//------------------------------// // Turf Wars: The End of the War // Story: Spiderman Equestria's Hero: Season 3 // by Adamverse //------------------------------// At the top of one of the buildings of Canterlot city, a trade between crime lords was taking place; Silvermane was selling some of his sable weapons to Iceberg and Owl. They’d brought their men with them for protection, not knowing that’s not going to be enough to stop what’s coming. “Twenty rifles and five rocket launches.” Silvermane stated. He then asked, “You have the money?” Owl waved his hand, ordering one of his men to bring forward a briefcase full of money; he handed it to one of the sable agents standing behind Silvermane. The agent opened the case and counted the money; he then told his boss the amount, “Twenty thousand, Mr Silvermane.” “I guess we can take our weapons then.” Iceberg said, but before his men could take the weapons; they were stopped by Sable Agents. Ice was concerned, Owl stated, “What’s the matter, you’ve been paid Silvermane; give us the merchandise.” Silverman chuckled and said, “Twenty thousand is only half the amount.” “The agreement was for twenty.” Iceberg said. The Sable Agents aimed their weapons at the other two crime lords, Silvermane then stated, “Well I want double that, or I’ll take my products elsewhere.” Suddenly, Iceberg and Owl’s men drew their guns; the situation changed quickly, into what looked like a shootout. But what happened next wasn’t what any of them expected. The Sable Agents and the thugs turned their weapons on their bosses; the crime lords were shocked by this sudden betrayal. Silvermane was the most shocked, he stated, “What are you fools doing? Don’t point those things at me.” “I’m afraid they won’t be listening to you, Silvermane.” The three crime lords turned to the stair case that led up to the roof, and marching up those stairs, was the one crime lord not invited to this get-together. Filthy Rich, dressed in high tech Sable armour, walked into the conversation. He said, “Greetings, fellow crime lords. Nice to see you all in person again.” “What are you doing here, Filthy’; finally run out of costumed clowns to do your dirty work?” Owl commented. “As a matter of fact, I have; but that’s not the reason I came here tonight.” He motioned the men to bring the crime lords together. “As you know, when they locked me away, you all moved in on my turf; well I’ve been spending the last week or so taking it back.” “So, what.” Silvermane asked. Filthy Rich turned to him and replied, “Well, I’m not done there; I want your turf as well.” “Now wait just a gosh darn minute, you…” before Iceberg could continue, his own man pressed his gun against his chest. “Take them away.” Filthy Rich ordered. The thugs and the Sable Agents took the crime lords downstairs, they all stared at the one who had done this to them. Before they were all gone, ‘Rich stopped Silvermane; he wanted to talk to him. The criminals left the two of them on the roof, Filthy Rich started the conversation with, “I assume your recognise my new attire?” “My ‘Project Olympus’; you stole it.” Silverman replied. “All while Spiderman was busy chasing a giant bat; but no matter.” Filthy Rich turned to face the city and said, “And with this tech, and your turf; Spiderman won’t be a problem, ever again.” Filthy Rich then took Silvermane down stairs, this was push ‘Rich needed; now he could finally rule the city as the only crime lord. The city was quiet tonight, but that didn’t mean that a threat wasn’t brewing; the girls at the HQ were all panicking about Sunset Shimmer disappearing. Last night, Spiderman had apprehended the bat creature known as Morbius; but tonight was going to be a long one. Adam was sitting at the computer, he was trying to figure out what was going on in the rest of the city. “Adam, are you listening?” Twilight caught Adam’s attention when she said that, he turned away from his monitor and said, “Yeah, I’m listening.” “I was saying, we need to find Sunset; someone must have taken her, but what super-villain could be behind this?” Twilight explained. Rainbow Dash said, “If Sunset has been taken by a unknown villain, maybe they know that she works with super-heroes; they could force her to tell them who we all are and then they’d come after us when we least expect it.” That statement made Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie a little nervous. “No, Sunset wouldn’t let that happen.” Adam said. “But Twilight’s right, we need to find her.” Applejack then stepped forward, she was mainly talking to Adam, “Meanwhile, we’ve got some other unsolved cases that could use some looking into.” “Put them up on the screen.” Pinkie said. “Okay.” The cowgirl showed the two cases on the screen and read out the info. “First of all, all three of the city’s crime lords have been reported missing; Iceberg, Silvermane and Owl.” She then swiped the screen to show the next one, “Also, an unknown crate has been found the roof of a building; the police were going to call in the bomb