Within the lair of the gang of super-villains under Mysterio’s command, the mistress of illusions was showing her fellow villains the next stage of the plan; this involved stealing highly explosive chemicals from a chemical plant.
“These will be crucial in building our mega-bomb; they’re needed to melt through the thick vault doors and walls.” Trixie said.
Mysterio only had two other villains left on her team, Pyro and Tombstone; but that was all she needed in her eyes, she really believed this plan was going to work.
Tombstone stood up and asked, “Where can we find chemicals like this, stuff that can melt through these kind of doors can’t be easy to find.” The gangster’s words were true, these chemicals are extremely rare; and not found in just a run of mill chemical plant.
Luckily, Trixie knew of a place; the only place in Canterlot that manufactured these chemicals. “A lab outside of the city, own by Rich Industries. I mean technically it’s run by the board of directors now, but it’s still in operation.”
She showed them both a picture of the plant, Tombstone knew that place; his entire origin is set in that place. “No way, bubble-head; I’m not going back there.”
“Don’t worry, pebble-brain; you’re not going there.” Trixie turned to Pyro and said, “But you are.”
“What?” the arsonist asked.
Mysterio repeated, “You and me are going to that plant to steal the chemicals for our bomb.”
Pyro looked at the plant, she had been there before as well; like Tombstone, she had a bit of a fear of that place. But she thought about how much money was in the gold refinery, she wanted to be a rich woman; so she pulled it together.
“Okay, Trixie; I’m in.”
Trixie smiled and said, “Good, you didn’t really have a choice; but it’s nice to know you’re on board.” She turned a man who was standing by the door, she ordered, “Bring a truck around, me and Pyro are going on a road trip.”
At the HQ of the superheroes, Adam decided to check in on Nova, who was recovering in the medical bay. When Adam walked in the room he found Rainbow Dash sitting next to him, she was stroking his hand and looking at the unconscious hero.
“How’s he doing?” Adam asked.
Rainbow looked up at her friend, she didn’t look worried; she replied, “Twilight said he just needed to warm up, he’s fine. He’ll be ready for the next mission, and he’ll kick but alongside you.”
Spidey was happy to hear that; he left the two of them alone, he knew that they had their own relationship. And it was time he got some advice about his own.
Adam found Twilight in the lab, she and Rarity were working on that suit that Rarity had requested; Adam breathed in and walked up to the two girls. “Hey Rarity, hey Twilight.”
The science girl turned to her friend and replied, “Hey Adam, how you doing?”
The hero nodded, he didn’t know to answer; he didn’t know how he was doing, he had mixed feelings about what he was thinking about. So he quickly asked, “Hey, Fluttershy isn’t around is she?”
Twilight shook her head and explained, “I think she went with Pinkie to the kitchen. Why?”
Adam explained why, “Our anniversary is coming up soon; the anniversary of our first kiss. The one where she kiss me at the door of my apartment after saving her from Morbius, not the one where I was hanging upside down in the rain after saving her from muggers.” Adam had to sum it up, “We decided to make the doorstep one our official first kiss.”
Rarity smiled a little, she had an idea; she could already tell that Adam had come in here for some advice on how to celebrate this event.
“Okay Adam, no one can say no to a nice dinner out on the town; then maybe a walk in the park under the night sky. And you stand in the moon light and kiss her with all the passion you can give.” Rarity explained.
“Thanks, but…” Adam muttered. “I already know what I’m going to do; I just need you to provide me with one thing.”
“What’s that?” the fashion girl asked.
Twilight was confused about what was happening, she watched Adam whisper something into Rarity’s ear; then they stopped whispering, Rarity silently squealed a little.
Adam had done what he came in here to do, so he decided to shoot off and let the two girls carry on; but before Spidey could slip out the door, Twilight wanted to say something to him.
“Adam, I know we met under rocky circumstances, but we’re glad that you’re here with us. I’m glad I get to fight alongside the Spectacular Spiderman; and I’m proud to share his power. Thank you for teaching me to be a good spider.” The science girl said, all with a smile on her face.
The Spiderman simply nodded his head at her, thanking her for those kind words; all before calmly leaving the lab.
At the chemical plant, the two villains wasted no time causing chaos; Pyro set the place a blaze and Mysterio scared off the workers with her illusions. Once they we all cleared, Mysterio walked into the main lab, the place where the chemicals were brewed.
“Not Spitfire, find me the chemicals on this list.” Trixie handed the arsonist a list, but Pyro didn’t seem in the mood to take orders.
