police station, seeing her wave at Shining with a sad smile before disappearing from sight. Shining put a hand to his forehead and sighed, a glimmer of exhaustion in his eyes before he regained his composure. He walked back over to Twilight whilst flicking a piece of paper between his fingers.

"What's the schtick?" Twilight asked calmly.

"Rescued rape victim" Shining answered.

"Wow, who stopped it?" Twilight asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Take a guess" Shining said, placing the piece of paper down on the table in front of his sister. She cast her eyes down to the paper, noticing the new, yet familiar somehow, note. She picked it up and stared at the hand-writing, squinting as she racked her brains to try and figure out why it sounded in her memory.

"Huh" she said, feigning a satisfied look before handing the card back to her brother "Guy's working, that's for sure... say, what's your take on his jewellery store robbery?"

"In my honest opinion, I don't think he was robbing the place, from what we say of him that night if he was trying to rob the place he would've gotten away with it without a hitch" Shining shrugged. Shining fell silent for a long moment, taking his phone out of his pocket as he dropped the note back onto the table.

"Hello?" Shining asked as he answered the call Twilight only just realized he was getting. Shining was silent for a moment before his eyes widened in shock, his fist curling down at his side.

"What?!" he exclaimed "Where is she? Is she OK?!" Shining rushed around the side of the desk, opening the drawer and pulling out a handgun.

"Whoa, what the hell's going on?" Twilight asked in a surprised tone.

"Cadence is in danger again, some freak with electric powers just came sprinting out of the Oscorp building and straight into the car Cadence was in" Shining said, belting on his gun and hanging up his phone.

"Why was she at Oscorp?" Twilight asked.

"I'll find that out later, you stay here and don't follow me!" Shining ordered. Twilight blinked blankly as her enraged brother sprinted out of the room. She linked her fingers together and pursed her lips before slyly sliding a hand over to the card left by Spider-Man and slipping it into her pocket.

"Yoink" she whispered before exiting the room, determined to find out where she recognized the hand writing from.

Peter found himself being dragged back into the briefing room where he had been earlier to see several people gathered around a screen.

"Wassup?" Peter asked, trying to get a look at the screen.

"That's none of your concern-" Black Widow began to snap before being cut off by Fury.

"We intercepted a radio call out from the NYPD in regards to some freak shooting lightning around the city" Fury answered. Widow shot him a furious glare before Banner spoke up.

"Not to sound like an asshole or anything, but that's not really our problem is it?" he asked.

"It wouldn't be if not for this" Fury said, hitting a button to make a hologram project in the middle of the table. The image displayed security camera footage of an expensive looking limo having been flipped on its side with a familiar face cowering behind it.

"Great, Cadance has gotten herself into trouble" Black Widow sighed "And in New York no less... at times I wish that Daredevil never retired"

"As you can see, now that we've got one of our VIPs in danger we have to help out" Fury continued "Suit up" The Avengers nodded and moved away, each going to an assigned locker against the wall to gear up. Peter folded his arms and shifted his weight back and forth between his legs. Fury looked at him for a long second before cocking an eyebrow.

"And you're still standing there because...?" Fury asked.

"What d'you mean?" Peter asked in confusion.

"I said suit up, that means you're on duty" Fury answered, throwing Peter's mask back over to him "Get your web propulsion attachments from Dr Banner's lab and meet us back here in five minutes"

"Thanks... oh, and they're called web-shooters" Peter corrected. Fury obviously had distaste for the name but decided to keep it to himself but before he could turn to address the other Avengers Black Widow slammed her hand on the desk and glared at Fury.

"Director Fury I implore you to reconsider bringing him with us, he's an untrained rookie and we don't know what side he's on, he could compromise the entire operation and get the Princess killed!" Widow hissed. Fury looked at her for a second before standing up straight and looking down at her.

"Untrained he is, this outing is our best chance to get a first hand look at what he's capable of, a rookie he is too, but so were you at one point and if I remember correctly it's impossible to not be a rookie before you're sent on your first mission, not knowing his moral standing, we do indeed as he was the one that saved nearly the entire royal family a few days ago, and the chances of him compromising the mission are extremely small seeing as how you're all highly trained operatives and know how to control a child... any other problems?"