squad, but they didn’t want to waste time if it’s just some kid’s science project.” Adam looked at the two cases, when he looked at the second one, he realised something; he said, “That crate looks all too familiar, I can take a look at that later; for now, I’m going to investigate the missing crime lords.” The hero then move to the other room to suit up, while Twilight had a look at the other case herself; she then thought of something, “You know what, I’ve not been out in the field in ages; I think it’s time Spider-Girl took to the streets again.” She then moved into another room to put her suit on. When the two emerged from the changing rooms, now suited up and ready to go to work; Twilight quickly filled Adam in on what she was going to do, and Spidey liked the sound of it. So the two spider-themed heroes left the HQ; they had work to do in the city. As Spiderman was swinging through the city, he received a call on the com-channel; Applejack and Fluttershy were going to be his tech support, since Twilight was doing her own work. “Adam, according to the report, the three crime lords were meeting together; on the roof of an old building, scheduled for demolition.” Applejack explains. “Okay, I’ll check it out.” Spiderman replied as he started swinging through the city. But while he was swinging, Fluttershy wanted to tell him something. She started with, “Adam, you know my bachelorette party; well, something else happened.” “What…?” “Me and the girls were dancing, when Blue Blood walked over to us; he then started acting like he was going to ‘save me’ from you.” Fluttershy explained. Spidey wasn’t happy at what he just heard, he didn’t blame Fluttershy; he blamed this Blue Blood guy. “I promise you, Fluttershy; the next time I see that jerk…” the hero landed on a ledged, “The back of my hand is gonna have a quiet word with his ear-hole.” Fluttershy then said, “No please, don’t make things worse, Adam. We just have to ignore him; if things get any worse, we’ll go to the police.” “Okay, Fluttershy. I promise I won’t do anything.” Adam replied. As those words left his mouth, the hero arrived at the last place the crime lords were seen. All that remained were empty Sable cases; ones that used to hold guns and bombs. Spiderman looked around the scene, but he found no clues to the whereabouts of the missing people. Applejack and Fluttershy were watching everything through the camera in his mask. AJ stated, “We’re not seeing anything, Sugarcube.” Spiderman then remembered a gadget he worked into his mask lenses, “I got this tech from Jack’s friend.” He said. Spidey set up a crime scene, he could scan for evidence and replay events based on what was around the area. When he started the scan, he started by scanning the boxes; he could see holograms of what happened to them. “The boxes were ransacked, the thieves left nothing behind; if I look for something they might have dropped, I might be able to determine who they were.” Adam explained. The hero ran another scan, and then found something underneath one of the crates; a badge, one that would only belong to a Sable Agent. The hologram showed the thieves as Sable Agents, “Why would Sable steal their own tech? I need to look for more clues.” After performing the final scan of the rooftop, Adam found his final clue; a digital footprint, a large one. “Whoever’s footprint that is, they have some big feet; I don’t have enough evidence to tell who that is, but I can tell that they must have been wearing some kind of body armour.” Suddenly, Fluttershy could be heard from Adam’s earpiece; she said, “Adam, the police have been trying to contact you, spider-you I mean; Spear Head wants to talk to you at the station.” Spiderman replied, “Thanks, sweetheart. I’ll head over there now.” Spiderman walked over to the roof’s ledge, he then stated, “I hope Gilda isn’t there.” He then began swinging to the station. Spider-Girl let go of the web line and landed on the roof of an apartment building; there she found the box that the police report mentioned. Adam’s theory was right, the box was familiar; so much, even Twilight was able to recognise it now. “Taskmaster.” She said. She pressed a button on the box, a small compartment opened and revealed a screen; the man of the hour appeared on the screen. “Hello, Spiderman; it’s been a while…” the villain then noticed who he was talking to. “Oh, it’s you.” Twilight replied, “Yeah, sorry Spidey couldn’t be here; but he has more important thing to worry about then the likes of you.” She was about to shut down the box, when Taskmaster stopped. He said, “Wait, since you and he basically have the same abilities; I can learn just as much from you as I can from him.” Taskmaster explained. “Would you like to play my little game?” She thought about it, she then remembered that whatever this guy was planning was not going to be good; Twilight decided to go along with it. “What’s your game?” Taskmaster explained the task and what Spider-Girl had to do, “Across the city, a bank is about to be robbed by a group