Peter had recently escaped from the stench-sullied porta-potty of hell, praising every god he knew of for the fresh air he was now experiencing before lowering his camera and going through the pictures before making a quick exit out of the park.

"Right, now to find M-J" Peter said to himself, placing his camera back into its bag and blending in with the crowd. He made his way through the sea of people before spotting the familiar red hair of Ms. Watson. He rushed over to her and tapped her on the shoulder, making her jump slightly.

"Jesus Parker, where the hell have you been?" she asked angrily, placing her hands on her hips.

"Uh, work?" he offered.

"Work?" she exclaimed furiously "There were guys with guns, tanks and super powers in there, you could've been killed!"

"I know" Peter said, crossing his arms and grinning "Do you remember the talk we had about my dangerous job?" Mary-Jane stared at him with a bewildered expression for a long moment before shaking her head in disbelief.

"What?" Peter asked with a smile.

"You're insane" she said.

"I prefer the term 'Intellectually Different'" Peter shrugged "So, where do you wanna go next?" Mary-Jane's expression changed to a very puzzled look, her face turning away from Peter slightly as she eyed him up and down to judge whether or not he was serious.

"You're kidding right?" she asked.

"Should I be?" Peter asked with his own confused look.

"After all that, you still wanna keep going?" she asked.

"Do you not?"

"Kinda, yeah" Mary-Jane nodded "I'm exhausted from all that, do you mind taking me home?" Peter nodded slowly, wiping his mouth to clear a build-up of dead skin, before smiling.

"Sure" he nodded, moving his finger in a vertical circular motion "Let's go"

Peter walked at a leisurely pace through the street, looking up at the sky as his Spider-Sense went off in time to see a black-clothed and white-haired face leaping over a gap in two roofs.

"Cat?" he asked himself with a grin "I was wondering where she'd disappeared to" With a duck into an alley and a quick costume change he was up on the roofs, pursuing the flirtatious feline at great speed. He could see her off in the distance and knew that he was making good ground on her, seeing her leap onto a large railing on the edge of a building.

"Right, try not to scare her Parker" he reminded himself as he leaped forward, trying his best to emulate the triple jump from Mario 64 before landing on the railing next to her with a grunt. Black Cat flinched briefly before a smile spread onto her face.

"Well, hello there Spider" she purred "I've missed you"

"Well if you wanted to see me more you should've stuck around after our last date" Spider-Man said, throwing up his hands in a questioning manner.

"Sorry honey, its just that a burning building isn't a very romantic spot, especially for a girl with hair as good as mine" she said, running her hand through her thick white locks.

"It is indeed something to be worried about" Spider-Man nodded "And I admit that I was at fault for the catastrophe of our last night on the town"

"Then why don't you make it up to me?" she asked playfully "Why don't you come meet me on the Chrysler building at... say midnight tonight and we'll have a proper date? My treat?" Spider-Man was initially reprehensive due to his nine PM curfew but he knew that he could ask to stay at Harry's for the night. Or at least say he did.

"Wait... why am I this eager to lie to my friends and family just to get a chance to talk to her?" he asked himself, looking out over the city with the conflict going on in his head "I should really just break this off now before it goes any further... if the news gets out that Spider-Man and the Black Cat are dating it could ruin my image, Shining could take this further and arrest Peter Parker, go public with my identity and I could go to jail... fuck man, why am I even doing this with her?"

"So?" What's your answer Spider?" Black Cat asked, turning to face him and placing a hand on his abdomen, leaning extremely close and holding her mouth just centimetres away from his own, albeit under a mask "I don't want to spend the night alone again... we can have a lot of fun if you say yes"

"Oh yeah, that's why" Spider-Man thought, sighing loudly before giving his answer "Yeah sure, I'll be there"

"Thanks honey" Black Cat said, kissing him on the cheek "Don't keep me waiting, I get fidgety when I'm bored, you might show up and I'll have had all my fun already" With that she threw herself off the side of the roof and used her white grappling lines to swing away down the street. Spider-Man was silent for a long second before putting his face in his hands and sighing louder than before.

"Fuck Parker, what're you doing?" he asked himself in disappointment. With his conscience beating him down her threw himself off the roof and headed in the opposite way that Black Cat had, his stomach turning as he flipped and swung through the open air.