"Yes, he's too young" Widow nodded, not stepping back from her boss.

"Wrong, he's the right age to start, old enough to have a basic understanding of how this kind of thing works but still young enough to not have his own style and operations manual" Fury corrected before looking at Peter "Now get going, you've got four minutes now"

"Right" Peter nodded, rushing back through the Triskellion to get his web-shooters.

The strange electric man seemed to be crying angrily as he attempted to control himself. His upper right body was a deep yellow colour with three of the fingers on his right hand burned off, his hair fried and falling out with his teeth blackened and his left eye burned shut.

"Somebody make it stop!" he screamed, slamming a burned fist into the ground and sending out an electric shockwave "It hurts!"

"Take him down!" one of the surrounding police officers yelled, aiming his weapon at the screaming man, bullets whizzing forwards and embedding themselves into the man's body. He screamed in agony and began to repeatedly stamp his foot onto the ground, spots of electricity glowing on his body before the bullets were repelled, embedding themselves into objects and several innocent bystanders. The dead and injured people dropped to the floor and the electrically charged bullets shocked them, loud screams coming from all over the crowd as they began to sprint away.

"Cease fire, hold your men back!" a loud voice yelled. The policeman looked to his side just in time to see Captain America leap over a car and into the circle created by the police cars parked around the man. Captain America stopped quickly and looked at the man who whirled around upon hearing him.

"Help me!" he yelled, almost begging.

"Just calm down... you don't need to hurt anyone else, we can talk about this" Captain America said, holding his hands up and slowly walking towards the sobbing man "What happened?" The man looked at the floor for a long second with his hands to his head.

"Oscorp... the lab accident, Osborn..." the man said, his voice becoming more and more slurred as he spoke. He suddenly narrowed his eyes and clenched his fists "Osborn!"

"What about him?" Captain America responded quickly, trying to keep the man's attention on him.

"He did this to me!" he roared "I'll kill him for this!"

"Hey, you're not gonna kill anyone else!" Captain America snapped. The man looked up at him, glaring furiously and barring his charred teeth.

"You're not gonna stop me!" he screamed suddenly, a bright current of electricity coursing over his body "I'll kill you too!" He flung his arms out and a bolt of electricity shot out, moving too fast for Captain America to dodge. The bolt hit him in the chest, shocking him and throwing him hard onto his back.

"Captain!" the Black Widow yelled, sprinting over to Steve and grabbing hold of his costume and pulling him away from the electric man "Avengers, on me!" Captain America blinked weakly, groaning as he sat up behind the car they were behind. Banner skidded over to them and nodded but there was no sign of Spider-Man anywhere.

"Where's the kid?" Dr Banner asked.

"I... I think the little shit's bailed on us" Widow snarled "I knew we shouldn't have trusted him!"

"Widow... he might just have..." Captain America tried to say before stopping to take a breath, unable to speak just yet.

"Just have what Captain?" she snapped "He's gone!"

"Hey Sparkles!?" came the voice that contradicted Widow's statement "I know everyone wants to be the light of someone's life but could you tone it down just a bit, you're kinda making me feel sick" Widow poked her head out from behind the car just in time to see Spider-Man sitting with a leg resting on his knee on top of one of the police cars.

"What the hell is he doing?" she hissed.

"Who are you?!" the man demanded.

"I'm Spider-Man" he said, hopping down off the car and beginning to walk towards the charged man "I'm gonna try and help you"

"No, I'm gonna kill Osborn and no one can stop me!" he yelled, shaking his head furiously.

"You know that's not going to help anyone pal, so just come over here and we can talk about this-" Spider-Man said, holding his hand out in front of him only to have the electric man attempts to blast him with electricity. Spider-Man threw himself onto his back, the bolt flying over him and hitting a car, shoving it back and charging it briefly. He rolled back up onto his feet and fired a web into the man's face. The web hit him but was fried instantly, dropping to the ground as a black, charred stick.