of my men; you must stop them before they get away with the money. Complete the task and you’ll get a special reward.” After he was finished, the video feed was cut; Twilight had to get to the bank and stop the robbery, she want to think about what the reward was going to be, but she still couldn’t let someone steal Canterlot’s money. Spiderman arrived at the police station, Spear Head was going to meet him on the roof; when the hero arrived, the two went to the elevator to take them in the station. Once they were in the main part of the station, Spiderman relaxed when he noticed Gilda wasn’t around; the place they were going was past the holding cells, meaning Adam had to walk past some of his enemies. However, one guy in particular, Spidey needed to speak to. “Officer, can you give me a minute with this one?” “Sure, I’ll be in the office; come and see me when you’re ready.” The cop entered the office and left Spiderman with the prisoner; Adam walked up to the glass sheet that was containing the captured villain. “I’m sorry, doctor; but this is the right place for you.” “I only wanted to help people, and I’ve killed the only thing I had left that I could call family.” Morbius replied, still wallowing in self-pity. Spiderman wanted to help him, he knew of one place that could help him; he explained, “I a few weeks, they’re opening a new facility upstate; it’s called the Ravencroft Institution. I think It’ll be the right place; they can help you there.” But Morbius replied, “Oh, what good will it do; just say what you’re thinking. I’m a freak, a monster; they should just leave me to rot in here.” When there talk was done, Spiderman entered the office; Spear Head had already got out some files to show the hero. He laid them down on the desk and explained what was happening in the city; he started with. “While you were busy capturing the bat creature, Filthy Rich used the distraction to send his men to the remaining Sable bases; his men stole all the weapons, armour and tech they could get their hands on. Especially this thing called, ‘Project Olympus’.” Spiderman thought about it for a second, he vaguely remembering that Juggernaut was stealing something similar; he then put the stuff together. “It all fits, Filthy Rich had Juggernaut steal the Project Olympus tech; but I stopped him before he could give it to ‘Rich.” Spear Head was following along with what Spiderman was saying. The hero continued, “That’s why Man-Wolf arrived, to steal the tech before we could figure out what it was. He managed to get the tech to Filthy Rich, but Man-Wolf was captured before he could steal the rest.” Adam took a breath before finishing with, “And then he used the bat creature to distract me, so his men could steal the rest.” The officer then thought of a question, “But now that Filthy Rich has the Sable Tech, and those three tycoons; what’s he going to do?” Before Spiderman could answer the question, he had a question of his own; he asked, “Do you know what Project Olympus actually is?” After he quickly looked through some blue prints, Spear Head revealed a set of plans for a power suit of Sable armour; equipped with a laser turret and jet boosters, not to mention it was almost indestructible. Suddenly, a strange loud noise could be heard from outside the precinct; the two went to investigate. As Spidey ran past the cells, he heard Morbius say something while he was running. “He synthesized an antidote, but I still feel a presence; could a permanent cure be found? I need access to my lab, what if I change while I’m here, I could kill someone.” Morbius muttered to himself. The hero and the cop entered the control room, the looked at the camera monitors and saw what was outside; Sable trucks were firing their turrets at the police station. On another monitor, a video transmission was coming through; Filthy Rich appeared on the screen, Adam noticed he was wearing the Project Olympus armour. “Greetings, fine officers of the law; if you want to little station to survive my Sable attack, I have some demands.” The cops listened to what he had to say. “First, you will release Juggernaut, Man-Wolf and Dr Morbius back into my custody. Second, Spiderman will surrender to me and be taken as my prisoner.” The police didn’t like what they were hearing, and neither did Spiderman; but his final demand wasn’t any better. “Finally, you will send a message to city hall; saying I am in control of this city, I run things now.” With that said, the video ended. Spiderman knew exactly what he had to do, he wasn’t going to turn himself in, but he was going to go out there and stop Filthy Rich from taking over the city; Spear Head noticed Adam leaving. “Spiderman, where’re you going? You can’t turn yourself in.” he said. “I’m not. Just make sure no one gets in here; I’m going out there to put an end to this.” Adam explained. Spiderman found an air vent so he could sneak out of the precinct without the Sable trucks noticing him. Adam climbed up to the roof of the CCPD, he looked down at the three Sable