“Don’t call me Spitfire. That weak girl died here; burned in the fires of Hades.” Being back here brought up some memories, like Tombstone, she too was created here. “But her demise meant that Pyro could be born.” She cheered.
Pyro lit the list a on fire, Trixie turned to her in confusion; she asked, “What did you..?”
“You can play hide and seek with pints of nerd juice; I’m settling and old score with someone who works here.” Pyro explained. Before she wandered off, she muttered, “I know he still works here.”
Suddenly, Pyro’s shoes lit on fire and carried her of the ground; using he fire, she flew through the plant, looking for the one who wronged her.
“I guess I’ll find the thing we came here for.” Mysterio said as she wandered down the halls.
Not long later, Spiderman and Nova arrived at the chemical plant; the two heroes landed outside the building when Nova asked, “So, what’s the situation here again?”
Spidey sighed before walking into the building, with Soarin following him; he replied, “Were you not listening? Mysterio and Pyro were spotted going into this chemical plant; ten minutes later, alarms go off and the building starts catching fire.”
That pretty much answered all of Nova questions; they both kept walking through the building’s hallways, hoping to find the two villains.
Adam then thought of something he wanted to ask Soarin about, but he was a little embarrassed; so he started with, “Hey Soarin, how are things going with you and Rainbow Dash?”
Soarin turned to him as they walked and replied, “Well, we’ve been dating for a while; and sure there’ve been some times where I wasn’t here, but we’re holding strong.”
“So you guys aren’t taking any big steps?”
Nova shook his head, “No, we’re trying to be independent; we want each other to know that we can function without the other, but it’s still nice to have the other with you, if need be.” Nova then had a question of his own, “Why’d you ask? You and Fluttershy doing okay?”
“Yeah, yeah, we’re fine; it’s just with all the superhero-ing and the fact that I’ve never as serious with anyone as I am with Fluttershy. It scares me a little bit.” Adam explained.
Suddenly, the two of them heard a noise coming from ahead; they ran into the next room to investigate the noises. When they opened the doors, they discovered that the noises were a man screaming; because a girl with hair like fire was standing in front of him.
“Stop screaming.” Pyro ordered, the man stopped. “It was a simple question; where is Dr Watts?”
The man was still terrified of the villain, but felt like he had to answer to save his life; he explained, “His lab is on the east side of the plant, just take that corridor.” He pointed to a doorway to the right.
I wouldn’t say Pyro was grateful, but she wasn’t going to harm him; she turned around, only to see that Spiderman and Nova had seen that whole thing.
“Hello, Pyro.” Spidey greeted.
The arsonist smiled before replying, “Hello Spiderman, Nova; I wasn’t expecting you two to come by today.” She began making her way to the door, she explained, “You can go ahead and leave heroes, this has nothing to do with you.”
Nova then replied, “I think it does, if you’re endangering innocent people.”
Pyro was in no mood for this, she had come here to do something, and if destroying these heroes would get her to ding it faster; she’d happily be the one to snuff out the flame that is Spiderman.
Spidey and Nova seemed like they were catching on to what Pyro was about to do; before she could strike, Adam’s spider-sense warned him of the danger, he dodged the fire ball that the villain had thrown at him. Nova returned the favour by throwing a plasma ball back at her; but she flew into the air and dodged it.”
The fire villain stated, “I would love to keep up this fun gave of danger ball, but I need to destroy the man who turned me into a freak.” She threw one last fire ball before flying through the door the work man had pointed out; Spidey and Nova dodged the blast, but Adam was thrown by the force, he landed next to the worker.
Spiderman then decided to get some answers, he turned to the worker and asked, “Okay, scary fire lady; after someone called, ‘Mr Watts’, I think. Anyway, she wants him; who is he?”
The worker told Spiderman everything he knew, “Mr Watts is the chief scientist of this plant; rumour is that some years ago, he performed an experiment that would have got him arrested for war crimes.” That line shocked the wall crawler, but the worker had more to say, “He would have been prosecuted if all the evidence hadn’t been destroyed in a fiery explosion.”
Adam used some of his detective knowledge to put two and two together, “Something tells me that there’s a connection between Pyro and this event that happened all that time ago.”
Spiderman and Nova ran through the halls; well, Nova flew, Spidey ran. Pyro was out for the chief scientist’s blood, she was known for using lethal force to get what she wanted.
Adam looked up at Nova, seeing the energy come from his body suddenly made him remember another reason why they were here. Spiderman stopped in his tracks and said, “Trixie, we forgot she was here too.” Nova hovered down to the ground, he’d remembered to.
