Ah, Manehattan. Lots of ponies would say that it was the loudest and busiest city in all of Equestria. That all the hustle and bustle of the streets were endless. And it was all true. But there was more to city than most ponies believed. Some would say that there it was also a city with crime.
Like what was currently happening for instance.
On the streets of Manehattan in the mid evening, 4 crooks, who had briefcases of stolen bits, were making a complete break for it with a few officers trailing behind them. Ponies, who were out and about, were quite surprised by what was transpiring.
However, unbeknownst to everypony below, a figure was high above following the crooks. It galloped so fast across buildings that nopony noticed.
'Looks like its showtime', they thought before jumping down.
As the crooks made it through crowds of ponies, one of the officers caught up to one of the crooks and tackled him to the ground. Unfortunately, he hadn't accounted for the briefcase as the crook used it to his advantage and smacked the officer right across the face.
The crook started beating the cop with the briefcase repeatedly when suddenly, he felt something latch onto his back and yanked him into an alleyway.
The officer looked into the alleyway in confusion hearing the sounds of punching and grunts of pain. He then heard heavy breathing and looked up to the same crook hanging on a poll, tied up in webbing.
The officer smiled, now knowing who it was. "Well, by Celestia, I'll be damned."
Many blocks ahead, the other 3 crooks were still on the move, unware of what had happened from behind them. They had passed through the back of restaurant, much to the surprise and shock of the chefs.
As the crooks made their way through, practically shoving the chefs. However that mysterious figure caught onto the crook who was the most behind and threw him across a table to the hooves of the chefs, who looked at the crook and then back at the figure.
"He's all yours fellas," they said before taking off. The chefs looked at each other before shrugging and began beating the crook down.
The two remaining crooks had already long left the restaurant. They now knew somepony was pursuing them and were desperate to get away.
As they were galloping across the street, they encountered a taxi carriage being pulled by a tall stallion. One crook kept running but the other didn’t.
“Hey you! Get out of the carriage!” The crook yelled wildly as the stallion outright refused. I said get out or I’ll-“
He didn’t get to finish his sentence because he was soon yanked the mysterious figure and tied up in a small web.
The mysterious figure looked at the stallion. “You good?”
The stallion nodded gratefully.
“Cool. Get the police.”
And the mysterious figure released a white strand from their hoof and used it to swing away, leaving the stallion to stare at their retreating form in amazement.
And then there was one. The crook was now more desperate than ever. He knew who had taken the others out and was now on his lonesome.
So when he saw a filly chatting about with other kids, the crook didn’t hesitate. He grabbed the filly and took out a knife to her throat making it clear to other ponies not to follow him.
The crook took the filly to an abandoned building where nopony was residing in.
“Let me go! Let me go!” The filly cried, struggling to get free from the crook.
“Shut up!” The crook snapped keeping the knife close to the filly’s neck. He looked around, not seeing that the mysterious figure had already entered the warehouse.
The crook looked around, quite paranoid. He then could’ve sworn he had see a shadow moving on the wall, but he paid it all no mind.
“Come out bug!” He yelled holding the filly close, who whimpered loudly. “Come out or I swear to Celestia, I’ll end this kid’s life right now!”
“You do realize spiders are arachnids right?”
The voice had came from behind the crook, who turned around just in time to see a red hoof connecting with his muzzle. Hard.
And everything went dark for him.
“Come on, let’s move it guys!” Shouted the leading officer as he and a few others quickly approached the abandoned warehouse after being tipped by a few civilians who had seen the crook take the filly.
There had heard a bit of commotion and screaming from inside but it had all suddenly died down. Which couldn’t be a good sign.
As they were about to bust themselves, the door slammed wide open and out came the filly who had been taken hostage.
“You okay?” The officer asked with genuine concern.
“Y-Yeah, I’m okay,” The filly sniffled. The officer nodded before handing her to two of his fellow officers.
“You two look after her! He said before pointing to 3 other officers. “You three are with me!”
They quickly entered and the room was dark before one of them found a light switch and turned it on.
The officers all blinked in astonishment at what they saw.
There was the leading crook, unconscious and hanging upside down and incased in webbing.
The leading officer stepped up and looked closer as he saw card on the webbing. He could only smirk as he saw what it said:
Courtesy Of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Mane
On a building high above watching the officers make their arrest was the mysterious figure. He was in a red and blue costume that web patterns all over and a big spider on his chest.
His mask concealed his mane and narrowed lenses that helped him see.
And his tail was successfully concealed by webbing.
‘All in the days work’ he thought contently as jumped off the rooftop and shot a web and swung away from the scene and into the night.
He was a known figure to everypony in Manehattan. He had been the city’s protector for the last 4 years.
He was the Spectacular Spider-Mane.