"Huh, I thought that was gonna work" he sighed, placing his hands on his hips.

"Fuck you!" the man screamed, beginning to fire more and more bolts at Spider-Man who was having to move faster than he had before.

"Wow, all this action is really fun, I feel absolutely ec-static!" he yelled jokingly.

"Shut up!" the ma yelled, holding his hand down by his side and charging the electricity for a second before throwing a much wider bolt.

"Whoa, I'm surging with excitement here!" Spider-Man mocked, side-flipping over the bolt and landing on top of a car before throwing himself forwards, slamming his foot into the face of the electric man. He was sent flying back into a car, the door crushing from the impact.

"To be honest, If I were you I think I'd just give up the fight and bolt" he chuckled, dusting his hands off. He looked at the man for a long second but he remained unmoving.

"And that's that, I guess" he said, turning around and walking over to the other Avengers. He attempted to speak only to have Widow stand up and yell at him.

"What the hell was that!?" she demanded "We were supposed to work together!"

"I know, but you're all just too slow" he shrugged "I just cleaned up easily there and you didn't even need to do anything, you should be thanking me"

"Don't get cocky kid, you got lucky!" Widow barked. She continued to yell at him but her voice became extremely quiet as his Spider-Sense began to flare up. He whirled around to see the electric man had pulled open a power box and had began tearing at the wires.

"Oh fuck" he whispered, sprinting towards the man in an attempt to stop him connecting himself to the city's power grid but he wasn't fast enough. The man jammed his fist into the exposed wires and began to absorb the electric energy.

"Yes!" the man yelled "Now no one can stop me!" As the few human parts of his body left became electrically charged he stamped his foot on the ground, sending a shockwave across the street once more, this time catching Spider-Man and throwing him back, a pained scream coming from him as the current surged through his body and caused his muscles to spasm. The man laughed loudly before his voice cracked suddenly, an alarmed look on his face.

"What... no... no!" he bellowed as his body began to spark wildly, his eyes and mouth glowing bright colours as his body swelled up before it exploded in a spectacular expression, the sirens of the police cars and the cameras of those taking pictures of the event shutting off due to the electro-magnetic pulse. The crowd was silent for a brief moment before they began to cheer loudly, applauding and whistling at the apparent victory over the super-powered man. The other Avengers rushed towards Spider-Man who lay on the floor with smoke rising off his charred costume.

"You alright kid?" Captain America asked, offering a hand to him.

"Yeah" he grunted, taking the hand and pulling himself up "Nothing seriously injured, just a shit load of pain"

"That's what you get if you go running in like a moron" Black Widow growled, shaking her head before storming off.

"Widow, wait!" Dr Banner called out to her.

"Let her go" Captain America sighed "She's angry, and you kid, didn't exactly play that the smartest way you could have"

"I did what I thought I was supposed to" Spider-Man growled, crossing his arms.

"I'll tell you now, what you thought you're supposed to do and what you were supposed to do were two completely different things" he responded.

"I don't have to do anything you tell me to do" Spider-Man countered.

"But you'd perform better if you did" Captain America shrugged, turning his back on Spider-Man and beginning to walk away.

"I've done fine so far" Spider-Man called out.

"You've only just started kid, you don't even know difficulty yet" Captain America scoffed.

Twilight set the card down on the table and began to rummage through her drawers, looking for the single item that could prove or deny her hunch. She closed her hand around a small stack of papers and pulled them out, setting them down on her desk next to the card. She took the first paper off the pile and opened it, it being one of Peter's letters to her before they'd met in person. She cross-referenced the the capitalized S and M that was on both the card and the letter and found that they were a match in style and general size. She then moved on to the lower case letters, finding that they too were also a match to the words written on the card. Twilight sat down in her desk and nodded slowly.

"So... we have a case, evidence and a suspect" she muttered to herself, stuffing both items into her school bag that was leaning against her desk "All we need now is the conviction" Next Chapter: Reluctant Business Partners Estimated time remaining: 13 Hours, 5 Minutes