trucks firing their energy weapons at the building; he also noticed a few Sable troopers on the ground, firing off their guns at the windows. When the hero had seen enough, he jumped down off the roof and landed on top of one of the Sable guys; knocking him out cold. The other troopers turned their guns on Spiderman; but he jumped out of the wa before they started firing. He quickly punched and kicked the troopers to the ground; but one would go down so easily. This Sable soldier was wearing strong armour, and he was carrying an electrical baton; he swung his weapon at Spidey, knocking him back with an electrical pulse. Suddenly, the truck stopped firing at the building; they then began driving away. One of the trucks picked up the guy that just knocked down Spiderman, then it followed the others. AJ could still be heard in Adam’s earpiece, “Get up, Adam; you can’t let them get away.” Spiderman knew she was right, he got up and began swinging after the trucks. He chased the trucks through the city, the turned their turrets towards him and opened fire; he did his best to dodge the blasts. Spiderman had to stop these trucks, so when he caught up with the first one, he had a plan to take it out. Firstly, Spidey landed on the roof of the truck, the turret then spun around to face him; Adam used his webs to pull the turret off the truck and he slammed it in the vehicle’s path. The truck was forced to stop; Spiderman webbed up the doors, so the men were trapped inside. But it wasn’t time to stop, there were still two other trucks; not only that, but something else had joined the chase. While Spiderman was swinging, he could hear a rumbling noise coming from behind him; he turned to look, only to find a Sable-Jet flying through the city. It’s fire power was shooting at Spiderman, but because he was dodging, the blasts were hitting the buildings. Adam had to take that thing down, it took take out an entire building; he swung backwards and landed on the wing of the jet. However, before he could punch through the glass to the cogpit and stop the jet; someone else landed on the plane. Filthy Rich, wearing his Sable battle armour, landed on the other wing of the jet; he charged up his arm laser and fired it at the hero. Spiderman dodged the laser, it cut a line into the building behind him; Adam did not think that it would be that powerful. “Like my upgrade wall crawler?” the crime lord asked. Spiderman looked back at him and replied, “I liked you better when you were easier to punch.” After he said that, Spidey jumped towards the villain and tried to punch a kick him; however, Adam’s fists couldn’t penetrate the armour. After he chuckled, Filthy Rich simple punched the hero away; the crime lord stated, “I truly am more powerful the Spiderman, himself.” “Hey, handsome.” Filthy Rich turned to the origin of the voice that just spoke, only to receive a kick to the face from one of his former employees. Spiderman took his chance to kick ‘Rich to the side; he landed on the cogpit, smashing through the glass, knocking out the pilot. Before Spiderman could do anything, he heard a grapple hook noise, then he was snatched off the plane, just before it crashed into the streets. When Adam wrapped his head around what just happened, he realised what had happened; he ran to the edge of the roof to check the damage. The jet had crashed, but it looked like Filthy Rich and the pilot survived; he watched them both climb into a truck, which then drove off before the police sirens could be heard. He let ‘Rich go for now, but he managed to shoot a spider-tracer onto the truck; now, he had to find out who saved him. “Long time no see, Spider.” Spiderman turned around, to find someone he assumed to be dead; he said, “Octavia, you’re alive?” “Don’t be too surprised, I’ve survived worse than my apartment exploding.” Talon replied. Adam was both relieved and concerned, “Why didn’t you come and find me after the explosion; I could have helped you get back at ‘Rich by putting him away for good.” Talon walked towards him and replied, “Sorry, Spider; I had to lay low for a while, Filthy Rich’s men are everywhere. I couldn’t risk him finding out I was alive.” She then placed her hands on his shoulders. “Now to do what I’ve always wanted to do.” “Wait, what?” Spidey asked. Without warning, Talon lifted up the bottom of Adam’s mask and pressed her lips against his; all Adam could think about was that Fluttershy was watching this through the mask’s camera. He tried to pull away, but Octavia wouldn’t let him; when the kiss ended, Adam moved away from her. “Octavia! I told you, there can’t be anything between us!” Spiderman yelled. Talon then began walking away, “Fine, I won’t tell you what I know about the armour Filthy Rich was wearing.” Adam was quite mad, he didn’t really hear that at first; but after he realised what she said, he replied, “Wait, what?” “That armour, I know it’s weakness; the plans for it were on Silvermane’s flash-drive. If you short circuit the armour, it loses most of its power; then he’ll