Peter locked his head into position as best as he could, trying to keep it low and in shadow.

"Just stop fucking struggling already, there's no way in hell you're getting out of-"

Peter felt the power return to his muscles and he tore the handcuffs away from his back, bringing his arms round and slamming his hands into the face of the police officer, using his webbing to cover his eyes and slamming his fist into his face. Peter darted forward, flipping over another one of the police officer before dropping low and sweeping his legs out from underneath him, following up with two web-lines to the heads of other police officers and yanking them together, knocking them both out.

"Stop right there freak!" one of them bellowed, aiming a shotgun at him and preparing to pull the trigger. Peter fired another web at the weapon, yanking it away from him before striding forwards and swinging it into the police officer's face, breaking his jaw and knocking him out. he then snapped the shotgun in half and threw one of the pieces at a nearby street light to cover himself in darkness once again. He sprinted forwards and front flipped over one of the stopped police cars and booted two officers in the face on the way down, rolling quickly and dropping into a rapid crawl forwards, scuttling under a car before pouncing over a SWAT APC, landing easily and tackling another police officer.

"Just gotta get out of here..." he said, knowing that his mask was lost as he saw someone in SWAT armour pick it up and disappear from sight "Fuck!" He skidded under another APC and made a quick turn, swinging around on a street light to throw off pursuers as the whole thing was caught by a news chopper.

"C'mon Spidey" he grunted, launching off the street light and over two patrol cars, rolling sideways and disappearing into an alley. He leaped up as high as he could and pressed himself into a gap in two roofs, hiding himself from view. He saw police officers look into the alley, scanning it with eyes and flash lights before moving on. Peter remained still for nearly five minutes until he was positive that nobody else was nearby, both the news and police choppers were no longer audible and he allowed himself to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Nice job Parker... now if I could've just kept the fucking mask..." he breathed, dropping down silently into the street and wiping his hands on his legs. His victory was short-lived as he felt the muzzle of a gun being placed against the back of his head with a heavy breath behind him.

"Don't. Fucking. Move" they panted, the voice sounding very familiar. Peter held up his hands in surrender and knew that it was over, he'd been caught and he was going to prison.

"Turn around. Slowly" the voice ordered.

"Buddy, can't you just look the other way this one time?" Peter asked, still using his fake New York mobster accent "It'll help a lot more people letting me go then it would arresting me"

"Turn around now" he repeated, pushing the gun harder against Peter's head. Peter screwed up his face and slowly began to turn around, his face being revealed to the police officer dressed in riot gear.

"Alright... you got me" Peter sighed.

Peter?" the man asked in disbelief "Shit..." He reached up to his head and took the helmet off, followed by the face mask he wore, revealing the familiar blue hair and strong face of Shining Armour.

"Shining?" Peter asked "Oh thank fuck... you gotta let me go man"

"Peter, you know I can't do that" Shining said "It'll cost me my job" The two of them looked at each other with distressed expressions before Peter came up with an idea.

"How are you as an actor?" he asked suddenly.

"What?" Shining asked in response.

"Can you fake a story?" Peter said quickly.

"Peter I'm not going to lie about this" Shining said.

"Then don't, I'll hit you now and get away and you can say that was what happened" Peter explained "Just give me back my mask and we can-"

"I can't give you your mask back Peter, my guys saw me pick it up... and I can't walk away with an facial injury because that would mean that I got a look at you..." Shining sighed "Fuck, man"

"Then just let me go and you can give me the mask back later, alright?" Peter asked.

"Peter... I can't, I'm gonna have to-" Peter lashed out his hand and webbed Shining's gun away from him, throwing it aside before leaping up to the top of the nearby building and sprinting away.

"Mother fucker!" Shining yelled, angry yet glad Peter had been able to get away like that. Shining put his own gear back on, retrieved his gun and tore the webbing off it before throwing the webbing into a nearby trash can, the mask of Spider-Man still in his pocket.

"This should be fun to explain" Shining said, grabbing his radio and beginning to give out a sit-rep.

Shining had neglected to remove his riot gear, bar the helmet and having pulled the face mask down, and as such he received several strange looks as he walked through the party and over to Celestia.

"Princess!" he called, pushing through the group she was talking to. He noticed Twilight, Harry, Cadance and Mary-Jane standing around, discussing amongst themselves and they all turned to look at him.

"What's the matter Shining?" Celestia asked, lowering the drink she was about to sip from.

"I've got something you might want to take a look at" he said.

"And that is?" Celestia queried as Shining reached behind him and pulled out the mask. Shining noticed Twilight visibly flinch as he held the mask out in front of him but he decided to confront her on it later.

"Good God, they finally got that costumed freak!" someone exclaimed happily.

"What are you talking about?" another one asked "This is terrible, Spider-Man was a hero!"

"Anyway, how do we know that's the real mask and not some Vietnamese replica bought on Ebay?" a third asked.

"Because we pulled it off the web-swinging son of a bitch ourselves and the expression 'does whatever a spider can' applies to him perfectly, he wriggled free and scurried away faster than any of us could catch him" Shining said to the crowd as well as Celestia "Spider-Man is still at large but is missing his crucial costume piece, so we should all keep an eye out in future for a mask-less superhero swinging around the city" Next Chapter: Confrontation Estimated time remaining: 9 Hours, 6 Minutes