“Okay, Mysterio is the ring leader of this operation; you keep chasing Pyro, I’ll find Trixie.” Soarin explained; he then flew into the air and blasted a hole in the wall with his power.
As Nova flew away, Adam stood there muttering, “Sure, you get the easy ex-magician with magic tricks; meanwhile I get the human flame thrower.”
Suddenly, Spiderman heard a scream coming from the next room; he ran to the door and smashed it down, there he saw what he was looking for.
Pyro was flying in the air, she was holding someone by the collar; she was holding them over a tank of chemicals. Spidey leaped onto the railings of a catwalk surrounding the room and watched what was happening.
“Payback time, doctor.” Pyro looked like she was about to drop him.
The doctor tried to beg for his life, “Please, Spitfire; you don’t have to do this.”
“Oh, I think I do.”
The hero reached forward and yelled, “Pyro stop; what did this guy do to you to make you hate him so much.”
The fire villain sighed before holding Dr Watts in the air, she decided to explain what happened to her three years ago.
As you know, my real name is Spitfire; I was a student at Canterlot High, I was on the girl’s football team. But all that changed when Dr Watts came into my life.
One day, while I was walking to school; two men in black suits came up to me in the streets, saying they had a job for me. I told them I wasn’t interested, but they weren’t going to take no for an answer; they grabbed me and knocked me out with some kind of knock out drug.
When I woke up, my clothes had been replaced with skin tight suit and I had a sort of breathing mask on my face. I was trapped inside a bubble like container in the middle of a lab filled with scientists and workers; and who should walk into that lab, Dr Watts.
He told me he had been hired to test a new super soldier serum, and that I was his test subject; they experimented on me for days, exposing me to all kinds of strange flammable gases. Until it came time for the big test, the event that changed my life forever.
The people cleared the lab, and Dr Watts lit an ignition inside my container; I was consumed by a blaze of fire. But I didn’t perish, the gas had mutated me, and the fire sealed the deal; I was given the power to control the blaze, I was one with the fire.
I used my new power to escape, and to make sure this didn’t happen to anyone else, I destroyed the lab. Then I escaped.
I lived on the streets for some weeks, I couldn’t go home, not after what I had become; and I was afraid that if I went to the police, they’d lock me up. I bought these clothes, I lived of takeaway food; but one day, when I was out of money, I stole some food from a shop. The owner chased me down the street, and my powers accidently started a fire.
I was scared and didn’t know what to do, and then who should show up out of the blue…
“You, Spiderman.” She finished with. “You arrived and helped the police put me away for two and half years.” She looked down at the man she was still holding by his collar, “And it’s all this man’s fault; and he’s going to burn.”
Pyro then dropped a small fire spark into the vat, the chemicals ignited and turned the vat into a fire pit. Spiderman had to convince this fiery super-villain that revenge wasn’t the answer; he of all people knew what it was like lose something and try to destroy the person responsible.
“Pyro, I mean Spitfire; you don’t have to do this. We can get you help, and this man will face justice for what he did to you.”
The arsonist tried to ignore his words, all she wanted to do was destroy Dr Watts; who was still begging for his life, “Please don’t, all I wanted was to create something great, and I did.”
The two super-powered people listened to what he had to say, “Look at you Pyro, I’ve turned you into something incredible; you were only ever worth anything in the sports world, but now I’ve giving you something greater, power.”
It was true, Watts had given Spitfire great power; she was defiantly more than what she was. But then another thought came to the villains mind; she said, “That may be true, you’ve giving me a great gift. But now I’ve lost the chance at a normal life, because of you.”
Suddenly, she dropped Dr Watts; he screamed as he plummeted towards the deadly inferno. But the hero wasn’t going to let that happen; Spiderman shot a web-line and swung underneath the doctor, catching him before he hit the fire. He didn’t let him go however, Adam took him up to the catwalk and webbed him to the wall.
“Stick around.” Spidey stated.
The doctor replied, “Okay, I will, thank you.”
Spiderman turned back to Pyro, she still needed to answer for her crimes; the hero explained, “Spitfire, you can still walk away from this; the people at Rykers can help you.”
“You mean lock me back up, cage me again; you must be stupid if you think I’m going back to jail.” The villain stated. So with the giant vat of fire still burning in the middle of the room, the two super-humans a battle ground to fight upon.
Pyro, at first thought she could use this chance to get away; she was about to fly out the door, but Adam shot her with a web-line. The sticky web wrapped around her arm; but she used this to her advantage.