Peter closed the door as he walked into the penthouse, the same penthouse Shining and Cadance lived in just in time to hear a very heated argument.

"I can't believe you even thought about saying that much less doing it!" he heard Celestia bellow at someone. He walked into the room to see the royal sisters nearly at each others throats in a very aggressive argument. The two of them were dressed very formally, both wearing dresses and being heavily made up, adding to their almost inhuman levels of beauty, with eyes alight as fire with anger.

"It was something we were all thinking and for some reason I'm in the shit for voicing it?!" Luna screamed. Peter stayed at the back of the room with his back leaning against the wall, still conflicted about his meeting with Black Cat and how long he was going to ride the train for before its inevitable derailing later on down the line. He pondered the best place to jump off but still knew that now that he was on it, no matter where he jumped, it was still going to hurt.

"Yes Luna, it was one of the most racist comments I've ever heard in modern politics!" Celestia hissed, pressing her fingers to her temples and turning away from her sister.

"How?!" Luna demanded.

"How? How?!, no you're right sister, I don't see how asking if we're going to devout more of the national defence budget to black and Latino areas of the country due to the high crime rates could ever be interpreted as racist, can you?!" Celestia roared, turning around and pointing a finger at her sister's face "Do you understand how much work I'm going to have to put into this to make sure this doesn't destroy yours, and my own, public approval rating in the coming weeks, Jesus Luna the last time I had to cover up something this bad was when I was trying to convince the Allies to erase your records with the SS at the end of the Second World War!"

"Whoa, whoa, what?" Cadance asked in utter horror.

"Oh, you mean I never told you that?" Celestia asked "That your Dear Aunt Luna was once the Captain of her very own SS battalion?" There was a second of shocked silence before Luna stepped in again.

"From the late twenties to the mid thirties, I denounced the SS and the rest of the Nazi Party three years before the War broke out, after I found out what they were doing off the record!" Luna snarled, trying her best to defend herself.

"But you joined them in the first place because you agreed with more than a few of Hitler's policies didn't you?" Celestia continued, not allowing Luna to drop the subject.

"As did you!" Luna snarled, jabbing her own finger at Celestia "We both agreed that it was a miracle that he was able to pull Germany out of the worst recession its ever seen and re-arm the country from using nothing more than its own men and resources, but we both drew the line when Hitler began to put into place his ideas about racial superiority and his Aryan race... and if I remember correctly he came to you to be the birth mother of the Aryan race didn't he?" The two sisters glared furiously at each other, one more dirty secret away from starting a brawl before Cadance intervened.

"Alright, now that we've aired secrets that could personally sink America as the leaders of the free world, in front of civilians I might add, can you two just walk away from each other now and cool off?" she asked "I didn't invite you two here to scream my fucking apartment down because one of you, or both of you, fucked up in your conference"

"I never-" the two began.

"Shut it, both of you" Cadance growled furiously "I don't want to hear another fucking word from either of you for the next hour, Celestia you go into the spare bedroom and compose yourself, Luna you go into the gym room and work your anger out" The two sisters crossed their arms defiantly, staring at the crowd with their chests heaving, both of them out of breath from their screaming match.

Now!" Cadance yelled, causing the two sisters to jump and move away from each other, both doing as they were told. There was a moment of silence in the room before Twilight spoke up.

"I... I've never seen either of them act like that before" she said quietly.

"I've seen it a few times, once worse than this" Cadance said, sitting down on the couch and putting a hand to her forehead "Those two are over five millenia old, have seen disease, war and genocide and are some of the most resilient and emotionally stable women I've ever seen... but the minute either one of them starts arguing with the other they turn into stroppy fucking teenagers again and it does my head in" There was another moment of silence before a loud banging noise came followed by a shattering sound, causing Cadance to rocket out of her seat.

"I swear to God if that pumped up old cow has broken another fucking mirror then I'm gonna put her head in a fucking belt sander" Cadance hissed, storming into the weight room and slamming the door behind her.

"Well..." Peter said, surprising everyone present as they hadn't seen him enter the room "She is terrifying when she wants to be"

"Amen" they all responded. Next Chapter: Black Cat and Spider-Man: A Match Made in 'Not a Chance in Hell' Estimated time remaining: 8 Hours, 13 Minutes