be open to attacks.” She explained. This was great, Spiderman now knew the armour’s weakness; when he turned back to Octavia, she had leaped up to a higher rooftop. She said, “Nice seeing you again, Spider. Thanks for the kiss.” As she waved him goodbye, Adam turned away from her and muttered, “Oh man, Fluttershy’s gonna kill me.” The hero quickly contacted the HQ, to his dread, Fluttershy picked up the call. “How it go with your girlfriend, honey?” she asked sarcastically. “Come on, Fluttershy; don’t be like that. She kissed me, I didn’t want to.” Adam replied, trying to defend himself. Fluttershy didn’t want to hear it, all she said was, “When we get home tonight, me and you are going to have a talk, mister.” After that, the lined hanged up; Adam simply muttered, “I hope Twilight is having a better night than me.” Twilight Sparkle crawled through the air vent of the bank, she then dropped through a hatch and landed on one of the gargoyles that were mounted on the walls. She looked around the room; the alarms were going off, because Taskmaster’s men had reversed a truck through the door. She whispered to herself, “Okay, the thugs can’t hear my attacks over the sound of the alarms. I can take them out, one by one.” Spider-Girl had learned from her partner, she knew how to perform stealth-takedowns. The first thing she noticed, was that one of the thugs had gone off to look around, he was going to be her first target. She web-zipped to another gargoyle and perched on its head, Twilight waited for the crook to walk right under the statue; before shooting a web at him and pulling him up to her, she quickly wrapped him in webs and webbed up his mouth. Suddenly, a voice could be heard from the room’s intercom; Taskmaster was using it to torment Spider-Girl while she fought his men. “Boys, Spider-Girl has entered the bank, so be on your guard.” He continued to talk, “You hear that, Spider-Girl; we know you’re here. I’m watching you, but don’t worry; I won’t tell my men where you are. All I want to do is learn.” With one guy down, Twilight had her work cut out for her. From her vantage point, Spider-Girl could see six guys remaining; two of which were armed with rifles. Twilight figured it would be best to take down the men with guns first; then if she was spotted, she could just take the rest out with ease. Spider-Girl web-zipped to the ceiling, she could see two guys in the corner; so she crawled across the room and hung from a web above the two of them. Quietly, she lowered herself down; and while holding the web-line with her feet, she knocked out the two crooks. She hit their heads together and tied them up in webs; however, one of the other men got curious. He spotted Twilight’s action and alerted the other thugs; he was one of the men with guns, he fired at Twilight. Spider-Girl dodged the bullets and jumped away; the moment she landed on a vantage point, the alarm had turned off. She muttered, “No more alarm to cover my actions; the thugs aren’t after the money anymore, they’re after me.” Taskmaster spoke through the intercom again, “No more games, girl; you’re not good enough for this. Men, bring me her mask.” Twilight saw there was no more point in hiding, she jumped down to attack the remaining four guys; she’d already taken out one of the gun men, she just needed to finish of the thugs. When they saw her, they attacked. One of the thugs tried punching Twilight, but she countered it by grabbing his fist and kicking him in the knee. After lifting that guy up, she threw him at another; they both were knocked down, Spider-Girl quickly shot an Impact Web which trapped them in place. The gun man fired his weapon, but she quickly dodged; while dodging, she shot a web at his face. With him blinded, she web-zipped towards him and knocked him out. The last guy grabbed her from behind, wrapping his arms around her; but she knew how to break free, Twilight elbowed him in the stomach and the chin. When he let go of her, she spun around and kicked his face; knocking him unconscious. At last, the work was done; Taskmaster’s men were down. But Twilight still got one more surprise, a beeping noise was coming from one of the unconscious thugs. Spider-Girl found a phone on one of the men, she saw it was ringing, so she answered it; Taskmaster was on a video call. “Congratulations, you’ve passed the test, now you get your reward.” “What reward?” Twilight asked with concern. Taskmaster explained, “On a roof, back across the city, you’ll find one of my boxes. Inside that box is a video file; of me confessing that I framed Flash Sentry and Sandalwood. I’m not revealing my identity, and I am not giving up; but this file will prove there innocents.” After he said that, the video call ended; Twilight couldn’t believe it, this is what she’d been waiting for. She left the bank and swung towards the coordinates that she got off the phone, she was finally going to help her friends be free again. Spiderman followed the signal from the tracer he put on Filthy Rich’s Sable truck, it led him