The villain started flying around the room, dragging Spiderman around with her; during the flight, Adam would try and latch onto things and slow her down by pulled on the web.
At one point, he managed to get a grip on the wall, he pulled the web-line and halted Pyro in her tracks; she turned to Spiderman and used her fire to cut the web. Adam had to duck for cover; Pyro released a power beam of heat from her hands, it was cutting through the wall like butter.
Adam hid behind some small machines, Pyro hovered in the air; she threw fire balls at the ground, trying to draw him out.
As the fire rained down onto Spiderman’s hiding place, he decided that he had to take action; he tried to shoot another spider-web at the villain, but she dodged the line. This had given away where Spidey was hiding, and she blasted that area with a large fire blast; luckily, Adam ducked behind something else before it hit.
The hero then remembered a moved he learned once while battling Electro; he jumped out from his hiding spot and rapidly fire webs at the villain, she was tied and stuck in web-liquid. As she hovered in the air, Adam saw the chance to strike; he shot her with a web-line again and trying pulling her down.
With one strong pull, Pyro was thrown towards Spidey; he leaped in the air and kicked her away, sending her crashing into the wall.
Adam didn’t like having to hit woman, but they never just want to talk.
Pyro was able to burn through the webs, she then started throwing fire balls again; Adam ducked down for cover again.
However, before Adam could take shelter, Pyro blasted him with a strong fire blast; he crashed the floor and landed in what looked like a storage room underneath the plant. Pyro chased him down to the storage room; Spiderman couldn’t beat her in a straight fight as long as she had fire on her side, so he ran for it.
The chase lasted until Spiderman was cornered at the end of the room; once again Pyro blasted him with a strong blast of fire, sending him through the wall and into another room. When Pyro followed her foe into the next room, she stopped and gasped at something; Spiderman got back up and saw where they were, he figured out why she gasped.
It was the lab, the lab that created Pyro; but it was all burnt and scorched. Now Spitfire was beyond annoyed, she only seeked one thing after that, Spiderman’s blood.
Spiderman once again took cover behind a piece of debris, Pyro was using all her power to destroy him this time; but Adam simply used his impact-webs to tie her up again, once she was sedated, Adam shot another web at her.
He pulled her down and ended this fight.
Adam jumped up and kicked Pyro towards the container in the centre of the room; it wasn’t damaged at all, it could hold her perfectly. She landed inside the container, giving Adam enough time to close it and ceil with his webs.
He turned to Pyro and said, “The fires out, Spitfire.”
When the villain realised where she was, she started to panic; she banged her hands against the glass and cried, “Please, let me out!”
Adam began walking away; as he walked, he said, “Don’t worry, the police will get you out once they arrive.”
With that said, Spiderman jumped up and began swing through the building, now he just had to find Nova.
Outside, Nova was chasing Mysterio towards her getaway vehicle; she had already stolen the chemicals she needed to build her bomb.
Nova fired a plasma blast at the villain, but the pulse pushed her forward into her van; once she was inside, she yelled at the driver, “Go, go!”
Nova wanted to chase after them as they drove away, but he couldn’t leave without Spiderman; so he had no choice but to let them go, for now.
Later that evening, the police arrived to deal with Pyro; they took her to the police van with power dampening cuffs.
Spiderman and Nova stood by a police car, waiting to talk to whoever was in charge; they got their answer when a woman walked up to them, wearing a detective’s coat. She said, “So, you must be Spiderman and Nova.”
Adam turned to her and replied, “That’s us; who are you?”
“My name is Captain Gilda Griffon, I’m the new police captain.” She said as she showed the two heroes her badge. “And I am no longer allowing masked vigilantes the privilege to roam my streets.”
The heroes were trying to understand what she meant by that; so she explained it with more detail, “You ‘super-heroes’ are no longer allowed to act when crime happens, that’s our jobs. If I see any report of your actions, you will be arrested for taking the law into your own hands. Thank you for your service, we’ll take it from here.”
Nova then stepped up and said, “With all due respect, captain, you’re gonna need our help when it comes to capturing these villains.”
Gilda narrowed her eyes a little, she then said, “Go, before I arrest you now.”
Spidey and Nova knew when they weren’t wanted, so they flew and swung home; Gilda watched them leave, she didn’t trust people who hid behind masks.
“Captain, the two prisoners are ready to be transported to the station.”
The new captain listened to the officer, she climbed into a car and followed the police van to the station; another villain was back in custody.