to an old construction yard; a building project that was shut down after the prison break. He landed on a lamppost opposite the site, he wanted to see what he was dealing with. After a long night of searching, Spiderman spotted the three missing crime boss; the Sable Agents and thugs were holding them in a cement pit. But something odd caught his eye, Iceberg was laying on the ground, he didn’t look very good. Using one of his gadgets, Adam was able to listen to what they were saying. He heard Silvermane say, “You have to help him, Iceberg can’t survive outside the cold much longer. He’ll die if you don’t help him.” He tried to climb out of the pit, but a thug just pushed him back down. Suddenly, Sable Agents aimed their guns at the crime bosses; without hesitation, they fired. Adam thought he’d failed his mission, so he jumped over to the site; landing on a crane, he looked down and saw the agents had just blasted them with cables, tying them up. Unfortunately, Adam’s sudden spring into action got him noticed by someone. “Spiderman, welcome to the show.” The hero looked up, Filthy Rich was standing on top of the uncompleted structure; next to him was a camera, aimed at him. Adam noticed another camera pointed at the crime lords; Filthy Rich had them set to broadcast across the entire city. The villain turned to his camera and said, “Citizens of Canterlot City; tonight, I take back what was stolen from me, and I take what is rightfully mine. This city.” The video feed switched to the crime lords in the pit. Filthy Rich gave the signal, one of his men flipped a switch; it released cement from the back of a cement truck, it began filling the pit. “If I don’t do something, the crime lords will drown.” Spidey stated to himself. He jumped down from the crane and took action; he started by kicking the guy away from the cement controls. Once he was out of the way, Adam turned off the cement, he had to keep the thugs and agents from turning it back on. One by one, Adam punched and kicked the criminals unconscious; but one guy managed to kick Adam from behind, pushing him away. This guy then turned the machine back on; but before he ran away, picked up and cement chunk and smashed the controls. Spiderman stated, “No, the controls are out of action; I can’t turn it off.” Owl was trying to use his wings, but he could get out of the cables; so he screamed, “Spiderman, help, please! We beg you!” Adam had an idea, using an Impact Web, he managed to seal the dispenser; the cement had stopped. The hero sat down for a second and sighed, the crime lords were safe; he got them out of the pit and broke the cables. Once they were free, he gave them the keys to one of the cars; he ordered, “Get Iceberg somewhere cold, he doesn’t have much time left.” Silvermane and Owl did as instructed, they got in the car and drove off; leaving Spiderman to deal with the one crime boss he could take to jail. Spiderman shot webs at the building and pulled himself up; he ran up the side of the building and reached the rooftop, where he was confronted by Filthy Rich. He pushed his camera off the roof, so it would smash; he turned to Spiderman. “You know, Spiderman; we don’t have to fight. I’d offer you more money than anyone else, just to get you to work for me; you know how much, twenty million dollars.” Adam jumped down from the wall he was stuck to, he walked up to ‘Rich and gave him his answer, “You really expect me to just come over to your side just because you say an large random number?” He then turned away from him and said, “To be honest, ‘Rich; there’s more of a chance turtles with ninja weapons existing then me joining you.” There was a moment of silence before Filthy Rich replied, “Well then, I can see I won’t be needing you anymore. Goodbye, Spiderman.” The hero’s spider-sense went off as Filthy Rich charged up his laser; Spiderman jumped out of the way before he fired the laser, it blasted through some crates. There fight had now started. Before he could attack him, Spiderman remembered what Talon had told him to take down the armour; so he equipped his Taser Webs. Adam jumped in front of Filthy Rich and fired a web at him, the electric web temporarily short circuited the armour; giving Spiderman an opening. Spidey web-zipped towards him and started punching and kicking him; as a finisher, he backflip-kicked him then pulled himself forward to kick him over. All this did was make ‘Rich mad, he activated the jet-boosters and charged at the hero; Adam jumped out of the way, but didn’t get away from his laser. The beam blasted him across the roof; so he fought back the only way he could. Spidey fired another Taser Web to short circuit the armour; once he was stopped, Spiderman kicked Filthy Rich to ground, then jumped in the air and pulled himself back down, landing on the villain’s chest. Spiderman couldn’t keep this fight going for much longer, he had to find a permanent way to stop the armour; using the lenses in his mask, he ran a quick scan of the armour. On the back piece, a panel was covering the main circuit wires; if Adam fired an electric web at that, the armour would go offline. So he had to move fast; Spiderman ran up to the crime lord and jumped over him, he kicked Filthy Rich in the back of the head to push him forward. Once Adam saw the opening, he shot the final Taser Web he had at the panel; once it struck the armour, spark started bursting out of all the joints. Spidey decided to finish the fight, he web-zipped to Filthy Rich one last time; he punched and kicked him over and over, until one final punch to the chest piece broke the armour off his body. Filthy Rich was thrown across the roof, his armour was in pieces; Spiderman walked over to him, the crime lord was actually afraid now. “Wait, stop; I give up. I give up.” He pleaded. But Spiderman wasn’t quite convinced, and he was right to be; out of nowhere, a helicopter flew up to the roof. Filthy Rich got up and jumped across to the chopper, once was on board, it began to fly away. “Darn it.” The hero said, but he remembered to throw a Spider tracer onto the helicopter before it was completely out of site. There was nothing left to do, except follow the chopper to wherever it was going; so Spiderman shot a web-line and began swinging after it, but his mind was on something else. Fluttershy was still mad at him because he let Talon kiss him. After twenty minutes of swinging on webs, Twilight finally jumped down and landed on the roof; sitting across the rooftop was one of Taskmaster’s task boxes, just like he said it would. Twilight walked over to the box and it opened, revealing a video screen; after scrolling through the files, Spider-Girl found the file she was looking for. To make sure it was real, and not a trick, she played the video. Taskmaster appeared on the screen and stated, “I am Taskmaster, this city’s greatest rival; but in this case, I owe two of its residents something. I Taskmaster, do here by confess to the framing of Flash Sentry and Sandalwood; they were merely pawns in my plan, and are completely innocent of everything they’ve been charged with.” The video then ended; all Twilight had to do was get it to the CCPD. She took a flash drive out of her pocket and plugged into the computer; within minutes, the video was downloaded. She walked to the edge of the roof with her evidence and said, “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but thank you, Taskmaster; whoever you are.” She then leaped off the roof and made her way to the station. Meanwhile, Spiderman was finishing his own case; he had found the helicopter that Filthy Rich used to make his getaway. The hero found a way into the building the chopper was parked on top of; the hatch led him down into an old Sable warehouse. The room was illuminated by lights mounted on the ceiling, and on the ground, Spiderman saw the man he was looking for. Filthy Rich was with his men, they were looking through different Project Olympus gear; Adam muttered, “No more wasting time, I need to stop him here and now.” Using his mask lenses, Spiderman looked around for anything he could use to give him an advantage in this fight; that’s when he noticed the junction box on the wall. Spiderman said, “If I take out the junction box, the lights will go out; then I can take ‘Rich’s men down without getting noticed. Without hesitation, Spiderman shot an electric web at the junction box; the lights went out and all was dark. “What’s going on?” A Sable Agent asked. “Who turned out the lights?” a thug asked. Filthy Rich grabbed a Sable blaster, “It’s Spiderman, he’s here.” He loaded his gun and aimed it forward; he also ordered, “Turn on your torches, bring me his corpse.” The agents and the thugs were moving around the room, Spiderman now had the chance to end this. One by one, he quietly took down the criminals or webbed them up; until only Filthy Rich remained. When the crime boss leased expected it, Spiderman tapped him on the shoulder and turned him around; without warning, Adam delivered a powerful uppercut to his chin, ‘Rich was out like a light. That was it, the work was done; ‘case closed’ as the police say. Spiderman picked up Filthy Rich and took him outside; when they left the building, Adam contacted Spear Head. “Officer, I’ve captured Filthy Rich; send a car for his men, I’ll bring him to you myself.” Adam explained. Spear Head replied, “Understood, Spiderman; the cells are waiting for him.” Adam hoisted Filthy Rich onto his shoulder and started swing towards the CCPD, another end to another era. Spiderman landed in front of the CCPD, he put Filthy Rich down and woke him up; the first thing ‘Rich heard when he woke up was, “End of the line, Filthy.” Spiderman said. Filthy Rich got his senses back and replied, “Never count me out, Spiderman.” With that said, Spidey took him inside. As they were walking to the empty cells, they had to pass some of the full ones; occupying some of them, were most of Filthy Rich’s captured men. They started saying things to Spiderman, trying to put him off. “Hands off the boss, Spider-freak.” “Yeah, he’s twice the man you are.” But Filthy Rich wasn’t going to have any of that from his men, he simply said, “Save your breath, we’ll get our chance.” “Not anytime soon.” Spidey replied. They had finally arrived, Adam opened the cell and pushed ‘Rich inside; the crime boss turned to the hero and said, “Still trying to preserve the balance of justice, am I right, Spiderman?” Adam then slammed the cell door shut. “I could have brought this city to order.” “A city under your rule is anything but order; enjoy your say.” Adam stated as he walked off. As he left he could hear Filthy Rich say one last thing, “Oh, just you wait. Just you wait.” Spiderman walked past the other cells, he noticed some kind of commotion by one of them; but he’ll get to that in a minute. Adam entered the main part of the precinct, in this room, he found his partner talking to Spear Head. Spider-Girl was showing him the evidence that was going to clear her friend’s names. “Okay, this looks accurate; it would be better if we knew who this guys was though. But I’m pretty sure we can construct this into a case and get those two guys out of house-arrest.” Spear Head explained. Spider-Girl replied, “That’s amazing, thank you officer.” The officer then walked off to go get the papers, Twilight looked across the room, she noticed Adam. They walked over to each other to explain their reasons for being here. Adam explained that Filthy Rich was now behind bars, and Twilight explained that she had proof that her friends were innocent of Taskmaster’s crimes; the two were proud of each other, so they left the station together. However, when they walked past the cells, Spiderman got a good look at what was going on by one of the cells. The two spiders walked up to Morbius isolation chamber; the sheet of glass was completely smashed, and Morbius was gone. The cop standing by the cell said to Spidey, “We got a couple of rounds off, but no way were we gonna stop that thing.” “I was afraid something like this would happen; I should have worked harder on the antidote.” Spiderman then looked over at the window, “Which means, he out there, somewhere now. Either he’s a giant bat or a creepy vampire.” There was nothing that could be done tonight, so Adam and Twilight just left; Spiderman had one last mission to complete. Adam landed on his window, he opened it and crawled inside; he saw his wife-to-be on the couch, she didn’t look very happy. The hero walked over to her and took off his mask, he felt really bad for what happened tonight. “Fluttershy, can I just say…” “Sit down.” She said. Spidey did as ordered without saying another word; Fluttershy turned to her beloved and explained what was on her mind. “Adam, I want to marry you, I really do; but how can I be happy if I know that there’s another girl out there who wants you. I don’t want to live like that.” Adam then replied with, “Well, it’s not easy for me either; knowing that I’m the guy who got the girl, but everyone thinks it’s just because you felt sorry for the sad lonely loser. Blue Blood is out there telling everyone that I’m forcing you to be with me and that he’s going to save you.” Fluttershy understood where he was coming from, so she said, “Adam, Blue Blood is just crazy; I love you and only you. I just need to know that you love me back.” “Fluttershy, of course I love you.” He got up and took her hands as she stood up. “Do you think I would have asked you to marry me if I didn’t? Talon might have some kind of a thing for me, but you are the one that I want to kiss, the one I want to marry, and the one I want to be with.” The two of them locked in a strong and powerful kiss, Fluttershy then pulled away and said, “That’s all I needed to hear.” The two of them kissed again, before calling it a night. The next day, the couple came to the HQ to do some more wedding planning; Adam was about to open the door, but Rainbow Dash opened it for them and cried, “Guys, get in here; Sunset’s back.” That’s right, after everything that happened last night, Adam had completely forgotten about Sunset Shimmer; the couple followed Rainbow Dash inside. When everyone was in the control room, Adam and Fluttershy saw Sunset hugging her friends; Fluttershy quickly ran over to her friend and hugged her as well. But this wasn’t even the biggest surprise, the biggest one was the guy she had with her. The guy came out from the bathroom and asked, “Do guys have any softer toilet paper, because…” He turned and looked at Adam, without hesitation, he ran over to him and hugged him tightly. “Oh Adam, I’ve missed you a lot.” That voice, it sounded familiar to Adam; one he hadn’t heard in forever. “Did you use the mirror portal?” Adam asked. “Yep, that’s how I got here. So you remember me, then?” Adam patted him on the head and said, “How could I forget the one who slept by my side when I was young.” All the Rainbooms turned to the two guys and said in unison, “What?!” The hero decided to explain, “Sunset, I don’t know it you know this; but this is Spikey, my dog.” “What?!”